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Leading enterprise storage vendors including Brocade, FalconStor, MTI and Quantum have teamed up to present a multi-city series of seminars on storage resource management (SRM) beginning Thursday, July 25, in Washington, D.C. Organized by MTI Technology, the daylong, solutions-oriented seminars are designed to show IT professionals ways to manage storage more efficiently and assure business […]

With advances in storage networking and the introduction of new low-cost storage options, IDC believes the storage software market will more than double by 2006, reaching $13.6 billion compared with the slight 0.9% growth experienced from 2000-2001. “The scale and complexity of today’s storage systems has created a demand for innovative, integrated storage software products,” […]

Managed infrastructure provider and private-label ASP Interliant Inc. will run out of cash by the end of September, the Purchase, N.Y. company reported yesterday. The announcement is based on a recently revised business plan, the company said in a statement. Interliant blamed the shortfall in cash resources on the “continued weakening of market conditions” since […]

Mellanox Technologies today announced the availability of its Nitro II 4X (10 Gb/sec) InfiniBand server blade reference platform. The Nitro II platform utilizes Mellanox’s second-generation 10 Gb/sec InfiniHost host channel adaptor (HCA) and InfiniScale switching silicon. The Nitro II platform consists of 2.2 GHz Intel(R) Pentium 4 processor based diskless server blades, dual 16-port 4X […]

FalconStor Software today announced new additions to its solutions portfolio for end-to-end network availability -based on technology from recently acquired IP Metrics Software. The new client and server options to FalconStor’s flagship product, IPStor, enhance high availability on the SAN, complemented by the enterprise and standard edition of NIC Express, providing high network availability on […]

Based on Gartner’s preliminary results, worldwide PC shipments declined 0.6 percent, and the World Cup soccer fever was one of the main causes for the slide in Asia, Japan and Latin America as consumers focused on the games instead of buying PCs. In Japan, sales dropped 12 percent while Asia and Latin America showed single-digit […]

StorageTek have announced a trade-in program to give customers in the US an opportunity to upgrade their TimberWolf 9730 tape libraries to the newer StorageTek L40 tape library. The L40 can accommodate mixed media and SDLT tape drives. StorageTek’s 9730 trade-in program provides customers $3,000 cash back when they trade in their existing TimberWolf tape […]

FalconStor and Acer have announced a global OEM partnership which will see Acer embed FalconStor’s IPStor software into selected Acer Altos servers. Acer’s Altos storage solutions consist of high performance servers designed for a wide range of business applications. The integration of FalconStor’s IPStor software will allow Acer to offer features such as high availability, […]

IBM rolled out new connectivity technology that it said would cut down on the on the tangles of chords tying together rack-mounted servers. The Armonk, N.Y., company announced the Advanced Connectivity Technology (ACT) would enable businesses to using Intel-based servers to use up to 90 percent less rack space by allowing them to link 256 […]

The shake-up at Digex, Inc. , the Web site manager owned by troubled WorldCom, Inc., continued Thursday with the resignation of directors Lawrence C. Tucker, Gregory J. Clark, and Edith E. Holiday. Tucker joined the Laurel, Md.-based Digex board in August of last year while Clark and Holiday have been on the board since November […]

Aspective, a U.K.-based ASP that specializes in sales, marketing and customer service applications, yesterday announced that it has exceeded it revenue expectations for the first half of 2002. The company, which turned cash-positive at the end of last year, reports 2002 revenues to date of $15 million (£10 million). “In one of the toughest markets […]

‘New Hewlett-Packard’ (HP) should consider a mix of its ‘old HP’s” channel management strategy and Compaq’s selling and channel management strategies for the best business outcomes, said a Gartner report that focuses on the likely impact of the new HP’s Asia Pacific channel strategy on business partners and end users. In recent years, HP’s direct […]