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StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp.) has successfully completed interoperability testing of ADVA Optical Networking Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) devices to extend backup and recovery solutions, including the StorageTek StorageNet(R) 6000 (SN6000) storage domain manager. The product validation is the latest step by StorageTek to enable customers to span the distance between remote data centers and […]

By Erin Joyce By all accounts, investors were expecting glum news when AOL Time Warner released its first quarter results and the world’s largest media company did not disappoint in disappointing. Driven by a huge goodwill amortization charge left over from the cost of its merger, AOL Time Warner posted a net loss of $54.2 […]

IBM today unveiled a storage software roadmap aimed at embedding intelligence in storage networks through a combination of breakthrough IBM technologies designed to exploit rapidly emerging industry-wide storage management standards. In support of this initiative, IBM’s Storage Systems Group is focusing the company’s software, research and systems management expertise on three areas of innovation: Linux-based […]

DataDirect Networks, provider of high performance storage networking appliances, announced that E! Networks has installed a Silicon Storage Appliance to provide a centralized storage network for the entertainment network. The appliance-enabled storage network serves as the foundation for the network’s digital asset system, which will bring substantial workflow and productivity efficiencies to E! Networks, whose […]

Merlin Technologies today announced that it has appointed Barry Hagglund as Vice President, Engineering. Merlin is the developer of EssentialServer(TM) network attached storage (NAS) appliances and the SecurDVR(TM) for security and loss prevention. “Barry’s a seasoned technology manager with a proven track record of developing successful products,” says Robert Heller, President and CEO of Merlin. […]

In a deal designed to provide faster access to financial databases, San Francisco-based network infrastructure provider Grand Central Communications Inc. and Thomson Financial yesterday announced a joint venture to deliver Web services to the financial community. Under terms of the agreement, Thomson Financial will make a number of its databases available to its customers via […]

America Online, Inc.’s Instant Messenger (AIM) and e-mail service is now available for subscribers of AT&T Wireless’ new mMode. With wireless access to AOL mail, members have the ability to retrieve and respond to e-mail from their mMode capable phone. In addition, AOL members can use their mMode phone to access information found in their […]

Imperial Technology today announced that its SANaccelerator(TM) and File Cache Accelerators have been certified with LSI Logic’s 2-Gigabit LSI44929O and LSI40919O Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs). “LSI Logic’s HBAs are industry leaders in reliable, robust Fibre Channel solutions for clustered environments and SANs. We’ve hit over 72,000 I/Os per second with small block reads […]

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today unveiled its vision of “Managing Storage without Boundaries.” This vision is the driving force behind CA’s acclaimed BrightStor brand of storage management solutions. “Today’s storage environments have become a maze of platforms, topologies and manufacturers. Customers are therefore demanding storage management solutions that greatly simplify the deployment, optimization and […]

EMC Corporation today announced Citizens Financial Group, Inc., one of the nation’s 20 largest commercial banks, has contracted with EMC Global Services to purchase and implement an additional 30 terabytes of EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage and EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) software. The demand for additional storage was created by Citizens’ recent acquisition of […]

Nokia and IBM Corp. Monday said they have agreed to work together to expedite wireless local area network (WLAN) hotspots in public places. Hotspots enable WLAN-equipped devices such as handhelds and laptops to connect not only to each other but also to the Internet from public places such as airports and hotel lobbies. Wireless operators […]

Auspex Systems today announced a new reseller program designed to support the company’s NSc3000 Network Storage Controller, a vendor-agnostic solution for providing file services to Storage Area Networks (SANs). The company said the controller is being sold through channel partners with SAN expertise, including resellers, two-tier distributors and OEMs. More than 20 resellers have joined […]