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BakBone Software(TM) this week announced its certification of Quantum Super DLTtape drives. BakBone’s NetVault(TM) creates a migration path from DLTtape drives to Super DLTtape environments and provides channel partners the ability to upsell existing NetVault customers. Quantum’s Super DLTtape capacity and speed enable IT departments to handle the dramatic increases of critical data generated in […]

Maxtor(R) Corporation and OTG Software, Inc. announced an agreement to jointly develop tightly-coupled solutions that incorporate OTG’s storage virtualization software technologies with Maxtor’s family of MaxAttach storage servers. The integrated solutions, based on OTG’s DiskXtender(R) technologies are expected to ship in the fourth quarter of this year. They will be offered as an enhancement for […]

Hitachi Data Systems and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. this week announced the Thunder 9200 SAN Enabler (SE), a SAN integrating Hitachi Freedom Storage(TM) Thunder 9200(TM) storage with two Brocade SilkWorm(R) fabric switches in a single, rack-mounted configuration. According to the companies, Brocade SilkWorm fabric switches provide intelligent networking foundation for SANs, while the Thunder 9200 […]

Eurologic(TM) Systems announced the next generation of its award-winning SANbloc network storage system. According to Eurologic, the 2Gb Fibre Channel system network storage system now offers a Quad Loop feature that enables performance of up to 700 MB/s in a single system. Eurologic’s next-generation SANbloc also is designed to be downward-compatible with 1Gb Fibre Channel, […]

QLogic Corp. announced it is expanding its product line with iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). According to the company these products are designed to connect iSCSI servers and storage, offloading host processing with a single chip to provide Fibre Channel performance at Ethernet costs. “These new plug-and-play HBAs bring QLogic’s […]

Maxtor(R) Corporation this week announced its entry into the enterprise network storage market with the MaxAttach(TM) NAS 6000, a scalable storage server offering capacities up to 5.7 terabytes (TB). According to Maxtor, the Windows Powered MaxAttach NAS 6000 offers broad interoperability and establishes a platform for innovative solutions such as e-mail archiving, disk-to-disk backup, and […]

FalconStor Software, Inc. and Tivoli Systems Inc., this week announced they have integrated Tivoli SANergy’s state-of-the-art high-performance SAN-NAS Fusion software with IPStor. According to the companies, the combination of both IPStor(TM) and Tivoli SANergy enables IT managers to share, back up, restore, and manage storage worldwide, over any data transport protocols (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI […]

Singapore telcos SingTel and StarHub both experienced marked increases in the number of IDD calls made from the island Republic to the U.S. shortly after the first hijacked plane slammed into New York’s World Trade Center. Between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Singapore time yesterday, SingTel noted that the number of calls to the U.S. […]

By mid-afternoon today – the day after two planes crashed into the sides of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center – Taiwan’s quasi-official China News Agency completed a headcount of 101 employees of Taiwan companies located in the buildings. All were safe, leaving but one, a locally hired employee of Bank of […]

Broadband communications developer Cicada Semiconductor Corporation unveiled today a single port, triple speed Gigabit-over-copper transceiver at NetWorld+Interop 2001 Atlanta. The CIS8201 is the newest member of SimpliPHY(TM) Series — the industry’s lowest power, highest performance, easiest to integrate, 10/100/1000BASE-T transceiver family. Cicada’s SimpliPHY(TM) Series of Gigabit Ethernet transceivers, first introduced in May at the NetWorld+Interop […]

Network Appliance, Inc. , provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today debuted its first multiprocessor storage appliances, the NetApp F880 and F880c, which it says are ideal for large databases, ERP, corporate-wide home directory consolidation, and other mission-critical applications. According to the company, it supports up to 18TBs(a) of storage and further […]

Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc. today announced that it has shipped its 100,000th tape drive. Dell was the recipient of the milestone drive. “The entire Benchmark team is to be congratulated for their accomplishments,” said Lew Frauenfelder, Benchmark’s CEO and president. “It represents a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication.” “As the proud recipient of […]