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Adaptec, Inc. today introduced the DuraStor family of entry-level external storage subsystems targeted at mid-sized companies with scalable storage requirements. The first solution in the DuraStor family is a 3U SCSI external RAID subsystem. Called the Adaptec DuraStor 6220SS, it combines a 1U RAID appliance and a 2U storage enclosure with 12 drive bays. For […]

Legato Systems, Inc., an enterprise storage management software vendor,today announced that it is working with IBM to provide information protection, management and application availability for IBM’s DB2 Universal Database running on Linux. The IBM Legato team will participate in the LinuxWorld 2001 event in San Francisco this week and will feature live demonstrations of its […]

Vertical service provider (VSP) Portera today announced it received $16 million in financing, led by Van Wagoner Capital Management The remainder of the round was limited to existing Portera investors, including Colonial First State Private Equity, Focus Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Integral Capital Partners, JPMorgan Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Ventures, Oracle Corporation, […]

Network attached storage (NAS) vendor Tricord Systems, Inc. today announced an agreement with Iomega to create a NAS solution for backing up and restoring user data on desktops and laptops. The companies said they have paired Tricord’s Lunar Flare NAS product with Iomega’s client back-up application, QuikSync(TM) 3. Effective immediately, each Lunar Flare NAS appliance […]

Frost & Sullivan, a market consulting and training firm, today released a report called “European Network Attached Strorage Market” that puts the revenue generated by the NAS market at $410 million in 2000, and projects revenues to reach $1.8 billion by 2007. “The NAS approach is easier to implement, and combined with a low cost […]

Mission Critical Linux, Inc. today announced the availability of Convolo Cluster NetGuard Edition Version 1.0, a Linux cluster solution with support for very large configurations. The company said NetGuard Edition is the newest member of its growing family of Convolo Cluster products. According to the company, it supports up to 128 systems, and is designed […]

INRANGE Technologies today announced the general availability of the IN-VSN(TM) Spectrum 1000, 2000, and 3000 family of optical networking platforms for leveraging fiber optic bandwidth to extend storage networks across campus, enterprise, and metropolitan area networks. “Our total IN-VSN strategy to build virtual storage networks is radically different than `point technology’ approaches,” said Charles Foley, […]

Agere Systems said Monday it has started shipping one-box ORiNOCO wireless Internet access and local area networking (WLAN) kits for homes and small businesses. The kits include all the components necessary to set up a complete 802.11b network, according to the company. Hoping to appeal to home office workers, the kits stress security with 128-bit […]

T-Online and the Motor-Presse Stuttgart publishing group Monday announced at the world’s largest consumer electronics fair (IFA 2001 in Berlin) that they will launch a joint venture which will operate a portal on the topic of “Autos and Mobility.” The new Auto.t-online GmbH & Co.KG will be 51 percent-owned by T-Online and 49 percent-owned by […]

BakBone Software(TM), Inc. , Qualstar Corporation and Vixel Corporation today announced a partnership to deliver a certified Fibre Channel-based backup and restore solution for Windows NT/2000 environments, extending a previously released Solaries-based offering. The solution, available immediately, employs BakBone’s NetVault(TM) backup/restore software, Qualstar’s TLS-8466 LTO and TLS-4222 AIT tape libraries, Vixel’s 7000 Series Fibre Channel […]

Akamai Technologies , a Cambridge, Mass., content delivery firm, has elected Ronald L. Graham, a former chief scientist for AT&T Labs, to its board of directors. He previously served on the Akamai board of advisors member, and has a wealth of expertise and experience in computer science, mathematics, and engineering. He is currently the Irwin […]

The strengthening ties between Singapore and the Philippines received a boost over the weekend with the official visit of Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). During her visit, the president witnessed the signing of three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) aimed at promoting cooperation in the field of infocomm technology between the […]