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Data-storage concern nStor Technologies said it has signed an original equipment manufacturers (OEM) agreement with NEC Corp.. nStor officials said NEC has selected the NexStor storage systems for use with product offerings it will be announcing later this year. These NEC branded products will be based on the NexStor 1202F and 3250F, and customized to […]

Storage utility service provider StorageWay said it has received $42 million in equity investments, raising the total equity investment in the company to $98 million. Leading the new investment are Matrix Partners and Redpoint Ventures. Others include GE Equity, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Montreux Equity Partners, Needham Capital Partners, Sands Brothers, Wheatley Partners and Worldview Technology […]

McData Corp., which produces storage-networking products, has partnered with Porsche Informatik Osterreich, a subsidiary of Porsche Austria, and Vienna-based IT service provider T-Systems Debis Systemhaus CAE to develop an IT-based car dealership support system. Porsche will utilize McData’s enterprise to edge technology during the first phase of development to create highly available application service provider […]

Blackboard Inc., an Internet infrastructure company for education, is teaming with Trivantis Corp., a provider of e-learning technologies and content development services for educational institutions and corporate learning environments, to allow Blackboard customers use of Trivantis’ Lectora Publisher. The solution is an offline authoring tool that allows users to create fully interactive courses that can […]

TrueSAN Networks Inc. has announced an agreement with 2netFX a provider of enterprise streaming solutions for intranet and broadband Internet media delivery, for storing HDTV files. The partnership will combine TrueSAN’s Paladin network storage systems and Alchemy software with 2netFX’s ThunderCastIP Advanced Media Server software to provide 2netFX customers with a complete solution for storing, […]

Networking concern Novell Inc. has introduced its iFolder, described as an “access anywhere” information management software product that liberates users from having to rely on any particular PC to retrieve information or files. With Novell iFolder, users securely access their files from any Internet-enabled machine, anywhere in the world. Novell iFolder provides a true one […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Veritas Software Corp. are entering the stand-alone storage market with a new product to provide one of the storage industry’s most flexible network attached storage (NAS) solutions designed for broad distribution with Sun’s iForce Channel Development Providers — GE Access and MOCA. The combination of Sun’s StorEdge T3 array and Sun’s […]

Storage-software developer Sistina Software and networking-product provider Western Scientific are teaming to provide certified storage clustering solutions for applications specific to the Linux market. This partnership designates Western Scientific as the first reseller of Sistina’s Global File System (GFS), officials said. Sistina’s GFS is a clustered file system for Linux that allows multiple servers on […]

Singapore’s DBS Group Holdings, arguably the largest banking group in Southeast Asia, has entered into a joint venture with global online financial services firm TD Waterhouse Group to provide what the partners call “self-directed” investors with a range of global investment services through multiple channels such as the Internet, call centers and kiosks. The new […]

LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc., a storage-products supplier for the open enterprise, today announced a strategic alliance with systems integrator Doyle Technology Consultants Inc. to deliver storage-area network (SAN) products to the entertainment industry. Doyle Technology will integrate LSI’s MetaStor storage systems with platforms and video applications from a wide range of vendors to deliver […]

Data-storage access solutions provider Adaptec Inc. said it has launched two 64-bit, 66MHz RAID controllers targeted at the fast-growing, $7.9 billion mid-range server market. The new four-channel Adaptec RAID 3410S and two-channel Adaptec RAID 3210S controllers complement today’s faster 64-bit/66MHz servers, doubling the PCI-bus bandwidth of traditional mid-range server RAID products to significantly improve performance […]

Blue lasers and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are expected to be among the most important new components in advanced technologies such as optical data storage, telecommunications and projection displays, according to new analysis from by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan. This overall market is poised for significant growth, the researcher also said. […]