James Alan Miller

Optical networking company Nortel Networks and storage giant EMC Corporation today announced an alliance to provide optically-networked storage solutions that are designed to extend the benefits of mission critical storage networking over campus, metro and wide area systems. As part of the alliance, Nortel Networks and EMC are collaborating on development, testing, and marketing of […]

INRANGE Technologies today announced that its IN-VSN(TM) FC/9000(TM) Fibre Channel Director has been certified by DataCore(TM) Software Corporation to operate in Storage Area Networks (SAN) with DataCore’s SANSymphony(TM) storage virtualization software. According to INRANGE, the FC/9000 can expand from 24 ports to 128 ports, giving users a high-performance networking infrastructure that makes SAN management and […]

Storage management software vendor BakBone Software(TM), Inc. today announced that its NetVault(TM) backup/restore software has been verified by Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. as being interoperable with Brocade(R)-based Storage Area Networking (SAN) infrastructures. Verifying interoperability of our software with Brocade’s SilkWorm fabric switches is a great step for BakBone,” said Lauren Whitehouse, BakBone’s vice president of […]

SGI and Comdisco, Inc. today announced an agreement to develop managed storage solutions for the healthcare industry. According to the companies, the purpose of the agreement is to provide a safe, accessible, and disaster proof alternative means of storing medical records. Digital medical images will be stored in data centers and accessed via a secure […]

Storage management services company Storage Networks, Inc., today announced a new service called STORfusion(SM), which is designed to enable telecommunications companies and computing, network, and infrastructure-based service providers to rapidly enter the data storage management services market. In a related announcement, StorageNetworks(SM) stated today that Fujitsu Limited has chosen STORfusion as the storage service management […]

Prisa Networks, an OEM supplier of Storage and System Area Network (SANs) management software, this week announced it will preview the latest releases of their software at Networld + Interop. “Networld + Interop provides a unique opportunity to showcase our VisualSAN suite of products,” stated Rael Morris, vice president of marketing for Prisa. “We have […]

Quantum subsidary Quantum|ATL, a DLTtape(TM) vendor this week announced its new Constellation Series automated tape library. The Constellation Series includes an array of storage solution offerings for Network Appliance customers and others. New Constellation products include the P2000 and P3000 Centaurus (NAS Backup Solution for Filers); the P2000 and P3000 Pegasus (SAN Backup Solution for […]

nStor Technologies, Inc. today announced the University of Southern California (USC) has selected it to implement a centralized storage solution at its Information Sciences Institute (ISI). According to nStor, the NexStor 3150 Fibre Channel RAID system will provide the information storage infrastructure for the ISI’s broad spectrum of activities, including research and development of advanced […]

Speakers at a conference held by Boulder, Colorado-based E Source, proclaimed the imminent arrival of Internet data centers that will provide far more computing power than their present day counterparts, but consume little or no more electricity. Data centers, which store, process, and route the digital information that travels over the Internet, often demand as […]

Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced beta availability of Tornado(R) for Intelligent Network Acceleration (TINA), which, according to Wind River, allows original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to deliver dramatic performance improvements in their server and storage devices. By offloading network traffic to an intelligent network interface card (iNIC), TINA increases throughput rates in servers, and brings […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today introduced the Sun StorEdge(TM) N8400 and N8600 Network Attached Storage (NAS) filers. The Sun StorEdge N8000 filer series scales from 200 gigabytes to over 10 TB of usable capacity in a standalone configuration. Sun also announced today that the Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers have successfully completed the Oracle Storage […]

StorageTek(R) and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. today announced the expansion of their global relationship with the addition of the Brocade SilkWorm(R) 6400 64-port integrated fabric to StorageTek StorageNet(R) Storage Area Network (SAN) offerings. The SilkWorm 6400, which was made generally available by Brocade in March 2001, is a pre-configured, integrated SAN fabric, designed to simplify […]