James Alan Miller

Employee Internet management (EIM) vendor Websense Inc. today announced it has teamed with network-attached data access and content delivery solutions vendor Network Appliance Inc.. According to the companies, Websense and Network Appliance are offering customers a platform that eliminates redundant and unproductive Web traffic, while greatly reducing the load on the network. Websense Enterprise v4.2, […]

Members of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) IP Storage Forum will showcase new products and technology demonstrations at the Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas next week, May 7-10. The demonstrations will feature storage solutions that utilize the TCP and IP protocols that drive the Internet. The forum was formed in February this year to […]

Quantum subsidiary and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions vendor Snap Appliances, Inc. recently announced it is shipping its Snap Server(R) 4100 rack-mountable appliances in Japan. According to the company, with capacity points of 160 GB and 300 GB in a 1U rack-mountable form factor, the Snap Server 4100 supports corporate workgroups of 150 or more […]

nStor Technologies, Inc. this week announced it has partnered with Insight corporation. Insight will now offer the NexStor 3000 series of Fibre Channel and SCSI RAID solutions. “As we look to grow our business with enterprise-level customers, a tremendous opportunity exists in the storage arena,” said Dino Farfante, chief operating officer for Insight. “To successfully […]

LSI Logic Corporation today announced what it claims is the industry’s first successful validation of Ultra320 SCSI interoperability and packetized protocol. “This isn’t an announcement about alliances and plans for future testing. We’ve completed six months of testing to prove true Ultra320 interoperability and packetized protocol with the leading drive vendors. Our homework means we […]

IBM subsidiary Tivoli Systems Inc. and and McDATA(R) Corporation this week announced a LAN-free enterprise-to-edge storage solution, based on Tivoli’s highly reliable Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software and McDATA’s family of industry-leading directors and switches. “With McDATA’s Systems Integration Lab joining in this effort with our own integration labs, the testing behind this solution represents […]

TRICORD SYSTEMS INC. announced plans to demonstrate its new Lunar Flare(TM) NAS clustered server appliance at NetWorld+Interop next week in Las Vegas. The product is designed for growing e-businesses, midsize companies and workgroups and is currently shipping in limited availability. Lunar Flare NAS, Tricord claims, is a scalable, high availability clustered appliance that is easy […]

PowerFile this week announced the $4,999 PowerFile C200E Enterprise Edition(TM), which is PowerFile C200 DVD/CD jukebox combined with OTG/Smart Storage’s SmartStor(R) Archive software. According to PowerFile, the PowerFile C200 Enterprise Edition integrates OTG/Smart Storage’s SmartStor(R) Archive read-only software to provide single drive letter access, directory and file cache abilities, and Windows and Macintosh client support. […]

Storage Networking products vendor Gadzoox Networks, Inc. today announced that Compaq Computer Corporation is integrating the its new 2Gb Fibre Channel fabric technology into future Compaq entry level Storage Area Network (SAN) storage solutions. “Gadzoox Networks has helped lead the industry in bringing the storage networking infrastructure to the next level,” said Peter Korce, director, […]

Imation Corp. today announced the availability of Imation Black Watch(TM) Ultrium(TM) tape cartridges for the Ultrium tape system, which features 15 MB/sec native transfer rate, and four cartridge capacities of 20, 60, 100 and 200GB capacity (2:1 compression). “Imation brings nearly 50 years of removable media development and manufacturing expertise to the new Ultrium storage […]

Western Digital Corporation today announced the availability of its new 60 GB FireWire external hard drives. “The number of digital cameras and digital camcorders sold to consumers doubled over the past year according to industry research firm Gartner,” said Richard E. Rutledge, vice president of marketing for Western Digital. “These WD FireWire hard drives provide […]

Panasonic and Matrox(R) Video Products Group today announced today that Matrox has certified the Panasonic DVD-RAM drive for use with its new RT2500(TM) realtime nonlinear editing platform for archiving and distribution of video content. The Matrox RT2500 combines realtime native DV and MPEG-2 editing with realtime 2D/3D effects and built-in support for DVD authoring and […]