James Alan Miller

XML-based software vendor Tek-Tools plans on demonstrating new multi-technology management capabilities for networked storage systems at Networld+Interop Las Vegas 2001, which will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center from May 6-11. According to Tek-tools, the application it is demonstrating will use XML and Java-based facilities to consolidate disparate management data from a mix […]

Quantum Corporation subsidiary and DLTtape vendor Quantum|ATL today announced an agreement with Dynamic Technology International Ltd. to serve as a Master Distributor in China for Quantum|ATL products. As part of the agreement, Dynamic Technology has ordered a full range of storage library solutions from Quantum|ATL valued at $300,000 USD. Dynamic Technology will resell to end […]

Fibre Channel supplier High Velocity Systems today announced the successful completion of testing of its Bullet 600 hub for compatibility with several Fibre Channel products manufactured by QLogic Corporation. According to High Velocity, the Bullet 600 was successfully tested by QLogic in its on-site SANtrack interoperability testing facility with the QLA2200 and QLA2300 Series SANblade […]

Storage Virtualization vendor DataCore(TM) Software today announced a list of Technical Partners who have joined the DataCore SANvantage(TM) Partner Program. According to DataCore, the SANvantage Technical Partner Program is designed to bring together industry leaders who support delivering interoperable, open systems SAN technology to joint customers. It offers tools, technical information, training and support, and […]

MaxOptix Corp. this week announced a series of new Linear Tape Open (LTO) libraries under the Breece Hill name. The new LTO devices include the MaxOptix 4.30/50, 6.100/6.210, 9.140, 12.420, 15.350 and 18.280. According to the MaxOptix, the new midrange MaxOptix 4.30 and 4.50 are four drive by 30- or 50- cartridge with a native […]

Tandberg Data ASA today announced that IBM would begin shipping SLR100 tape drives and SLR100 Autoloaders with its midmarket eServers, the eServer iSeries product line. The SLR100 tape drive is based on quarter-inch cartridge (QIC) technology and offers 100 GB of capacity and a 10 MB per second transfer rate (assuming 2:1 compression). It is […]

Information management company KVS Inc. and storage software provider QStar Technologies this week announced a reseller partnership. As part of the alliance, KVS will add QStar Hierarchical Storage Manger (HSM) to its current list of storage options for use with the KVS Enterprise Vault email archiving, retention and retrieval product for Microsoft Exchange. According to […]

EMTEC announced this week that its LTO Ultrium tape cartridge has received certification from Ultrium tape-drive manufacturers IBM, Hewlett Packard and Seagate, confirming the EMTEC Ultrium cartridge’s compatibility with those manufacturer’s tape drives. LTO Ultrium is an open standard designed to replace Quantum’s DLT. LTO Ultrium magnetic tape cartridges were developed aby the LTO Consortium […]

IBM subsidiary Mylex today announced it is offering its value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators significant price reductions across the board for Mylex AcceleRAID(TM) and eXtremeRAID(TM) controllers. Mylex plans on reducing prices by up to 25 percent, or $400. According to Mylex, the price reductions come on the heels of Mylex’s new Qualification Unit Program, […]

SAN management vendor SANavigator Inc. and storage resource management tools company W. Quinn Associates, Inc. (WQuinn) today announced a joint OEM agreement to integrate and sell each other’s storage management software The agreement initially involves SANavigator(TM) 2.0, the latest version SANavitator’s device-independent SAN management application, and WQuinn’s SpaceMaXX SRM, a storage resource management utility for […]

Storage vendor ASACA and content management company eSystems, Inc. today announced that, eSystem’s multi-dimensional database software, AsaP, is compatible with ASACA TeraCart(R) 2.3, a 109TB DVD-RAM/R library. According to eSystems, the ASaP data mining solution works with almost all document, data and image repositories. It supports over 200 document formats, including images, sound, video, web […]

NetSilicon, Inc. today annoucned an agreement with Ciprico, Inc. to provide complete networking solutions for Ciprico’s NETarray 1000(TM) fibre channel RAID storage system through NetSilicon’s NET+Works(TM) solution-on-chip, According to the companies, Ciprico’s NETarray 1000 is a high-performance, highly available and reliable storage device designed for use as a single solution for transactional and high-bandwidth storage […]