James Alan Miller

Benchmark Storage Innovations, Inc. today announced a new brand of DLT tape drive called ValuSmart Tape(TM). In conjunction with this announcement, Benchmark has made OEM deliveries of the, which it claims is the first half-high tape drive, the ValuSmart Tape 80. The ValuSmart Tape 80 is the newest member of its ValuSmart Tape family, which […]

Storage outsourcing company RELERA today announced it has opened an Internet Data Center (IDC) in Sacramento, California. RELERA says the new IDC operates on an energy grid unaffected by the area’s current energy crisis and is located in seismically stable territory. “Sacramento is ripe for a facility of this caliber,” said Steve Haverstock, IDC Director […]

Gateway, Inc. today announced the first in a series of Network Attached Storage (NAS) products, the Gateway(TM) GS 400 storage system. Initial offerings of the GS 400 include the $999 Model 140 with 40GB of storage–expandable to 160GB, the $1,999 Model 260 with 120GB of storage– expandable to 240GB, and the $2,799 Model 460 with […]

NovaStor this week announced the latest version of NovaNet-WEB, a solution that enables service providers to offer online data backup and recovery services to their customers. According to NovaStory, Enhancements in this new version of NovaNet-WEB Version 3.6 include server scalability features to allow user management and authentication via the LDAP protocol used by Microsoft […]

Gartner Dataquest reported this week that EMC Corporation extended its No.1 market share lead in storage management software in 2000, growing nearly six points to 25.5% in the $5.3 billion worldwide storage management software market, which as a whole grew by 29%. In her report, Carolyn DiCenzo, Chief Analyst for Gartner Dataquest’s storage group, praised […]

nStor Technologies this week unveiled a new 90-day unconditional guarantee on its NexStor 3000 product family. Tom Makmann, vice president of business development, nStor Technologies, said, “This initiative is our testament to the value inherent in NexStor solutions. NexStor was designed to function as the heart of today’s Information Age companies, providing the vital data […]

Sony Electronics today announced its current development plans for future Advanced Intelligent Tape(TM) (AIT) technology solutions, including making efforts to expand the AIT architecture to eventually offer nearly one terabyte of capacity in the 8mm cassette form-factor. According to Sony, it surpasses past technological limitations, substantially increasing the recording density of magnetic tapes by over […]

Interphase Corporation this week announced its new PowerSAN(TM) version 3.3 device drivers and FibreView(TM) Enterprise management software is now available. According to Interphase, the release supports the complete PowerSAN suite of host bus adapters (HBAs), including the new 6020 dual port 2Gbps PCI-X Fibre Channel HBA. The 3.3 release also features improved support for clustering […]

EMC Corporation and Genuity Inc. today announced an alliance to expand product integration efforts, conduct joint product development, and collaborate to market and sell managed storage solutions on Black Rocket. According to the companies, Genuity will now offer EMC’s Symmetrix(R) Enterprise Storage systems and software as part of its Black Rocket eBusiness Network Platform, and […]

SANavigator Inc. today announced it plans on offering one the first public demonstrations of SANavigator Version 2.0 later this month at NAB2001 beginning April 23 in Las Vegas. According to SANavigator, SANavigator Version 2.0, like earlier versions, is a Java-based storage management application that operates as a host for other storage management applications, utilities and […]

Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. today announced today that its FS1310 and FS2620 Fiber Channel storage routers have earned Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade) certification as being interoperable with Brocade-based SAN infrastructure. According to the companies, the testing was conducted through the Brocade Fabric Aware(TM) Program, an end-to-end interoperability initiative for enterprise Storage Area Networks (SANs). […]

SANavigator Inc. today announced it plans on offering one the first public demonstrations of SANavigator Version 2.0 later this month at NAB2001 beginning April 23 in Las Vegas. According to SANavigator, SANavigator Version 2.0, like earlier versions, is a Java-based storage management application that operates as a host for other storage management applications, utilities and […]