James Alan Miller

Network-attached data access and content delivery vendor Network Appliance, Inc. today announced its next generation of content delivery network (CDN) solutions with enterprise functionality, new enterprise CDN packages, and value-added partnerships designed for global enterprise deployments. The solutions and partnerships Network Appliance announced today include two enterprise CDN solution packages that include NetApp(R) storage, NetCache(TM) […]

Internet storage company Xdrive Technologies Inc. today introduced Xdrive Plus., an individual offering that includes features previously only available to enterprise and service provider customers. According to the Xdrive, this new subscription service features heightened security through 128-bit SSL technology, peer-to-peer file sharing, tech support and increased speed of transfers, as well as safe and […]

eMSDS Inc. this week announced the release of an Internet-based Material Safety Data Sheet Management System called “GoldTrack(TM)”. The system is designed to change the way companies manage and store Material Data Safety Sheets. Steve LeVeck, CEO of Emergency Management Company, eMSDS’ parent company, said, “GoldTrack’s (TM)” proprietary storage and query system will save thousands […]

TrueSAN Networks, Inc. this week announced the availability of a new line of network storage systems and software designed to bring storage scalability, unified SAN and NAS functionality, and powerful management tools to mainstream enterprises. According to TrueSAN, the Paladin C-series family, powered by TrueSAN’s MetaFabric(tm) architecture, enables organizations to incrementally scale their storage infrastructure […]

Vixel Corporation this week announced the certification of Vixel’s 2100 Fibre Channel Zoning Managed Hub with LSI Logic Storage Systems new SANtricity(TM) Storage Manager Software 7.10. The latest release of SANtricity 7.10, announced recently by LSI Logic Storage Systems, provides Vixel and LSI customers with features that include heterogeneous operating system support and improved SANshare(TM) […]

NAS and SANs enterprise storage vendor Winchester Systems this week introduced its new FlashDisk OpenRAID 64-bit model. According to Winchester Systems, the new FlashDisk OpenRAID 64-bit model delivers over 13,000 sustained I/O operations per second to the disks – nearly double the 7,000 sustained I/O operations per second delivered by the 32-bit model, which peaked […]

MIPS Technologies, Inc., a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and network applications, this week announced it licensed the MIPS64(TM) 5Kc(TM) processor core to Adaptec, Inc. for implementation in Adaptec’s next-generation I/O products. “We’re seeing an interesting trend towards high-performance integrated RAID solutions in ultradense server configurations. The 64-bit MIPS solution […]

McDATA(R) Corporation today announced the release of its newest enterprise-class Fibre Channel Galaxy-Class Director, the ED-6064. According to McData, the ED-6064, a single stage 64-port Director, represents the foundation for the company’s enterprise-to-edge SAN platform and a SAN backbone that offers scalability, flexibility and provides guaranteed 99.999 percent data availability. Jack McDonnell, CEO McDATA, said, […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. this week announced the details of the Cisco Storage Networking initiative at Storage Networking World. According to Cisco, the Cisco Storage Networking is a comprehensive set of technologies, products, and partnerships that enable the development of a networked storage infrastructure based on an open architecture and industry standards. “EMC and Cisco are […]

Network Attached Storage vendor Network Appliance, Inc. this week announced that it is officially endorsing iSCSI technology. This endorsement will make iSCSI yet another protocol option in the company’s enterprise storage solutions portfolio. Network Appliances Executive Vice President of engineering Dave Hitz said, ” For years, we’ve said that TCP/IP is a powerful option for […]

Storage virtualization vendor Vicom Systems Inc. and Arsenal Digital Solutions Inc., a Storage Service Provider (SSP), this week announced a partnership to offer virtualized SAN-based storage solutions. As part of the agreement, Vicom’s storage virtualization products are being provided as an integral part of Arsenal’s fully managed disk offerings of enterprise-class storage services on a […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. announced at the Spring 2001 Storage Networking World(R) (SNW) Conference and Expo that the two companies have developed an implementation of a Common Information Model (CIM) prototype for storage area networks (SANs) using Brocade Fabric Access(TM), the application programming interface (API) to the Brocade Fabric operating system […]