James Alan Miller

Storage services provider Network Appliance, Inc. this week announced the opening of its Network Appliance Global Support Centre (GSC) in Singapore to serve Network Appliance’s customers in the Asia-Pacific region and worldwide. According to Network Appliance, the Asia Pacific facilities supplement its existing U.S. and European-based Global Support operations, field personnel and certified service providers. […]

Automated tape library vendor DISC(R), Inc. this week announced an alliance with CD and DVD storage library vendor NSM. According to the companies, NSM Storage will resell DISC’s automated storage libraries to its worldwide customer base outside North America. The agreement includes DISC’s D20, D40, D150, D245, D280, D525 and D1050, which range in capacity […]

Storage networking vendor CNT(R) has announced its UltraNet(R) Internet Protocol Storage Architecture, which will be embedded in the company’s UltraNet hardware line of products. According to CNT, the UltraNet IP Storage Architecture is designed to conform to the IETF task force iSCSI and FCIP draft standards for IP interoperability. In addition, components of the CNT […]

Enterprise storage company nStor Technologies this week announced it has signed an OEM agreement with Gain Systems to allow Gain’s to incorporate nStor’s NexStor 802F and 1202F high-density fibre channel storage systems into its storage area network (SAN) offering. Gentry Ganote, president of Gain Systems, said, “Our top priority is to provide customers with high-end […]

Storage vendor Raidtec today announced the release of the SNAZ(TM) R6, 2U Rack mount filer, which Raidtec’s says enables organizations to add network attached storage (NAS) via Ethernet attached SCSI now and expand capacity and connectivity with a simple upgrade into a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) later. According to Raidtec, SNAZ R6 is […]

Network Attached Storage (NAS) vendor Procom Technology and Seagate Technology today announced a partnership to deliver an enterprise-class NAS storage solution for business-critical applications to the market. As part of the agreement, Seagate will supply enterprise Fibre Channel disc drives, which Procom will use in its recently announced NetFORCE(TM) 3200C Network Attached Storage product. The […]

Tape drive manufacturer Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (RSS) today announced the Viper(R) 2000 tape autoloader for its Ultrium-format Viper 2000 tape drive. According to Seagate, Viper 2000 is aimed at the midrange to enterprise server market, is a hands-free backup solution, provides up to 2 terabytes of compressed unattended backup from 10 cartridge slots with […]

Storage management software company, CommVault Systems Inc.. today announced the release of CommVault(R) Galaxy(TM) Version 3.1, its latest data and storage management solution. According to CommVault, Galaxy 3.1 includes what it calls intelligent software-based dynamic drive sharing (iDDS) to help users optimize tape resources in SAN configurations by allocating drives based on storage policies rather […]

Imation Corp. today announced the availability of Imation AIT-2 tape cartridges. According to Imation, the new cartridges are compatible with all Advanced Intelligent Tape(TM) AIT-2 drives and libraries, provides 50 gigabyte native capacity (up to 100 gigabyte capacity with data compression) and has a native sustained data transfer rate of 6 megabyte/sec. (up to 12 […]

SAN management software company SANavigator Inc. today announced that its agent-less, Java-based storage management application SANavigator(TM) Version 1.6 now supports Auto Discovery and other SAN management features of McDATA Fibre Channel switches and software. “We’re pleased with the flexibility of the SANavigator SAN management software,” said Chris Allo, director of software product marketing at McDATA. […]

Quantum-ATL and Tech Data Corp. to announced that they have entered into a distribution agreement whereby Tech Data will act as a distributor for Quantum-ATL midrange DLT library systems in the United States. Tech Data plans on distributing Quantum-ATL products to its customers, including dealers, resellers, value added resellers and mail order resellers, as well […]

Network storage companies BiTMICRO NETWORKS Inc. and Storage 2000, parent company of Storage Area Solutions, plan to demonstrate the fruits of the integration of BiTMICRO’s solid-state fibre channel E-Disk product with Storage 2000’s Agility Flash Solid State Module (AFSM) at FOSE, an IT event for the government market. “We chose the BiTMICRO product as the […]