James Alan Miller

Crossroads Systems Inc. today introduced the Crossroads 10000, a modular storage router that it said performs all the key protocol and storage management functions between storage devices and the network, offering connectivity and management of SCSI and Fibre Channel storage devices into Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand storage networks. “Crossroads is committed to developing industry […]

QLogic Corp., a provider of storage controller chips, host bus adapters, network switches and management software, today announced that Skip Jones, director of planning and technology for QLogic, has been elected to the review board of directors for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Supported Solutions Forum (SSF). The review board determines what storage area […]

Ciprico Inc. this week announced they have received solutions compatibility certification from VERITAS Software Corporation. According to the company, this signifies the completion of a certified test plan that involved the Ciprico NETarray RAID storage solution in operation with VERITAS software applications to validate that all products work together as intended. “The Military’s Joint Vision […]

NovaStor Corporation this week announced the release of their NovaNET 8.5 backup and recovery software for small and medium businesses. The company said this latest release introduces several new enhancements including support for Microsoft Windows XP and Novell NetWare v6.0. According to NovaStor, NovaNET 8.5 allows businesses with a single server or an entire network […]

CNT announced that its IP storage router, the UltraNet Edge Storage Router, has been certified to support Hewlett-Packard Company’s remote data replication software. The company said that in a test environment using HP Continuous Access XP over Fibre Channel disk mirroring software, the storage router connected the HP Surestore Disk Arrays XP512 and XP48 over […]

Redback Networks Inc., a provider of next-generation metro broadband and optical networking equipment, today introduced the SmartEdge(TM) 800 Router, which the company said is designed for the delivery of highly available IP services. According to Redback, the SmartEdge 800 Router is targeted at IP edge aggregation, as well as hosting and network-based storage sites, and […]

Lucent Technologies today announced an expanded alliance with EMC Corporation to offer improved billing for storage solutions to help service providers capture additional business. According to the companies, Lucent will integrate its Kenan(R) IP (Internet protocol) Services Software — which includes billing, web-based customer care, mediation and revenue assurance software — with EMC’s programming interfaces […]

LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. today announced general availability of two gigabit per second fibre channel host connectivity in the new MetaStor(R) E4600 storage system. According to the company, the MetaStor E4600 storage system supports up to four concurrent Fibre Channel host connections at a rate of two gigabits per second each, allowing customers to […]

QLogic Corp. today introduced four SANblade(R)(TM) adapters including single channel and dual channel 2Gb cPCI-Fibre Channel host bus adapters, a single channel PCI-iSCSI host bus adapter and an InfiniBand-Fibre Channel I/O Module. QLogic also introduced new SANbox(TM) switch management software that allows IT administrators to monitor and control heterogeneous (multi-vendor) Fibre Channel fabrics. “The SANbox […]

Maxtor Corporation today announced what it said is a comprehensive range of service and support offerings for the MaxAttach(TM) family of storage servers. Service offerings include on-site field service within the United States and lifetime 24 x 7 telephone technical support worldwide on the MaxAttach NAS 4100, 4300 and 6000 storage servers. “Our new on-site […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that the Cisco ONS 15540 Extended Services Platform and the Cisco SN 5420 Storage Router have completed interoperability tests in a number of storage and storage management environments. Several vendors — Brocade, Intel, McData, and VERITAS — have qualified the Cisco storage networking solutions as fully interoperable with their respective […]

Adaptec, Inc. today announced it is showcasing the benefits of IP storage solutions at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla. this week. Together with Cisco Systems, ADIC and Eurologic Systems, Adaptec plans to demonstrate how companies can implement remote mirroring and shared data access applications by linking an iSCSI SAN to a Fibre Channel SAN. […]