James Alan Miller

Spirent Communications today introduced a new test suite for configuring, generating, and analyzing traffic used to measure the performance of storage networking infrastructure equipment, including Fibre Channel switches, fabrics, emerging Fibre Channel-over-IP (FCIP) gateways, and DWDM systems. The new SmartFabric software tool works with the company’s SmartBits Fibre Channel modules and SmartBits chassis to emulate […]

Tricord Systems, Inc. today announced the addition of twelve companies to the Tricord Advantage Partner Program. As authorized channel partners, these organizations are licensed to resell Tricord’s Lunar Flare(TM) NAS server appliance and future clustered appliance solutions based on Tricord’s Illumina(TM) software. The new partners include Accudata Systems, Inc., Houston, TX; Bay Data Consultants, St. […]

Tensilica(R) Inc., a provider of extensible, configurable processor technology, and JNI(R) Corporation , a manufacturer of enterprise-level storage area network (SAN) products and Fibre Channel based host bus adapters (HBA), today announced that JNI has licensed Tensilica’s Xtensa(TM) technology and plans to incorporate it into a System-on-Chip Fibre Channel Controller product. “We chose Tensilica’s technology […]

Emulex Corp. today announced that Hitachi Data Systems has certified the Emulex LP8000S SBus host bus adapter for use in its Freedom SAN enterprise solutions. “Emulex’s Fibre Channel host bus adapters enable Hitachi to provide its enterprise customers with a high performance, scalable solution for the most demanding storage environments,” said Darrel Kent, senior director, […]

Gadzoox Networks, a global supplier of intelligent Storage Area Network (SAN) products, today announced that Slingshot 4218 will be available to the open market on July 31, 2001. The company also announced that it has shipped over 200 2Gb switches worldwide. “Since the introduction of Slingshot in April, we have had tremendous interest in our […]

Maxtor Corporation today announced the availability of the Maxtor MaxAttach(TM) NAS 4300 file server. According to Maxtor, the 400GB rack-mountable IDE-based 1U-high file server includes software to periodically record a “snapshot” of the server’s file system. So if a file is inadvertently erased, the stored image can be accessed for instant recovery. “Maxtor continues to […]

Akibia Consulting, a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, and TidalWire Inc.a storage networking connectivity products, information and services vendor today announced the launch of TidalWire’s on-line business built upon Siebel eBusiness Applications. “Our mission is to provide our customers the best storage networking products, information and service,” said Jeff Brandes, president of TidalWire. […]

INRANGE Technologies today announced that effective immediately it will provide Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) from major manufacturers directly to its enterprise customers in its end-to-end SAN offerings. INRANGE will supply HBAs manufactured primarily by QLogic in addition to select HBAs from Emulex and JNI. Technical support and on-site service will be provided through INRANGE’s direct […]

Legato Systems, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire through a $12.5 million all-cash transaction privately-held SCH Technologies. According to Legato, SCH is a software and services organization that develops and globally distributes advanced storage solutions for the open systems market. The company has Technical Development Centers in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Cincinnati, Ohio and […]

McDATA(R) Corporation today announced today that InTechnology Plc, an enterprise management software and solution company, will resell McDATA’s entire core-to-edge family of enterprise storage area network (SAN) solutions. McDATA says the partnership expands its distribution in the United Kingdom and makes it easier for business partners and system integrators to order McDATA products for quick […]

SANs provider Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. today announced the opening of a service and support center in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the company, the Brocade Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Regional Support Center represents the continued commitment of Brocade to the European region and will provide 24 x 7 in-time zone assistance for Brocade […]

Storage virtualization vendors KOM NETWORKS Inc. and StoreAge Networking Technologies Ltd. today announced a technology alliance to bring a complete storage virtualization solution to the marketplace. According to the companies, they will partner on technical development and marketing initiatives focused on optimally integrating KOM NETWORKS’ STEALTHWORX(TM) software with StoreAge’s SVM(TM) (Storage Virtualization Manager). STEALTHWORX(TM)’s file-level […]