Jennifer MacAdam

Privately held storage software maker FalconStor Inc. this week said it agreed to combine with Network Peripherals Inc. in a reverse merger that would make FalconStor a publicly traded company. The all-stock deal would be valued at about $300 million, based on Network Peripherals’ reported current market capitalization of about $107 million, sources familiar with […]

SAN Valley Systems, a provider of high-speed IP-SAN connectivity solutions, demonstrated the wire-speed IP-SAN performance of the SAN Valley SL1000 with products from Compaq, LuxN and ADIC this week at NetWorld+Interop (N+I) in Las Vegas. The SL1000, scheduled for production release in July and is expected to be generally available this summer, is the first […]

Finisar Corp., a provider of gigabit fiber optic solutions for high-speed data and telecommunication networks, this week introduced the SAN QoS, which the company said is the first and only distributed packet-level performance monitoring system for Fibre Channel SANs. “Today’s SAN Manager must be able to trust and rely upon the performance and reliability of […]

StorageTek(R) and Network Appliance Inc. this week announced that select StorageTek tape libraries are supported in the Network Appliance Fibre Channel Fabric Tape SAN Backup solution. StorageTek and Network Appliance have jointly certified select StorageTek tape libraries with 9840 Fibre Channel tape drives to be used for data backup and recovery in a full Fibre […]

Switch and Data, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation centers and value-added infrastructure services, announced an agreement to expand its relationship with Level 3 Communications Inc. The company said the agreement strengthens its leadership as a vendor-neutral colocation provider, and allows Level 3 to meet demand for bandwidth in key metropolitan facilities not operated by Level […]

Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM company, announced new Tivoli Ready benefits and seven new product certifications into the Tivoli Ready program. A product bearing the Tivoli Ready emblem indicates that it has been integrated and tested with a specific Tivoli product or solution. The company said Tivoli Ready products enable business partners to offer seamless […]

CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. announced a partnership with PromiseMark(TM) to provide data recovery services in Canada as part of PromiseMark’s comprehensive PromiseGuard(TM) Data Recovery and Virus Protection plans. “As a new trend in computing, PromiseMark is offering an innovative ‘warranty’ plan to help users recover their lost data in an unexpected crisis,” said CBL […]

INRANGE Technologies and IBM Corp. announced they have expanded their strategic business relationship, and that IBM will resell and service INRANGE’s recently released 128-port IN-VSN(TM) FC/9000(TM) Fibre Channel Director. The agreement expands a current reseller relationship, through which IBM has been remarketing INRANGE’s 64-port director technology to provide the switching infrastructure for both open systems […]

AlphaStor(TM), a storage management software and services provider, announced that it has integrated its AlphaStor media management software with Legato’s(R) Co- StandbyServer(TM). The company said the integration means that, in the event of an NT server failure, AlphaStor will resume processing on another system without user involvement. The AlphaStor suite is a next-generation enterprise media […]

Ateonix Networks Inc., a provider of network appliances, this week introduced its NASAS-2040(TM) network attached storage (NAS) appliance. The company claims the product’s diskless server architecture provides high reliability and an upgradeable Flash ROM-based OS. According to Atenix, this feature also allows separate purchase of the NAS server appliance and off-the-shelf storage (disk drives) delivering […]

FileTek Inc., a data management systems provider, announced the release of StorHouse(R) 3.0. This new version contains support for rich media including binary large objects (BLOBS) and character large objects (CLOBS). According to FileTek, StorHouse 3.0 will now allow cost-effective storage of, and unique relational access to, digital large objects (LOBS) such as video, audio, […]

Procom Technology Inc., manufacturer of data storage appliances and network attached storage (NAS), this week announced their new product — the NetFORCE(TM) 1700. Procom claims the NAS product has the highest storage density, best performance and lowest cost per megabyte of any product in its class. “By listening to the need of our customers, we’ve […]