Jennifer MacAdam

Rorke Data Inc., a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts Inc., announced it has upgraded its RDD A/V Professional Series of desktop disk-based storage peripherals to incorporate Seagate’s new 180GB Barracuda disk drives. A Rorke spokesperson said the RDD A/V Pro Series now offers the highest capacity, lowest cost storage currently available for data-intensive digital audio/video applications. […]

Promise Technology Inc. announced the release of ConnectStor(TM) II, claiming it is the first ATA RAID 0, 1 network-attached storage (NAS) subsystem that allows easy user installation of up to two Ultra ATA/100 hard drives for MIS professionals, resellers, and small network administrators. “We believe users and resellers alike are looking for more choices and […]

Winchester Systems Inc., a provider of high performance storage for UNIX and NT servers, announced that it has joined Rational Software Corp.’s Unified Partner Program. “Software engineers using Rational tools discovered that the entire software development life-cycle can be significantly accelerated using FlashDisk OpenRAID disk arrays,” said Joel Leider, CEO of Winchester Systems. “This enhanced […]

JNI(R) Corp., a supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters for the enterprise storage market, announced its dual-port FibreStar(R) Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) have been qualified by McDATA Corp. for storage network installations running under Sun Solaris. The qualification covers SBus and PCI for Solaris. McDATA also qualified one of JNI’s single-port HBAs […]

EMBLAZE Systems Inc. and Network Appliance Inc. announced a partnership to co-market and deliver the Emblaze Wireless Media Platform, based on NetApp(R) and Emblaze technology. Under the agreement, the companies will engage in joint marketing activities to wireless carriers, communications service providers, and enterprise customers. Sasson Darwish, president of EMBLAZE, said, “The combination of the […]

Medea Corp., a manufacturer of digital video and audio storage subsystems, this week announced AudioRack LP, a low-profile, rack mountable storage system designed to support professional DAWs. According to Medea, AudioRack LP supports high track count sessions and packs up to 300 GB of high-performance audio storage in 1 3/4-inches (1U) of rack space. Available […]

Trilliant Group this week announced its new planning tool, Storage Planning Assistant, Version 1.0. The storage planning and assessment software tool aligns storage technologies, practices, and products with business needs. Trilliant Group said its consultants utilize the tool during consulting engagements, helping them to provide storage management advice to senior business managers with a greater […]

Convera announced that it has completed the integration of its Screening Room(R) video content management solution with EMC’s Avalon Archive Manager (AAM) technology and the Grass Valley Group’s Profile(R) XP Media Platform. According to Convera, the video content management capability makes the product a fully integrated element of the broadcast environment, from content creation throughout […]

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) this week announced, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, that the SANmark(TM) Qualification Program will conduct three Small Group Test Periods (SGTP) to develop rigorous conformance test procedures for Fibre Channel device interoperability. As part of their effort to promote heterogeneous Storage Area Networks (SANs), the SANmark […]

Storage Area Networks (SANZ), a provider of data storage solutions, announced it has joined the Business Partner Program of Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. (ERSI), a leading provider of GIS software applications. According to the company, as an ESRI Business Partner, SANZ will provide its GEMS geospatial data appliance to users of ESRI’s ArcIMS software […]

Eurologic(TM) Systems, a provider of network storage solutions for the OEM, indirect channel, and vertical market applications markets, announced a number of joint demonstrations of Eurologic’s 2Gbps Fibre Channel-ready SANbloc(TM) network storage system to take place during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas. The company said the demonstrations, configured and tested […]

Information storage provider EMC Corp. this week announced an expansion of its relationship with Sony Broadcast and Professional Company Japan. Under a new OEM agreement, Sony Broadcast & Professional Company will offer an EMC CLARiiON(R)-based storage system with its new XPRI(TM) Digital Content Creation System. Both companies are showcasing the combined solutions at the annual […]