Jennifer MacAdam

Winchester Systems this week announced its FlashDisk OpenRAID disk array now has fibre channel interfaces and delivers up to 121 MB per second data throughput. According to Winchester, the FlashDisk product line supports both point-to-point fibre connections and switched fibre connections. FlashDisk OpenRAID for fibre channel is compatible with Brocade, QLogic, JNI and other popular […]

StorageTek. and JNI(R) Corp. announced that StorageTek has certified JNI FibreStar(R) PCI and SBus Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for use in StorageTek’s tape automation and virtual backup/restore solutions. According to the companies, JNI HBAs are certified for use with three lines of StorageTek products: the StorageTek 9840 and T9940 FC-Tape Drives; the L180 […]

StorageTek(R) today announced that SAP AG has selected StorageTek Shared Virtual Array(TM) (SVA(TM)) disk subsystems to support its mainframe production and test processing needs with two StorageTek 9500 SVA disk subsystems. “SAP chose StorageTek SVA because we recognized that StorageTek has leading experience with virtual technology and provides one of the most reliable solutions available,” […]

ATTO Technology recently announced that printing and publishing company Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG selected ATTO’s ExpressPCI Fibre Channel host adapters to drive its prepress Storage Area Network (SAN). According to ATTO, ExpressPCI Fibre Channel host adapters will integrate with Heidelberger’s Jetbase, a turnkey production database, and Prinergy software, a PDF-based workflow management tool for service bureaus, […]

PowerFile(TM), a manufacturer of near-line storage products today announced a developer program to provide PowerFile’s Software Developer Kit (SDK) and developer technical support to help create and integrate custom software solutions for PowerFile’s CD/DVD jukebox products. According PowerFile, the program will allow developers to create their own interface and write their own code to integrate […]

VERITAS Software Corp. today announced the release of “Disk Storage Management for Windows Servers,” a guide to help administrators implement and configure online storage in Microsoft Windows(R) workgroup and enterprise environments. The guide, written by Paul Massiglia, engineering technical director at VERITAS Software, provides the architectural background that helps users formulate online storage strategies, and […]

Emulex Corp., a supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced the development of Fibre Channel device drivers in support of the Microsoft Corp. enterprise storage direction. The new Microsoft initiative provides additional management, performance and availability for Windows Whistler server products, and includes Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), StorPort and Multipath I/O for […]

EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and software will be sold by Fujitsu Technology Solutions and packaged with PRIMEPOWER servers for Open Systems Enterprise applications. The companies this week announced the signing of an alliance that expands the Fujitsu Technology Solutions portfolio of open systems storage offerings to include EMC’s Symmetrix(R) Enterprise Storage systems and software. […]

IBM announced it is shipping the ProFibre Storage Array DF1100R RAID subsystem to the company’s technology group distribution channel. The ProFibre Storage Array features RAID hardware and software technology from Mylex (an IBM Company) and is aimed at storage-intensive environments such as storage clusters and storage area networks (SANs). IBM said it used “advanced” fault-tolerant […]

Promise Technology Inc. this week announced the latest additions to its line of ATA RAID products, the FastTrak100 TX & LP Series of ATA RAID PCI cards. According to Promise, the FastTrak100 TX & LP Series is compatible with the 66MHz PCI bus motherboards and offer data transfer rates in RAID 0 (striping) of up […]

QLogic Corp. announced it has been chosen by Compaq to supply adapters and drivers for the product implementation of Compaq’s VersaStor(TM) Technology network storage solution. According to Compaq, VersaStor is designed to combine storage systems in a networked storage pool that allows capacity to be added and removed transparently to server applications. They claim that […]

Online data storage company US Data Authority Inc. today announced it has signed an initial $33 million dollar contract with HITACHI Data Systems to expedite the delivery of the data storage hardware and support necessary to launch a national Internet Storage Infrastructure built on US Data’s existing storage network. Dominick F. Maggio, US Data’s Chief […]