Jennifer MacAdam

Network office appliance vendor Ricoh Silicon Valley Inc. today announced the availability of a back-end electronic archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes-based applications. Aimed at U.S. government departments and agencies, the solution features Ricoh’s eCabinet(TM), which serves as the solutions storage and retrieval platform, and Hewlett-Packard Company’s Digital Sender 9100C, which provides the […]

On the heels of announcing a top of the line Cheetah hard disk drive, the Cheetah X15-36LP, Seagate today announced an entry level Cheetah drive, the Cheetah 36ES.Seagate Announces Entry Level Cheetah Hard Disk Drive According to Seagate, the Ultra320 SCSI Cheetah 36ES comes in 18.4 and 36.7gigabyte configurations, features a 10K-rpm spindle speed, has […]

UltraBac Software today announced the release of UltraBac 6.2 backup and disaster recovery software for Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R)/2000 servers and workstations. The company says UltraBac 6.2 features a new Network Disaster Recovery (NetDR) feature to allow users to boot a machine and restore an image of a partition that was previously backed up over the […]

Information technology testing, planning, and consulting firm National Software Testing Laboratories, Inc. (NSTL) and Executive Software this week announced a partnership to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of Executive Software’s disk defragmenter software, Diskeeper(R) 6.0. According to the companies, NSTL compared Diskeeper 6.0 with Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter(R) and found that Diskeeper 6.0 outperformed the embedded […]

Storage management software vendor BakBone Software(TM) and network storage infrastructure company FalconStor Software today announced a partnership to bundle BakBone’s NetVault(TM) backup/restore software with FalconStor’s IPStor(TM). According to the companies, NetVault will be able to run on IPStor servers to locally backup and restore their data, relieving application servers on an IP-based storage area network […]

Plasmon this week announced it is shipping its new automated 5.25-inch magneto optical library line, the G-Series. According to Plasmon, the G-Series incorporates Sony 14X-9.1 gigabyte magneto optical drives and is available in four models ranging from 164 slots to 638, and from four to 12 drives. The library scales from 1.5 terabytes to 5.8 […]

Despite strong potential for growth, the storage service provider (SSP) market will face hurdles in the coming year, says a recent study by analyst firm IDC. According to IDC, worldwide storage utility spending will increase from $153 million in 2000 to $10.7 billion in 2005. Yet to reap these potential gains, IDC warns, providers must […]

Systems integrator NaviStor.Com LLC and network storage company FalconStor Software, Inc. announced a partnership to offer FalconStor’s IPStor enterprise storage software as one of NaviStor’s storage products and services. According to FalconStor, IPStor unifies Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) under a common management umbrella. In addition, IPStor also combines IP-connectivity with […]

IBM recently announced plans to offer a portfolio of Linux-enabled storage products. According to IBM, customers running Linux applications will be able to store and integrate data in a variety of formats on any platform. Linda Sanford, senior vice president of IBM’s Storage Systems Group, said, “unlike our competitors, IBM has moved beyond a simple […]

Data storage automation vendor Overland Data Inc. this week announced the availability of a new line of automated tape backup products that incorporate Quantum’s backward-read compatible Super DLTtape drives. The Quantum tape drives operate at a capacity of 110 gigabytes and a transfer rate of 11MB/sec (native uncompressed), with plans for future generations leading up […]

Cisco Systems, EMC and Oracle have joined forces and leveraged their collective enterprise storage, networking and database management experience to create the “ECOstructure” company. According to the companies, ECOstructure will offer blueprints for networking, storage and software to guarantee e-business transactions, giving companies the ability to trade under the business-to-consumer (B2C) or business-to-business (B2B) modes. […]

Picolight, a builder of fiber optic transceiver subsystems, announced this week that it has entered volume production for three optical subsystem products. According to Picolight, these transceiver subsystems target short-reach optical-networking connections, including optical switch interconnect, optical enterprise and storage area networks (SANs), and optical metro/access networks. Stan Swirhun, CEO and president of Picolight said, […]