For companies seeking to store mission-critical data, disk arrays configured with SCSI-attached drives have typically been the only game in town. Lower-cost drives based on the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standard, while plentiful in PCs, lacked the performance and reliability needed at the data centre level.
Tired of slicing and dicing your backups into 100MB or 250MB chunks to fit on your Zip disks? No need anymore: Iomega is now shipping its first 750MB drive.
IT shops are turning to new ways to manage ballooning storage volumes, according to the Meta Group.
Components and peripherals distributor Westan has launched a new division to help resellers provide storage services to the SME market.
Dimension Data has secured a three-year $1.5 million tender to design, supply and develop a new network server and storage architecture for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI).
Hewlett-Packard told partners and customers that it would continue to support the full range of Compaq and HP storage products for the immediate future at its annual ENSA [Enterprise Networked Storage Architecture] conference in Queensland last month. However, the number of partners dealing direct with the vendor could be cut.
Attempting to stay ahead of the innovation curve, Veritas Software is in the early stages of developing a generation of storage management software designed to overcome the complexities of using heterogeneous systems.
Rivals EMC and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to expand a cross-licensing agreement for certain storage system application programming interfaces (API), a move that will eventually allow the development of storage management software capable of controlling each other's storage devices.
ACA Pacific has expanded its two-year distribution agreement with Computer Associates to include the software vendor's enterprise range of storage software. The move comes as CA attempts to bridge the gap between its direct and indirect sales force.
Hoping not to repeat the blunders of its recent past, IBM today announced it has already shipped 5,000 units of its new Ultrastar 146Z10 hard drive. The new drive was introduced today, and IBM said the product is in evaluations with the same OEMs that did not take too kindly to the company's last drive -- 73LZX -- which became available much later than competing products from Seagate Technology, Maxtor, and Fujitsu.
IBM last week bolstered its tape products to give users more back-up capacity and improved performance. IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590 Model H uses a new magnetic recording head that increases the capacity of the drive by 50 per cent over older versions of the product.
Victorian wholesaler and white-box assembler Hallmark Computer International has signed an agreement with Dublin-based network storage vendor Eurologic.
Advantech's network computer group is poised to sign a distributor within the fortnight to push its new network attached storage appliance out to resellers and the market.
Traditionally a dedicated Sun Microsystems reseller, Frontline Systems has signed new agreements with HP and Hitachi Data Systems to expand its portfolio beyond Unix-based systems.
Iomega is hoping to build on its storage heritage, launching seven new network-attached storage (NAS) products aimed at the SMB market.
Looking to demonstrate its commitment to the Informix user base, IBM has made a series of enhancements to the product line that it acquired 11 months ago and said it has more upgrades on the way.
Sony's Memory Stick flash memory card technology is expected to get a today when Japanese PC maker Sotec announces support for the format.
Internet hosting specialist Hostworks has acquired SAN (storage area network) technology developed by Sun Microsystems and Hitachi Data Systems and has begun offering its customers a managed storage service.
Despite the setbacks caused by last year's tight economic environment, worldwide sales of relational and object relational database management systems (RDBMS) are poised to surge once again, growing to a $US20 billion market by 2006, according to a report released on Wednesday by IDC.
The post-merger Hewlett-Packard announced plans today for a new storage division, dubbed Network Storage Solutions (NSS), that will include merging some products while phasing others out completely during the next five years.
