Brocade, HDS team to bring SANs to SMEs
Storage switch manufacturer Brocade has teamed up with Hitachi Data Systems to bring affordable storage area networks (SANs) into small and medium enterprise customers.
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B&R offers remote backup
New Zealand-based storage management start up B&R Holdings has announced a new service that enables corporate users to back up and recover data via the Internet.
EMC targets BMC for acquisition
Storage giant EMC has been secretly courting enterprise software company BMC Software with the intention of merging the two companies into one, according to a source familiar with EMC's plans.
Veritas expands distribution with ED
Veritas Software is set to charge into the mid-market enterprise space after it expanded its distribution agreement with Express Data to include its higher-end availability products.
Cisco ships new iSCSI/Fibre Channel over IP router
Cisco Systems today announced the release of a new iSCSI/Fibre Channel over IP storage router that industry experts say firmly points to the company's direction in the storage networking marketplace.
Nortel, Brocade tighten embrace
Optical networking company Nortel Networks and Fibre Channel switch vendor Brocade Communications Systems on Tuesday announced they have strengthened their existing partnership to team up on customer sales calls and product interoperability.
IBM Research packs tape punch
In a demonstration of technological prowess that underscores the continued development of tape-based data storage technology, IBM yesterday announced its engineers have successfully stored 1TB on a single linear tape cartridge.
EMC offers disk array as tape alternative
Continuing to look for ways to jump-start its sales EMC announced last week a relatively inexpensive disk array for storing fixed data, such as check images, software source code and medical X-rays. Prospective users said the device could provide a speedier alternative to tape storage.
Hitachi and others break storage capacity barriers
A number of storage technology breakthroughs were announced this week, including the doubling of hard disk and tape memory capacity, vendors said.
eSys to distribute hard drives in Australia
Singapore-based eSys has made its debut into the Australian market, with the PC components and hard drive distributor officially launched its Oceania regional operations in Sydney yesterday.
Quantum bulks up with NAS appliance
Quantum beefed up its networked storage product line yesterday with the announcement of a new Linux-based appliance targeted at small and medium-size businesses.
Disk meets tape as e-Data moves on XSI
It was the merger that should have happened two years ago. But that was before ASX-listed companies Powerlan and DVT Holdings (formerly Davnet) stepped in and acquired XSI and the e-Data Group respectively.
Veritas brings software to IBM's AIX
Veritas Software is expected to announce this week that its suite of storage-management software will run on IBM's AIX operating system.
EMC reports $77M first-quarter loss
Data storage company EMC reported a $US77 million first-quarter loss on revenue that totalled $1 billion less than the same quarter a year ago.
Veritas launches Win 2000 range of storage software
Veritas Software has given the channel a slew of new storage management products designed for the Microsoft Windows 2000 server platform.
Fujitsu buys Exodus data centre for a song
Fujitsu Australia has purchased a 7,000 square metre Internet data centre (IDC) from Exodus Communications, after the US-based hosting company fell into financial troubles last year.
SecureData, E&Y go the whole hog on disaster recovery
Storage integrator-cum-hosting company SecureData Group has formed an alliance with Ernst & Young to offer a holistic approach to disaster recovery planning, encompassing strategic consulting and technology implementation.
HP links servers and storage with appliance
Hewlett-Packard announced a new appliance Monday for managing data sharing and back-up tasks across groups of servers and storage systems.
Hedges hammers storage resellers, starts own company
When he left Computer Associates after a record quarter at the end of last year, his peers were left wondering. Now Lawrence Hedges has kick-started his own storage consultancy business and has come out swinging at what he sees is a lack of storage skills in the channel.
EMC chief sees HP/Compaq storage falling behind
The fate of storage technology from a combined Hewlett-Packard/Compaq Computer, the evolution of EMC as a storage software company, and outsourcing were on the mind of EMC Executive Chairman Mike Ruettgers during a group question and answer session here Wednesday at the Storage Management 2002 conference.
