As resellers and systems integrators cry foul over the failure rates of hard drives, Victor Aghtan of distributor Westan is putting up a challenge to his competitors to have their products independently tested. In <I>ARN</I>'s March 6 issue, resellers claimed the failure rates of hard drives produced by the most respected brands are increasing and vendors are not providing adequate support for faulty product.
EMC and Dell Computer on Monday jointly announced upgrades to several storage management software products, opening up new data backup options to users.
When is a disk drive not a disk drive? Well, according to Quantum, when it's a tape library. The storage vendor is preparing to release a 3-terabyte disk-based device that emulates a tape library.
Storage software giant Veritas Software announced on Monday an upgrade to one of its flagship storage software products, NetBackup 4.5.
Colorado-based McData asked a federal judge for a preliminary injunction to block Brocade Communications Systems from selling storage networking devices that allegedly infringe on a McData patent.
Quantum is putting the finishing touches on a disk storage product that will enable companies to run data backups normally performed using tape, but at a much faster rate of speed than tape, according to Quantum representatives.
After two years in development, Fujitsu Software Technology (Fujitsu Softek) on Monday rolled out its Storage Manager 1.1.0 software, one of the first storage software products to integrate today's most sought-after storage management functions in one automated management console, storage experts report.
EMC released new storage hardware for its Celerra File Server on Wednesday, and expanded the software and support capabilities of the high-end network attached storage (NAS) system.
The storage device specialists at Western Digital have a new 120GB FireWire external hard drive available.
Storage networking vendor McData is suing rival Brocade Communications Systems for patent infringement, claiming that at least two Brocade products use its technology for measuring data traffic flow on storage area networks.
Partnerships are critical to creating value for customers and companies will partner to demonstrate capabilities, resolve interoperability issues, or sell each other's wares. When I see smart partnerships between companies intended to bring out the strengths of both and their solution offerings, I am encouraged. Recently in the storage market, there have been several notable partnerships announced in the disk storage market.
Maxtor has announced its latest external hard drive model, the 120 gigabyte USB 2.0, which triples the storage capacity for its Personal Storage 3000LE external hard disk drive products.
Sun Microsystems rolled out several hardware storage systems and new storage management software last week, gear that signals its intent to manage and support multi-vendor storage.
MSPs (managed service providers) are tempting customers to consider hosted storage management as a way to jump start the utilisation of a glut of underused storage equipment and navigate complex storage environments, according to industry analysts.
Three storage vendors last week claimed to have cobbled together a SCSI over IP (iSCSI) storage network out of off-the-shelf hardware, beating by a year industry expectations about when the first viable iSCSI storage area networks (SAN) would ship.
Memory prices have tripled since November as the volatility of the memory market once again rears its head.
Storage vendors will face tough market conditions this year, according to Gartner, with research indicating that 78 per cent of corporations in Australia have no plans to make any major storage acquisitions in 2002.
IDC Australia predicts security, storage and managed network services will be some of the top moneymakers between 2002 and 2005.
In its first decline since 1998, the disk storage systems hardware market in the US fell by US$5.7 billion, or 18.2 per cent, in 2001, according to a study from International Data Corp. (IDC).
Cost cutting at EMC has yet to have an effect on its bottom line, as the data storage giant on Thursday reported its second consecutive quarterly loss.
