Brian Fonseca

SAN DIEGO—Targeted at improving storage functionality and options for SMBs, Intel and EMC announced a new multiyear OEM agreement and strategy on April 4 while also unveiling plans to co-develop storage technology. Per the joint agreement unveiled at Storage Networking World here, Intel will provide its reseller and distributors worldwide with the Intel SSR212PP Storage […]

Shedding any notions among customers of being no more than a novelty within the tightly contested storage market, Microsoft is aggressively leveraging OEM partnerships and pursuing ways to slice data management complexity and cost. The next step in that methodical process will take place at the Storage Networking World conference April 3-6 in San Diego. […]

Large-scale storage vendors are launching new products targeting remote office backup, data center flexibility and the need for multipath storage management. At the Storage Networking World show April 3-6 in San Diego, EMC will join its close partner Dell to announce the new EMC Clariion AX150 for Fibre Channel connectivity and the AX150i for iSCSI […]

Providing notebook PCs with performance and capacity typically found in desktop PCs, Fujitsu Computer Products of America on March 28 unveiled a 200GB, 2.5-inch serial ATA hard disk drive. Building on the strength of Fujitsus 160GB, 2.5-inch SATA HDD, the MHV2200BT, which will begin shipping in the third quarter, is designed to allow customers to […]

Inching their way as a primary target by storage vendors that have traditionally catered to larger enterprises, SMBs are on track to gobble up and deploy more capable storage technology than ever before in 2006, according to a new report released on March 29 by IDC. According to the IDCs study called “U.S. SMB Storage […]

Bill Graff, senior manager of infrastructure for CernerWorks, the remote hosting business unit of Cerner Corp., of Kansas City, Mo., is trying to outrun a data avalanche. “Storage is a big budget-line item for us. Its significant because we do 1.5 petabytes of [spinning disk] storage today, and thats more than double what we had […]

Revivio on March 27 will announce the availability of its new Application Integration Suite backup and recovery product. The Revivio software package is designed to automate the data protection and recovery processes, enabling customers to more easily manage their daily backup and disaster recovery operations. Featuring integration with Revivios CPS (Continuous Protections System), AIS is […]

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Emulex on March 13 unveiled its new line of multi-protocol iSCSI and Fibre Channel over IP storage router products targeted for release by mid-2006 by OEMs, the Emulex Storage Router Models 725 and 735, respectively. The new storage networking gear is aimed at helping enterprise customers simplify the handling of multi-protocol translation and connectivity options […]

In a move designed to add more teeth to its IP storage system portfolio, EMC on March 6 debuted two new versions of its midtier Celerra product line. At the same time, via its Smarts business unit, the storage company launched what officials claim is the first management product to provide root-cause analysis for NAS […]