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New remote support options for enterprise storage promise better control of complex systems, but the technologies must overcome user concerns about effectiveness and security. Veritas Software Corp. next year will become the first vendor to offer remote aid as part of its support services, launching a per-incident service by April and an always-on edition in […]

Users of external storage connected to Windows servers will get new, full-system restoration options from Power-Quest Corp. next year. Changes in the V2i Protector software, via a 1.1 upgrade Jan. 6 and a 2.0 upgrade due in the spring, will add new recovery management functions as well as the ability to take incremental snapshots of […]

Teensy-Weensy IBM Transistor IBM last week unveiled what it is calling the worlds smallest working silicon transistor. With a measure of 6 nanometers in length, the transistor is at least 10 times smaller than transistors in production today, officials said. The silicon body of the transistor is 4-8nm thick but retains the needed capabilities for […]

An identity should be the most personal and inviolable thing one can own—and yet, as e-commerce practices unfold, an electronic identity that is secure and under the control of its owner is far from a reality. Microsofts early interest in the issue, in the form of its Passport identity management system, inspired industry dialogue from […]

Sony Electronics Inc.s Tape Storage Solutions division is preparing its first generation of enterprise tape devices, slated for end-user delivery by resellers in spring 2003, officials said Monday. The new format—Super Advanced Intelligent Tape, or S-AIT 1—will hold .5 terabytes of data uncompressed, or 1.3 TB compressed, and will transfer data at 30MBps. Pricing for […]

Enterprise Storage HP to Launch iSCSI Hardware in Q1 Hewlett-Packard will enter the iSCSI market early next year when it launches a low-end storage array that combines combined NAS and iSCSI as well as a high-end iSCSI switch that will likely be OEMed from Cisco Systems. As the largest single supplier of disk storage, HPs […]

Startup Pillar Data Systems Inc. is gearing up for its fall 2003 launch with the development of a Serial ATA-based array designed to give users the option to connect using direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, or in a storage-area network. Storage using such drives would be cheaper and easier to administer than todays Fibre Channel- and […]

EMC Corp. today announced a new midrange version of its Celerra NAS product, the NS600, based on the Clariion storage array. Users have been expecting the network-attached storage product, which will compete against Network Appliance Inc. hardware, since it was first announced with the code name Celerriion by CEO Joe Tucci in June. NS600–NS means […]

Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology LLC raised $870 million in an initial public offering of 72.5 million shares at $12 each Wednesday. The IPO is actually the second for the Scotts Valley, Calif., company, which went public in 1998 but became private again after Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas Software Corp. purchased its software division in 2000. […]

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Quantum Corp. today announced a new road map for its tape products, which will give users an easier upgrade path, faster performance and simpler SAN integration. The plans mainly affect the second generation of the vendors Super Digital Linear Tape products, which Quantum will ship in May 2003, according to a company spokesman. Thats several […]

LiveVault Corp., an application service provider for data backup, will add support for Microsoft Corp.s Exchange servers early next year. With the unnamed revision, the LiveVault service will recognize Exchange traffic specifically, instead of treating it as a generic data. Customers can then have speedier and higher integrity restores, said Dan Chartier, director of product […]