Henry Baltazar

Microsofts MapPoint 2004 North American Edition business mapping software improves incrementally over previous versions, but the main reason its attractive is the updated data that comes bundled with it. In MapPoint 2004, which shipped last month and has a retail price of $299, map data has been expanded to include 6.7 million miles of routable […]

Vixel Corp.s InSpeed SOC technology makes storage hardware faster and more reliable—to the delight of OEMs. Although IT managers cant purchase the SOC (Switch on a Chip) technology directly from Vixel, chances are high that most companies future storage purchases will have InSpeed SOC or a similar chip inside. eWEEK Labs makes this prediction based […]

EMC has launched two products geared toward storage management for midrange customers. EMCs Visual SAN is a SAN management platform that allows IT managers to monitor the devices in their SANs. Some of the interesting new capabilities included in this package are the ability to perform configuration management (to keep track of firmware revisions and […]

Given that the intelligent SAN switch market is officially a one-horse race right now, it might seem a little early to focus on this area of storage networking. Maxxan Systems Inc. stands alone as the only vendor currently shipping an intelligent storage area network switch. However, there are compelling reasons why now is the best […]

The work switch vendors are doing to make development easier for software vendors is perhaps even more important than the hardware platforms that are on the way. After all, as switch vendors realize, no company would be willing to implement a platform—no matter how good that platform—unless there is a wide range of applications available […]

Maxxan Systems Inc.s Maxxan SA100f storage appliance, the first intelligent SAN switch appliance to hit the market, is a solid product that convincingly demonstrates the power of intelligent storage area network switches. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Maxxan SA100f The Maxxan SA100f, the first intelligent SAN switch to market, packs storage virtualization functionality in to a workgroup-class appliance. […]

SAN technology is about to take an intelligent step forward. Until now, storage management applications have run smoothly on hosts or enterprise-class storage devices. This arrangement has been workable because most storage area networks have been relatively small. However, SANs are getting bigger and more complex, and that trend will certainly continue as IT departments […]

Maxxan Systems Inc.s MXV320 Intelligent Storage Area Network Switch is a director-class SAN switch that, when coupled with the SA200f blade, can run storage applications. Like its smaller counterpart, the SA100f , the MXV320 can run FalconStor Software Inc.s IPStor and will run Microsoft Corp.s Storage Server 2003 on its application blades. This will allow […]

NetX Inc.s flexsafe provides plug-and-play client-side backup capabilities in an easy-to-implement appliance. Given that a large amount of valuable company data is stored on laptops and desktops (much to IT managements chagrin), the NetX FlexSafe appliance will be a welcome addition to many corporations. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NetX FlexSafe backup appliance NetX FlexSafe backup appliance NetXs […]

The new functionality introduced in Microsoft Corp.s Windows Server 2003 will make its way to network-attached storage appliances through the release of Windows Storage Server 2003, and eWEEK Labs believes vendors—and thus customers—can expect improved manageability, reliability and international (localization) language support. We recently got a peek at the new software platform when Microsoft sent […]

Intervideos WinDVD Creator Platinum 2 combines video editing, authoring and burning software into a single, easy-to-use application. Creator, which shipped in mid-July, lists for $99.95, and my tests showed this would be money well-spent for corporate videographers and consumers alike. The softwares adaptive smart-rendering functionality, which renders only content that has changed, is a timesaver […]

Serial ATA RAID continues its march into the workgroup-class market with the release last month of the FastTrak S150 SX4 RAID controller from Promise Technology Inc. At $199, the FastTrak S150 SX4 is a relative bargain compared with SCSI RAID controllers, which are typically found in the low-end to midrange server market. However, the trade-offs […]