Henry Baltazar

Like many other companies, engineering company Wright-Pierce had to deal with growing pains as it expanded from a one-office outfit to a multisite organization. Wright-Pierce, based in Topsham, Maine, had problems ensuring that geographically dispersed engineers and office workers were able to collaborate on documents in an efficient manner. The solution? Deploy Riverbed Technology Inc.s […]

Dual-layer DVD burners from Sony Electronics, which effectively double the amount of data that can be stored on a single disk, will hit the market near the end of next month. Currently, consumer- and business-class DVD burners can store 4.7GB of data on a single disk, but the introduction of dual-layer technology will raise the […]

Companies with beleaguered e-mail servers will find that Accellion Inc.s interesting attachment caching appliance, Accellion Attachments 3.5, eases the burden. By stripping attachments out of e-mail and storing them on cache appliances, Accellion Attachments 3.5 can optimize transmission of attachments within an enterprise and among business partners. Click here to read the full review of […]

In the press and in marketing materials, the terms data life-cycle management and information life-cycle management are often used interchangeably. However, a few vendors are making a case for separating and solidifying the definitions. Vendors including EMC Corp. and Fujitsu Software Technology Corp. view ILM as a superset of DLM, with ILM offering additional intelligence […]

Managing data storage is more than making sure you have big-enough buckets for the bits. Several factors, including federal regulations and the continuing need to reduce costs, are forcing IT managers in a wide variety of industries to rethink their data storage and retention policies. Data life-cycle management, or DLM, is the newest technology being […]

The X-series InServ S400 and S800 storage servers from 3PARdata Inc. deliver impressive scalability and flexibility by harnessing the companys unique InSpire architecture and its InServ Storage Server software. The S800 is a bigger version of the S400; both products shipped this month. Both servers include X-Series controllers. The S800 has a larger backplane with […]

Silicon Graphics is behind the worlds largest shared-memory Linux system, a 512-processor behemoth at NASAs Ames Research Center. Recently, I got to look at this giant system, which is built on available Altix 3000 technology. (The largest commercially available Altix 3000 has only 256 processors.) The supersize Altix 3000 system, deployed earlier this year, has […]

With his users generating data at incredible rates, Alan Powers, high-end-computing lead for NASAs Advanced Supercomputing Division, had to find a way to efficiently and inexpensively store data while keeping it accessible to users. About six years ago, Powers tested Silicon Graphics Inc.s DMF (Data Migration Facility) solution, which blends tape- and hard-drive-based storage using […]

Kano Technologies K8Xtreme External DVD burner writes data to DVD+R and DVD-R formats at 8x write speeds. This is the first drive Ive seen that can burn at these speeds with both formats, giving users the flexibility to buy whatever media they want. The K8Xtreme External DVD burner, which shipped this month, has a list […]

Simple math shows why 10G-BPS Fibre Channel speed matters a great deal for Inter-Switch Links. To establish a 10G-bps link between two switches using standard 2G-bps Fibre Channel ports, an IT manager would have to dedicate five ports on each switch to generate an ISL trunk between them. On a small, entry-class switch such as […]