Henry Baltazar

Whether an organizations need to implement off-site data storage is driven by regulations or a healthy sense of self-preservation, many IT managers are finding that traditional tape backup (with off-site tape storage) is not enough. Fortunately, there are several solutions—both low- and high-end—that can help IT managers move and synchronize data between primary and backup […]

Although EMC Corp.s new software offerings dont break a lot of new ground, they clearly show that EMC is serious about being a software vendor and wants to reach out to small and midsize businesses. EMC VisualSAN 3.0 and EMC VisualSRM 1.5.9, both of which shipped last month, dont have the muscle of EMCs enterprise-class […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]