Henry Baltazar

Sun Microsystems Inc. makes a major play for the midrange server market with this weeks announcement of the Sun Fire V880 server. eWeek Labs exclusive tests of the server show that it will allow IT departments to consolidate multiple applications on a single server at an aggressive price point. The Solaris 8-based Sun Fire V880 […]

Overland Datas libraryXpress LXN2000 unit, with its built-in, 2G-bps Fibre Channel connection, is ready to accommodate the next generation of Fibre Channel storage. The LXN2000, which started shipping in August, has a starting price of $40,850. A linear tape, open version of the LXN2000 is expected in a few months. The LXN2000 library unit can […]

Sporting a high-port-density chassis and supporting the 2G-bps Fibre Channel protocol, QLogic Corp.s SANbox 2 switch is a suitable choice for IT managers looking for a midrange Fibre Channel SAN switch. SANbox 2 is one of the first storage area network switches eWeek Labs has seen that supports the 2G-bps Fibre Channel protocol, but it […]

Despite their blazing speed and backward compatibility, 2G-bps Fibre Channel products are making very little headway in IT departments. There are several reasons for this. For starters, other technologies are now competing for IT mindshare. During the past year, while 2G-bps Fibre Channel was slowly maturing and gaining vendor support, Cisco Systems Inc. and others […]

In performance tests of QLogic Corp.s SANbox 2, eWeek Labs faced an interesting problem: how to test a product that came out before testing-tools vendors had released tools for it. 2G bps is a fairly high-performance rate to drive through a single port, let alone the 15 remaining ones in SANbox 2. In the IP […]

Servers that harness Intel Corp.s Itanium processors started to ship in the past few weeks, and, sooner or later, these servers will be at the core of many of todays enterprise-class applications. For now, however, Itanium servers are still in a “development phase” in which it is difficult to gauge the real-world performance of this […]

Despite the massive layoffs throughout the industry, the task of finding storage administrators with hands-on SAN-building experience is no easier than it was last year. The major reason for this continuing scarcity is that there really werent that many IT professionals with these valuable skills to begin with, in direct contrast with the surplus of […]

FalconStor Inc.s IPStor 1.0 software blends storage virtualization and SAN-over-IP capabilities into an impressive package that earns eWeek Labs Analysts Choice distinction. Most companies looking to centralize storage resources turn to proprietary hardware-based systems from vendors such as EMC Corp., which use storage processing units to manage resources. IPStor is the first IP virtualization package […]

Storage Technology Corp.s application storage manager, or ASM, mixes tape and disk virtualization into a powerful, efficient storage system. From a technology perspective, ASM functions in a manner similar to HSM (hierarchical storage management) systems. ASMs virtualization software gives clients a virtual network drive they can store data on, but it hides the fact that […]

Netware 6 brings much-needed improvement to the Novell Inc. operating system—especially minimizing the need for fat client software—but not enough to warrant a major reinvestment. eWeek Labs tested NetWare 6 Beta 3, which showed impressive improvements in file and print services. Novells Native File Access is perhaps the most important file service advance, allowing NetWare […]

According to rumblings within the storage world, the explosive growth of hard drive capacities we have benefited from for several years is about to come to a screeching halt in the near future. Thanks to a phenomenon known as superparamagnetism, current hard drive technologies are expected to stop growing once they get to a density […]

MTI Corp.s Vivant D-100 fibre Channel RAID unit provides the familiarity of a direct-attached storage product while offering the ability to be upgraded to a full-fledged SAN device. Judging from analysts market predictions, storage area networks will dominate the IT landscape over the next few years, but looking at todays spending patterns, we see that […]