Karen Schwartz

A scaled-down version of Xiotech Corp.s Magnitude 3D SAN-based storage subsystem promises to provide scalability and ease of use for midtier organizations as well as divisions of larger companies. The midmarket has largely been ignored by storage vendors, who tend to focus on lucrative enterprise-class customers or, more recently, the small-business marketplace. But the midsized […]

Verizons purchase of MCI earlier this week will strengthen its business, provide access to lucrative business and government contracts, and, most importantly, prevent rivals from snapping up the Ashburn, Va. company. In a coup likely to make rivals Qwest Communications International Ltd. and BellSouth Corp. sweat, Verizon Communications Inc. agreed to buy MCI Inc. for […]

To further solidify its presence in the lucrative health care market, Hewlett-Packard has announced a new medical archiving solution and upgraded its year-old forms automation system. The HP Medical Archiving Solution manages data such as MRIs, CT Scans, digital x-rays, mammograms and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) across various tiers of storage. The goal, […]

In an effort to secure a niche in the ever-changing storage world, embattled bridging and routing vendor Crossroads Systems Inc. has developed an intelligent storage device that offers a cost-effective way to move data from one point to another. The DataMover 240f appliance provides both dedicated processing power and dedicated bandwidth for backup for organizations […]

In an effort to expand its products capabilities while satisfying requests from current customers, XOsoft has added a host of content distribution and consolidation features to its WANSync product line. The new software platform, called WANSyncCD, takes the Burlington, Mass., companys product suite a step further by offering several productivity enhancements that allow users to […]

Holographic storage drives and other products based on holographic storage technology may come to market as early as this year. Tokyo-based Optware Corp. announced plans this week to create products based on its HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) technology, first for the health care, oil and gas, and pharmaceutical markets, and eventually for the home market. […]

EMCs quiet announcement of a program that offers financial incentives for customers to abandon Veritas storage products for EMCs own portfolio may influence some to make the switch, although experts dont believe it will cause enough change to effect a market shift. The deal, dubbed “Safe Switch,” offers users financial incentives to switch to a […]

S2io Inc., a startup that makes 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware and software products, has announced both a name change and a new product that it says will double the data rate of its previous 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company, now known as Neterion Inc., changed its name to reflect the companys broader […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has introduced a product it says will help midsized and large businesses comply with regulatory requirements and corporate governance policies while managing content in a more comprehensive way than its previous offering. The Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution is built on the compliance platform from records compliance management vendor AXS-One Inc. […]

AmeriVault Corp., a data storage and protection provider, has agreed to acquire Certified Backup, an online data backup vendor focused on the small and home business market. AmeriVault, of Waltham, Mass., uses the outsourcing model to provide offsite disk-to-disk data protection and recovery services including online data backup, e-mail archiving and data replication, mostly to […]

In an attempt to round out its portfolio and compete more effectively with key competitors, storage networking vendor McData Corp. has announced intentions to buy Computer Network Technology Corp. The deal, which is expected to close by July 31, will transfer all assets of the Minneapolis-based CNT to McData. The main benefit of the acquisition, […]

In what is intended to be the first of a series of life-cycle storage management products, StorageTek has introduced an e-mail archiving solution that gives organizations better storage and archival features for fixed content. The Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 appliance, which includes both hardware and software—some of it based on Permabits Permeon—offers record-level retention, […]