Karen Schwartz

With the intent of rounding out its intelligent storage management strategy, CA (Computer Associates International Inc.) has acquired enterprise message management and archiving software vendor iLumin Software Services Inc. of Reston, Va. Under the terms of the agreement, CA will control all of iLumins technology, including its Assentor product suite, focused around compliance, discovery, supervision, […]

In an attempt to capitalize on its long-standing leadership position in the SCSI world, Adaptec Inc. has taken the somewhat unusual step of introducing an entire line of SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) products simultaneously. Adaptecs introduction of a full line of SAS products is a nod to the transition the entire industry is undergoing from […]

Maxtor adds SATA interfaces to some of its hard drives, Seagate introduces a new family of high-capacity drives, HP adds data protection capabilities to its Smart Office portfolio, Copan introduces two new products, Centrepath announces a new version of Magellan Datapath Manager, Adaptec adds RAID controllers and Veritas Cluster Server supports more replication solutions. Maxtor […]

Kazeon Systems Inc., a startup with friends in high places, may have found a much-needed and lucrative niche that many storage vendors have long ignored. The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., which has just introduced its first product, focuses on combining data services, content services and storage services, with the goal of providing more […]

With the release of three new RAID storage subsystems built entirely on an open source platform, Open Source Storage continues its march to offer a full line of open source storage products. The companys new RAID storage products all support both AMD Opteron dual core or dual Intel Xeon processors and offer Ultra320 SCSI and […]

Xiotech has introduced a scaled-down version of its Magnitude 3D 3000s SAN intended for small and midsize organizations. Intended as an entry-level storage cluster offering, the Magnitude 3D 3000e offers much of the same functionality as other members of the Magnitude 3D family, but with less capacity and performance, and at a lower cost point. […]

iLumin Software Services Inc. is expanding its reach with the introduction of a new product designed to provide storage management and discovery for files other than e-mail. The Reston, Va., company, which traditionally has focused on e-mail archiving and management, has introduced AFSM (Assentor File System Manager), an addition to the companys Assentor product family. […]

EMC expands support of SAP, Data Protection Solutions introduces a SATA product, iStor will use Toshiba technology in its storage controller solution, Applied Micro Circuits introduces hardware RAID controllers, Engenio certifies McDatas Fibre Channel switches, and LSI Logics MegaRAID now works on Solaris 10. EMC Expands Support of SAP EMC Corp., of Hopkinton, Mass., has […]

The latest version of NuView Inc.s ILM tool may give organizations—especially those that have standardized on Network Appliance Inc. storage solutions—one more reason to consider moving to the companys approach to information lifecycle management. The reason for introducing another version of File Lifecycle Manager so soon after the June 30 release of Version 3.0 was […]

In an effort to help small and midsize companies transition from direct attached to network storage and more easily migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2003, EMC has introduced an e-mail management and exchange migration tool that combines and adds functionality to two of the companys products. EMC Corp.s Storage Administrator for Exchange combines the original Storage […]

In the first upgrade to the Wide Area File Services product since Brocade Communications Systems Inc. inherited it through its strategic investment in Tacit Networks in June, the company made significant changes designed to make it more responsive to the needs of large, decentralized organizations. The revamped WAFS, based on Microsoft Corp.s Windows Storage Server […]

In what is bound to be the first of several such announcements over the next several weeks, Infortrend has introduced the first 4GB Fibre Channel array with a Serial-Attached SCSI back end, complementing the rash of 2.5- and 3.5-inch SAS drives that vendors like Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. have begun shipping in […]