Sonia R. Lelii

Dell Computer Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. are honing their respective NAS initiatives with new, flexible hardware. The products from both vendors give IT managers a greater choice of network-attached storage technology, which is more flexible, as they can be easily installed on networks. In addition, users can access data regardless of the operating system […]

Last year, while extolling the promise of its enterprise storage server—code-named Shark—IBM officials said they would later add to it virtualization capabilities. However, late last month, IBM quietly nixed plans to implement virtualization in Shark. Instead, the company plans to develop an enterprisewide virtualization technology that sits on the network close to the switch—in an […]

Holographic storage—the ability to store data three dimensionally for high-density capacity and speed—still has light-years to go before it is an off-the-shelf product. The technology, which promises to store billions of bits on a device the size of a postage stamp, is still in the invention phase. But Lucent Technologies Inc. and its research arm, […]

In a high-tech world that has seen once-highflying dot-coms crash and burn, e-commerce stumble, and PC sales slow down, storage seems primed to continue its strong march this year. Recent analysts reports indicate that storage sales will continue to rise despite a predicted overall slowdown in IT spending. Last week, storage giant EMC Corp. announced […]

Compared with their enterprise counterparts, SSPs and ISPs are a needy bunch. With large numbers of customers whose storage needs are constantly fluctuating, storage service providers and Internet service providers demand storage servers that are flexible and scalable. A Marlboro, Mass., startup believes it has the answer. Cereva Networks Inc., which launched last week, is […]

The storage industry is awash in standards proposals these days, with more than a half dozen in the works. Now, a Boulder, Colo., company wants industry leaders to start thinking about a time when one or more of these standards, including Internet SCSI, Direct Access File System, Network Data Management Protocol, Operations System Network, Storage […]

Microsoft Corp. is becoming increasingly concerned about the growing threat the Unix platform is posing to the companys Windows platform, and its starting to show. In early December, company President and CEO Steve Ballmer initiated his first face-to-face business meeting with Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO and archrival Larry Ellison at Oracles Redwood Shores, Calif., […]

Businesses looking to blend NAS and SAN systems—or move smoothly from one to the other—could find help in a new data routing software tool from EMC Corp. As part of the Hopkinton, Mass., vendors introduction last week of its new midmarket network-attached storage product, EMC unveiled HighRoad, a server-based tool that automatically directs traffic requests […]

Land-5 Corp. has developed a software-based technology that gives RAID storage systems the ability to sustain multiple drive failures without risking data loss. Based on 10 years of R&D, Land-5s RAIDn technology lets IT managers select how many disk drive failures a storage subsystem can sustain without risking data loss. “The last enhancement to RAID […]

The paper trail that has long defined the construction industry may finally lead to the Internet. American Reprographics Co. wants to use its 140 locations in the United States and strong ties to the design and building trades to create a database to store the mountains of documents used in residential and commercial building projects. […]