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Iomega and CA team for backup
News NAS technology centres on a hard-disk storage device that sits on a local area network, and often is used by smaller companies or work groups within large organisations. That compares with a market share of 47 percent for storage area network (SAN...
[July 24, 2003, 10:13]
Fibre channel competitor wins approval
News While Fibre Channel is likely to remain the standard for large companies, Mackin said many small and midsized businesses have been reluctant to move to storage area networks because of the costs of setting up and maintaining a separate network.
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
LippoBank Consolidates Data, Strengthens Disaster-Recovery Process With Cisco Storage Solution
White Papers The bank has strengthened its business-continuance process with a Storage Area Network (SAN) solution from Cisco Systems. The Cisco SAN solution installed by Multipolar has improved LippoBank's storage capabilities and ability to react quickly to...
[June 6, 2006, 0:00]
HP takes independent approach to storage
News Also in April HP will release the Network Storage Appliance, which will have both storage area network and network-attached storage capabilities, officials said. Compaq did not have a high-end and IBM did not have a midrange (storage product...
[March 12, 2001, 9:15]
Compaq's storage push pays off
News However, its most lucrative products include its StorageWorks storage area network (SAN) line, which connects large amounts of disk space to computer networks. Meanwhile Dollar Rent A Car Systems has also purchased a handful of Compaq storage area...
[April 8, 2002, 16:45]
IBM plans data-storage hard sell
News Currently, some storage software, such as IBM's Storage Area Network (SAN) Volume Controller, are sold through Big Blue's systems division, while other products are sold through its Tivoli Software unit.
[February 4, 2004, 10:25]
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec
White Papers This challenge becomes yet more difficult as companies migrate from stand-alone Windows server backups to enterprise site-wide backups that are performed across the local area network and storage area network environments.
[June 4, 2009, 15:13]
Storage switches get Cisco upgrade
News But a single massive storage network can suffer from excess traffic, Bhardwaj said, so Cisco has promoted the use of "virtual SANs" (VSANs) -- where distinct storage networks with their own policies are established within the overall network.
[November 18, 2003, 13:00]
Cisco storage networking gets speed boost
News The MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator is designed to boost transfer rates for storage-area network traffic, and for data-backup and disaster-recovery systems in particular. Cisco has announced updates to its MDS 9000 line of storage networking products...
[July 29, 2009, 15:08]
Ximeta offers low-cost storage
News In theory, such a drive could even plug into a home network, creating the frightening prospect of a new buzzword: the "Home Storage Area Network. Ximeta calls the concept a "Network Direct Attached Storage" device, further blurring the lines...
[April 30, 2003, 15:34]
Storage Virtualisation
News With decent caching and bandwidth management, usually courtesy of a storage-area network (SAN) running on Fibre Channel, performance and reliability are also enhanced -- or so claim the vendors. It's an attempt to make storage devices and storage...
[April 3, 2003, 20:25]
NetApp re-enters SMB market
News The device supports both network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) that use Internet small computer system interfaces (iSCSI). StoreVault S500 is also designed to scale up to Fibre Channel without requiring a separate network...
[June 26, 2006, 12:00]
HP hedges storage bets
News HP remains committed to offering multiple choices for disk array and storage area network products," says an HP strategy document. Experts say this might not be too hard given the companies' reliance on Brocade; for network attached storage (NAS...
[May 8, 2002, 17:45]
IBM, EMC step up storage skirmish
News The TotalStorage 300G links a company's local area network and storage area network. IBM continued its aggressive push into the data storage arena today with the unveiling of several new network-attached storage products.
[June 13, 2001, 9:43]
Storage market still hibernating
News The networked storage market saw the steepest declines, with the network-attached storage (NAS) market declining 10 percent sequentially and the storage area network (SAN) market falling 6 percent compared with the prior quarter.
[December 9, 2002, 7:45]
Juniper and Symantec team up
News The partnership is designed to bolster Juniper's security lineup while moving Symantec beyond security and storage and further into network technology. He added Symantec is "fully occupied" with integrating storage specialist Veritas Software...
[September 13, 2006, 9:45]
Top 10 storage pain points
News Management challenges centre on storage resource management (SRM) and storage area network (SAN) management tools that are expensive, difficult to justify, complex, and incomplete. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they had delayed storage...
[January 20, 2005, 17:20]
Disaster-recovery distance record smashed
News To create the link, a the companies used a combination of Sprint circuits, Cisco storage area network (SAN) switches, Cisco IP Storage Services modules and Hitachi's Freedom Storage Lightning systems running Hitachi's TrueCopy data replication...
[July 9, 2003, 12:28]
Cisco brings out blades in grand datacentre push
News The networking component in the Unified Computing System is based on 10Gbps Ethernet connections that run through three separate types of existing network: local area networks (LANs); storage-area networks (SANs); and high-performance computing...
[March 16, 2009, 17:01]
HP wants to simplify storage for all
News HP is making broad claims for the system, saying that small companies with limited or even no storage expertise will be able to store, share, manage, back up and protect their application and file data in a flexible network storage environment.
[September 18, 2006, 17:40]
