IBM turns virtual storage into a reality
News Big Blue will announce a shipping date of 25 July for its TotalStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) Volume Controller and its SAN Integration Server. IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualisation products in July, the latest step in the...
[June 3, 2003, 11:56]
IBM gives Shark more teeth
News The enhancements are for IBM's TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Model 800 -- also known as the Shark system. Aiming to tap into a healthy market for disaster-recovery systems, IBM on Friday will offer improvements to data-backup features in a...
[June 20, 2003, 10:57]
IBM rolls out Storage Tank
News The software product comes from an IBM research project, code-named Storage Tank, and is officially called IBM TotalStorage SAN File System. Adding to IBM's on-demand computing initiative, Big Blue on Monday plans to announce a 14 November shipping...
[October 13, 2003, 12:50]
Wednesday
Blog The chief architect for the TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller -- or as everyone calls it, Lodestone -- is a substantial, genial engineer called Steve Legg. Wednesday 26/03/2003 Down to Hursley Park, IBM's biggest European laboratories set in...
[March 28, 2003, 9:51]
IBM, NetApp take aim at midrange storage
News IBM plans this week to introduce the TotalStorage FastT 900, a product that takes aim at EMC's Clariion CX 600 product. IBM and Network Appliance (NetApp) are both introducing new gear this week aimed at driving high-end storage features into the...
[February 17, 2003, 9:03]
IBM welcomes all SCSI devices to the SAN
News IBM's TotalStorage SAN File System Version 2.1 will be available from 29 June and includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0 and Solaris 9. IBM enhanced its Storage Area Network (SAN) Virtualisation software on Tuesday to...
[May 25, 2004, 10:05]
Crash test penguin: Chrysler meets Linux
News The system also uses an IBM TotalStorage FastT500 storage system with 2.6 terabytes of capacity. DaimlerChrysler has purchased 108 dual-processor Linux workstations from IBM to run car-crash simulations, highlighting the spread of the low-cost...
[October 21, 2002, 8:19]
IBM aims 1000 staff at SME push
News SystemSeller will be available this year for IBM's TotalStorage line and its xSeries, OpenPower, pSeries and BladeCentre systems. IBM will dedicate 1,000 salespeople to its partners in an effort to boost international sales to small and medium...
[March 1, 2005, 8:10]
IBM promotes open source innovation
News The centres also showcase eServer and TotalStorage products, as well as software. IBM on Wednesday announced new measures designed to promote open source innovation, including a job candidate database and an e-learning initiative.
[March 3, 2005, 7:35]
Microsoft storage OS picks up manufacturers
News IBM on Tuesday introduced the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592, a new tape drive system with a capacity of 300GB and a data transfer rate of 40MB per second. Computer maker Hewlett-Packard and software company Veritas on Wednesday will...
[September 10, 2003, 10:40]
Software patents campaigners honoured
News Finalists: IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller Florian Mueller of NoSoftwarePatents.com and Rufus Pollock of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) received their awards in front of an audience of IT professionals from...
[September 28, 2005, 13:05]



