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Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk. Dell bulks up storage appliance On September 10, Dell is adding a new iSCSI storage array to its portfolio: the PowerVault MD3000i -- a fully redundant enclosure that can pack dual power supplies, dual RAID controllers and 15 SAS (serial attached SCSI) drives in 2U. Two expansion modules can bring the overall capacity to 45 drives, which, by year’s end should also include SATA drives. At rollout, the MD3000i supports SAS drives only.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in storage Combining “open source” and "storage” in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Open source storage gets a virtual lift It has been a while since I last discussed Coraid, but two announcements the company made at LinuxWorld earlier this month have me thinking about AoE (ATA over Ethernet) these days. August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Suit up your storage network with business sense No longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives. June 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Sun ZFS breaks all the rules It’s somewhat surprising that in the past five years, file systems haven’t changed much on any platform. There are dozens of file systems available for UNIX-like operating systems -- ext3, XFS, UFS, and ReiserFS for example -- and Microsoft’s ubiquitous NTFS, but since the journaling revolution, there’s been a dearth of innovation in mainstream file systems, until now. June 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT In search of the best geek vacations June marks the beginning of vacation season, when offices empty out, traffic lessens, and the daily pace grows languid. The classic vacation mentality is all about getting away -- or at least that's what I've been told. Personally, I start getting crazy without access to my phone, favorite Web sites, blogs, and the like. On my last vacation to Yosemite, after several days of relative isolation, a fellow camper told me about a nearby lodge with an Internet-enabled public terminal. Much to my wife's chagrin, I visited every day for the rest of the trip. June 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Betting on the future of parallel NFS Are you using or planning to use NFSv4 (Network File System version 4)? I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the answers to that question are a flat-out no or a quizzical stare, because this latest incarnation of the Linux/Unix file system is still a long way from becoming a mainstream solution. However, let me make it clear that this impasse is not for lack of merit, because NFSv4 has a lot to like. June 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT Startup skirts datacenter bottlenecks with cache Seeking to alleviate the bottleneck woes of I/O-intensive apps, startup Gear6 today announced CACHEfx, a scalable cache appliance that makes as much as 5TB of cached data available to applications without having to retrieve it from storage. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Can HPC become a commodity? My first reaction when I heard the news of HP signing on the dotted line to acquire PolyServe was: "What took them so long?" March 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Linksys brings storage, stackables to SMBs Cisco Systems's Linksys division thinks SMBs should have some of the same features enterprises get, such as backup power and virtualization, when they attach storage to their networks. February 26, 12:48 p.m. PST New choices in networked storage One of the best known names in NAS and iSCSI is Network Appliance, a company that has embraced SANs as well. Aneil Balkaran, manager of Windows on Unix at Consol Energy, runs an iSCSI SAN on a pair of clustered NetApp FAS 960 C boxes. These machines provide SAN and NAS all in the same unit. (See also "iSCSI: The rising enterprise star" and "The trends that shape iSCSI's trajectory.") February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST SAN and NAS virtualization After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST EMC reports strong Q4, full-year results EMC reported record revenue for its fourth quarter on Tuesday, propelled by strong growth in its RSA Security division and VMware subsidiary. January 23, 8:39 a.m. PST IBM enhances entry-level storage products IBM is adding features and capacity to its entry-level disk storage array products for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) to match that of more expensive enterprise-level systems. January 16, 4:44 a.m. PST Storage: Hardware takes a backseat Ask two IT managers what were the most important storage trends for 2006, and you’ll probably receive two sharply different answers. The reason is that, this year more than ever, storage events defied any simplistic, black or white, one-sided description. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST The last word on unified storage This year in storage seems to be ending exactly as it started -- very busily. And it's a pattern that will continue in 2007, no doubt about that. December 14, 3:00 a.m. PST Simplified storage for small businesses This was a rather busy week, no doubt because of the impending Storage Decisions conference. There's nothing like an industry event to fire up the marketing machines, but I was intrigued by the fact that many of the new products and announcements were going small -- as in small business. December 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST EMC refreshes storage line EMC Corp. is adding new features to some of its storage products, with claims of improved performance, energy efficiency and ease of use, to remain competitive with rivals' offerings. October 23, 12:23 p.m. PDT In Brief: BitTorrent inks deals to embed software in products BitTorrent has reached agreements with several companies to embed its file-sharing software in their Internet devices, expanding its ability to reach users. October 23, 6:07 a.m. PDT Integration issues linger at Sun StorageTek Sun Microsystems' acquisition of StorageTek will be finalized Oct. 17 when the price lists of the two technology companies become one. But some observers say integration issues remain for Sun StorageTek. October 12, 4:28 a.m. PDT Clustered storage winks at the enterprise The rationale for deploying a clustered storage system is in many ways similar to that of deploying clustered servers: You get better scalability, both for capacity and performance, and more resilience than traditional solutions can provide. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Adaptec to update entry-level NAS Adaptec will soon refresh the low end of its Snap Server NAS (network attached storage) product line, releasing new systems that will use the same operating system and virtualization software as its higher-end products, company executives said. September 19, 7:15 a.m. PDT HP pushes unified storage for the masses with StorageWorks AiO models My favorite feature in windows Storage Server 2003 R2 is the recently added support for iSCSI targets that complements traditional file sharing via CIFS, NFS, and other protocols. And it looks like I’m not the only one who likes this capability: Hewlett-Packard was quick to build on that foundation for its two new storage systems. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft NAS solution plays well with others Effectively overseeing data storage across the network is a problem that all network managers face. Some estimates peg annual storage growth at 60 percent to 100 percent; with growth numbers like this, even small and branch offices can quickly find themselves in a real storage crunch. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC-HP storage race heats up Number two storage systems maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has closed the gap between it and number one EMC Corp. to what research company IDC calls "a statistical tie." September 1, 4:55 a.m. PDT IBM 'Turbo' storage products target EMC If turbocharging makes cars faster, IBM believes turbocharging its storage products will help it pass rival EMC. August 22, 4:19 a.m. PDT HP plans networked storage for SMBs Hewlett-Packard (HP) will launch a family of networked storage products in September to compete with EMC for small and medium-size business customers. July 24, 12:08 p.m. PDT EMC buys BPM provider ProActivity EMC Corp. has opened up its pocketbook yet again, this time to acquire ProActivity Software Solutions Ltd., a small, privately held provider of content-management software for BPM (business process management), the company said Monday. June 19, 9:48 a.m. PDT The new NAS: Fast, cheap, and scalable There are many reasons to complain about storage, but lack of variety is not one. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cedars-Sinai cures storage ills with clustered NAS If your job is a daily fight against time to save lives, the vagaries of a storage system should not get in your way. This is the problem that Dr. Parag Mallick faced at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Applied Molecular Medicine in Los Angeles, where he is the director of proteomics for the research division of the hospital. The solution Cedars-Sinai chose was clustered NAS. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT When plain NAS beats clustering If clustered NAS is the way to go, why do traditional NAS systems still account for the majority of deployments? June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring What do you do when the auditors are breathing down your neck, wanting to see an exhaustive report on the Windows network security of a 2,000-user network across eight sites? That’s easy. Break out a text editor and start writing some Perl. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT PCI standard to require application scans Baseball is a tough game. It would be even tougher if the umpires decided to, say, change the distance between the bases. Consider, then, how IT and compliance folks at online merchants are feeling after a MasterCard International official last week said that his company and Visa are updating their PCI (Payment Card Industry) security standard to cover a new range of security risks. May 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun's NAS appliance enters crowded market Just weeks after moving former CEO Scott McNealy into a new role and installing Jonathan Schwartz as its new CEO, Sun made a major announcement in an area many analysts agree is key to its future survival: storage. May 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun rolls out storage products, strategy Sun Microsystems continued Tuesday to integrate technologies gained from its $4.1 billion purchase of StorageTek last year and sought to clarify its overall strategy for storing, managing and securing data throughout the enterprise. May 2, 11:43 a.m. PDT Sun to highlight new storage strategy Sun is expected on Tuesday to announce a new storage strategy along with new products aimed at helping customers managing their increasing amounts of data. May 2, 6:55 a.m. PDT Storge sales drive EMC revenue up EMC Corp. said Thursday that strong sales of its Symmetrix storage and content management and virtualization software boosted first-quarter revenue by 14 percent from the same period in 2005, but that profits were hit by stock-option expenses. April 20, 10:17 a.m. PDT Iomega lightens the autoloader For small businesses that have depended on the ease of use of Iomega’s 35GB REV removable hard disk drive but are outgrowing that solution, the new REV Loader 280 offers larger capacity at an affordable price. April 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Top six steps toward disaster-recovery I recently got to write a fun piece for InfoWorld called "Stupid user tricks" about protecting your network from human error. Researching the article revealed to me how many variables folks tend to miss when running a network, as well as when planning to protect and recover that network. (By the way, if you were one of the folks who submitted anecdotes for this article, check out the SMB IT blog to see whether you’re on the list for a free InfoWorld backpack.) April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT NetApp expands design center in India Network storage products vendor Network Appliance (NetApp) announced Wednesday that it is expanding a development center in Bangalore, India, that develops and supports some key product lines, including its NetCache caching product. April 12, 4:48 a.m. PDT SNW Spring: Talking 'bout a revolution -- or two This year's spring edition of SNW will be about to close -- or will have already closed -- its doors by the time you read this column, but it's still steaming full speed ahead while I write. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Effective long-distance data protection Protecting data properly is challenging in any circumstances but can be even more difficult to do at a remote office. It’s easy to understand why: Most data-protection tasks require both human labor and the computing power necessary to move large amounts of data, digging into two resources that are typically in short supply at a remote office. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC rolls out new NAS devices, software EMC rolled out on Monday two new network-attached storage (NAS) devices and extended its Smarts IP root-cause diagnosis software to NAS systems. March 6, 11:16 a.m. PST Disk storage sales surged last year An explosion of data and the availability of storage systems that can help businesses tackle data protection and business continuity issues drove a record year of growth for the disk storage systems market in 2005, according to an IDC report released Thursday. March 2, 1:42 p.m. PST Entuity improves Eye of the Storm's network vision Entuity on Tuesday unfurled Version 4.5 of its Eye of the Storm network management suite, equipping administrators with greater visibility and control over the network. February 28, 8:30 a.m. PST Adaptec adds Opteron-based NAS Even as it continues to search for a buyer for its Snap Server NAS (network-attached storage) business, Adaptec Inc. Tuesday rolled out the latest additions to its Linux-based NAS hardware line. February 21, 11:47 a.m. PST Product Previews Fast Revs Up Its Enterprise Search Platform Fast Search & Transfer this week released Version 5 of its ESP (Enterprise Search Platform), adding contextual analysis, a workflow-based user interface, and boosted scalability. Fast ESP 5’s Contextual Insight technology combines information-retrieval and data-analysis features to generate more accurate search results. The new user interface, dubbed Search Business Center, offers a workflow-based display with centralized search management, tuning, monitoring, and configuration. Enhanced SOA tools for plugging the search platform into other applications and environments are also new in ESP 5. Fast ESP 5 Fast Search & Transfer February 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST What isn't storage virtualization? Vendors often use the term "virtualization" to describe myriad products, including global name spaces, virtual storage area networks (VSANs), pooled NAS (network-attached storage), thin-provisioning software, virtual file systems, virtual tape libraries, RAID arrays and disk clusters, and virtualized application and file servers (such as EMC's VMWare). But although these technologies all use some sort of virtualization, they don't actually qualify as storage virtualization. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the closet Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop isn't for every infrastructure, but it's become a popular push both by switching vendors and network admins. And no wonder: Servers are generally using bonded gigabit links to the network, the cost of Gigabit Ethernet closet switches are dropping, and many corporate desktops are now shipping with Gigabit Ethernet NICs by default. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Storage vendors move beyond blocks and LUNs No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as important developments in disks, tapes, and switches. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST No. 15: Profiling to maximize performance Be proactive in preventing performance bottlenecks by including a mandatory profiling step in the latter part of development, specifically during the software lifecycle. Profiling your applications and Web services will uncover whether your code is efficient. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM releases second set of NAS arrays IBM Tuesday announced a line of midrange storage arrays -- its second such release in the past three months -- that not only offers network-attached storage capabilities but can transfer data via Fibre Channel and the IP-based iSCSI protocol. November 8, 10:53 a.m. PST Competing network-management rivals unfurl faster, smarter wares Network management rivals Network General and Network Instruments on Monday separately announced significant enhancements to their respective Sniffer and Observer product lines. November 7, 12:01 a.m. PST Sun hopes to win back Wall St. with new servers Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil the first members of its long-awaited "industry-standard" 64-bit server family at its quarterly product roll-out in New York City Monday. Formerly code-named Galaxy, the Sun Fire X2100, X4100, and X4200 servers represent the company's bid to woo customers, particularly the financial industry sector, away from rival server vendors Hewlett-Packard and Dell. September 12, 6:33 a.m. PDT Cisco mulls acquiring Nokia, report says Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. is interested in acquiring Nokia Corp., the world largest manufacturer of mobile phones, according to several media reports citing the Sunday Business newspaper. August 8, 3:58 a.m. PDT Zetera: Storage at the speed of light Once you’ve been on the teams that invented the drive controller standards used by billions of machines, it’s a tough achievement to top. So when Bill Babbitt, Bill Frank, and Tom Ludwig of Zetera created a new network storage paradigm, they simply got rid of controllers altogether. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Rackable iSCSI system stacks up Meeting growing storage requirements is no longer just a matter of accommodating a few more files. Thanks to legislation that mandates the archiving of e-mail and customer records and to the increased use of multimedia and VoIP apps, storage needs can double or triple in a very short time. August 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Vanasse Hangen Brustlin restores order with SRM You don’t have to be a large enterprise to take advantage of storage-management technologies. Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB), a 700-person engineering consulting firm specializing in transportation, environmental, and land-development services, has up to 3,000 projects in development at any given time. The records for these projects represent a few months to several years of work and are stored on servers in the firm’s 17 offices located throughout the Northeast. For Greg Bosworth, director of IT at VHB, data management for these projects involved a series of manual processes that had become increasingly complex and labor-intensive as the volumes of stored records reached approximately 10 terabytes. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Making sense of storage management Storage spawns where it’s needed, from sensibly architected SANs serving transaction-intensive systems to storage appliances bought impulsively to fill a departmental need. That leaves IT to manage many islands of storage strewn across the enterprise at a time when the need for centralized storage management has never been greater. Compliance requirements, multimedia-rich applications, and a proliferation of databases are pushing IT departments to increase the size and complexity of storage networks across the enterprise. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT From Oracle, with love Whatever your opinion of Lawrence Ellison, Oracle's chief executive officer, you’ll probably agree on one thing: The gentleman has a keen eye for storage. June 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT Windows Storage Server unleashed When it comes to simplifying storage while still offering powerful administrative tools at a reasonable price, not many solutions can compete with FalconStor’s ISS (iSCSI Storage Server). Offering a combination of block and file serving, as well as support for a wide range of hardware configurations, this amazing application has much appeal for cost-conscious customers who still want good performance and flexible management for their storage systems. June 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT HP iSCSI pack kicks DAS Migrating file servers, e-mail servers, and databases from DAS to networked storage improves resilience and performance, and it’s probably less expensive in the long term, but it requires a mastery of a variety of storage technologies — a mastery many small companies lack. No wonder they choose to stay with the old-fashioned but easier-to-manage DAS. June 13, 5:00 a.m. PDT Putting a new face on networked storage You may have forgotten about Zetera, a relatively new storage player recently mentioned in this column. June 2, 5:00 a.m. PDT BlueArc teaches Titan new tricks I'm sure you've heard of storage vendor BlueArc and its Titan line of ultrafast storage systems. In case the name escapes you, here's a refresher. May 26, 5:00 a.m. PDT Network Appliance adds to midrange line Network Appliance released two new midrange products today aimed at reducing storage costs and increasing storage utilization rates. May 23, 4:10 p.m. PDT Investigators link Cisco hack to other activities A theft of computer source code from Cisco Systems, reported a year ago, has led to a wide-ranging investigation of potential criminal activity involving multiple server break-ins in several countries, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). May 10, 9:44 a.m. PDT OnStor unleashes one cool NAS cat See correction below April 25, 5:00 a.m. PDT EMC, IBM storage battle gets NASty EMC this week announced a new NAS system to its lineup, playing a tit-for-tat game with IBM in the storage market. April 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT DPM aims to keep off the data weight They call it managing my weight. I call it bouncing up and down the fat-boy meter due to variables such as season, adult ADD, work stress, and emotional fruit loopiness. Sometimes I grab real control for a few months and the weight drops like a rock. Then one or more of the variables decides to get kooky and I'm back on my way to looking like Oliver Platt. It's quite similar to data bloat in a Windows network, actually. April 14, 5:00 a.m. PDT HP turns to Linux for enterprise NAS Hewlett Packard is readying a new enterprise-quality NAS (network attached storage) device that will be based on the Linux operating system and managed using the company's StorageWorks Grid architecture, according to an HP executive. April 6, 8:54 a.m. PDT Rainfinity's NAS virtualization courts ILM The last time I spoke about Rainfinity was almost three years ago when the company first launched its NAS virtualization product, RainStorage. March 24, 6:00 a.m. PST Vendors store all things great and small HANOVER, GERMANY - Storage products announced at the Cebit trade show here spanned the range from a Cisco Systems storage switch ready for multiterabyte arrays of data, down to a new half-height tape drive from Tandberg Data GmbH. March 15, 10:09 a.m. PST Fibre Channel still rules the SAN If you were expecting breathtaking new storage technologies to appear, 2004 was probably a disappointment. But if you were looking for better storage solutions at lower prices, then it was your kind of year. December 30, 3:00 p.m. PST The best products of 2004 Hardware and Software Platforms December 30, 3:00 p.m. PST Honeycomb to sweeten Sun NAS line Sun Microsystems has quietly moved a team of approximately 20 of its research engineers into its Network Storage product group, assigning them the task of developing a new storage appliance designed for massive data archives. December 23, 7:26 a.m. PST Sun executive reveals NAS strategy Sun Microsystems plans to beef up its NAS (network-attached storage) product line with support for utility computing and its new zettabyte file system (ZFS), according to an executive of the company's network storage products group. December 10, 7:36 a.m. PST Iomega rolls out low-end NAS Iomega on Friday introduced a new network-attached storage appliance for Windows networks in small and midsized businesses. December 3, 8:39 a.m. PST Storage by the numbers It may not be everyone's idea of fun, but often I have to amuse myself reading storage-related statistics. Actually, my motivation is not exactly finding amusement, but rather -- how shall I put it -- trying to get some much-needed perspective with reality and hard numbers, and to take a temporary leave from the optimistic marketing spills that I hear so often from vendors. October 15, 3:00 p.m. PDT Sun to return to NAS market with StorEdge 5210 Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday will announce a number of new storage products, including a new server that signals the company's return to NAS (network-attached storage). Called the StorEdge 5210, the file server is a midrange NAS appliance developed with technology that Sun licensed from Irvine, California-based Procom Technology Inc. in April. September 20, 4:34 a.m. PDT Iomega readies wireless NAS device Iomega Corp. is soon expected to ship its first network-attached storage (NAS) device based on wireless networking technology. September 16, 4:45 a.m. PDT Adaptec to buy Snap Appliance for $100 million Storage vendor Adaptec Inc. announced plans Tuesday to acquire Snap Appliance Inc., a maker of network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, in a transaction valued at approximately $100 million. July 14, 4:35 a.m. PDT EMC packages Centera with software, services EMC Corp. Monday plans to announce three technology bundles that combine its Centera fixed-data disk array with software and technical services for storing e-mail and documents to support regulatory compliance initiatives. June 7, 12:22 p.m. PDT Network attached storage scales up If you’re confused about NAS, you’re not alone. Under that acronym lie a wide range of products, from personal computing devices, to small and midsize business solutions, all the way up to ultrascalable, high-performance monsters. May 28, 3:00 p.m. PDT Iomega readies removable storage NAS device Iomega Corp. on Monday will unveil a new entry-level network attached storage (NAS) device designed to work with both conventional ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) drives and the Rev removable hard drives that Iomega began shipping earlier this year. May 24, 4:32 a.m. PDT Parting words on SNW I know, I know. You're wondering how I could possibly write another column on Storage Networking World. But I just can’t keep all this good stuff to myself. April 23, 3:00 p.m. PDT Stonefly i3000 pumps new life into attached storage For many midsize companies, the major obstacle to adopting IP storage is not necessarily the fear of new technologies but the need to preserve a recent, conspicuous investment in conventional storage arrays. April 2, 3:00 p.m. PST Windows XP update to block pop-ups by default Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, in addition to providing a host of security enhancements, will block pop-ups in Internet Explorer (IE) by default, Microsoft said Wednesday. March 17, 4:36 p.m. PST CNT offers one ounce of prevention You do remember CNT, don’t you? In brief, CNT makes storage hardware and accompanying services to build storage networks that span multiple sites. January 30, 3:00 p.m. PST 2003: The news in review The economy grabbed a lot of headlines in 2003, but competing for space in the IT arena were lawsuits, acquisitions, security issues, and technology upgrades. December 22, 6:00 a.m. PST The path to pervasive computing InfoWorld is one of the few IT publications that has taken up convergence, pervasive computing, and embedded technology as topics worthy of mainstream coverage. The concepts themselves are easy enough to get behind: We want each device to do as much for us as possible, to be cheap enough to put in everyone’s hands, and to be small enough to become an unobtrusive part of everyday life. What relegates these technologies to the fringe, or at least to the boundary between the serious and the frivolous, is that the best current place to study this new technology category is in consumer electronics. Don’t let that put you off. You’re about to witness the arrival of the next epoch. Do you remember the last one? December 12, 3:00 p.m. PST MPC aims for SAN supremacy MPC has long been a contender in the desktop and server market, but always sitting just behind the other players, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM. The MPC DataFrame 310fc may help change that; MPC's latest SAN array, combined with Spheras Storage Director from Eurologic (recently acquired by Adaptec), is a worthy competitor. October 31, 3:00 p.m. PST > Networking > Storage |
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