Stories by Scott Tyler Shafer

Sun promotes Mad Hatter as secure alternative to Microsoft

Seizing the opportunity to criticize a competitor and promote its own operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday opened up early registration for its Project Mad Hatter.

Grid computing poised to shake up storage

The concept of grid computing has been a hot topic for some time, and as the year has unfolded the future application of grids is becoming more clear. Sandial Systems Inc.'s Director of Technical Marketing Rob Strechay spoke with Scott Tyler Shafer about how grid computing will transform from the domain of high-performance computing and into the enterprise.

Avaya introduces security gateways

Looking to one up the competition, Avaya Inc. on Monday introduced a line of security gateway products that combine VPN, firewall, and IP telephony support in a single device.

Fixed content adopts SATA

Now that the SATA (Serial ATA) interface has proven its merit with solid industrywide support, storage vendors are turning their attention to the next big thing in disk interface technology, the forthcoming SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface. SAS is expected to deliver quicker connectivity, lower implementation costs for storage and server vendors, and dual port capabilities for redundancy. SATA, meanwhile, has carved a valuable niche providing in-line secondary storage.

Provisioning software improves

Veritas Software on Monday began following through on efforts to join the utility space, although the storage software giant isn't alone.

Microsoft introduces Storage Server 2003

At its annual TechEd conference, Microsoft on Monday introduced Windows Storage Server 2003- the successor to its popular Windows Powered NAS product. Already, OEMs are lining up to license the latest version.

CA updates backup software

Addressing the pain points of storage administrators, namely shrunken budgets, fewer staff, and too many backup applications, Computer Associates International (CA) on Tuesday introduced version 10.5 of its backup and recovery software, BrightStor Enterprise Backup.

Veritas jumps on utility bandwagon

At the Veritas Vision annual user conference in Las Vegas Monday, the storage software company said it plans to extend its products beyond storage and into the server management market. This will be accomplished by combining some existing software products with technologies acquired in its acquisitions of Jareva Technologies Inc. and Precise Software, according to Veritas Software officials

EMC outlines technology strategy

At its annual EMC Corp. Technology Summit event at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas , EMC executives took the stage to outline the company's strategy going forward, including a partnership with Microsoft and a shift from a one-size-fits-all strategy to a choice of tools for a specific task.

Network startups centralise wireless LANs

Seizing an opportunity to centralise WLAN security, startup networking vendors will tackle established competitors this week at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas.

New storage protocols gain supporters

The Fibre Channel protocol's reign as the only high-speed storage protocol is being challenged. Here at Storage Networking World (SNW), iSCSI, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial attached SCSI (SAS) are seeing their share of vendor support and legitimizing much of the hype that have followed these "other" high-speed protocols.