McData said Monday that it is acquiring Nishan Systems and Sanera Systems for US$83 million and $102 million, respectively, so it can move from offering just Fibre Channel directors to offering storage over IP and expand its port count from a maximum of 140 now to 246.
Storage systems weren't designed with security in mind. They started out as direct-attached, so if the host was secure, the storage was too. That's all changed.
Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) and Veritas Software Corp. are expanding a 6-year-old strategic relationship to include additional joint sales and marketing, product integration and cooperative technical support.
IBM, which will end support of its aging OS/2 operating system after 2006, is recommending that OS/2 customers migrate to Linux instead of Windows.
When employees at Huntington Bancshares heard that their beloved paper report -- called the balance sheet income report -- was going to be transformed into a Web-based database, they weren't happy about it.
EMC plans to unveil on Wednesday a new high-end Symmetrix array, as well as upgrades to its DMX800, DMX1000 and DMX2000 arrays that include native Ficon mainframe connectivity and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) for connecting low-end servers to high-end storage for backup.
Quantum this week introduced the first firmware for monitoring and reporting on midrange tape drives, giving super digital linear tape (SDLT) drives an added edge at a time when sales are still lagging behind those of its closest competitor, linear tape open (LTO) drives.
IBM has become the first major vendor to announce it will begin reselling Cisco Systems's MDS 9000 IP storage modules, which allow users to plug remote storage devices into storage-area networks (SAN) via the iSCSI protocol and tunnel between SANs using the FCIP protocol.
Sun Microsystems last week laid out a road map for its storage and IT services strategy, saying it will offer multivendor storage management technology and focus on helping IT managers consolidate the servers and storage devices in their data centers.
Two years ago, OneBeacon Insurance Group was bleeding out US$50 million a month from inefficiencies throughout the company, including an IT department rife with cost overruns, poor accountability and poor communication with the business side of the house.
IBM Corp. plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products, including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, sources said this week.
EMC Corp. announced today that it will acquire the rights to BMC Software Inc.'s Patrol Storage Manager, taking over support for users of the defunct product as well as offering a transition for BMC customers to EMC's own Control Center storage resource management software.
Microsoft Monday released its iSCSI initiator, giving the IP storage standard a much-needed shot in the arm and vendors the green light to begin full-fledged rollouts of storage devices that can back up Windows servers across LANs and WANs.
Candera Inc. this week plans to go public with a storage virtualization device after two years of development, joining the race to provide users with technology that can combine different storage subsystems into virtual pools of data.
As vice president of development at Renew Data, an electronic evidence and data recovery services provider, Dan Gardner played the leading role in the development of the company’s proprietary forensic and data recovery software. Gardner recently spoke with Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian about data recovery best practices, how Renew Data restores lost data and how administrators can minimise the risk of data loss.