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Table of ContentsNewsAuspex stages NAS comebackWith the release of its first network-attached storage (NAS) product since January 1999, Auspex last month made an aggressive bid for a piece of the enterprise NAS market
FalconStor, NPI to mergeFormer Cheyenne Software CEO ReiJane Huai is hoping lightning does strike twice. Having sold Cheyenne to Computer Associates in 1996 for $1.3 billion
Fibre Channel switches: 2Gbps, more portsOver the last two months, virtually all of the major Fibre Channel switch vendors made announcements concerning increasing performance to 2Gbps (200MBps) or increasing the number of ports on their devices
Magneto-optical road map on courseThis year, magneto-optical (MO) technology reached a milestone on the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) road map when 130mm 9.1GB (14X) products started shipping
Nishan secures IP storage networksNishan Systems is hell-bent on proving that its IP storage architecture-dubbed Storage over IP (SoIP)-works with existing IP-based hardware and software
Princeton pushes 'active archiving'Hoping to establish a new category of storage/database management software, Princeton Softech is delivering a technology that it refers to as "active archiving" and that some analysts refer to as "intelligent archiving."
Seagate holds out on DDS-5Although fellow consortium members Hewlett-Packard and Sony have shelved plans to manufacture future-generation Digital Data Storage (DDS) Digital Audio Tape (DAT) drives, Seagate says it is assessing the possibility of bringing a DDS-5 product to market
Storage vendors 'hype' virtues of virtualizationThe relatively slow adoption rate of storage area networks (SANs) among end users does not appear to have affected the feverish pace of virtualization announcements from storage vendors this year
Super DLT, LTO face offNo two tape technologies in recent history have generated such heated debate as have Linear-Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium and Super DLTtape
TrueSAN fuses SAN and NASTrueSAN says its recently announced Paladin C-series is not just about virtualization; it's also about unified storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) support, scalability, and management
Special ReportBeyond backup: The storage management market grows upA CAGR of 26% is projected for the software management market over the next five years, with storage infrastructure products becoming the greatest revenue generators
In-depth: Storage Resource ManagementStorage utilities and storage networks will require effective management tools such as SRM software
Business BriefsBusiness Briefs<b>Storage @ccess Technologies</b> announced the availability of remote enterprise class data-protection services. Based on the @ccess Data Protection family of services, the remote offerings are available via remote direct or Internet connection.
FeaturesIntroduction to Fibre Channel SANsAn overview of storage area networks and Fibre Channel components
The case for SAN SRM applicationsThe goal is to reduce storage management costs in heterogeneous storage network environments while improving overall return on investment
Analysts ViewIP-based storage: The buzz on the wireIP storage may be the disruptive technology that will democratize storage networking and ultimately help converge NAS and SAN architectures
EditorialMake way for IP SANsWith IP storage, it's no longer a question of but . With technology and marketing giants like Cisco, IBM, and Intel leading the charge, IP storage is inevitable
New ProductsNew ProductsSun Microsystems has added two filers to its network-attached storage (NAS) family, scaling from 200GB to more than 10TB in standalone configurations
Lab ReviewOpenBench Labs builds a SAN: Phase 1The lab's first foray into storage area networks posed some minor challenges and yielded some surprising performance results.
OpinionStorage virtualization: In-band or out-of-bandThe best answer to the question may be, "It doesn't matter."
The future of storage is in the operating systemA storage-specific operating system could solve many enterprise storage management problems
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