Rivals EMC and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to expand a cross-licensing agreement for certain storage system application programming interfaces (API), a move that will eventually allow the development of storage management software capable of controlling each other's storage devices.
EMC announced yesterday the creation of a business unit, Information Solutions Consulting, that it will operate in a five-year partnership pact with Accenture.
Earlier this week, IBM announced in the US that its virtual tape servers will soon be able to connect disk storage to mainframes via fibre connectivity (FICON), a move that could increase performance by about 75 per cent.
IBM announced on Thursday an emerging technology that would allow PCs and servers to access operating systems via IP networks, which could eventually lead to computers devoid of hard drives.
In a move that some experts say is a blow to the emerging InfiniBand market, Intel yesterday announced to partners that it has killed plans to produce silicon chips that would allow for high-speed server clustering and communication with other devices, such as storage arrays.
The post-merger Hewlett-Packard announced plans today for a new storage division, dubbed Network Storage Solutions (NSS), that will include merging some products while phasing others out completely during the next five years.
Cisco Systems today announced the release of a new iSCSI/Fibre Channel over IP storage router that industry experts say firmly points to the company's direction in the storage networking marketplace.
Continuing to look for ways to jump-start its sales EMC announced last week a relatively inexpensive disk array for storing fixed data, such as check images, software source code and medical X-rays. Prospective users said the device could provide a speedier alternative to tape storage.
A number of storage technology breakthroughs were announced this week, including the doubling of hard disk and tape memory capacity, vendors said.
Data storage company EMC reported a $US77 million first-quarter loss on revenue that totalled $1 billion less than the same quarter a year ago.
Wall Street IT executives are hammering home the point that hacking and cyberterrorism is a mounting threat best fought by the private sector and government through creation of a centralised way of alerting and disseminating information about attacks -- most likely via a private Web site.
Storage networking vendor McData is suing rival Brocade Communications Systems for patent infringement, claiming that at least two Brocade products use its technology for measuring data traffic flow on storage area networks.
Intel recently announced that it is manufacturing a SCSI-over-IP (iSCSI) host bus adapter card that one analyst said will go a long way toward building industry-wide momentum behind less expensive and more easily managed storage-area networks (SAN).
Three storage vendors last week claimed to have cobbled together a SCSI over IP (iSCSI) storage network out of off-the-shelf hardware, beating by a year industry expectations about when the first viable iSCSI storage area networks (SAN) would ship.
Compaq Computer and EMC, two of the fiercest competitors in the storage market, are opening their programming interfaces to each other to make it easier for IT managers to integrate their rival disk arrays on storage networks.
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