Six storage area network hardware vendors have committed to an interoperability standard for data mirroring, to help with business continuity projects.
Storage hardware distributor AustStor will undergo a name change, and expand into regional New South Wales, as part of its continued focus on pushing the benefits of magneto optical tape drives to Australian users.
A tape drive that has a native capacity of 1.2 terabytes is currently under development. Tandberg Data's subsidiary O-Mass and Imation have agreed to develop the new technology and hope to deliver it to the market in 2005.
Note-taking, which tends to be difficult to store and access, will get a boost from new technology from Microsoft as the software giant continues its drive to launch off the desktop.
While vendors tell end-users that networked storage will be the panacea to fix all storage woes, the storage-area network (SAN) is still an unproven mythological beast because what passes for SANs today are based on fibre channels, accordin...
SAM (storage-area management) is the hottest new acronym to be appended to storage vendor product releases, according to Gartner analysts. However, pick your SAM wisely.
Tech stocks looked healthier at the close of business yesterday when the government of Iraq agreed to a United Nations Resolution to allow weapons inspectors into the country. This has temporarily avoided a war between the United States and Iraq.
Next week sees the annual Storage World exhibition at Sydney's Convention and Exhibition centre in Darling Harbour. The Terrapinn organised event is backed by all the big players in the storage sector, including Computer Associates, IBM, Le...
The tricorder from Star Trek is a classic in future technology, so Adaptec's purchase of bankrupt NAS developer Tricord Systems has good omens in its push to develop hybrid NAS/SAN devices.
