Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to support high-availability, high-capacity clustering on its Raid and AutoRaid arrays. The company is to ship the fibre-channel clusters for the Windows NT operating system.
Veritas Software is to buy Seagate Software, a subsidiary of the hard disk manufacturer, for $1.6bn. The share-only deal will consolidate the market for storage software, with Veritas trying to marry its Unix expertise to Seagate's strength in...
Servers using NetWare Cluster Services are connected with Fast Ethernet adaptors as well as a Fibre Channel hub or switch and a disk storage subsystem. Novell finally will roll-out its clustering services for NetWare 5 this week, after more than...
Last night Sun unveiled new models for its flagship T3 arrays called StorEdge 3900 and 6900 aimed at the midrange Unix market. EMC said: "Sun is trying to re-market the new T3 arrays as Storage Bricks, but the only thing the company is doing is...
Disk systems can offer faster recovery times but are more expensive, he said. Business and IT executives at US companies have very different views about how prepared they are for a disaster, according to a survey to be released today.
An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network).