He said: "Tape is very much at the centre of the growing SAN market. StorageTek's key asset, according to Pierre Cousin, VP and general manager, client server business group, is the company's existing tape installed base.
In addition the company announced Tivoli Storage Manager 4.1, which includes a host of new features including automated network backup, tape resource sharing, network-free rapid data recovery, LAN-free and multi-threaded data transfer and adaptive...
IBM will support Compaq's VersaStor technology for storage SAN-wide 'virtualisation'. Two of the biggest names in computer hardware have agreed to combine forces in the data storage market. Compaq and IBM will resell each other's storage systems...
Delmege said: "Optical storage has never reached the stage of being cost effective enough and isn't a commercially viable option to a disk and tape balance. Delmege suggested that until better storage alternatives were developed commercial use...
The Cisco switch, like models from competitors including Brocade, McData and Inrange Technologies, is certified to work with IBM's Enterprise Storage System (aka Shark), its midrange FastT systems and its tape systems.
In addition to supporting direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area netork (SAN) configurations, GalaxyExpress offers disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape features. Dell on Friday introduced data protection software...
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