Data General's Clariion division has announced a Fibre Channel-based storage product aimed at SMEs. Clariion said that while the FC5300 is aimed at sophisticated SME applications, it is scaleable and suited to distributed environments, such as...
Size continued to matter in November when Storage giant EMC swallowed an US company Crosstor for $300m in stock. Hewlett-Packard (HP) launched a pay-as-you-go storage scheme based on its SureStore E Disk Array XP256 product which let companies...
Today, storage management is a very competitive environment and HP will be battling with other giants such as IBM/Tivoli, EMC, HDS, CA and Veritas for a share of the market. On the hardware side HP's announcement concentrated on its Surestore 181GB...
It is being touted by Sun as a cheaper alternative to EMC's Clariion CX400. The first version of Sun's N1 Data Platform is a storage array and management console that Sun gained from its acquisition of Pirus Networks in September last year.
Currently, when the company's EMC Clariion storage systems go off lease, the company has to shut down servers to switch to new storage systems - a task they typically schedule at 3am Saturday in an effort to minimize disruption.
Usually when a system is migrated from one system to another (physical or virtual), the system in use must shut down before it can restate in its new location or in its new environment. Previously the company had imposed financial penalties on...