New Storage Virtual Appliance Helps Build High-Availability Environment for Less than US$2,000
VMworld Europe 2009
StorMagic®, a fast-growing developer of iSCSI SAN management software for virtualized server environments, today announced the StorMagic SvSAN™, a storage virtual appliance that helps small to mid-size organizations build a cost-effective virtual SAN in just a few minutes. The StorMagic SvSAN is [...]

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted 8.8% year-over-year growth totaling $4.9 billion in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08), according to the IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.6 billion in revenues, up 1.1% from the prior year’s third quarter, driven [...]

QNAP Systems, Inc. today unveils the new firmware version 2.1.0 for the high performance TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS to support iSCSI target service and a number of security solutions, e.g. AES 256-bit volume-based encryption, automatic policy-based IP blocking, instant SMS alert, SSL secure certificate, Syslog server, and the powerful Surveillance Station for live video monitoring [...]

Integrated Advanced Storage Management Streamlines Converging Infrastructures
Dorado Software (http://doradosoftware.com), a leading provider of infrastructure lifecycle management software, today announced the release of Redcell Storage Commander, a management product that provides automated configuration and management solution for both iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs. Redcell Storage Commander is a new addition to the Redcell v6.1 portfolio [...]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks Inc., a leading provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions.
LeftHand Networks’ solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large corporations to easily and cost-effectively protect critical business data. HP has agreed to purchase [...]

ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) Pioneer Introduces New 1TB EtherDrive Storage Appliance
Coraid, the inventor of the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) storage protocol, today announced the introduction of the EtherDrive® SR2421 Storage Appliance. It offers RAID storage for 24 SATA disks in a 4U rack mount chassis. Users can install 1 TerraByte SATA disks into the SR2421’s chassis to [...]

UltraFlex I/O Technology Allows Anytime Customization of iSCSI and Fibre Channel Ports
Energy Efficient Solutions Include Virtual Provisioning and Flash Drives
Dell announced today the fourth-generation Dell/EMC CX family of storage systems with multi-protocol flexibility and massive scalability — doubling the number of drives up to 960 in a single array. The Dell/EMC CX4 family offers [...]

Gains Storage Market Share across the Board, Takes Lead in iSCSI SANs
In the first quarter of calendar year 2008, Dell for the first time captured a leading 20.4 percent of the open systems (Windows/Linux) external worldwide disk array storage market with $422 million in revenue. Its closest competitor claimed 18.5 percent share and $384 [...]

Blade.org Technology Symposium 2008
NetApp’s (NASDAQ:NTAP) Joel Reich will join industry technology leaders at the inaugural Blade.org Technology Symposium 2008 with a presentation on “Leveraging Virtualization and Why iSCSI Boot Plays a Dramatic Role.” The Blade.org Technology Symposium takes place June 19, 2008, in New York.
The Blade.org Technology Symposium will feature the world’s top IT [...]

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted 10.8% year-over-year growth in the first quarter of 2008 (1Q08) and totaling $4.9 billion, according to the IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.7 billion in revenues, up 8.4% from the prior year’s first quarter. [...]