Deni Connor

Users who want to evaluate the performance and integrity of IP storage technologies before they install them could be interested in gear Empirix Inc. and Finisar Corp. introduced recently.

One of the few surviving storage service providers officially added software vendor to its shingle last week with the announcement of a management product it hopes will improve sagging revenue.

The first, and one of the last, storage service providers, officially became a software vendor last week when it announced a storage management product intended to bolster flagging revenue from the faltering storage outsourcing market.

The roadmap for storage was glossed over in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s presentation of its plans for the converged product lines of the new company yesterday, but it represents perhaps the smartest and most do-able plan for storage the company could have come up with.

Storage vendor Acirro Inc. tends to marooned data

Cisco Systems Inc. is expected to charge the storage market as soon as next month with the introduction of a storage switch that supports Fibre Channel, SCSI and Gigabit Ethernet.

IT managers of NetWare 5.1 and NetWare 6 networks need to be aware of a vulnerability in the operating system that makes it subject to intrusions that could cause the system to crash.

Attempting to carry out its vision of a single management console, and products and development tools based on standards, Novell Inc. Wednesday announced yet another reorganization.