Deni Connor

SGI introduced a new set of storage products this week that will help customers improve the management and workflow of data.

Cisco Systems Inc. is expected to introduce two Fibre Channel switches this week that will give users more choices for expanding the size of their storage-area networks.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. this week expanded its reach into storage with the announcement that it has acquired JNI Corp., a maker of Fibre Channel hardware and software for Solaris and Windows networks.

McData Corp.'s acquisition of Nishan Systems Inc. and Sanera Systems Inc. this week put them squarely in the middle of a select group of manufacturers including Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., which are embedding applications in their Fibre Channel switches.

McData Corp.'s acquisition of Nishan Systems Inc. and Sanera Systems Inc. this week put them squarely in the middle of a select group of manufacturers including Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., which are embedding applications in their Fibre Channel switches.

Despite the spat between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM Corp., SCO claims it is working on the next versions of SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, as well as the next version of UnixSVR 6.

Entrepreneur Cheng Wu is taking lessons learned about Web content delivery at his last start-up and applying them at his new venture to improve data-centre information management.

Learning to install, configure and manage a storage-area network is a hodgepodge affair that is littered with hard-won experience and lessons learned, IT managers say.