Lucas Mearian

Storage vendor Xiotech Corp. yesterday announced a new clustering technology for its storage array that is designed to increase resiliency and ease management of storage-area networks (SAN) by automatically failing over to secondary controllers during outages.

EMC Corp. this week upgraded its Symmetrix DMX disk array line by announcing plans to add a new high-end model plus native support for IBM's Ficon mainframe connectivity technology and the low-cost Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage interconnect.

EMC Corp. plans to unveil on Wednesday a new high-end Symmetrix array, as well as upgrades to its DMX800, DMX1000 and DMX2000 arrays that include native Ficon mainframe connectivity and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) for connecting low-end servers to high-end storage for backup.

EMC Corp. this week introduced a remote storage metering device that's designed to allow its biggest customers to install standby storage and network bandwidth capacity and pay only for what they use.

IBM Corp. plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products, including a file server that's expected to run Linux, sources said this week.

IBM Corp. plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products, including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, sources said this week.

Microsoft Corp. Monday released its iSCSI initiator, giving the IP storage standard a much-needed shot in the arm and vendors the green light to begin full-fledged rollouts of storage devices that can back up Windows servers across LANs and WANs.

Candera Inc. this week plans to go public with a storage virtualization device after two years of development, joining the race to provide users with technology that can combine different storage subsystems into virtual pools of data.