Lucas Mearian

After some fits and starts, an IP version of the low-cost SCSI storage interconnect is finally in position to attract wider attention from technology vendors and users.

EMC Corp. on Monday unveiled the long-awaited line of its high-end Symmetrix disk arrays, which are built on a new internal architecture that leapfrogs throughput more than four times over its closest competitor and allows customers to buy small and scale the arrays into enterprise-class configurations.

In one of the first attempts by a top IT vendor to support network-based storage virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co. this week announced plans to use new software to let IT administrators manage all of the disk space on storage-area networks (SAN) as a single entity.

Several companies that have been kicking the tires on so-called blade PCs are starting to deploy the rack-mounted desktop technology in their data centres, looking for benefits such as increased security and ease of management.

EMC Corp. next month is expected to usher in a new version of its high-end Symmetrix storage arrays that will sport a significantly modified architecture in a bid to improve performance and scalability.

Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a joint marketing campaign focused on services for the multibillion-dollar server and storage consolidation market, which is currently the domain of industry leaders Network Appliance Inc. and EMC Corp.

Sony Corp. this week announced the first tape drive and cartridge that breaks the 1TB capacity barrier. The Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (S-AIT) technology leapfrogs two rival tape drive formats by at least six months, based on those companies' development road maps.

Sony Corp. recently announced the first production tape drive and cartridge that breaks the 1TB capacity barrier, leapfrogging two competing cartridge and drive technologies by at least six months, according to those companies' development road maps.