Storage system firm Network Appliance Inc. purchased Spinnaker Networks Inc. on Tuesday in a move designed to bolster Network Appliance's plans to offer storage grids.
Despite a general slowdown in technology spending, the Canadian storage market remains strong, with a projected average annual growth rate of more than 40 per cent in terabytes sold through 2007, said Alan Freedman, an analyst with IDC Canada in Toronto.
Internet Storage Name Service brings the plug-and-play capabilities of Fibre Channel to IP storage networks. ISNS facilitates automated discovery, management and configuration of iSCSI and Fibre Channel devices on a TCP/IP network. In a Fibre Channel fabric, a simple name server provides these services.
Any way you slice it, 2001 could have been a better year for the storage technology industry. But despite the promise and hype surrounding the three key storage issues of the year
Any way you slice it, 2001 could have been a better year for the storage technology industry. But despite the promise and hype surrounding the three key storage issues of the year
Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil a standards-based management suite early next year that is designed to help customers get a better handle on their increasingly complex storage environments.