Qlogic Unveils Worlds First 10gbe Iscsi To 8gb Fibre Channel Intelligent Storage Router Enterprise
Storage Networking World -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, today introduced the QLogic(r) 6200 Series of intelligent storage routers, the industry's first 10GbE iSCSI-to-8Gb Fibre Channel routers. Supporting new high bandwidth 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel, the enterprise-class QLogic 6200 intelligent Storage Router offers data center managers 10 times ...

Samsung Pulls Out Of Sandisk Deal
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: SEC) on Wednesday dropped its $5.85 billion offer for SanDisk Corp. (Nasdaq: SNDK), saying the company was no longer worth the money because of the growing uncertainty in the flash memory maker's business and its deteriorating finances.Samsung notified the SanDisk board of its decision in a letter sent two days after the latter company reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and said it would slash ...

Businesses May Cut Back Spending On Storage
As financial problems hit every part of the economy, the IT sector is coming to the realization that it isn't immune to a retrenchment in business spending. And it is beginning to look like some of those same trends may bring about a slowdown in spending on storage.Many savvy IT managers saw the slowdown coming and increased their purchases of storage and other IT products earlier in the year. That has produced low storage ...

Logicalis And Bridgehead Software In Worldwide Partnership To Improve Healthcare Data Retention
Woburn, MA, - October 22, 2008 - Global high-performance technology provider Logicalis has announced a strategic partnership with Enterprise Data Management (EDM) specialist, BridgeHead Software, with the objective of providing expertise and technology to support critical healthcare information technology (IT) environments.The partnership is intended to help IT professionals at healthcare organizations worldwide, who must maintain ...

The Cloud Presents Security Hazards
Cloud computing may be a tough sell among enterprise IT managers, but at least one group has bought into the hype without reservation: cybercriminals.What's a botnet after all but pay-as-you-go, on-demand computing infrastructureAt the Cloud Summit Executive conference on Tuesday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., John Maddison, VP of core technology solutions at Trend ...

Merchants And Punters Cry Foul Over Verified By Visa
The Verified by Visa system is becoming harder to avoid, even for those with real doubts about its effectiveness in combating fraud.The experiences of Verified by Visa refusenik and Reg reader Steve reported in our earlier article on the system are being experienced by more and more Register readers.Both Verified by Visa (VbyV) and MasterCard's equivalent SecureCode service are ...

Buffalo Boosts Soho Storage
AUSTIN, Texas -- Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking, storage and memory solutions announced today the introduction of the LinkStation(tm) Quad, offering large, secure and remotely accessible storage for your home or SOHO network-- all with the peace of mind of RAID technology. In addition to its RAID drive ...

Neverfail Issues Mobile Messaging Trends Report Pressure To Be Available 24x7 Creates Email
Employees today are under enormous pressure to be "online" 24 hours a day, which is driving them to risky behaviors and underscoring the importance of e-mail reliability and availability for businesses, according to a new study conducted by Osterman Research and commissioned by Neverfail. The executive report, "Mobile Messaging Marketing Trends," finds that worry over being available during non-work hours has led employees to e-mail addiction, ...

Storwize Claims Updated Data Compression App Improves Throughput Performance
Storwize Inc. claims its STN-6000 data compression appliances for primary network attached storage (NAS) will offer up to a 15:1 data reduction ratio and 600 MB/sec of throughput performance with version 3.5.1 of its software.The company is also enhancing high-availability management for its active-passive dual-node configurations that will allow users to change configurations on the fly without requiring a ...

The Smart Way To Handle Secondary Storage
A British storage company has launched an attempt to take on the likes of EMC in the secondary storage market by offering a cost-effective approach.Essex-based Tarmin Technologies has introduced GridBank, which it claimed would provide users with a smarter approach to secondary storage. The company said that traditional secondary stories limited the amount of end user access while Tarmin GridBank offers long-term archiving while ...