Deni Connor

 

 

dconnor@nww.com (512) 345-3850 Fax: (512) 345-3860

Network World, Inc. 118 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772

Recent articles by Connor

Brocade rolls out 8Gbit Fibre Channel
May. 15, 2008
Brocade, following the lead of Emulex and QLogic, this week introduced 8Gbit Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters (HBA).

HP rolls out massive array for digital content
May. 13, 2008
HP last week added a behemoth to its storage portfolio with the introduction of the HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System, ExDS9100 for short.

Sun's virtualization strategy evolves
May. 10, 2008
It's not one of the first companies most IT managers associate with server virtualization, but Sun's virtualization strategy is broad enough and adaptable enough to appeal to many customers who aren't already tied to ...

Easing network congestion caused by virtual servers
May. 09, 2008
Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support virtual machines (VMs) have to be more powerful. Less obviously, ...

Mimosa rolls out software for unstructured data
May. 08, 2008
Mimosa Systems this week is complementing its e-mail archiving software with a file archiving product for Windows networks that will attempt to meet the spiraling data retention needs.

MonoSphere bolsters storage capacity management
May. 06, 2008
MonoSphere, a storage capacity management software vendor, last week unveiled the latest version of its Storage Horizon software, the upgrade makes it one of the most useful tools in a storage managers arsenal.

RenewData unveils single-pass tape processing for e-discovery
May. 01, 2008
Renewdata, one of the darlings of the e-discovery set, this week launched a new service for processing tapes with a single pass.

Green data center strategies flagging, survey says
Apr. 29, 2008
Digital Realty Trust, a data center provider, recently surveyed data center operators on green initiatives within their organizations. The survey found that a lack of industry standards is slowing green data center ...

Acronis rolls out data protection software for SMBs
Apr. 24, 2008
Data protection company Acronis this week announced software that backs up Microsoft Windows Small Business Server.

IBM acquires Diligent Technologies
Apr. 22, 2008
As rumored for the past month, IBM last week finally acquired Diligent Technologies, a startup with de-duplication technology.

Back up without crashing
Apr. 17, 2008
As more servers are virtualized, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It's not enough for IT to back up each virtual server and its data. Protection is needed for the virtual server's image -- its ...

IP SAN, Fibre Channel over Ethernet are the talk of Storage Networking World - Network ...
Apr. 17, 2008
At Storage Networking World last week, a number of vendors, including Sanbolic, Agami Systems, Intel, Robobak and Spectra Logic unveiled bunches of products ranging from clustered file systems, to easy-to-deploy IP ...

Emulex releases converged network adapters; Commvault supports Windows Server 2008 - ...
Apr. 15, 2008
At Storage Networking World last week, a number of vendors, including Emulex and CommVault, introduced products ranging from IP storage-area networks to new implementations of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet ...

Sun's virtualization strategy evolves
May. 10, 2008
It's not one of the first companies most IT managers associate with server virtualization, but Sun's virtualization strategy is broad enough and adaptable enough to appeal to many customers who aren't already tied to ...

Easing network congestion caused by virtual servers
May. 09, 2008
Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support virtual machines (VMs) have to be more powerful. Less obviously, ...

Start-up PivotStor makes resellers pivotal
Apr. 10, 2008
A new storage company has appeared on the scene with tape and e-mail appliances for small and midsize businesses. PivotStor, which launched in 2007, offers tape automation and e-mail management appliances exclusively ...

Nimbus aims to make storage-area networking a Breeze for SMBs
Apr. 08, 2008
Nimbus Data Systems last week announced two iSCSI and network-attached storage appliances - the Breeze VH630 and the Breeze MH860 - for use in midsize enterprises.

NetEx bolsters WAN replication performance
Apr. 03, 2008
WAN optimization vendor NetEx this week announced a new synchronization service for customers needing to migrate or replicate their data across wide distances for disaster recovery purposes.

Fusion-io replaces RAID adapters with speedy drives
Apr. 01, 2008
Start-up Fusion-io this week announced a storage adapter that takes the place of expensive Fibre Channel storage-area networks.

Symantec unveils enhancements to it Windows storage management, clustering suites - Network ...
Mar. 27, 2008
Symantec this week unveiled a new version of its Veritas Storage Foundation Suite for Windows and high availability clustered server environments.

Brocade unveils file-area networking appliance for SMBs
Mar. 25, 2008
Brocade this week announced a file-area networking (FAN) appliance that lets customers manage and migrate their file-based data stored on file servers and network-attached storage devices.

Hifn speeds deduplication performance by 10-times
Mar. 13, 2008
If you've been concerned about the performance impact deduplication exacts on your network, Hifn may just have the product you've been thinking about. The company's recently released DR 250 and DR 255 acceleration ...

A tool that calculates your digital footprint
Mar. 20, 2008
EMC got a lot of attention last year when it commissioned IDC to write a report on

How Ancor met its SLA with Ford Motor
Mar. 18, 2008
Eric Mynster was faced with a problem. As corporate IT manager for Ancor Information Systems, the Troy, Mich. supplier of customized print and electronic document services, Mynster had servers he needed to protect and ...

BlueArc's latest NAS array boasts twice the performance of previous devices
Mar. 11, 2008
BlueArc unveiled a network-attached storage array last week that adds search, indexing, classification and data retention capabilities to its Titan NAS platform. The Titan 3000 Series boasts twice the performance of the ...