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Oct 07, 20022 mins
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Sun last week announced a storage system that brings some high-end features for protecting data to the low end of its storage line. Sun will start shipping the StorEdge 3300 Series systems this month. The storage servers will fit under Sun’s StorEdge 990

Sun last week announced a storage system that brings high-end features for protecting data to the low end of its storage line. Sun will start shipping the StorEdge 3300 Series systems this month. The storage servers will fit under Sun’s StorEdge 9900, 6900 and 3900 Series systems, and are designed to provide a data store for low-end and midrange servers. The StorEdge 3300 Series will start at slightly less than $7,000 for a five-drive just a bunch of disks system. Higher-end features available on some models in the 3300 Series include Level 3 Network Equipment Building Systems compliance – related to how well the system can withstand disasters – and configurations that include single to dual RAID controllers. www.sun.com

Prosoft Engineering last week updated two software packages for Mac OS X users – NetWare Client for Mac OS X-IP Edition and Data Rescue. NetWare Client for Mac OS X -IP Edition v1.0.3 lets Mac OS X users connect to a Novell IP-based network. A free demo is available for download, and pricing starts at $149 per user. Data Rescue Data Recovery Utility 10.0.3 lets Mac OS X users recover hidden or missing files and folders from hard drives. The new version also supports Mac OS X to Jaguar. A free demo of Data Rescue is also available. With pricing starting at $90. www.prosofteng.com

StorageTek introduced its largest tape drive and disk subsystem last week for enterprise-size customers who have 24-hour-a-day operations. The T9940B tape drive, which has a capacity of 200G bytes, transfers compressed data at as much as 30M byte/sec. The box has SCSI, ESCON, FICON and 2G-bit Fibre Channel connectivity. Available this month, the 9940B is $39,500 and the D280 starts at $90,000 and includes SANtricity 8.3 software, the controller and 1 terabyte of capacity. www.storagetek.com