Maxtec says it will officially launch IPStor, a software solution that assists with storage networking, in Johannesburg and Cape Town next week.
Touted as the "next killer app" for the Internet, peer-to-peer is maturing from the file-sharing Napster model to a computing paradigm that can decimate IT costs by "unwasting" massive amounts of storage and computing capacity.
BMC Software has released its "intelligent" storage management solution, the Patrol Application Storage Resource Manager. [Local rep: MGX]
Symetrix Business Continuity Services has selected NSI Double-Take as its preferred solution for data replication.
Quality of service (QOS) has established itself as a networking term, but with the advent of storage area networks, Veritas hopes to bring the concept to storage.
The Veritas NetBackup software has been expanded to include backup and recovery support for NAS file servers from Procom and Internet messaging servers from Mirapoint.
According to Gartner Dataquest, EMC grew its number one market share lead in storage management software in 2000 to 25.5%.
Computer Associates International says its ARCserve 2000 storage solution has earned the Certified for Windows 2000 (W2K) logo for W2K Server and Advanced Server.
Revenues in the worldwide tape media market will grow from $3.4 billion in 2001 to more than $5.8 billion by 2005, says the International Data Corporation (IDC).
EMC says its Symmetrix storage system has won the Network Magazine Product of the Year award.
Hitachi has launched its latest storage subsystem - the Thunder 9200 - aimed at the small and medium enterprise (SME) market segment. The subsystem scales from 72GB to 7.2TB. [Local rep: Shoden Data Systems]
KPMG Consulting has standardised on Veritas Software Backup Exec for its internal requirements.
EMC says its networked information storage revenue for the first quarter totalled $833 million.