Michael Singer

Networking chip maker LSI Logic has secured a contract to put its chips in several next-generation Fujitsu Siemens storage products. The Milpitas, Calif.-based firm said the three-year, $80 million-plus contract covers its processor and MegaRAID storage adapter boards in the Dutch-based holding company’s storage platforms, including its Ultra320 SCSI controllers, RAID on motherboard products, and […]

While the semiconductor and PC industries have begun their economic turnaround, the disk storage systems market is still waiting, according to one analyst firm. A report issued Friday by Framingham, Mass.-based IDC says factory revenue for worldwide disk storage systems registered in at $4.73 billion in the second quarter of 2003. That’s down 3.9 percent […]

Sun Microsystems Monday announced it has renewed its storage partnership with Hitachi’s Data System subsidiary in an attempt to grow Sun’s market share and its computing-on-demand N1 platform. The deal means the original agreement, signed in August 2001 by the two companies, is now extended through 2006. The partnership is a dig at offerings from […]

Hoping to improve its own web-based provisioning architecture, Hewlett-Packard Wednesday launched a new developers program designed for building storage systems. Based on the Storage Management Interface Specification (SMI-S), previously known as “Bluefin”, the HP SMI-S Developers Program will simplify the interoperability challenges developers often face when managing multi-vendor network storage.The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) […]

Network Appliance last week announced it has acquired some of the patent assets of now bankrupt Auspex Systems. The patent portfolio covers many technologies central to network-attached storage (NAS) systems, and expands the number of issued U.S. patents owned by Network Appliance. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based firm entered a final bid of nearly $9 million on […]

Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced the latest updates to its quarterly product and services portfolio with a focus on storage and managing the networks that serve them. Among a laundry list of releases, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker unveiled its N1 Data Platform — the latest piece of the company’s provisioning puzzle — along […]

Two Silicon Valley-based tech firms Tuesday said they will join forces on the next version of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Milpitas, Calif.-based LSI Logic’s Storage Standard Products division and the San Jose, Calif.-based division of the Japanese owned Hitachi’s Global Storage Technologies said they will coordinate their respective product development efforts — including sharing design […]

IBM this week said its scientists are creating a modular system that allows for more storage and server devices to be attached closer together in a smaller space. Scientists at the company’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. are configuring a dense array of storage and switches built up as a 3D cubic array […]