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Bridgeworks Spans SAS to SAN

Christchurch, UK - September 25, 2007 - Bridgeworks launched the Tamar FSAS4400 Fibre Channel to SAS Bridge.

The Tamar FSAS4400 enables users to connect SAS enabled devices such as Disk Arrays, Tape Drives and Tape Libraries to FC SANs using the fibre channel protocol.

2 x 4Gb Fibre Channel Ports
Ethernet Management Port
GUI + Command Line
4 SAS ports (3Gb) Mini SAS
Supports all SAS devices
16,000 LUNs
19" rackmount form factor (cPCI and other formats available)

Bridgeworks' CEO David Trossell said - "(Our) approach to connectivity allows vendors to use one core tape or optical technology but easily provide different SAN interfaces within the same internal interconnect structure." ...Bridgeworks profile, SCSI converters

Editor's comments:- Bridgeworks product naming convention refers to rivers. For example they've got Potomac and Tamar. Fortunately there aren't too many commercially viable storage interface choices for a SAS bridge. So there's not much risk of using up all the good names - and having to use those with negative connotations - such as Bridge on the River Kwai, Tay Bridge (Disaster) or Bear River (Massacre). That could be a Bridge too Far.

SANAT Launches NAS Gateway

Chennai, India - September 19, 2007 - SANAT Technologies Pvt. Ltd. today announced the launch of India’s first NAS gateway - the SANAT g4000.

The SANAT g4000 is a rackmount unit with 2 Ethernet ports and 2 Fibre Channel ports. The g4000 NAS gateway typically removes the administrative nightmare involved with managing multiple "NAS heads" in multi-vendor storage environments.

Additional storage can be seamlessly added by enterprises without needing to do any reconfiguration of any separate machines. The g4000 NAS gateway model has been extensively tested with WMS 100 / AMS 200 / AMS 500 storage systems from HDS. The storage from these arrays allocates seamlessly through the g4000 NAS gateway product to Windows/UNIX client machines. ...SANAT Technologies profile, storage routers

Fibre channel router manufacturers
Hard disk drives / NAS / SAN

ATTO Technology

Bridgeworks

Bus-Tech

Crossroads Systems

DinoStor

EMC

GST

HP

InfiniCon Systems

LightSand Communications

MaXXan Systems

McDATA

Nortel Networks

ONStor

RELDATA

SANAT Technologies

SAN Valley Systems

StraightLine

Systex

Tacit Networks

TechnoMages

Topspin Communications

YottaYotta

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a Short History of Disk to Disk Backup

STORAGEsearch.com has been reporting on the enterprise D2d market since the concept first began.

This article plots the main events in the market transition from the heady days when tape backup was at its height - through to the situation now where most corporate data is backed up using disk to disk backup.

click to read the article - a Short History of Disk to Disk Backup

In 2007- D2d was the #1 subject viewed by Storage Searchers. ...read the article, Hard disk drives, Backup Software

Squeak! - the Fastest Solid State Disks

Speed isn't everything, and it comes at a price.

But if you do need the speediest SSD then wading through the web sites of over 55 current SSD oems to find a suitable candidate slows you down.

And the SSD search problem will get even worse.

I predict there will be over 100 SSD oems in 2008.

I've done the research for you to save you time. And this page is updated daily from storage news and direct inputs from oems. ...read the article,

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