Netgear Acquisition Steers Storage Push      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - The maker of routers and other networking gear is betting that more small businesses and even homeowners want higher-end storage systems once reserved for larger corporations.
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Storage networking via iSCSI gets a data transfer boost from the addition of InfiniBand high-speed communication technlogy.
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Storage vendor Network Appliance is buying Onaro to boost its storage management offerings.
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The hardware networking company is trying to break out of the doldrums.
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Investor's Business Daily - All those long lines of first-day Apple iPhone buyers didn&#39;t immediately pay off as expected for the device&#39;s service provider, AT&amp;T, but the company on Tuesday still reported better-than-expected earnings, aided by strong wireless growth.
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Netgear is launching three new wireless networking products that aim to address the problem, perennially discussed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, of complicated home networking setup.&quot;Our customers in their homes or small offices should be able to utilize high-speed broadband networking for any application, including communications, information gathering or entertainment, from any corner of the house without any interruption,&quot; said Patrick Lo, chairman, CEO and founder of Netgear. Like the heating system in a house, a home network should work reliably, without much thought by users, he said.Using the new devices unveiled at the conference, a Netgear executive demonstrated simultaneous wireless streaming of an HD video, live HD gaming, and video downloading -- and then removed a hard drive from the storage device -- all without a glitch.The new products include the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless N Router, which incorporates new antenna technology developed by Netgear. The router contains eight antennas, which Netgear says ensures quality streaming despite potential interference from other wireless gear including microwave ovens, cordless phones and neighboring Wi-Fi networks.&quot;It&#39;s always better to have many antennas... but densely packing them inside the unit has been historically impossibly to achieve with good performance,&quot; said Vivek Pathela, vice president of product marketing for Netgear. Netgear&#39;s new technology allows many antennas to operate inside a device, delivering good performance, he said.The router also includes new technology that lets users push a button to automatically set up a secure connection between the router and any other standard client. Typically, users must work through a software application to set up secure connections.Netgear also introduced the ReadyNAS Duo, a media server designed to centrally store any digital media including videos, photos and music. In an unusual feature for a consumer device, the ReadyNAS supports hot swapping -- allowing users to remove a drive without interrupting streaming or other use of the device.The ReadyNAS comes in several configurations, including with 500GB of storage for $500.An optional second drive in the device automatically mirrors the content of the first to protect against potential loss of data. An even larger version of the ReadyNas can handle 4TB of data.Users can connect PCs, Macs, HD TVs and IP (Internet Protocol) set-top boxes to the server. It also has a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port for connecting digital cameras to upload photos and view them on a TV.Consumers that want to use the ReadyNas but don&#39;t want to upgrade their existing router, can buy the new HD/Gaming 5GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit. The kit comes with two units. Users attach one to their current router, which could comply with the older Wireless B or Wireless G standards. The other device connects to other clients such as a gaming console or HD TV to create a wireless connection. The kit essentially upgrades an existing network to deliver high performance video, Pathela said.Netgear hopes that these new products, possibly combined with 15 others the company is introducing at CES, will address the challenges that many people face when setting up networks in their homes. For many, the variety of wired and wireless technologies, many of which don&#39;t interoperate, have made home networks too challenging to tackle. For the past several years, technology companies at CES have focused on trying to solve this problem.
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roundup Plus: SGI works on Linux performance software...Good Technology supported by HP, Samsung...RealNetworks loss widens on litigation.
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Iomega Corp. updated its network-attached storage line Friday with the NAS 400r, a rack-mounted NAS line featuring faster processors and improved capacity.
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Investors give funding to storage company specializing in online user-generated media to expand B2B delivery service.
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Can Ned Hooper keep the magic of Cisco's acquisition machine alive? A lot depends on the answer to that question.
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Ditches Fibre for price point NetApp is launching a smaller iSCSI storage box for its StoreVault line.â¦
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid
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LIVE WEBCAST(Source: NetApp)  Join a live panel of speakers from Sprint Nextel, Enterprise Strategy Group and NetApp to learn how you can leverage NetApp virtualization, data center efficiency, and backup and recovery solutions to achieve: - 50% savings in power, space, and cooling- 38% total cost savings in VMware environments- 95% faster backups- Up to 20:1 space savings with deduplicationThis webcast will air on Tuesday, February 26th at 11:00 a.m. PST.
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Completing acquisition, Netgear will ship Infrant's desktop and rackmount network-attached system.
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Investor's Business Daily - At first, nothing seemed amiss at last month's LinuxWorld trade show in San Francisco.
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With the price of disk storage plummeting, the storage capacity administrators find themselves managing is set to explode. But, the simple introduction of network block virtualization permits the use of underutilized storage management technologies such as mirroring, snapshots and replication on a much broader scale.