Stories about: DataDirect Networks

When it comes to talking about performance, speed turns people's heads. Bring up racing cars in a room full of folks discussing sedans and pickup trucks, and you'll see what I mean.

The 80,000-square-foot building will double the size of the SDSC's facilities; besides an additional 5,000 square feet of data-center space, the expansion will house classrooms, offices, meeting rooms and a 250-seat auditorium.

Whether traveling as Pacific Air Flight 121 or under its eventual and well-loved title Snakes on a Plane, this week's most talked-about movie required serious silicon in addition to Samuel L. Jackson and all those reptiles. Pacific Title & Art Studio, which created the end credits and some of the movie's visual effects, spent more than US$1 million this year upgrading its storage systems so it can better work on films such as the action hit.

Many of the nation's top research and scientific institutions are here in Pittsburgh this week for the SC2004 supercomputing conference, showing off their innovations for future high-performance computing. But will any of the supercomputer research and development work spotlighted here ever make its way into corporate IT data centers?

A handful of storage start-ups are developing software that will let users guarantee the integrity, authenticity and rapid accessibility of large amounts of data at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage arrays.

DataDirect Networks is expected to release a new storage appliance Monday targeted at small and medium-sized companies who manage data across a number of servers.

In an effort to simplify the complexities of SANs (storage area networks), DataDirect Networks Inc. has introduced DataDirector, an intelligent network device that incorporates the key interconnect components of current SANs into a single, integrated, plug-and-play appliance.