Adaptec reports losses
Adaptec's revenue was down year over year, as well as sequentially; DataDirect says the InfiniBand business is booming.
Adaptec reported net revenue for the company's second quarter of fiscal 2008 was $44.0 million, compared with $73.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. The company noted that it had received a one-time tax benefit of $49.1 million relating to dispute settlements with the U.S. and Singapore taxing authorities. The company also posted a sequential loss between the first and second fiscal quarters of $7.6 million.
"While our top line results were above the company's expectations, we continue to face difficult market conditions," said Sundi Sundaresh, president and CEO, in a statement. "Despite these challenges, the company has made significant progress during the quarter in several key areas: our restructuring plan announced last quarter is on track to fully realize the expected savings by the end of the fiscal year, our data protection and storage solutions groups have each released new products and the early indicators of customer reaction are positive."
iSCSI as a growing market and a good opportunity for Adaptec, although the company lost its OEM deal with IBM for iSCSI SAN products. IBM has since picked up iSCSI products from LSI Corp.
DataDirect reports record InfiniBand shipments
DataDirect Networks said it shipped its 3,000th S2A InfiniBand storage appliance since the first unit was sold to NASA in 2000 and shipped more than 250 S2A9550 storage appliances with a total capacity of 19 PB of storage in the third quarter. That number exceeds all shipments of the device in the year 2006.
Cellcom deploys RecoverGuard disaster recovery software
Israeli cellular communications operator Cellcom has deployed Continuity Software's RecoverGuard software to support its disaster recovery plans. RecoverGuard identifies "configuration gaps" in the storage infrastructure that could compromise disaster recovery plans. The tool also identified terabytes of high-end storage that was being underutilized.
U.K. healthcare community picks FalconStor
Plymouth Healthcare Community in the U.K. has deployed a FalconStor IPStor storage virtualization software in its 18 TB shop. The community estimated that IPStor has reduced labor costs and time by the equivalent of one storage administrator. while the flexibility of the storage system has directly saved more than $100,000 in capital investment through the redeployment of existing equipment.
Onaro integrates with BMC service automation
Onaro's storage service management (SSM) products have been linked up with BMC Service Automation datacenter automation software. The partners are joining fellow startup Akorri, Cisco, EMC and Hewlett-Packard Co. in attempting to create an overarching data center management framework.
DataCore ships server-side performance acceleration
DataCore released server versions of its UpTempo performance accelerators for Windows applications. UpTempo adds intelligence and predictive caching algorithms to speed up workloads and maximize I/O throughput. The software is available now for $498 per license.
Pillar debuts storage monitoring consulting service
Pillar Data has launched Pillar Pulse Axiom Health Check and Assessment Service, which will provide an on-site technician to help users analyze information from the newly released Pillar Pulse Health Check software, a rebadge of Brocade's SAN Health software. The service will cover Pillar arrays only and starts at $25,000.
FilesX supports Microsoft Exchange 2007
CDP player FilesX announced that it has added Microsoft Exchange 2007 support to its Xchange RestoreTM software. Xchange Restore 2007 backs up any Exchange 2007 object, including individual emails, calendars, address books, journal entries and folders, and can restore objects even from corrupted Exchange databases, the company claims.
BakBone supports PostgreSQL
BakBone announced version 3.0 of BakBone NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Module (APM) for PostgreSQL. The APM will support the open source database on all major operating systems, including Linux, Solaris and Windows.
