Send Web Content Acceloop Inc. has released the Acceloop Web Server Accelerator which helps accelerate high-volume content over the Internet and intranets, according to the company. Update Over the Web Indigo Rose Software's TrueUpdate 1.0 provides a framework that determines required updates, and then retrieves and applies the necessary patch or installation files via the Internet, an intranet, or LAN, says the company. Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. , San Jose, CA, made its first product foray into the storage networking space this April with the introduction of the SN 5420 storage router. I get to stay with a set of infrastructure that I know and understand. The SN 5420 terminates the iSCSI session and converts the data to Fibre Channel.
Data traveling from the storage device to the host undergoes the opposite process.
Cisco claims its iSCSI solutions provide extensive benefits to customers, including storage pooling, reduced storage management costs, and better capacity utilization. One group that may welcome Storage over IP solutions is storage management vendors such as Veritas and Legato that make storage management software, predicts Webster.