InfoStor articles from April 2004

InfoStor archives from April 2004

Analyst firm weighs in on backup, recovery.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... When it comes to backup and recovery, the Enterprise Storage Group (ESG) consulting firm says that organizations may want to take a good look at their plan from a business, not just a technology, perspective. According to ESG analysts,...

Experts offer advice on compliance.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... After having spent recent years bringing their organizations through large IT initiatives such as Y2K and company-wide ERP implementations, IT managers now find themselves navigating the murky and often uncharted waters of regulatory...

How does storage fit into utility computing?(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... Though the concept goes by many names (which can lead to confusion), utility computing is an enticingly simple notion: Buy only the amount of computing/storage you need, when you need it--like flipping the light switch or turning on the water...

It's a good time to be an SMB.(editorial)(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... If you're a storage professional in a small to medium-sized business (SMB)--which many of our readers are---you're in luck. Virtually every storage vendor recently launched a program to capture a share of the SMB market, which, in terms of...

EMC plans to develop and port software for McDATA's intelligent switch platforms.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... EMC plans to develop and port software for McDATA's intelligent switch platforms. Separately, McDATA has expanded its alliance with Hewlett-Packard to include two major initiatives: the support of multi-vendor storage fabric interoperability...

AppIQ is collaborating with Intel to develop management solutions for iSCSI-based storage networks.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... AppIQ is collaborating with Intel to develop management solutions for iSCSI-based storage networks. The collaboration will enable AppIQ to provide an integrated, standards-based family of storage area management solutions that supports all...

AMCC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3ware.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... AMCC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3ware. Under the terms of the agreement, AMCC will acquire all outstanding shares of 3ware lot approximately $150 million in cash and will assume stock options based on an exchange ratio to be...

Bell Microproducts has signed an agreement to distribute Broadcom's RAIDCore Serial ATA RAID controllers internationally.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Bell Microproducts has signed an agreement to distribute Broadcom's RAIDCore Serial ATA RAID controllers internationally. The agreement allows Bell Microproducts to distribute Broadcom's RAIDCore RC4000 SATA RAID controllers to resellers in the...

Solution Technology.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Solution Technology, a UK provider of training courses in storage networking technologies, has launched its online Storage Technology Advanced Test Service (STATS). This Web-based system provides a skills assessment service and includes a SNIA...

Actona Technologies.(Business Briefs)(secures Series C funding)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Actona Technologies, which deals with wide area file services solutions for enterprise storage networks, has secured $10 million in Series C funding, bringing its total equity investment to $23 million. This most recent round of funding was led...

Snap Appliance and Symantec have signed a technology and marketing partnership that benefits customers who need rapid system and data protection and recovery.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Snap Appliance and Symantec have signed a technology and marketing partnership that benefits customers who need rapid system and data protection and recovery. The first offering from the two companies is a set of disk-based data-protection...

Atempo.(Business Briefs)(expands US operations)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Atempo has expanded its operations in the US and established a new North American headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

EMC and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have extended their strategic alliance, enabling Fujitsu Siemens Computers to resell the full line of EMC networked storage systems and software in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... EMC and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have extended their strategic alliance, enabling Fujitsu Siemens Computers to resell the full line of EMC networked storage systems and software in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The reseller...

Fibre Channel Industry Association.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA, has announced its board of director's for 2004/2005: Chair: Arthur B. Edmonds. Jr. (senior director, Data Networking Technologies, Hitachi Data Systems): Treasurer: Tom Hammond-Doel (director,...

Mempile.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Mempile, a developer of an optical storage device, has secured $11.6 million in first-round funding. Kodiak Venture Partners led the investment and was joined by Israel Seed Partners. JVP, Hitachi CSK, Portview Communications Partners, Alra...

Qualstar.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Qualstar announced that it is the first company to ship tape libraries equipped with Sony's SAIT-1 WORM-enabled, multi-function tape drives.

New file-sharing options address user demands.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... When it comes to managing data, IT administrators at digital media, oil and gas, seismic, and chip simulation companies face a common challenge: making sure that authorized users--who can number in the hundreds or even thousands--have quick,...

Alacritech accelerates iSCSI.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... Last month, Alacritech released its SES1001 iSCSI accelerator card, which speeds up Microsoft's iSCSI Software Initiator via hardware ASICs. Spicing up the competition--and controversy--in the iSCSI market, Alacritech commissioned VeriTest (the...

IBM offers integrated software suite.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... Knowing which software tool (or tools) to use to solve a particular data management issue is no easy task, especially in complex IT environments. With the introduction of its TotalStorage Productivity Center last month, analysts say IBM...

Documentum builds on content management roots: adopts key Legato platform.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... Documentum, a provider of content management software, recently made several product announcements intended to make it easier for companies to manage--and store--growing reservoirs of unstructured data. This series of announcements is the...

IBM takes the sting out of compliance.(news analysis & trends)
April 1, 2004... When it comes to regulatory compliance, no two users are alike, nor is their data. These differences can make it difficult for organizations to implement effective regulatory compliance processes, let alone build flexible IT infrastructures to...

Start-up spins a 'compelling' story.(news analysis & trends)(Compellent Technologies)
April 1, 2004... In a storage market in which point products abound, the idea of being able to buy a services-rich storage system from a single yen dot may be welcome news to many end users, particularly those squeezed by tight budgets and demanding data...

ATTO Technology's iPBridge 2500C/R/D has been certified as interoperable.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ATTO Technology's iPBridge 2500C/R/D has been certified as Interoperable with Computer Associates's BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11 for Windows.

Cleveland-based KeyBank is now offering AmeriVault's online backup-and-disaster recovery solution to its business banking and middle market clients.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Cleveland-based KeyBank is now offering AmeriVault's online backup-and-disaster recovery solution to its business banking and middle market clients. AmeriVault's data-recovery and backup solution automatically recognizes block changes within...

ADVA Optical Networking.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ADVA Optical Networking announced the successful completion Of interoperability testing and qualification of ADVA's Fiber Service Platform (FSP) 2000 system for IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) S/390 and zSeries EServer...

IntraDyn Inc. and Computer Data Strategies Inc. (CDS) have completed an agreement under which IntraDyn has acquired key assets of CDS.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... IntraDyn Inc. and Computer Data Strategies Inc. (CDS) have completed an agreement under which IntraDyn has acquired key assets of CDS. The acquisition adds CDS's data backup software--Back Again II--to IntraDyn's existing line for small to...

PolyServe.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PolyServe has announced reseller and support agreements with HP Service to support growing demand for shared data clustering solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will offer the PolyServe Matrix Server shared data clustering software...

QLogic's SANblade 2340 Series now supports the Solaris 9 operating system, SPARC, and x86 Platform Editions.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Qlogic's SANblade 2340 Series now supports the Solaris 9 operating system, SPARC, and x86 Platform Editions. Separately, its SANblade 2340 family of single- and dual-port Fibre Channel host but adapters has received Solaris Ready Certification...

Market drivers and technology trends in data protection: the Enterprise Storage Group reviews the key trends and technologies in tape/disk backup and recovery, including replication techniques and new alternatives.(Special Report)(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2004... The Enterprise Storage Group (ESG) predicts that the worldwide market for all backup-and-recovery products will grow at a 16% CAGR through 2006. ESG also expects that the market for replication products (one of the fastest growing segments of...

Wide area file services tame the distributed enterprise: wide area file services consolidate file storage in a centralized location and intelligently provide fast access to high-use files over a WAN.(Industry Overview)
April 1, 2004... In many respects, the branch office is still the "wild frontier" of enterprise IT: an uncharted, unknown territory best left to the adventurous. This frontier mentality is especially evident in the world of storage. There are more than one...

Fibre Channel vendors eye SMB market: storage area networks are mainstream in large enterprises, but SAN adoption in small to medium-sized businesses presents challenges.
April 1, 2004... Direct-attached storage is still the dominant storage architecture in the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market. However, several trends may drive adoption of Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) in the SMB space, including the...

Information life-cycle management: myths and realities: the Enterprise Storage Group tackles what is arguably the storage industry's hottest (and most hyped) buzzword.(analyst view)
April 1, 2004... One year ago, Enterprise Storage Group (ESG) published an article defining information lifecycle management (ILM). The intent of the article was to educate users about ILM, which we defined then as "a combination of technology and methodology...

Examining the TCO model for database archiving: regulatory compliance, rather than cost savings, may be the best justification for considering database archiving.(analyst view)
April 1, 2004... Database archiving addresses the issue of how to deal with "aged" data. Several vendors, including IXOS, OuterBay, and Princeton Softech, have solutions in this space, but database archiving requires a new value proposition from previous...

Storage Networking World Spring recap: SNIA's chair presents user-related highlights from this month's conference and exhibition.(SNIA on storage)
April 1, 2004... For those who missed the event, here are a few highlights from the Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring conference and exhibition, which took place April 5-8, in Phoenix, AZ. For the first time, end users took center stage at SNW to...

Bus-Tech targets mainframe sites.(Disk/Connectivity)(with zDASD 3990 controller)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Bus-Tech's zDASD 3990 controller connects mainframes to IBM's FAStT (via Fibre Channel) and NAS Gateway (via Gigabit Ethernet) disk systems (and other vendors' disk arrays) to support DASD file access. Connections to the mainframe can be via...

3PAR boosts performance.(Disk/Connectivity)(launches InServ X-Series Storage Server)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... 3PAR claims to have doubled the performance of its "Utility Storage" systems with the introduction of its InServ X-Series Storage Server. Benchmark results are available at www.storageperformance.org, the Storage Performance Council's Website....

Start-up focuses on SMBs.(Disk/Connectivity)(NeuStream Inc begins shipments of Storage Boss Appliance)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NeuStream Inc., a start-up in Minneapolis, last month began shipments of its Storage Boss Appliance, which combines NAS (CIFS/NFS) and IP SAN (iSCSI) technology. The disk system comes with a variety of storage applications, including...

Certance intros D2D2T for SMB.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Certance's CP 3100 is a disk-to-disk-to tape (D2D2T) bundle designed for the SMB market. The CP 3100 is based on the company's Data Protection Architecture (DPA) and is available in two configurations: * A desktop or 1U rack-mount...

ATTO debuts Fibre Channel adapter.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... ATTO Technology's Celerity FC (Fibre Channel) Storage Adapter is available in single-, dual-, and quad-channel versions with an onboard hub design and an Integrated Offload & Processing Center (IOPC) that provides additional processing and...

Xiotech eyes SMBs.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Following the ongoing trend of storage vendors targeting the fast-growing small to medium sized business (SMB) market, Xiotech recently began shipments of an entry-level version of its Magnitude 3D storage system. Dubbed Magnitude 3D Edge, the...

SANRAD adds software to iSCSI switch.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Last month, SANRAD began shipments of a variety of software services that run on the company's V-Switch series of IP SAN switches, which support the iSCSI proto col. Version 2.0 of SANRAD's StoragePro Services includes snapshot capability (to...

ADTX ships SATA/FC/SCSI RAID.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... At the NAB show this month, Advanced Technology and Systems (ADTX) introduced a variety of RAID subsystems that are available with Serial ATA, Fibre Channel, or Ultra SCSI interfaces. The ArrayMasStor line includes single- and dual-controller...

AmeriVault premiers recovery service.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Online backup service provider AmeriVault last month introduced its HOTBOX recovery service, which enables the company's customers to have their data simultaneously replicated to a mobile disk vault. In the case of larger data recovery, the...

Arco controller supports SATA.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Arco Data Protection Solutions' DupliDisk3 SATA FlexMount is a RAID controller that supports Serial ATA disk drives and the PCI bus. The unit writes data simultaneously to a primary drive and a backup drive. When a file is saved, or a change to...

Veritas builds on utility computing.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Veritas recently announced general availability of Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0 (formerly known as Veritas Foundation Suite). The software integrates Veritas Volume Manager and File System and is designed to help users better manage and...

NetScout manages Virtual SANs.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... NetScout Systems has added support for performance monitoring and reporting of Cisco's Virtual SANs (VSANs) to NetScout's nGenius 9800 Fibre Channel Probes and nGenius Performance Manager software. (VSAN is a proprietary SAN partitioning...

Rainfinity addresses ILM.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Rainfinity recently extended the data-movement capabilities of its flagship RainStorage product to address increasing customer demand for ILM. RainStorage with GridSwitch software acts as a layer-2 switch with file-system intelligence that...

CNT manages SAN/MAN/WANs.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... CNT is rolling out a series of software products under the inVSN ("in vision") label that can help IT administrators manage storage networks across SAN, MAN, WAN, and mainframe infrastructures, enabling a global view of storage networks,...

LXI adds support for ARCserve 11.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... LXI's cross-platform Tape Tracker media management software now supports Computer Associates' ARCserve 11 backup/restore software. Tape Tracker consolidates into a central database tape information across multiple platforms, servers, and...

UltraBac sizes backup to SMB needs.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... UltraBac Software last month announced the availability of UltraBac Small Business Server in Premium and Standard editions. The products are designed to provide small networks with many of the backup-and-recovery capabilities found in...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... May 3-7 Veritas Vision 2004-Las Vegas, NV Sponsored by Veritas, the event features more than 80 breakout sessions that focus on utility computing, database management, enterprise applications, business continuity,...

NTP enhances management software.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Version 5.1 of NTP Software's Quota & File Sentinel (QFS) software provides a number of enhancements to the base product, including the following: * Storage Investigator, a real time, Web-based analysis tool that scans and provides usage...

Avail ships D2D2T for SMBs.(Software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Avail Solutions' Integrity 2.0 software enables disk-to-disk-to tape data protection at prices starting at $1 200. The software supports virtually all tape formats (LTO, DLT/SDLT, AIT, VXA), as well as Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD disk-based...

SAIT + WORM = compliance.(Tape)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Sony last month announced that it has added write-once read-many (WORM) capability to its line of 500GB SAIT-1 drives. The SAIT-1 WORM drives were demon strated at the AIIM conference last month. The drives are intended to help users meet a...