InfoStor articles from April 2005

InfoStor archives from April 2005

Tape market WORMs its way to new growth.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
April 1, 2005... Companies heavily regulated by compliance legislation, such as SEC 17a-4 or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, have an obvious interest in the addition of write-once, read-many (WORM) support by most "super tape" drive manufacturers. Tape-based WORM is a...

HP to unify server and storage management.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
April 1, 2005... Hewlett-Packard recently announced plans to develop a unified server/storage management platform. According to HP officials, the decision to integrate server and storage management was made more than a year ago after it had completed the...

Disk array market shares shifting.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
April 1, 2005... According to estimates released last month by Gartner Inc., EMC held on to its number-one ranking in the market for external disk arrays, gaining a 2% market share on a 2003-to-2004 revenue surge of 15.5%. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,...

Vote for the Most Valuable Products.(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... INFOSTOR, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE Association of Storage Networking Professionals (www.asnp.org), is once again co-sponsoring the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Awards. The awards will be presented at the Storage World Conference (SWC), June 7-9,...

Storage Networking Industry Association.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Internet Protocol (IP) Storage Forum announced the election of its 2005 board of directors: David Dale, Network Appliance (chair); Prasad Pammidimukkala, McData (vice chair); Steve Paulhus,...

Diogenes Analytical Laboratories has an arrangement under which they will use the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Technology Center in Colorado Springs, CO, to provide IT organizations with objective product evaluations.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Diogenes Analytical Laboratories has an arrangement under which they will use the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Technology Center in Colorado Springs, CO, to provide IT organizations with objective product evaluations. For...

Rainfinity has joined the EMC Select Program, and its RainStorage 4.5 product is now available through this program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Rainfinity has joined the EMC Select Program, and its RainStorage 4.5 product is now available through this program. Customers can now purchase Rainfinity's RainStorage Network File Virtualization (NFV) platform from EMC sales representatives...

Nexsan Technologies' SATA-Blade RAID storage system has been certified by Matrox Video Products Group.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Nexsan Technologies' SATA-Blade RAID storage system has been certified by Matrox Video Products Group, a company that sells digital video hardware and software for real-time editing, for use with Matrox Axio HD to create a high-definition (HD)...

Solidcore Systems and Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) have signed an OEM agreement.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Original Equipment Manufacturers)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Solidcore Systems and Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) have signed an OEM agreement in which Solidcore's Embedded Solution will be integrated into every DNF storage server.

FalconStor Software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... FalconStor Software has expanded its support for government agency customers with the launch of its Federal Business Partner Program, designed to deliver sales, technical, marketing, product, and training support for government systems...

CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc. has launched a global partner program aimed at giving VARs, OEMs, integrators, and service providers worldwide data recovery service offerings to their customers.

Adaptec has entered into a strategic alliance with Vitesse Semiconductor.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Adaptec has entered into a strategic alliance with Vitesse Semiconductor to develop and market next-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products.

Who's using fabric-based intelligence, and why?(CASE STUDIES)
April 1, 2005... Although surveys indicate that users would prefer to run storage services (virtualization, provisioning, volume management, replication, etc.) on fabric-based switches or specialized appliances or controllers, actual adoption of this technology...

Cisco enables fabric applications.
April 1, 2005... Although third-party applications aren't expected for at least a few months, Cisco last month announced hardware and software that will make it easier for application vendors to port to the company's MDS 9000 switches to create what Cisco...

EMC adds searching, chargeback to Centera.
April 1, 2005... It's a well-known fact that a backup application is only as good as its recovery capabilities: How quickly and easily (if at all) can data be restored to users when needed? Similarly, a data archive is only as good its ability to locate,...

Kazeon manages unstructured data.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
April 1, 2005... Kazeon, a provider of unstructured information management products, previewed its upcoming product at this month's Storage Networking World conference The company is a two-year-old start-up in Mountain View, CA, that is backed by $17 million in...

StorageTek stresses services.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Services have become an important revenue source for storage vendors over the past couple of years, a trend that research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) expects will continue over the next several years. Leading storage vendors such...

Understanding information life-cycle management, part 2: the second article in our three-part series looks at the ILM strategies and products of EMC, Network Appliance, Veritas, and StorageTek.(ANALYST VIEW)
April 1, 2005... IN THE FIRST PART of this series (see InfoStor, January 2005, p. 36) we defined the four segments of ILM: data classification, data policy, data management, and a tiered storage infrastructure (see figure). [FIGURE OMITTED] As...

The devilish details of disk-to-disk backup: extensive testing of a variety of disk-based backup/recovery products reveals that 'to D2D or to D2D2T' is not the only question.(SPECIAL REPORT)
April 1, 2005... Disk-to-disk (D2D) technology offers tremendous promise for improving backup-and-recovery operations. D2D appliances can reduce reliance on the backup window, significantly increase storage administrators' productivity, and reduce the risks...

Take a new look at data protection: a wide variety of technologies exist to help you achieve the appropriate degree, or level, of data protection.
April 1, 2005... Data protection is at the top of any list of storage management issues and is a cornerstone of an organization's risk management. Data protection mitigates the risks associated with data loss or damage on either a temporary or permanent basis....

Comparing Fibre Channel and Serial ATA: the goal is to gain the advantages of Fibre Channel with low-cost Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives in nearline enterprise applications as well as mainstream SMB applications.
April 1, 2005... With the rapidly increasing storage requirements in enterprise data centers and the regulatory implications of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and SEC, large amounts of "business-important" information that is backed up and accessed periodically must...

Object-based storage: making disks smarter: object-based storage devices (OSD) and shared file systems are the next evolution of storage technology.
April 1, 2005... We recently reviewed the Lustre shared file system, which is based on an object-based storage device (OSD) architecture. A major benefit of this architecture is its removal of performance bottlenecks when sharing access to large numbers of...

iSCSI vs. FC, Windows vs. Linux: our first shot at creating an iSCSI-based IP SAN for SMBs yields impressive results, but not without caveats.(LAB REVIEW)
April 1, 2005... WITH INTERNAL DEMANDS to improve corporate performance and external regulations to document corporate performance both driving the growth of storage requirements, the mandate for IT is simple: Manage storage growth. While the mandate may be...

Get ready for 4Gbps Fibre Channel.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2005... On the heels of announcements by some switch vendors regarding support for 4Gbps Fibre Channel, a number of board and chip vendors have announced new 4Gbps Fibre Channel products. For example, within the next two months Emulex plans to begin...

IBM upgrades disk, tape, software.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2005... IBM recently made the following announcements: * IBM's complete line of LTO-based tape drives/libraries/autoloaders now supports LTO-3. Additionally, the company added a dual robotics feature for its TotalStorage 3584 tape library, which...

Veritas supports Sun Solaris 10.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Veritas last month announced that its Storage Foundation, Cluster Server, and Volume Replicator software will support Sun Solaris 10. The 4.1 release of these applications includes support for Solaris Containers, DTrace, and new security...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... May 1-6 Networld + Interop--Las Vegas, NV This networking conference focuses on six themes that are vital to networking and communications technology: network infrastructure and services, wireless, security, performance, VoIP and...

OuterBay, Princeton enhance database archiving.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... OuterBay recently released the 4.0 version of its Application Data Management Suite for database archiving. Features in ADM Suite 4.0 include a new reload framework and policy-based job set capabilities to automate moving archived data between...

Tacit adds services.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2005... Wide area file services (WAFS) provider Tacit Networks last month laid out a road map for "stackable services" that users can deploy on WAFS appliances at remote branch offices. The services include print, Web caching, e-mail consolidation and...

LeftHand supports Unix.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2005... In a sign that iSCSI-based IP SANs may be moving into Unix environments, LeftHand Networks has added support for Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX to the 6.1 release of its SAN/iQ software for IP SANs. Other features added in the 6.1 release...

Sony, Intradyn team up.(ComplianceVault)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Sony Electronics (www.sony.com/news) and Intradyn (www.intradyn.com) have teamed to provide SMBs--in particular, brokerages, medical clinics, and legal firms--with a plug-and-play archiving and-retrieval system for records retention. The system...

Yosemite backs up to disk.(Yosemite Technologies)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Yosemite Technologies recently shipped a new service pack for its TapeWare 7 backup/recovery software that allows users to back up to disk in a heterogeneous storage environment. The service pack can be downloaded by existing customers from the...

EVault upgrades online backup/recovery software.(InfoStage 5)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... This month online backup-and-recovery provider EVault released Version 5 of its InfoStage software. New features include * A Vault Backup Agent that enables companies to stage backups from disk to tape; * Extended support for desktops...

STORServer ships BC appliance.(D1 Business Continuity Appliance)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Starting at $3,000, STORServer's disk-based D1 Business Continuity Appliance comes in a 4U enclosure and includes online backup/restore, archive, and disaster-recovery capabilities. Targeted at small companies (50GB to 370GB of online data)...

NovaStor simplifies backup/DR.(NovaBACKUP 7.2backup-and-recovery software)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... NovaStor recently released its NovaBACKUP 7.2 backup-and-recovery software, which includes a disaster-recovery module with an automated wizard to help users create a DR-compliant backup and DR boot disk for Windows systems. In addition, it...

Unitrends reduces backup/restore time.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Unitrends Software recently released version 2.0 of its data-protection suite (DPS), which incorporates a media management framework that reduces backup/restore time; memory enhancements that allow users to scale the software to support...

InoStor intros LTO-2 drive.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Last month, InoStor began shipping the Tandberg 420LTO--a 200GB, 24MBps 5.25-inch half-height LTO Ultrium 2 tape drive. Features include an Automatic Variable Transfer Rate, a Fast File Find feature, Ultra320 SCSI LVD interface, embedded media...

NuView adds Linux, Unix support.(StorageX 5.5)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Last month, NuView shipped StorageX 5.5, which supports Linux and Unix environments, allowing users to build a unified global namespace across CIFS and NFS protocols, as well as perform policy-based heterogeneous data management across Linux,...