InfoStor articles from April 2007

InfoStor archives from April 2007

Users attest to the benefits of virtualization.(CASE STUDIES)
April 1, 2007... The marketing onslaught behind block-level virtualization technologies that besieged the storage industry five years ago has yet to be matched. Many vendors heralded block virtualization as the "killer app" for SANs. The hype has since tapered...

FANs shape the future data center.(CASE STUDIES)
April 1, 2007... When the analysts at the Taneja Group research/ consulting firm coined the acronym file area network (FAN) last year, the firm was attempting to classify an emerging amalgam of various networking, storage, and software technologies that, when...

The ABCs of CDP, RTO, RPO.(continous data protection, recovery time objectives, Data protection objects)(Editorial)
April 1, 2007... To CDP, or not to CDP: That is the question: Whether 'tis best for the budget to suffer The pain and hassle of outdated backup, Or to take arms against the tower of tape And by D2D, CDP. Continuous data protection used to be only for very...

Xyratex has signed an OEM integration agreement with Overland Storage.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Xyratex has signed an OEM integration agreement with Overland Storage whereby Overland will integrate Xyratex's F5402E 4Gb FC-SAS/SATA RAID system into its ULTAMUS RAID 1200 array.

Digi-Data and Integrity Data Systems have partnered to sell Digi-Data's clustered storage systems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Digi-Data and Integrity Data Systems have partnered to sell Digi-Data's clustered storage systems to customers requiring large archival solutions.

StoneFly, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, has a US distribution agreement with PAC Data.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... StoneFly, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, has a US distribution agreement with PAC Data, a nationwide distributor of storage products and services.

Data Domain has chosen Xyratex's RS-1603-E3-EBD Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) subsystem.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Data Domain has chosen Xyratex's RS-1603-E3-EBD Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) subsystem for use with Data Domain's DD560 Enterprise Protection Storage systems.

Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, an operating group of Avnet, and Plasmon have a distribution agreement.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, an operating group of Avnet, and Plasmon have a distribution agreement whereby Avnet will distribute and provide services and support for Plasmon's archival products and solutions to authorized VAR partners...

FilesX's Xpress Restore data-protection and recovery software has been certified as compatible with the Engenio family.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... FilesX's Xpress Restore data-protection and recovery software has been certified as compatible with the Engenio family of storage arrays from LSI Logic.

ExaGrid Systems is now a Symantec Technology Enabled Partner.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... ExaGrid Systems is now a Symantec Technology Enabled Partner and will deliver interoperable solutions for Symantec Backup Exec and Veritas NetBackup.

GlassHouse Technologies has acquired MBI and its sister companies.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... GlassHouse Technologies has acquired MBI and its sister companies, MBI Turkey and Integrity Systems.

Incipient has joined the HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Partner Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Incipient has joined the HP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Partner Program. The Incipient Network Storage Platform (iNSP) software suite is now certified with HP StorageWorks enterprise virtual arrays. The companies have also formed a...

Zetera has formed an alliance with IC Technology, a solutions provider in the rich media industry.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Zetera has formed an alliance with IC Technology, a solutions provider in the rich media industry. IC Technology will use Zetera's Z-SAN technology, which enables IP SANs.

CommVault and Arrow Electronics Inc., through its Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) business unit, have signed a wide-ranging distribution agreement.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... CommVault and Arrow Electronics Inc., through its Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) business unit, have signed a wide-ranging distribution agreement. The agreement covers North American commercial markets and initially designates Arrow...

Asigra has joined the MSP Partners marketing alliance.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Asigra has joined the MSP Partners marketing alliance, along with founding members Cisco, Ingram Micro, Intel, Level Platforms, and Microsoft, to accelerate the adoption of managed services through collective channel partners.

LexisNexis and FAST have jointly implemented a FAST In-Stream search technology platform into the Applied Discovery online review application.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... LexisNexis and FAST have jointly implemented a FAST In-Stream search technology platform into the Applied Discovery online review application. The integration now enables legal professionals to conduct a review of documents during the discovery...

Emulex ships fabric application platforms.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
April 1, 2007... At the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, last month, Emulex introduced the first systems-level products resulting from its acquisition of Aarohi last year. Emulex's Intelligent Services Platforms, which are fabric-based virtualization devices...

HP acquires PolyServe.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
April 1, 2007... Hewlett-Packard has extended its plans in the NAS market with the acquisition of OEM partner and clustered file system vendor PolyServe. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. HP entered into an OEM partnership with...

Cisco to purchase NeoPath.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
April 1, 2007... Cisco last month announced an agreement to acquire privately held NeoPath Networks, a maker of file storage management software and appliances. NeoPath's family of File Director products provides network file management capabilities via an...

Iron Mountain outsources e-mail management.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
April 1, 2007... Iron Mountain Digital recently launched a new digital service dubbed Total Email Management Suite. Three components make up the suite: active archiving, business continuity service, and security service. "E-mail is a vital core application,...

NetApp bolsters midrange.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
April 1, 2007... Network Appliance last month added new models to its midrange FAS (standalone) and V (virtualization) series of "unified storage" disk arrays. (The V series are front-end controllers that can be used to virtualize other vendors' arrays in...

Mendocino offers 'hybrid' CDP.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
April 1, 2007... Recognizing that "true" continuous data protection (CDP) can sometimes be overkill, Mendocino Software has added a "near-CDP" option to its InfiniView software. Don't look for InfiniView to show up at Circuit City, though. This CDP is still...

Blue Coat Systems (BCSI), which deals in secure content and application delivery, has become a member in the Network Appliance (NTAP) Partner Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Blue Coat Systems (BCSI), which deals in secure content and application delivery, has become a member in the Network Appliance (NTAP) Partner Program. Both companies will work together to integrate Blue Coat SG appliances with NetApp enterprise...

BladeLogic and Onaro have a technology partnership that provides an integrated management solution for server, application, and storage infrastructure.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... BladeLogic and Onaro have a technology partnership that provides an integrated management solution for server, application, and storage infrastructure. The new offering, which combines BladeLogic's data-center automation software with Onaro's...

FilesX has joined LeftHand Networks' Technology Alliance Partner Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... FilesX has joined LeftHand Networks' Technology Alliance Partner Program. The two companies have validated the FilesX Xpress Restore platform and LeftHand Networks' clustered iSCSI SANs as a data-protection and recovery solution for Windows.

Imation and Sun Microsystems have a distribution agreement naming Imation the worldwide media distributor for Sun's line of data storage media.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Imation and Sun Microsystems have a distribution agreement naming Imation the worldwide media distributor for Sun's line of data storage media. Under terms of the agreement, Imation will become the distributor of the full portfolio of...

NEC and Oracle have jointly verified NEC's implementation of Oracle's Hardware Assisted Resilient Data.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... NEC and Oracle have jointly verified NEC's implementation of Oracle's Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (H.A.R.D.) technology in NEC's iStorage S Series.

Data Domain, already a member in CommVault's PartnerAdvantage program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
April 1, 2007... Data Domain, already a member in CommVault's PartnerAdvantage program, has now been named a CommVault Strategic Partner.

LTO-4 on the way: long live tape: the next generation of the LTO tape format will double the capacity to 800GB and increase the data-transfer rate to 120MBps.(ANALYST VIEW)
April 1, 2007... IN JANUARY, THE Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program announced the availability of licenses for the LTO Ultrium tape format generation 4 (LTO-4) specifications for tape device and media manufacturers. Products based on these specifications are...

What's the right 'fit' for CDP? Some continuous data protection (CDP) products emphasize data protection and others emphasize business continuity, but it's not an either/or purchasing decision.(ANALYST VIEW)
April 1, 2007... WHAT WILL IT TAKE to make continuous data protection (CDP) catch on in the marketplace? That is a pressing question for vendors and users alike. Start-up vendors are weighing technology approaches and potential for market acceptance, while...

User survey: data protection, CDP, snapshots: adoption of continuous data protection is rising rapidly, and CDP is not used just for data-protection applications.(SPECIAL REPORT)
April 1, 2007... Data protection has been the weakest link in the high-availability chain that defines true business continuity. A major difficulty lies in the protection and easy recovery from viruses, accidental file deletion, and software...

The role of CDP for SMBs: now that affordable implementations of continuous data protection (CDP) are available, SMBs can take advantage of technology that was once available only to larger enterprises with big IT budgets.(SPECIAL REPORT)
April 1, 2007... Good things often do come in small packages, but for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) this hasn't always been the case for data-protection solutions. For years, small organizations--particularly those with limited or no designated IT...

Data-center storage trends, challenges: from connectivity to data management, the mantra remains the same: do more with less.(SNIA on STORAGE)
April 1, 2007... DATA CENTERS HAVE BECOME extremely complex. New technologies, fast growth, acquisitions, the online data explosion, and increased security concerns have driven complexity up and utilization rates down. While priorities may change over time, one...

Atto enters SAS adapter market.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... Atto Technology recently entered the SAS adapter market with the ExpressSAS R348 (internal) and R380 (external) RAID adapters. The company also launched its SAS Advantage channel program for VARs and integrators targeting high-throughput...

Adaptec launches SAS/SATA controllers.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... Adaptec has released five "unified" Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controllers for PCIe systems. The controllers are low-profile cards designed for entry-level to midrange servers and workstations. The 3405 has four...

Symantec supports RHEL 5.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... Symantec's Veritas portfolio supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and includes new storage management capabilities for Xen virtualization. Through its partnership with Red Hat, Symantec plans to provide its core Veritas Storage Foundation,...

Double-Take Software protects virtual machines.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... Double-Take Software recently introduced software designed to protect virtual machines in VMware ESX environments. Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure can replicate data from one ESX server to another. The software installs on its own...

Illuminator monitors data protection.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... Illuminator has unveiled its first product in the "enterprise recovery management" space with the launch of the Virtual Recovery Engine, a software tool that continuously monitors data-protection processes across replication, snapshots, and...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2007... May 21-24 EMC World--Orlando, FL Sponsored by EMC, the conference features in-depth technical discussions, more than 350 technical sessions via lectures, live demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. Topics include backup, recovery, and...

CipherMax focuses on encryption.(introduced CM100 family of encryption devices)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... CipherMax (formerly Maxxan Systems) has introduced the CM100 family of encryption products for tape media and disk-based storage networks. CipherMax was previously the security solution that ran on Maxxan's MXV line of intelligent SAN switches....

Storewiz enhances compression.(STN-6000 data compression systems)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Storewiz' STN-6000 product line is built on a multi-core compression architecture that features improved compression ratios and an enhanced read cache algorithm that improves system response times by reducing the number of I/O requests read...

iStor upgrades iSCSI software.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... iStor Networks has released the 1.4 version of its GigaStor storage management software suite, which works with the company's GigaStorATX network storage controller (available in 1Gbps and 10Gbps versions) and iS326 iSCSI storage system....

Kano ships iSCSI system.(NEW PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2007... Kano Technolgies' NetCOR IP-SAN Enterprise Series appliances are based on dual-core Intel processors, 3ware 9650E RAID controllers, and Wasabi's iSCSI software. Available in 1U, 2U, or 3U configurations, the systems start with four SATA drives...