InfoStor articles from August 2004

InfoStor archives from August 2004

User survey: SRM finally takes off: but homegrown code still prevalent.(Storage Management Software)
August 1, 2004... Reality is starting to catch up to hype as more and more users have either installed or plan to install storage resource management (SRM) software, according to a recent end-user survey conducted by TheInfoPro (www.TheInfoPro.net), a research...

Tape trends: LTO gaining momentum.(news analysis & trends)(linear tape-open)
August 1, 2004... Despite all the talk about disk-based backup, the tape industry appears to be on a minor rebound after three years of decline. That's according to the recently released Compact Tape Outlook report from Freeman Reports, in Ojai, CA. The...

Users, integrators give SATA 'thumbs up': but reliability concerns remain.(news analysis & trends)
August 1, 2004... Gary Pilafas, manager of enterprise architectures at United Airlines, is one of those users who have the burden of satisfying the numerous legal requirements the government is putting on IT organizations these days. He is finding Serial ATA...

Users prefer homegrown code.(Editorial)
August 1, 2004... We anxiously await each "wave" of TheInfoPro's end-user survey results, which are the most comprehensive storage-specific IT surveys we've seen. Not only do TheInfoPro researchers poll hundreds of IT users, but they also actually interview...

Cisco Systems plans to acquire privately held Los Gatos, CA-based Actona Technologies, a developer of wide-area file services software that facilitates data management across geographically distributed offices.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Cisco Systems plans to acquire privately held Los Gatos, CA-based Actona Technologies, a developer of wide-area file services software that facilitates data management across geographically distributed offices. Actona's technology will help...

EqualLogic.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... EqualLogic has secured $20 million in a third round of funding led by new investor Focus Ventures. This series C round of financing also includes current investors Charles River Ventures, Sigma Partners, and TD Capital Technology Ventures. With...

ADIC.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... ADIC has a new remote service initiative that includes the ability to gather data about storage devices and their environments, issue proactive alerts, exercise devices and applications over a secure two-way communications link, and initiate or...

BlueArc is teaming with Brocade to provide integrated fabric switching within its network storage offerings.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... BlueArc is teaming with Brocade to provide integrated fabric switching within its network storage offerings. BlueArc's Titan SiliconServer will now come standard with Brocade's SilkWorm 3250 8-port switch or SilkWorm 3850 16-port switch.

Copan has formed a strategic partnership with Hitachi OMD to manufacture Copan's Revolution 200T.(Business Briefs)(Copan)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Copan has formed a strategic partnership with Hitachi OMD to manufacture Copan's Revolution 200T, which, according to company claims, delivers a disk-based long-term data repository that combines the performance, availability, and data...

StorageQuest's Multi-Services Storage Manager (MSM) software and MSM network appliance have been certified with Sony's Professional Disc for Data (Pro-DATA) optical drives and autochangers.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... StorageQuest's Multi-Services Storage Manager (MSM) software and MSM network appliance have been certified with Sony's Professional Disc for Data (Pro-DATA) optical drives and autochangers. ProDATA drives store up to 23GB on write-once,...

Loyola Enterprises has integrated DataCore Software's SANmelody Disk Server software into its SAN-FIRE system, which is being deployed by Naval Air Systems Command to support the Joint Forces Command during the Homeland Security (HLS) Determined Promise exercise.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Loyola Enterprises has integrated DataCore Software's SANmelody Disk Server software into its SAN-FIRE system, which is being deployed by Naval Air Systems Command to support the Joint Forces Command during the Homeland Security (HLS)...

ATTO Diamond Storage Array VT-Class (Virtual Tape) has been certified compatible with Computer Associates.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... ATTO Diamond Storage Array VT-Class (Virtual Tape) has been certified compatible with Computer Associates' BrightStor ARCserve Backup family.

Verari Systems, a developer of platform-independent blade computing systems, has entered into an OEM agreement with Engenio Information Technologies, formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems.(Business Briefs)(Verari Systems)(Engenio Information Technologies)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Verari Systems, a developer of platform-independent blade computing systems, has entered into an OEM agreement with Engenio Information Technologies, formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems. Under terms of the agreement, Verari will co-brand and...

FalconStor Software and Evesham Technology Ltd., a UK provider of IT infrastructure solutions, have joined forces via an OEM agreement.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... FalconStor Software and Evesham Technology Ltd., a UK provider of IT infrastructure solutions, have joined forces via an OEM agreement that enables Evesham to integrate FalconStor's iSCSI Storage Server for Windows Storage Server 2003 with...

Atempo has completed testing and certification of its Time Navigator with StorageTek.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Atempo has completed testing and certification of its Time Navigator with StorageTek's new StreamLine SL8500 modular library system.

Fujifilm Microdisks USA Inc.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Fujifilm Microdisks USA Inc. (FMDA) has completed the first phase of a $35 million dollar expansion to the company's storage cartridge facility in Bedford, MA. The 60,000-sq-ft expansion enables Fujifilm to more than double its annual US...

KODAK Service & Support.(Business Briefs)(Eastman Kodak)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Eastman Kodak's service organization, KODAK Service & Support, announced that its service professionals in the US and the UK will now support storage equipment from ADIC, Quantum, and StorageTek.

BiTMICRO Networks.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... BiTMICRO Networks announced the qualification of its E-Disk SAN S2F-J with the QLA2340 and QLA2342 host bus adapters from QLogic.

Yosemite Technologies and Exabyte have entered into an OEM partnership.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Yosemite Technologies and Exabyte have entered into an OEM partnership whereby Yosemite's base-level backup software solution, TapeWare XE, will be bundled with Exabyte's VXA-2 PacketLoader Tape Libraries.

Tandberg Data has signed an OEM agreement with IBM.(Business Briefs)(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Tandberg Data has signed an OEM agreement with IBM. The agreement is expected to be worth between $30 million and $35 million over an initial period of two years. The company has also recently entered into a cooperation agreement with IBM,...

HP to ship shared file system.(news analysis & trends)
August 1, 2004... Next month, Hewlett-Packard is expected to ship its StorageWorks Scalable File Share (SFS) to technical customers in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. HP SFS is based on the open-source Lustre protocol, which was jointly developed...

STK takes steps toward ILM portfolio.(news analysis & trends)
August 1, 2004... Storage Technology recently added a new backup monitoring and automation software tool that can be used with its L-Series and StreamLine tape libraries (including the recently released StreamLine SL500 and SL8500), a move that fits into the...

CNT launches new directors.(news analysis & trends)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... This month, CNT began a rollout of its next generation of director-class storage networking switches. The UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD) is based on CNT's UltraScale architecture, which will allow users to expand the device to...

Acopia addresses common NAS gripes.(news analysis & trends)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2004... Acopia, a two-year-old start-up in Lowell, MA, is among a growing list of vendors that have come to market with network-based products designed to address common problems with file server and NAS environments (e.g., difficult management, poor...

EMC enhances Centera.(news analysis & trends)(EMC Centera (Universal Access Software))
August 1, 2004... EMC recently added more protocol support to its Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) system so that customers can archive data generated from applications that have not been integrated with Centera. This move, targeted at customers who...

Adaptec acquires Snap Appliance: Veritas acquires Invio.(news analysis & trends)
August 1, 2004... Adaptec recently completed its acquisition of privately held Snap Appliance in a deal valued at approximately $100 million ($91 million in cash and $9 million in assumed stock options). Mark Delsman, vice president of business strategy at...

The realities of business continuity: it's not just about backup anymore. It's about a confluence of data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity.(Special section: business continuity planning: the lifeline of forward-looking organizations)
August 1, 2004... Like it or not, the realities of the world in which we live dictate new approaches to business continuity that go well beyond backup and include a web of interconnecting business processes and technologies. As Peter Gerr, a senior analyst...

Emerging and innovative disaster-recovery strategies: end users should consider new techniques such as "stretching" clusters, backup-to-disk with remote replication and de-duplication, remote mirroring, and virtual machines.(Special section: business continuity planning: the lifeline of forward-looking organizations)
August 1, 2004... Disaster recovery comes in all shapes and sizes, with some solutions costing thousands of dollars and others millions. The Enterprise Strategy Group (formerly Enterprise Storage Group) has found that most IT organizations are still using...

Backup is dead. Long live backup! New methods of backup and restore are needed to meet today's complex requirements.(Special section: business continuity planning: the lifeline of forward-looking organizations)
August 1, 2004... Just about all business executives know that their IT systems must have something called "backup." But what does that really mean? When their IT managers say "backup," they're usually talking about a copy of entire disks, usually stored oil...

Data protection, business continuity, and compliance: HIPAA stakes are high: penalties for non-compliance include personal civil and/or criminal penalties to $250K and up to 10 yrs. in prison per incident.(Special section: business continuity planning: the lifeline of forward-looking organizations)
August 1, 2004... Last year, two of the three provisions of Title II of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) went into effect. Next April, the third provision--the Security Rule--becomes law. While healthcare organizations (HCOs) of...

SRM improves backup operations: integrating storage resource management (SRM) tools with backup/recovery software streamlines the overall backup process.(Storage resource management)
August 1, 2004... When you are looking at the business issues driving storage management, one thing is clear: Storage isn't just about data backup anymore. Business executives need to support applications for initiatives in such areas as CRM, accounting,...

iQstor Networks.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... iQstor Networks' J1200 SATA expansion enclosure is a JBOD device that provides additional capacity for the company's iQ1000 disk subsystem, which is based on Fibre Channel. (For a review of the iQ1000, see "Building a SAN for SMBs," InfoStor,...

Winchester Systems.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Winchester Systems' FlashDisk SATA EX-1610 and EX-1620 enclosures support both Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives, enabling tiered storage when coupled with the company's FX-700 subsystem. The 3U EX-1610 and EX-1620 have one and two 2Gbps Fibre...

Globalstor Data.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Globalstor Data's ExtremeStor-iNAS combines NAS, iSCSI, and up to 24 250GB SATA drives for as much as 6TB of capacity. The RAID array includes dual 2.4GHz Xeon processors, a Linux-based operating system, and Ultra320 SCSI or Fibre Channel...

Intradyn provides e-mail archiving for SMBs.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Intradyn recently began shipping an e-mail archiving-and-retrieval appliance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that includes compliance features. The ComplianceVault appliance provides e-mail capture, search, and retrieval; content...

ADIC enhances D2T.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Recent upgrades to ADIC's Pathlight VX disk-to-tape backup product include 2TB-per-hour performance (host-to-disk and disk-to-tape) and the addition of EMC's CLARiiON disk arrays into the product as part of a reseller deal that ADIC recently...

Overland ships D2D backup for SMBs.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Overland Storage last month added the REO 1000 to its line of disk-based backup systems. The system is designed for SMBs and is positioned as an alternative to tape autoloaders. The 1U REO 1000 has a 1TB capacity and emulates LTO-2 tape...

Unitrends expands D2D backup.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Unitrends recently introduced a line of disk-to-disk data-protection appliances for SMBs. The entry-level DPU S250/ S400 has a capacity of 250GB to 400GB and five expansion slots. The DPU 3000 is a rack unit with 250GB to 4.8TB and five...

STK library scales to 18 drives.(new products)(StreamLine SL8500 tape library)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Billed as part of the company's information life-cycle management (ILM) strategy, StorageTek recently release the StreamLine SL8500 tape library. The rack-mounted system starts with 30 LTO cartridge slots and can scale to 500 slots, or more...

NovaStor supports Oracle, D2D.(new products)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Version 9 of NovaStor's NovaNET backup software supports Oracle database servers (8i and 9i) as well as disk-to-disk backup via a VirtualTape feature. NovaStor claims that the disk-based backup option provides a 50% improvement in backup time...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
August 1, 2004... September 20-22 Forum STOCKAGE--Paris, France The event is dedicated to data storage, management, administration, and security. Workshops focus on disaster recovery, network storage, backup, virtualization, and cost management, with...

Business continuity planning directory.(Special Advertising Section)(Advertisement)
August 1, 2004... NetApp[R] The evolution of storage.[TM] Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, NetApp has pioneered technology, product, and...