InfoStor articles from August 2005

InfoStor archives from August 2005

Microsoft enters D2D backup market.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2005... This month, Microsoft released to manufacturing its first disk-to-disk (D2D) backup/recovery software, Data Protection Manager, designed to help companies reduce the time spent on data backup and recovery. General availability is expected in 60...

Compliance: process takes center stage.(CASE STUDIES)
August 1, 2005... Most IT organizations impacted by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) have had more than nine months to work out the kinks in their efforts to comply with SOX Section 404, which went into effect last November. The law applies to US publicly traded...

4Gbps FC products roll out.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2005... Products based on the next generation of Fibre Channel, which has a maximum throughput rate of 4Gbps, began trickling out early this year, and a deluge is expected in the fourth quarter. But do end users need the speed? According to an InfoStor...

DPM will bring D2D CDP to the masses.(Data Protection Manager)(continuous data protection )(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... MICROSOFT'S RECENT RELEASE to the channel of its Data Protection Manager (DPM) backup/recovery software will no doubt fuel what is already one of the hottest trends in the storage industry: disk-to-disk backup. (Actually, Microsoft advocates a...

Emulex has entered into an OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Emulex has entered into an OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems. Under the terms of the agreement, Sun will brand, sell, and support Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) from Emulex within the latest Solaris 10 operating system environment as...

The Neverfail Group, a software company that provides data protection, high-availability, and disaster-recovery solutions.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... The Neverfail Group, a software company that provides data-protection, high-availability, and disaster-recovery solutions, has attained Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status through Windows Certification testing of Neverfail SCOPE v2.4 at...

Xosoft has added 70 new partners during the first half of 2005.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... XOsoft has added 70 new partners during the first half of 2005, the latest of which are The Harding Group, STL Smartways Technology, Cambridge Computer, AmeriVault, and ServePath.

SmartSync Software has an OEM agreement with Netgear Inc.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... SmartSync Software has an OEM agreement with Netgear Inc., whereby SmartSync's SmartSync Pro will be bundled with Netgear's Storage Central, a network data storage solution.

Troika Networks.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... Troika Networks has raised $14.4 million in Series B funding. Anthem Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DynaFund Ventures, Hamilton Technology Ventures, and Windward Ventures all participated in the round.

ONStor has licensed PyX Technologies' iSCSI IP storage.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... ONStor has licensed PyX Technologies' iSCSI IP storage technology for use with its Bobcat series of NAS gateways.

Arkivio's AUTO-STOR ILM software has been successfully integrated.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... Arkivio's AUTO-STOR ILM software has been successfully integrated with Network Appliance's Data ONTAP software through its APIs.

Xiotech and Spectra Logic have collaborated to create a tiered storage solution integrating Xiotech primary disk and Spectra Logic's T-series libraries.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... Xiotech and Spectra Logic have collaborated to create a tiered storage solution integrating Xiotech primary disk and Spectra Logic's T-series libraries: The Spectra T950, T120, and T50.

Permabit and QStar have a partnership to provide customers with a way to manage their disaster-recovery and compliance initiatives.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Permabit and QStar have a partnership to provide customers with a way to manage their disaster-recoveryand compliance initiatives. Permabit's Permeon Compliance Store, combined with QStar's Data Director, extends the functionality of an archive...

Pillar Data Systems has an agreement with IBM Global Services.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... Pillar Data Systems has an agreement with IBM Global Services, whereby IBM will provide Pillar customers with 24x7 field service and logistics support.

LSI Logic has achieved McData OPENready partner status.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... LSI Logic has achieved McData OPENready partner status, and its 2Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs have been qualified for use with McData's Sphereon Fabric Switches.

nStor and CaminoSoft.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2005... nStor and CaminoSoft have completed certification testing of nStor's SATA-based storage platforms with CaminoSoft's ILM software suite.

Gartner: steady growth for storage software.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2005... According to IT consulting firm Gartner Inc., the storage software market grew 7.9% in 2003 and 12.3% in 2004, reaching $5.6 billion in total revenue. The market is expected to top $9 billion in 2009, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of...

Storage virtualization heats up.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2005... This article is based on interviews with more than 150 Fortune 1000 storage professionals conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP). TIP surveys ("waves") are conducted every six months. Adoption of storage virtualization is accelerating in Fortune...

EMC extends Centera software.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2005... When EMC's Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) system hit the market in 2002, customers tried it with single applications such as e-mail, imaging, etc. At the end of 2003, users started deploying Centera in multi-application environments...

Credit union addresses tape security.(CASE STUDY)
August 1, 2005... Recent reports of missing data tapes out of Bank of America, CitiGroup, and Time Warner highlight a growing concern in the industry about the potential security risks of saving data in clear-text format to tape media during backup, disaster...

NetApp acquires Decru for security.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2005... Citing customer demand for data security, Network Appliance is in the process of acquiring Decru, a privately owned storage security company, for approximately $272 million in cash and stock. The deal is expected to close in October. ...

Storage and ECM converging.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(Enterprise Content Management)
August 1, 2005... Once considered separate disciplines within IT organizations, enterprise content management (ECM) and storage management are converging. According to Dave McCann, senior vice president of products at FileNet, the reason for this can be summed...

Virtualization enables SAN consolidation.(Storage area networks)
August 1, 2005... The story Jim Livingston, technology architect and director of the Data Resource Center for the University of Utah Health Sciences Center (UUHSC), recounts is one that many IT administrators--particularly those at medium-sized and large...

iStor iSCSI storage solutions: affordable, high performance, easy-to-manage IP SANs for SMBs.(Advertorial)(Advertisement)
August 1, 2005... End-user demand for higher performance, lower-cost data storage strains the limits of current technologies, which in turn are putting increasing pressure on IT budgets and staffing requirements. Regardless of company size and IT requirements,...

Tape drive/library trends: LTO surges: credit a healthy tape market to the popularity of LTO, IT initiatives such as compliance, and applications such as ILM.(SPECIAL REPORT)(linear tape open)
August 1, 2005... Despite the inexorable trend toward disk-based backup and recovery, the tape market is surprisingly resilient, although there are signs of a slowdown after 2004's impressive recovery year. For example, tape library revenues grew 13.5% last year...

Managing fixed-content data with CAS: in the first part of a two-part series, we look at object-based storage, or content-addressed storage (CAS), and "active archiving.".(Part 1)
August 1, 2005... In June, CitiBank revealed that it had lost an entire box of tapes in the care of United Parcel Service, with personal information on nearly four million American customers. In May, Morgan Stanley was hit with a legal blow of $604 million in...

A step-by-step guide to building tiered storage: implementing tiered hardware is actually the last step to take.
August 1, 2005... Taking the right steps in the right order can make the difference between a tiered storage architecture that truly meets your business needs and a lot of unnecessary frustration. Although the precise order for some of these steps will vary from...

Why you need information management tools: features to look for include search, classification, tracking and auditing policy enforcement, information movement, and access control.
August 1, 2005... Over the past several years, three trends have been converging that significantly affect how companies handle information resources. The first is the constant growth in stored information. This growth has filled up storage systems and...

Do you need fabric-based intelligence? In the second part of our series we look at intelligent fabric devices from Brocade, Cisco, EMC, IBM, Maranti, MaXXan, and others.(Brocade SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router, Cisco Systems MDS, HDS TagmaStore USP, IBM SAN Volume Controller, Invista, MaXXan MXV250, Maranti CoreSTOR Network Storage Controller, Sun StorEdge 6920, Veritas Storage Foundation for Networks)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 1, 2005... In the first part of this article (see InfoStor, July 2005, p. 34), we covered what (and what not) to consider when evaluating intelligent switches. If you have made the business case to introduce these devices into your environment, it is now...

Best of breed vs. trusted brand: a great thing about the storage industry is that innovation can spring from anywhere. The trouble with the industry is that innovation does spring from anywhere.(OPINION)(Column)
August 1, 2005... ENTERPRISE STORAGE BUYERS want to make the best purchase, but must also be careful not to go too far out on a limb. "Nobody ever got fired for purchasing (insert a leading brand name)," is the conventional wisdom. But the best product doesn't...

Promise ships iSCSI-to-SATA RAID.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Promise Technology last month claimed to be first to market with a RAID array that has hardware-accelerated iSCSI connectivity and support for 3Gbps Serial ATA (SATA) II disk drives, The VTrak M-Class subsystems are available in six...

Infortrend intros Ultra320 RAID.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Infortrend recently began shipments of RAID arrays with Ultra320 (320MBps) SCSI host and drive interfaces. The EonStor U12U-G4020 and U16U-G4020 are based on the company's ASIC266 chip with an XOR engine. In a RAID 5 configuration, Infortrend...

JMR packs 42 SATA drives in 4U.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... JMR Electronics' ORCA is a SATA-based disk subsystem that can be configured with up to 42 disk drives, or 16.8TB, in a 4U form factor. The system includes three fans and power supplies and triple-active Multi-Parity RAID controllers. In...

Nexsan unveils SATA II RAID.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Nexsan Technologies has added the SATABoy disk array to its family of InfiniSAN storage subsystems. Notable features of the Serial ATA (SATA) II array include twice the performance of the company's ATABoy II array, high availability, and a...

Riverbed adds 'discontinued operation'.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... In the 2.0 release of its Steelhead appliances, which provide wide-area data services (WDS), Riverbed added a Proxy File Service (PFS) feature that allows the appliances to continue serving files in the event of a WAN outage. WDS, which is...

Seagate debuts disk drives.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Over the summer and fall Seagate will ship a variety of new hard disk drives. Among the shipping units is the Barracuda 7200.9, which includes a 3Gbps SATA II interface, NCQ, 16MB of cache, and 500GB of capacity. Seagate is also shipping the...

Calendar.(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... September 1 IP Storage Forum Roadshow--Minneapolis, MN Sponsored by SNIA's IP Storage Forum. the event features vendor demonstrations as welt as discussions about IP Storage and IP Storage consolidation and data protection and disaster...

Cloverleaf supports Cisco's SANTap service.(Cloverleaf Communications)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Cloverleaf Communications has released the second generation of its Intelligent Storage Networking (iSN) system, which now supports Cisco's SANTap service for out-of-band data migration and replication, iSN 2.0 also provides centralized...

StoneFly introduces 'application-aware' CDP.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... StoneFly Networks has added a Replicator CDP (continuous data protection) feature and snapshots to its line of IP SAN and Backup Advantage D2D backup systems. Replicator CDP can replicate files, databases, or entire applications for data...

Revinetix D2D targets SMBs.(NEW PRODUCT)(Revinetix)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Revinetix's Volo D2D backup appliance for SMBs can be set up in a D2D2D configuration that includes offsite archiving and replication. Based on Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives, the appliances include Bare Metal Restore (BMR) software and are...

Infrant lowers NAS costs.(Infrant Technologies Inc., network attached storage)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Addressing the issue of how to scale NAS appliances while preserving data, Infrant Technologies' Expandable Protection X-RAID technology allows users to start with a single-drive NAS RAID array and add drives (up to four) incrementally as they...

Idealstor ships removable D2D.(NEW PRODUCT)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Idealstor's FrankeNAS D2D backup appliance combines a RAID 5 disk array with removable ATA drives in an all-in-one backup appliance for SMBs. Half of the 4U device (up to 2TB) is configured for RAID 5 nearline storage, and the other half...

NuView enhances ILM.(NEW PRODUCT)(information life-cycle management, File Life-cycle Manager 3.0)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The 3.0 version of NuView's File Life-cycle Manager (FLM) information life-cycle management (ILM) software, which combines data classification and data movement in one engine, includes * Support for simultaneous NFS and CIFS on Network...

Archivas improves fixed-content archiving.(NEW PRODUCT)(Archivas Cluster 1.5)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... In the 1.5 version of its Archivas Cluster (ArC) fixed-content archiving software, Archivas added a variety of enhancements, such as the following: * Integrated ability to search and index the archive, including search of file contents;...

BakBone adds encryption.(NEW PRODUCT)
August 1, 2005... BakBone Software last month introduced an Encryption Application Plug-in Module (APM) for its NetVault backup-and-recovery software. The encryption software does not require additional hardware and encrypts data at its source. The module is...