InfoStor articles from August 2006

InfoStor archives from August 2006

NetApp targets SMBs with hybrid array.(Network Appliance Inc., small and medium businesses)
August 1, 2006... Network Appliance is looking to become a major player in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, and it's betting that a new hybrid storage system will get it into the game. The company recently launched the StoreVault S500, a...

EMC to buy security vendor RSA.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
August 1, 2006... EMC is in the process of acquiring data security software maker RSA Security for approximately $2.1 billion. EMC plans to integrate RSA's identity management, encryption, and key-management technologies with its entire line of storage hardware...

New FC standards on the horizon.(FOCUS ON: FIBRE CHANNEL)
August 1, 2006... Although alternative disk drive interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and alternative SAN protocols such as iSCSI, tend to get more ink these days, Fibre Channel is holding its own in the disk drive market and still rules the SAN space. For...

It's a great time to be an SMB.(small and medium sized companies)(Editorial)
August 1, 2006... A LOT-OF InfoStor's readers qualify as small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and if you're in that camp you're lucky, because virtually every storage vendor has set its sights on this market. And that means stiff competition and low prices....

Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software LP.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software LP, a privately held company based in Austin, TX, that provides Windows-based enterprises with systems recovery and data-protection solutions in addition to offering a freeware tools Website called...

Bell Microproducts will distribute Silverback Systems' line of iSNAP-based host bus adapters.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Bell Microproducts will distribute Silverback Systems' line of iSNAP-based host bus adapters (HBAs) in North America.

Compellent Technologies has chosen Xyratex.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Compellent Technologies has chosen Xyratex' 1600 series of SBODs and JBODs for use with its Storage Center SAN.

Emulex' Sun Microsystems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Emulex' Sun Microsystems-branded 2Gbps and 4Gbps LightPulse Fibre Channel HBAs support the recently launched VMware ESX Server operating environment.

Copan Systems has added technology solutions integrator Helio Solutions.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Copan Systems has added technology solutions integrator Helio Solutions to its reseller program.

BakBone Software will provide NetVault.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... BakBone Software will provide NetVault: Backup support for NetApp Shadow Tape functionality, the latest feature of NetApp's NearStore Virtual Tape Library (VTL).

KOM Networks has attained Gold Certified Partner status.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... KOM Networks has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program.

Njini.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Njini has secured $13 million in a third round of financing led by Intel Capital, with contributions from existing investors Accel Partners and Add Partners.

Diligent Technologies has entered into a global reseller agreement with Hitachi Data Systems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Diligent Technologies has entered into a global reseller agreement with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Diligent's line of data-protection solutions, including ProtecTIER VT with Hyper-Factor, VTF Open, and VTF Mainframe, are immediately available...

BITMICRO Networks has forged a corporate license agreement with Kilopass Technology.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... BITMICRO Networks has forged a corporate license agreement with Kilopass Technology. BiTMICRO is integrating Kilopass' XPM embedded, non-volatile memory technology in its next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) devices and large-capacity E-Disk...

Infortrend's EonStor FF-R2021 and FF-S2021 Fibre-to-Fibre RAID controller heads have passed testing by the WHQL.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Infortrend's EonStor FF-R2021 and FF-S2021 Fibre-to-Fibre RAID controller heads have passed testing by the WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) for base qualification of RAID systems and have attained the Designed for Microsoft Windows Server...

Seagate Technology has combined Adaptec's Unified Serial Controllers with its own Cheetah 15K 146GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives to deliver a SAS Evaluation Kit to system builders and resellers.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Seagate Technology has combined Adaptec's Unified Serial Controllers with its own Cheetah 15K 146GB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives to deliver a SAS Evaluation Kit to system builders and resellers. Unified Serial Controllers (the Adaptec...

Cisco breathes life into InfiniBand.(NEWS: ANALYSIS & TRENDS)
August 1, 2006... The industry has been extolling the benefits of InfiniBand as a next-generation data-center interconnect for years, but the technology has experienced fits and starts due to management complexity and lack of user interest. Cisco believes that...

Aperi group loses Sun, moves ahead.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)
August 1, 2006... There is dissension within the ranks of the Aperi group, an open source storage management initiative and community started last October by IBM and a handful of other major storage vendors. Sun Microsystems, one of the founding members of the...

Opsware buys Creekpath for SRM.(NEWS: ANALYSIS & TRENDS)
August 1, 2006... Another storage resource management (SRM) software vendor has been snapped up in an acquisition, but this time it wasn't one of the big storage vendors doing the buying. Opsware, a server and networking automation software maker, recently...

CA acguires XOsoft.(Computer Associates Inc.)
August 1, 2006... CA recently completed yet another acquisition--this time data-protection vendor XOsoft. The acquisition will allow CA to round out its line of ARCserve backup and restore products with replication, high-availability, and continuous data...

Attune Systems, a provider of enterprise-class network file management solutions, has become a member of the NetApp Partner Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Attune Systems, a provider of enterprise-class network file management solutions, has become a member of the NetApp Partner Program.

Emulex announced general availability of its LightPulse LP1105-BC dual-channel HBA for use in the IBM BladeCenter.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Emulex announced general availability of its LightPulse LP1105-BC dual-channel HBA for use in the IBM BladeCenter. The LP1105-BC works in Windows, Linux, and AIX operating systems.

iStor Networks and ASUS, a provider of integrated 3C solutions (computer, communications, and consumer electronics), recently demonstrated the 10GbE version of the GigaStorATX controller.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... iStor Networks and ASUS, a provider of integrated 3C solutions (computer, communications, and consumer electronics), recently demonstrated the 10GbE version of the GigaStorATX controller at the 2006 Data Storage Expo in Tokyo, Japan.

StoredIQ has completed integration between its ICM 5000 content-based classification and policy management software and EMC's Centera CAS.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... StoredIQ has completed integration between its ICM 5000 content-based classification and policy management software and EMC's Centera CAS.

Sanrad.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Sanrad has secured $10 million in funding from Foundation Capital and other investors.

Symantec has qualified ADIC's Path-light VX disk-to-tape backup solution with Veritas NetBackup as part of ADIC's participation.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... Symantec has qualified ADIC's Path-light VX disk-to-tape backup solution with Veritas NetBackup as part of ADIC's participation in the Symantec Technology Enabled Program.

LSI Logic has certified compatibility of Revivio's Continuous Protection System.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
August 1, 2006... LSI Logic has certified compatibility of Revivio's Continuous Protection System (CPS) 1200 solution with all of the company's Engenio disk arrays.

Tape advances in capacities, transfer rates: tape's role may be shifting from backup and recovery to archiving, but that hasn't stalled technology innovations.
August 1, 2006... Tape is part of a rare group of IT technologies that have lived well beyond expectations. The mainframe was said to have died in the 1980s, yet is still with us today. OpenVMS was pronounced dead in the 1990s, but the operating system still has...

Welcome to the file area network (FAN): a FAN combines and integrates a wide variety of technologies, enabling IT organizations to get a grip on file-level management and control.
August 1, 2006... We are at a crossroads in the world of file management. The traditional approaches to managing the growth, cost, and complexity of unstructured file-based information have started to hit a wall across enterprises of all sizes. According to...

Trends in the SMB storage market: in many ways, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have the same storage requirements as larger enterprises.
August 1, 2006... Executive summary IT managers at small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and mid-market enterprises now face many of the same challenges that their brethren at large enterprises faced some years ago. They must deal with storing growing...

Analyzing scalable NAS architectures: there are many ways to manage NAS capacity growth while meeting performance requirements.(network attached storage)
August 1, 2006... What does your NAS environment look like? If "disparate NAS islands with no centralized architecture, management, or upgrade path" is your response, you're not alone. With more organizations looking beyond traditional NAS to consolidate,...

Overland ships entry-level LTO libraries.(Overland Storage Inc., linear tape-open libraries)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Overland Storage has introduced a new series of entry-level tape automation products targeted at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The first models in the ARCvault family include a 12-cartridge autoloader and a 24-cartridge library with...

Compellent adds 'ILM'.(Compellent Technologies, information lifecycle management)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Compellent's Storage Center QuickStart ILM is a turnkey SAN that automates tiered storage within a single enclosure. QuickStart automates data classification and data movement between storage tiers based on how often blocks of data are used....

DataDirect delivers archive system.(DataDirect Networks)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... DataDirect Networks' $2A9500 is a nearline or archive storage system based on SATA disk drives and the company's Silicon Storage Appliance (S2A). The appliance includes up to 48 SATA drives, or 480TB in a two-rack configuration. Other features...

Iron Mountain combines backup, encryption.(Iron Mountain Digital released new backup software 'PC Data Protection Suite')(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of iron Mountain Inc., has combined its backup software product, Connected Backup/PC, and its data-protection solution, DataDefense, into a new marketing strategy called the PC Data Protection Suite....

Aptare offers backup reporting.(released backup software 'StorageConsole Managed Services Edition')(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Aptare now offers StorageConsole backup reporting and active management for Veritas NetBackup and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) as a managed service. StorageConsole Managed Services Edition has the same features as StorageConsole 5.1...

NTP Software adds chargeback software.(Storage Billing System software)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Earlier this month, NTP Software began shipments of its new Storage Billing System software, which enables storage administrators to charge back for storage consumption according to usage. Administrators can charge back by user and/or by...

Lucid8 provides CDP for Exchange.(continuous data protection)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Lucid8's new version of DigiVault backup and disaster-recovery software offers continuous data protection (CDP) for Microsoft Exchange databases. DigiVault 1.4 tracks changes to the Exchange database and stores the incremental changes as they...

Idealstor adds CDP.(Continuous Data Protection, Ibac 4.0)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Idealstor has added CDP for Windows servers to the 4.0 version of its Ibac data-protection software. Ibac 4.0 continuously backs up systems at the byte level and allows users to recover lost or corrupted data from any point in time. Ibac...

Calendar.
August 1, 2006... September 19-21 SWC Fall--Boston, MA The Storage World Conference has expanded this year to include the Boston venue. Editors, analysts, and consultants moderate sessions on current networked storage topics, as well as emerging issues and...

Atto eases tape server workload.(Atto Technology Inc. launched backup appliance 'FastStream NDMP 4600')(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Atto Technology has introduced a network data management protocol (NDMP) backup appliance called the FastStream NDMP 4600. The new product offloads the tape server workload from NDMP fliers. The fliers can perform faster because of the separate...

EVault streamlines e-discovery.(EVault Insight network storage management software)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Evault's new EVault Insight is designed for corporations and law firms that need to manage electronic discovery for regulatory compliance, retention, and litigation. The solution is designed to simplify and reduce the cost of discovery by...

Cutting Edge launches ANStor64.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Earlier this summer, Cutting Edge launched ANStor64, which sells iSCSI/NAS software to systems/storage integrators, VARs, and OEMs. The native 64-bit operating system software (also called ANStor64) is available as a disk-on-module device that...

DNF augments NAS servers.(Dynamic Network Factory, network attached storage)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) has introduced new versions of its FlexStor-NAS servers that are based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server R2. New features include Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors, support for 750GB hard drives, support for...