InfoStor articles from December 2005

InfoStor archives from December 2005

ILM becomes #1 management priority.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2005... A recent end-user survey conducted by TheInfoPro research firm ("Wave 6" of TIP's semiannual surveys) indicates that information lifecycle management (ILM) is now ranked as the top storage management priority for high-end enterprises (see...

Open source group fuels controversy.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2005... An IBM-lead group of nine storage hardware and software vendors surprised attendees at the Storage Networking World conference in October when they announced a plan to form a nonprofit, open source community aimed at developing a heterogeneous,...

Survey reveals lack of data security.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2005... A recent survey conducted by GlassHouse Technologies, a storage consulting and services provider, reveals that of the 344 participating companies 54% have no documented procedures for protecting stored data from theft or tampering, and a...

Roll-your-own management code.(Information lifecycle management)(Editorial)
December 1, 2005... THE MOST RECENT END-USER SURVEY from TheInfoPro (TIP) research firm as usual included a number of surprises. For one, information lifecycle management (ILM) is now the priority among storage managers (see senior editor Kevin Komiega's article...

Bell Microproducts is now a US distributor.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Bell Microproducts is now a US distributor for Apple's server and storage products, including the XServe and XServe RAID systems.

Emulex.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Emulex's 4Gbps dual-channel and single-channel PCI-X and PCI-E Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) have achieved Solaris 10 certification.

EMC and Captiva Software have a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire Captiva.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... EMC and Captiva Software have a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire Captiva. EMC will pay $22.25 per share in cash, or approximately $275 million net of Captiva's cash balance. The transaction is subject to regulatory and Captiva...

DataCore Software has joined the VMware.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... DataCore Software has joined the VMware Technology Software Alliance program.

Primera Technology's OptiVault Archival Appliance is now powered by EMC Dantz Retrospect software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Primera Technology's OptiVault Archival Appliance is now powered by EMC Dantz Retrospect software. Separately, EMC will resell QLogic SANbox 3050 Fibre Channel switches as part of its EMC Select Program. The switches come as individual products...

Fuji Photo Film USA introduced tape media.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Fuji Photo Film USA introduced tape media designed for the Sun StorageTek T10000 Enterprise Tape Storage system.

Asigra's Televaulting software will be incorporated into HP'S Electronic Vaulting Services for Enterprises.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Asigra's Televaulting software will be incorporated into HP'S Electronic Vaulting Services for Enterprises, a managed service that includes installation/configuration and housing of the vault at HP data centers.

Texas Memory Systems and ONStor announced their solid-state file server that reportedly boosts performance by eliminating all mechanical latencies.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Texas Memory Systems and ONStor announced their solid-state file server that reportedly boosts performance by eliminating all mechanical latencies. The file server combines Texas Memory's RamSan line of solid-state disks and ONStor's NAS...

Intelligent switches turn the corner; virtualization and fabric-based applications are slowly gaining acceptance as end users realize the potential benefits.(ANALYST VIEW)
December 1, 2005... After spiking the hype meter a few years ago and then all but disappearing from users' and vendors' radar screens shortly thereafter, storage virtualization and fabric-based applications have resurfaced--and this time, all signs indicate they...

CommVault adds data-protection modules.(AT&T COMMVAULT Systems)
December 1, 2005... CommVault split its annual upgrade to the QiNetix suite of data-management products into three announcements this quarter in the areas of data protection, lifecycle management, and operations. The upgrades add more than 100 new features and...

FilesX offers 'CDP on-demand'.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(continuous data protection )
December 1, 2005... FilesX recently announced a continuous data protection (CDP) On-Demand feature through its Xpress Restore disk-based backup/recovery software. Xpress Restore uses "CDP on Demand" as the backup engine. The software is Windows-based and provides...

Silverback enters iSCSI HBA market.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2005... Silverback Systems, known primarily as a chip vendor, recently entered the nascent market for iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs). The company will compete with existing iSCSI accelerator board vendors such as Adaptec, Alacritech, Intel, and QLogic....

NetEx and Sanrad are partnering to provide remote replication.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... NetEx and Sanrad are partnering to provide remote replication via NetEx's HyperIP Data Replication Optimizer (DRO) and SANRAD's Global Disaster Recovery solution for IP SANs.

BearingPoint, a global management and technology consulting firm, and EMC expanded their relationship to include development of specialized services and technology solutions.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... BearingPoint, a global management and technology consulting firm, and EMO expanded their relationship to include development of specialized services and technology solutions to help customers manage and protect business information throughout...

Idealstor has tapped Bell Microproducts as a channel partner.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... Idealstor has tapped Bell Microproducts as a channel partner. Bell will market the Idealstor Backup Appliance and the company's array of storage products, including FrankeNAS and Ibac Data Protection Software.

ONStor and Xiotech have a new joint NAS solution that combines ONStor NAS Gateway technology with the Xiotech Magnitude 3D Storage solution.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... ONStor and Xiotech have a new joint NAS solution that combines ONStor NAS Gateway technology with the Xiotech Magnitude 3D Storage solution to create a NAS system featuring scalability to 40PB.

QStar Technologies has partnered with Abrevity.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2005... QStar Technologies has partnered with Abrevity, a provider of data classification and search and indexing utilities, for content-discovery and data-classification applications in the life science research industry.

iStor iSCSI storage solutions: affordable, high performance, easy-to-manage IP SANs for SMBs.(ADVERTORIAL)(Internet Small Computer Systems Interface )
December 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,...

Reader survey reveals backup-and-recovery trends; InfoStor's annual survey shows that end users are coming to grips with data-protection issues.(SPECIAL REPORT)
December 1, 2005... In our annual reader surveys on backup and recovery over the past few years, it has been surprising how consistent end users are in identifying their "pain points." However, what's changed over the last couple years is that users seem to be...

Why you need DPM tools for backup and recovery: data protection management (DPM) software provides visibility into, and control over, backup-and-recovery operations.(SPECIAL REPORT)
December 1, 2005... Taneja Group's surveys of data-protection professionals across a variety of industries have left us with one frightening insight: Visibility and control over backup-and-restore operations remains consistently poor for a majority of enterprises....

The role of ILM in a virtual data center: SNIA is developing standards that will ensure interoperability in ILM implementations.(SNIA on STORAGE)
December 1, 2005... DESPITE ADVANCES IN data-center technology, IT organizations are still grappling with growing complexity and cost, and administrators are under pressure to control TCO for the IT infrastructure. The data-center infrastructure of the future will...

NAS gateways tame file growth; consolidation and scalability help cut costs, improve manageability, and deliver better service.
December 1, 2005... Enterprise-class NAS gateways are not so much about NAS-SAN convergence (which is simply a consequence) as they are about the declaration of independence of file serving intelligence from its associated storage. In other words, NAS gateways do...

Lower TCO with NAS consolidation: in addition to lowering overall costs, consolidation improves performance, availability, scalability, and service levels.
December 1, 2005... One of the most significant factors in lowering IT TCO today is to simplify and enhance the utilization of both servers and storage resources in complex IT infrastructures. Many organizations experience common business challenges that...

Chevron upgrades SAN with tiered storage; four tiers of storage range from high-end disk arrays to low-cost tape libraries for archiving.(CASE STUDY)
December 1, 2005... CHEVRON HAS TWO US DATA CENTERS--one in Houston and the other 1,600 miles away in San Ramon, CA. These data centers are the centralized service hubs for the business units located in their respective areas. IT is handled by Chevrons...

IBM continues NetApp rollout.(System Storage N5000 series from International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... IBM this month continued its phased rollout of systems based on Network Appliance's filers with the introduction of the System Storage N5000 series of NAS appliances, which are targeted at the midrange market. The N5200 and N5500 are equivalent...

Overland ships primary storage.(NEW PRODUCTS)
December 1, 2005... Following its acquisition of Zetta Systems in August, Overland Storage recently began shipments of its first primary storage array. The Ultamus I disk subsystem joins the company's existing REO secondary (disk-to-disk backup/recovery) and NEO...

BakBone intros DP strategy.(Integrated Data Protection strategy)(Report Manager suite from BakBone Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... BakBone Software introduced its Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy, which is designed to help IT organizations centrally manage and control access to and availability of data to more effectively meet business, operational, and financial...

Calendar.
December 1, 2005... January 6-7 Storage Visions 2006 Conference-Las Vegas, NV Preceding the Consumer Electronics Show, this event focuses on storage system products and components, portable storage systems, storage system road maps for various markets,...

Availl combines CDP, WAFS.(NEW PRODUCTS)
December 1, 2005... Availl Backup 3.0 software combines elements of CDP and WAFS technology for Windows-based data protection. The real-time CDP software supports databases and files and includes features such as hot database backup and automated fail-back. The...

Xyratex debuts 'app-ready platform'.(NEW PRODUCTS)
December 1, 2005... Xyratex is shipping to OEMs the HS-1235 Application Ready Platform, which is packaged in a 2U, 12-drive, ATX-based enclosure. The HS-1235 is available with a number of processor options, embedded Linux or Windows operating system, and APIs that...