InfoStor articles from December 2007

InfoStor archives from December 2007

Microsoft aims higher with DPM 2007.
December 1, 2007... Microsoft's release of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 has elevated the product into a new category by protecting data beyond just Windows file servers with expanded support for SQL Server, Exchange Server, and SharePoint...

File virtualization combats unstructured data growth.(CASE STUDIES)
December 1, 2007... Managing storage growth is a difficult task on the whole, but unstructured, file-based data is beginning to tax the management capabilities of current storage technologies, subsequently creating a need for more advanced ways to manage and move...

Dell-EqualLogic: It's all about virtualization.(Editorial)
December 1, 2007... ONE OF THE COVER STORIES in this issue delves deeply into the facts and speculation surrounding Dell's impending acquisition of EqualLogic, but this deal is interesting (and was surprising) from so many angles that it begs for further...

Xiotech has acquired Seagate Technology's Advanced Storage Architecture (ASA) group.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... Xiotech has acquired Seagate Technology's Advanced Storage Architecture (ASA) group. Xiotech purchased certain assets of the ASA business and acquired a license to the associated technology.

QLogic's SANbox 6140 intelligent storage routers and SANbox 5600Q series of Fibre Channel switches.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... QLogic's SANbox 6140 intelligent storage routers and SANbox 5600Q series of Fibre Channel switches are now available from Hitachi Data Systems and its resellers.

CommVault has signed a distribution agreement in New Zealand.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... CommVault has signed a distribution agreement in New Zealand with Value Added Distributors Ltd. (VAD).

JMR Electronics has a reseller deal with ASI whereby ASI will distribute JMR's BlueStor line of storage subsystems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... JMR Electronics has a reseller deal with ASI whereby ASI will distribute JMR's BlueStor line of storage subsystems. JMR also announced compatibility between its BlueStor systems and PCIe RAID controllers from LSI, including the MegaRAID...

Dot Hill Systems has chosen PMC-Sierra's maxSAS SAS/ SATA chipset.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... Dot Hill Systems has chosen PMC-Sierra's maxSAS SAS/ SATA chipset for its 2730, 2730 Turbo, and 5730 disk subsystems.

J4 Systems, a VAR based in Rocklin, CA.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... J4 Systems, a VAR based in Rocklin, CA, has become a Data-Core Software Authorized Business Partner.

Onaro has completed the integration of its storage service management (SSM) solutions with BMC Service Automation.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... Onaro has completed the integration of its storage service management (SSM) solutions with BMC Service Automation, an extension of the BMC Business Service Management approach to optimizing IT's responsiveness to business needs.

Emulex's LightPulse Virtual Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technology is now available for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... Emulex's LightPulse Virtual Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technology is now available for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, providing industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support for Windows Server virtualization...

FalconStor Software has entered into an OEM agreement with Inspur Group, a server manufacturer and solution provider in China.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
December 1, 2007... FalconStor Software has entered into an OEM agreement with Inspur Group, a server manufacturer and solution provider in China. Inspur will leverage FalconStor's VirtualTape Library technology. Separately, Falcon-Stor announced that it has...

Brocade unveils strategy for future fabrics.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2007... Prompted by the ongoing growth of data and the subsequent need for bigger and faster fabrics, Brocade has announced its vision for the future and revealed a new strategy and products designed to serve as the backbone for the data centers of...

3PAR debuts 'virtual domains'.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2007... 3PAR recently announced Virtual Domains software for its InServ Storage Server platforms that lets administrators slice and dice physical arrays for secure, shared access to up to 2,000 virtual arrays per system. The software logically...

Hitachi extends thin provisioning to heterogeneous arrays.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2007... Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has expanded the capacity and features of its Universal Storage Platform (USP) V system with support for 750GB SATA drives and the extension of the system's thin-provisioning capabilities to external, heterogeneous...

Dell-EqualLogic creates challenges.(ANALYST VIEW)(Company overview)
December 1, 2007... Dell is nearing completion of its acquisition of EqualLogic, which it described as "a leading provider of high-performance iSCSI SAN solutions uniquely optimized for virtualization." After completion of the transaction, Dell officials say the...

Recent iSCSI product announcements.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(LeftHand Networks Inc.)(internet small computer system interface)
December 1, 2007... LeftHand Networks has added two network storage modules--the NSM 2060 and NSM 4150--to its iSCSI lineup, claiming Fibre Channel-level performance and capacity on the 4150 and a low entry price for the 2060. Both storage devices come with the...

Dell-EqualLogic deal raises questions.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2007... Dell's acquisition of EqualLogic, which is expected to close within the next month or two, underscores the rapid rise of iSCSI-based IP SANs, but also raises questions about the relative positioning of Dell's iSCSI disk arrays, the arrays the...

Intel, EMC team up on SOHO storage.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2007... More than a year after Intel struck a deal with EMC to bring entry-level storage systems to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, the companies are back with a new platform, but this time the vendors are targeting the smallest of...

Sepaton launches enterprise VTL.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
December 1, 2007... Sepaton's recently announced S2100-ES2 Series 750 virtual tape library (VTL) features twice the throughput and more usable capacity than the company's existing high-end VTL and includes DeltaStor de-duplication software to let users store more...

Cutting the costs of remote disaster recovery: users are implementing technologies such as disk-based backup, data de-duplication, WDS, WAFS, WAN optimization, and low-cost, heterogeneous replication.(SPECIAL REPORT)
December 1, 2007... Eight years ago, most IT organizations' ideas of affordable remote disaster recovery (DR) would have consisted of tape backups stored off-site and the potential use of a third-party collocation facility in the event remote system recovery from...

Evaluation criteria for data de-dupe: how does it work? What are the different implementation methods? And what are the key evaluation criteria?(SNIA on STORAGE)
December 1, 2007... DATA DE-DUPLICATION IS THE PROCESS of eliminating redundant copies of data. The term "data de-duplication" was coined by database administrators many years ago as a way of describing the process of removing duplicate database records after two...

SANitize DAS to enhance virtual infrastructure: with LeftHand Networks' Virtual Storage Appliance, administrators can leverage direct-attached storage to create an iSCSI SAN and put VMs in motion.(LAB REVIEW)
December 1, 2007... TO DERIVE MAXIMUM BENEFIT from system virtualization, storage virtualization is a necessary prerequisite. The mobility of a virtual machine (VM) and its data play an important role in daily operational tasks from load-balancing to system...

Insight for managing storage as a service: Onaro's SANscreen Application Insight empowers IT to align a SAN for maximum application performance at the lowest cost by providing an automated solution for discovery, service monitoring, and capacity management analysis.
December 1, 2007... WHEN IT IS TIME TO ACT ON an emerging opportunity or react to a competitive threat, today's real-time enterprise depends on getting the right information, to the right people, in time to act and create value or mitigate risk. That goal has set...

Reducing migration pains with virtualized tiers: server/storage virtualization and a tiered storage architecture produced significant benefits for a large retailer.(CASE STUDY)
December 1, 2007... Case study at-a-glance CS1 is a retail company with an IT shop comprising mainframes and open systems. In all, the company has more than 1 petabyte of storage installed with about 40% residing on two storage networks supporting the...

NetApp intros sub-$3K array.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Network Appliance Inc.)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Network Appliance recently began shipping the model S300, a sub-$3,000 member of its StoreVault family of multi-protocol disk arrays. Officials describe the S300 as an "all-in-one" networked storage appliance for small to medium-sized...

Overland, diligent partner on VTLs.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Diligent Technologies Corp.)(Overland Storage Inc.)(virtual tape library)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Overland Storage has joined forces with de-duplication specialist Diligent Technologies to bring a new midrange virtual tape library (VTL) to market. Overland's 9500D has up to 187TB of capacity in a 5U form factor with dual 4Gbps Fibre...

Calendar.(Conference news)
December 1, 2007... January 5-8 Storage Visions 2008 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,...

Silver Peak optimizes applications over WANs.(NEW PRODUCTS)(wide area networks)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Silver Peak Systems has added new features to its NX family of WAN acceleration appliances, all aimed at overcoming packet loss and ordering problems that can wreak havoc on replication and remote backup applications across a WAN. Silver...

Isilon scales to 1.6PB.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Isilon Systems' IQ 12000 and EX 12000 clustered storage systems can scale to more than 1.6PB in a single file system and single volume. Based on the company's OneFS operating system, both the IQ 12000 platform and EX 12000 extension unit...