InfoStor articles from February 2003

InfoStor archives from February 2003

Analysts share 2002-03 storage perspectives.(Industry Overview)
February 1, 2003... If one thing stands out from a recent InfoStor survey, it's the general lack of consensus among industry analysts and consultants over the relative importance of end-user storage concerns and the priority end users should assign to various...

EMC takes aim at HDS.(EMC Symmetrix DMX800, DMX1000 and DMX2000)
February 1, 2003... Billing it as the company's most significant announcement in the last decade, EMC earlier this month introduced the long-awaited Symmetrix DMX line of disk arrays, formerly referred to as Symm 6. According to analysts, EMC may have hit the home...

Veritas moves into applications management.
February 1, 2003... With its recent acquisition of Jareva Technologies and its pending acquisition of Precise Software, Veritas is expanding beyond its storage-centric roots into application performance management (APM). Analysts are bullish on Vetitas' strategy...

What's hot, and what's not. (Editorial).
February 1, 2003... One of our cover stories this month ("Analysts share 2002-03 storage perspectives") is based on a poll of some leading storage consultants and analysts. Among other things, we asked them to rank storage technologies (mostly emerging) according...

Keeping pace with trends in 2003. (Reader-Expert I/O).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Which technologies will be hot in 2003, and how should I prioritize my spending and evaluation resources? I have always been bullish on new technologies. Lately, a number of innovative companies have come to market with new, interesting...

IBM, HP first to resell Cisco storage switches. (News Analysis & Trends).
February 1, 2003... Last month, Cisco signed up IBM as the first major OEM of its MDS family of Fibre Channel and multi-protocol switches and directors. The move was not surprising, given the two companies' long-standing relationship in the networking market. ...

EMC recharges midrange NAS. (News Analysis & Trends).
February 1, 2003... Cranking up its focus on the midrange network-attached storage (NAS) market, EMC is leveraging its high-end Clariion gateway technology in its new midrange NAS device, the NS600, which offers high-end features and high availability at a...

Sun acquisitions bolster N1 strategy.
February 1, 2003... Sun Microsystems is launching pilot programs for selected customers with products from Pirus Networks and Terraspring, companies it recently acquired to build out its N1 strategy. N1 will eventually enable users to create more-efficient,...

LeftHand Networks delivers IP SAN. (News Analysis & Trends).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... LeftHand Networks recently began shipping an IP-based storage area network (SAN) solution that leverages existing Ethernet networks and provides high-end management capabilities without using Fibre Channel or iSCSI, according to company claims....

Cambridge Computer. (Business Briefs).(Storage Networking Users Group of New England )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Cambridge Computer recently started a New England-area users group focused' on storage networking technologies. The Storage Networking Users Group of New England (SNUGNE) is dedicated to bringing together individuals in the New England area who...

Decru's DataFort FC440 security appliance and Nishan's IPS 3300 and IPS 4300 IP storage switches are fully interoperable. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Decru's DataFort FC440 security appliance and Nishan's IPS 3300 and IPS 4300 IP storage switches are fully interoperable. The combination of Nishan's IPS 3300/4300 IP switches with Decru's DataFort allows enterprises to expand access to their...

FalconStor Software has certified Alacritech's new TCP/IP accelerated drivers for Linux as fully interoperable with its IPStor software. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... FalconStor Software has certified Alacritech's new TCP/IP accelerated drivers for Linux as fully interoperable with its IPStor software. The companies will provide NAS customers with Alacritech's 1000x1 Gigabit Ethernet Accelerator and IPStor...

Chaparral Network Storage. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Chaparral Network Storage has secured $8.2 million in funding led by Athenian Venture Partners, bringing total capital raised to $49 million.

StoreAge Networking Technologies has been awarded Certified Partner status. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... StoreAge Networking Technologies has been awarded Certified Partner status by Microsoft, whereby StoreAge will be provided with enhanced resources in developing and deploying SAN storage management solutions that centralize and simplify the...

ADIC. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... ADIC is helping IT departments keep up with increasing data-protection demands by doubling the capacity and throughput of its line of LTO automated tape libraries. The upgraded libraries include ADIC's intelligent management features,...

DinoStor and Reliaty. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... DinoStor and Reliaty have announced mutual certification for Reliaty Backup and for DinoStor Tape-Server. The combination enables users to take advantage of distance and speed enhancements by attaching tape storage devices on a network instead...

OPNET adds FC support for virtual network analysis. (News Analysis & Trends).
February 1, 2003... Building on its foundations in IP and server modeling, OPNET Technologies is offering an alternative to costly "test-bed" approaches used for validating infrastructure architectures and predicting application performance in storage network...

Broadcom enters storage market. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... As evidence of the market potential for the emerging Serial ATA (SATA) disk interface, Broadcom is making an initial foray into the storage market with a SATA controller line that comes from the company's ServerWorks unit. The controllers work...

Tacit tests WAN caching appliances. (New Bytes).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Start-up Tacit Networks has begun OEM shipments of its Storage Caching Appliances, which the company claims can provide LAN speeds over WANs for applications such as storage consolidation, backup and disaster recovery, file sharing, and storage...

Snap Appliance to offer SAN+NAS. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Quantum spin-off Snap Appliance will offer integrated block- and file-level functionality in a new product due later this year. Meanwhile, Snap enhanced its network-attached storage (NAS) product line by delivering the Snap Server 4400 with...

CA ships BrightStor SAN Manager. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Computer Associates has begun volume shipments of its BrightStor SAN Manager. The software, which is designed to simplify the management of multi-vendor storage networks, discovers, visualizes, monitors, and administers all storage area network...

Sony delivers S-AIT drives, media. (News Bytes).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Sony recently began shipping OEM evaluation units of Super Advanced Intelligent Tape (5AlT) drives and media. The company is testing the product with various tape library manufacturers. The drives leverage Sony's core AIT technology, but have a...

The truth about tape the market, opportunities, future: despite pressure from an increasing number of disk-based backup products, tape remains the cornerstone of nearly all organizations' backup plans.
February 1, 2003... When comes to change, IT administrators are notoriously resistant. Consider the adoption rate of Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs): Depending on which survey you read, only 20% to 25% of end users currently have them installed,...

Understanding disk-to-disk backup: a look at four types of disk-based backup approaches arid their advantages and disadvantages.(Industry Overview)
February 1, 2003... End users are increasingly looking for alternatives to traditional backup-and-restore methods, and disk-to-disk backup is looking more and more promising as a way to combat shrinking backup windows. The goal of this article is to help users and...

Applying storage intelligence to backup operations: the goal is to ensure complete and error-free backup-and-recovery operations.(Industry Overview)
February 1, 2003... Organizations spend millions of dollars on data backup systems and subsystems and millions more each year attempting to manage these systems to ensure the availability of mission-critical data. Yet despite these massive Investments, the typical...

Consolidation simplifies storage infrastructures: networked storage--NAS or SAN--can facilitate resource consolidation and centralized management.(Industry Overview)
February 1, 2003... Data warehousing, data mining, CRM, ERP, e-business, databases, e-mail. All of these applications contribute to the massive amounts of information that businesses need to store. Rather than maintaining a direct-attached storage environment...

IP SANs leverage existing technology: users can take advantage of IP and Ethernet, but new processors may be required to take full advantage of IP SANs. (Opinion).(Editorial)(Industry Overview)
February 1, 2003... End users and storage integrators find themselves in a quandary these days. They know that networked storage has become a need-to-have rather than a nice-to-have capability. After all, the amount of digitized data continues to mushroom, and...

Corporate profile.(Chaparral Network Storage)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
February 1, 2003... Business / Corporate Description Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Cob., designs and markets storage appliances that provide simple solutions to common storage networking problems....

Merged company ships first drives. (Disk/Connectivity).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recently announced the first products resulting from the merger of its own hard-disk-drive business and IBM's last year. The newly formed company is based in San Jose, CA. New drives introduced last...

Adjile Systems. (Disk Array Updates).(Leopard LPF)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Adjile Systems' Leopard LPF is a 2Gbps, 2U Fibre Channel storage enclosure that can be set up in JBOD or RAID configurations. The enclosure supports 12 1-inch disk drives for a total capacity of 1.75TB per chassis. Designed for OEMs and VARs,...

Arena Maxtronic. (Disk Array Updates).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Arena Maxtronic recently added a dual PCI version to its line of six-bay IDE RAID enclosures, which include an Intel i80303 processor, Ultral 60 (160MBps) LVD SCSI host buses, and cache memory of up to 51 2MB. Maxtronic also added a GUI...

JMR. (Disk Array Updates).(JMR's 2Gbps Fibre Channel StorBlade RAID system )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... JMR's 2Gbps Fibre Channel StorBlade RAID system comes in a 1U form factor that enables the device to be used in blade servers. The system is also available in Uitra160 SCSI configurations. Features include a RAID controller with up to 512MB of...

Two tape drives in 19-inch rack. (Tape).(OnStream Data's ADR2.240sr system)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... OnStream Data's ADR2.240sr system integrates two second-generation Advanced Digital Recording (ADR2) drives into a 19inch form factor. The system has a maximum native capacity of 120GB and a maximum native throughput of 8MBps. Mid Load Point...

Start-up enables SCSI-to-iSCSI tape backup. (Tape).(Okapi Software's ipXtensionCord remote tape appliance)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Okapi Software recently introduced its ipXtensionCord remote tape appliance for SCSI applications. The appliance enables users to connect servers to SCSI tape drives and tape libraries over Ethernet for remote tape backup (see figure). It can...

Volume sharing software supports iSCSI, 1394. (Software).(Sanbolic's Kayo 3.0 data sharing software)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Sanbolic's Kayo 3.0 data sharing software includes a number of enhancements, including support for SCSI and IEEE 1394, volume locks that enable administrators to regulate who has write-and-read access, support for Windows XP (in addition to...

NAS vendor intros automation software. (Software).(Auspex's IntelliSnap)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Auspex recently introduced two data automation products based on its new Cognistor file system technology. IntelliSnap is a dynamic version-control product that is capable of restoring recent file changes. The anti-virus software alerts...

Disk partitioning tool for Windows, Linux. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Acronis' PartitionExpert 2003 is a disk-partitioning utility that enables PC users and IT professionals to automatically or manually create, resize, and copy disk partitions. In automated mode, a task-based wizard guides users through the steps...

SSD software targets windows platforms. (Software).(Imperial Technology's MegaRam-SuperSpeed )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Imperial Technology's MegaRam-SuperSpeed solid-state disk (SSD) software provides SSD speed advantages for less than $500. The software allows users to utilize excess memory like a virtual hard disk (aka Memory Disk, Disk Cache, and Ram Disk)...

Backup software targets DB2 databases. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Atempo recently announced the availability of a TimeNavigator backup-and-recovery module for IBM DB2 databases, The module backs up and restores DB2 databases without interrupting user access The software works in SAN environmets and uses...

Updated volume manager for Linux. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Sistina Software recently introduced Logical Volume Manager (LVM) 2.0, which provides increased performance and flexibility with a device-mapper design. LVM 2.0 is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel. LVM supports volume management of disk...

DVD jukebox holds 2.5TB+. (Optical).(Pioneer's DRM-3000 FlexLibrary DVD jukebox)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Pioneer recently launched the DRM-3000 FlexLibrary DVD jukebox, which holds up to 320 discs for a capacity of more than 2.5TB. The jukebox supports single and dual-layer DVD-ROM video, DVD-R, CD-R, CD-RW, OD-DA, CD-Extra, and Video-CD. The...

High-speed CD, DVD drives. (Software).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Plextor recently announced the PlexWriter 24/10/24U CD-RW drive with a high-speed USB interface for connecting to laptops and desktops. It features speeds of 24XCD-Write, lox CD-Rewrite, and 24X CD-Read. The drive is compatible with Windows...