InfoStor articles from February 2007

InfoStor archives from February 2007

Why SMBs are embracing iSCSI SANs, part 2.(CASE STUDIES)
February 1, 2007... When it comes to networked storage, total cost sits atop the list of buying criteria for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), followed closely by simplicity, product support, and, in some cases, the physical size of the solution, as shown...

Tips for e-mail management and archiving, part 2.(FOCUS ON)
February 1, 2007... Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research and consulting firm, sees two reasons why companies archive their e-mail. The first is because they have to, due to compliance and legal mandates. Babineau estimates...

Symantec ships storage foundation for Windows.
February 1, 2007... Symantec has taken another step on the path toward integrating all of its software management suites under one umbrella--this time in the Windows world--with the launch of the latest version of its Storage Foundation management product. ...

Backup is getting exciting, really.
February 1, 2007... FOR YEARS--DECADES, ACTUALLY--backup has been one of the most boring topics in the storage industry. And storage administrators have looked forward to backing up the same way they look forward to root canals without anesthesia. Not to mention...

Hitachi Data Systems has signed a global agreement to resell Onaro's SANscreen storage management software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Hitachi Data Systems has signed a global agreement to resell Onaro's SANscreen storage management software. Under the terms of the agreement, HDS will market, sell, and provide support for SANscreen customers. Separately, HDS has a reseller...

Emulex plans to expand support for customers of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Emulex plans to expand support for customers of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program across its LightPulse HBA product line.

Zetera has an alliance with Double-Take Software to offer Double-Take channel partners.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Zetera has an alliance with Double-Take Software to offer Double-Take channel partners and Zetera licensees utilizing the company's Z-SAN SoIP technology solutions for disaster recovery and high availability.

Bell Micro has signed a distribution agreement with Chelsio Communications.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Bell Micro has signed a distribution agreement with Chelsio Communications to sell 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage accelerators.

Kodak Service & Support, Eastman Kodak Co.'s worldwide service organization, will serve as the sole on-site service provider for Digi-Data Corp.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Kodak Service & Support, Eastman Kodak Co.'s worldwide service organization, will serve as the sole on-site service provider for Digi-Data Corp. One year of Kodak Service & Support will come with Digi-Data's storage products.

LXI Enterprise Storage has entered into a reseller agreement with FalconStor Software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... LXI Enterprise Storage has entered into a reseller agreement with FalconStor Software. LXI will combine its Media Management System (MMS) software with FalconStor's VirtualTape Library software.

Lucid8 LLC has joined the EMC Velocity2 Technology and ISV Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Lucid8 LLC has joined the EMC Velocity2 Technology and ISV Program to develop a comprehensive e-mail performance solution that integrates Lucid8's GOexchange product with EMC EmailXtender and Archive Services for Email software.

3PAR.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... 3PAR has announced its Carbon Neutral Storage program. For every terabyte of thin-provisioning capacity sold in 2007, 3PAR will purchase the equivalent carbon credits to offset the emissions of the disk drives required to deliver that capacity....

Acopia Networks' ARX systems have successfully completed interoperability testing with IBM's Systems Storage N-Series products and have been confirmed as IBM System Storage Proven.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Acopia Networks' ARX systems have successfully completed interoperability testing with IBM's Systems Storage N-Series products and have been confirmed as IBM System Storage Proven. Separately, Acopia has joined the StorageNetworking. org...

Anacomp has been named Siafu Software's Authorized Maintenance Service Provider.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Anacomp has been named Siafu Software's Authorized Maintenance Service Provider. Functioning as the organization's service arm, Anacomp will deliver on-site maintenance and logistics services nationwide.

Sonasoft has a distribution agreement with Synnex, a global IT supply chain services company, for distributing Sonasoft products in the US, Canada, and Mexico.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Sonasoft has a distribution agreement with Synnex, a global IT supply chain services company, for distributing Sonasoft products in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Synnex will distribute Sonasoft's Point-Click Recovery software for Microsoft...

2006: a year of acquisitions.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
February 1, 2007... Looking back, last year was marked by a relatively large number of mergers and acquisitions. Here's a quick re-cap of acquisition activity in 2006: With a dozen acquisitions in 2006, EMC was the most active acquirer and kicked off its...

Seagate acquires Evault.(Seagate Technology L.L.C.)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... In an effort to expand its storage services offerings, Seagate Technology is acquiring privately held online backup-and-recovery services provider EVault for approximately $185 million in cash. EVault will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary...

Brocade scoops up Silverback.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
February 1, 2007... Continuing its slow but steady move into the iSCSI market, Fibre Channel stalwart Brocade last month acquired privately held Silverback Systems for an undisclosed amount of cash. Silverback manufactures iSCSI ASICs, host bus adapters (HBAs),...

Focus on: SATA product roundup.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
February 1, 2007... The Serial ATA (SATA) disk drive/array interface continues to take the industry by storm due to low cost and high capacity (up to 750GB per drive). According to the Gartner Dataquest research firm, SATA accounted for about a quarter (24.7%) of...

Grassroots group addresses data protection.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
February 1, 2007... A new storage industry group is asking that smaller companies resolve to educate themselves about the risks of data loss and their options for data protection. The newly created National Data Awareness Program (NDAP), a consortium of...

Start-up manages apps, servers, storage.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
February 1, 2007... Software start-up Akorri officially came on the scene last month with the launch of both the company and a new infrastructure management and monitoring tool aimed at tying applications, server, and storage management together for better control...

VTLs: assess before you commit.(READER-EXPERT I/O)
February 1, 2007... Q: My backups are slow and unreliable. I've heard that putting in disk, in the form of a VTL, will solve my problems. Are there any 'gotchas' to watch out for? A virtual tape library (VTL) is one way that disk can be integrated into a...

Atto Technology's ExpressPCI UL5D SCSI host adapter and Celerity FC-42ES Fibre Channel host adapter have received the Novell Yes Certified compatibility designation.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Atto Technology's ExpressPCI UL5D SCSI host adapter and Celerity FC-42ES Fibre Channel host adapter have received the Novell Yes Certified compatibility designation with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and NetWare 6.5.

Infortrend's EonStor S12F-G1420 4Gbps Fibre Channel to Serial Attached SCSI (FC-4G-to-SAS).(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
February 1, 2007... Infortrend's EonStor S12F-G1420 4Gbps Fibre Channel to Serial Attached SCSI (FC-4G-to-SAS), single controller RAID subsystem has passed qualification testing with the SD|Greed, HD|Lust, and HD|Fury video I/O cards from Bluefish444, a division...

Disk-based data protection: trends and forecasts: enterprises are shifting to disk as the first line of data protection, and adoption of virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and continuous data protection (CDP) is on the rise.(SPECIAL REPORT)
February 1, 2007... According to interviews with enterprise end users, data growth, coupled with shrinking backup windows, is the main driver behind adoption of disk-based data protection. Because disk provides significantly faster backups and restores than tape,...

NGDP forecast: CDT, WDS, VTL, COS: research report predicts fast growth for continuous data technologies, wide area data services, virtual tape libraries, and capacity optimized storage.(SPECIAL REPORT)
February 1, 2007... A wave of new technologies has emerged over the past few years that collectively--despite being over-hyped in some instances--appear to be poised to change how users architect their data-protection strategies. And, until recently, industry...

VTLs and Symantec's OpenStorage API: far from sounding the death knell for VTLs, the API provides benefits for both VTL vendors and end users.(ANALYST VIEW)
February 1, 2007... THE DUST HAS SETTLED OVER Symantec's decision to provide third-party vendor access to NetBackup's application programming interface (API), and the virtual tape library (VTL) market appears no worse for wear despite forebodings in the press of...

The case for service oriented storage (SOS): in the context of storage virtualization, end users should focus on the value of the solution, not on the underlying technology.(ANALYST VIEW)
February 1, 2007... TO DATE, STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION has been a "promised land." A number of vendors offer storage virtualization engines packaged in different wrappers. But, for various reasons, none have really caught fir in terms of end-user adoption. Absent...

User survey: ILM and data classification: on the one hand, a lot of IT managers still aren't sure what ILM is. On the other hand, a lot of them have implemented it to some degree.(information lifecycle management)
February 1, 2007... In the screening survey portion of Peripheral Concepts' recent end-user survey on information lifecycle management (ILM), which had more than 4,000 respondents, about one-third of the IT managers weren't sure what the term meant, and 18% knew...

Array combines virtualization, SATA II, iSCSI: the MPC DataFRAME 440 leverages enhanced virtualization software, SATA-II drives, and iSCSI to push SAN technology into new arenas, including the desktop.(LAB REVIEW)
February 1, 2007... IN TERMS OF STORAGE MARKET BUZZ, virtualization remains at center stage. Managing logical devices, which have no physical constraints, is much simpler and thereby incurs dramatically lower overhead costs. That's why extending the use of a...

LSI introduces FC-SAS array.(LSI Logic Corp.)(fibre channel serial attached SCSI disk drives )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... LSI Logic's 2U Engenio 1932 disk array has two 4Gbps Fibre Channel host ports and, in an entry-level configuration, support for 12 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives. The systems can be scaled up to 48 drives for 14TB of capacity with...

Removable drive stores 160GB.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2007... ProStor has added a 160GB drive to its line of 2.5-inch RDX Archival Disk Cartridges, which are also available in 40GB, 80GB, and 120GB versions. (The RDX drives are resold by vendors such as Dell, Imation, and Tandberg Data.) The new 160GB...

2.5-inch SAS drive packs 73GB.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2007... Seagate last month began shipments of the 2.5-inch, 15,000rpm Savvio 15K disk drive, which is based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. The Savvio 15K includes a number of improvements over previous-generation drives. For example,...

Enhanced replication for Windows.(Double-Take Software launched ShadowCaster and Server Recovery Option software)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Double-Take Software has launched two products based on a technology the company calls System State Protection and Recovery, which replicates the operating system, registry, drives, hot fixes, patches, applications and their settings, and data....

Software automates system recovery.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2007... Version 4.0 of BakBone Software's Net-Vault: Backup VaultDR disaster-recovery software, which works on Intel platforms, automates system recovery, and provides cross-platform business continuity and disaster recovery. In addition to data...

CDP software supports 64-bits.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2007... TimeSpring, maker of TimeData continuous data protection (CDP) software, now supports 64-bit applications running on the Microsoft Windows platform. The present version supports SQL Server, Share-Point, Exchange, and file servers. TimeSpring's...

Multi-format library has 7,450 slots.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2007... Spectra Logic has added an optional expansion frame to its T950 tape library, enabling users to configure up to six frames per configuration, bringing total capacity to almost 10 petabytes in 7,450 cartridge slots, depending on tape format. The...