InfoStor articles from February 2009

InfoStor archives from February 2009

Microsoft partners with Iron Mountain.(CLOUD-BASED STORAGE)
February 1, 2009... Microsoft's recent release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 was, by itself, a relatively minor announcement that included bug fixes, increased support for Microsoft applications, and support for...

How to lower file-based storage costs.(ANAYLST VIEW)
February 1, 2009... For a number of years, organizations have been experiencing exponential data growth and have been buying more and more storage to support it. The slowdown in the economy is not expected to impact the creation of content or the requirement to...

DataCore Software has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.(Business BRIEFS)
February 1, 2009... DataCore Software has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. Ingram will distribute DataCore's full line of storage virtualization software solutions in North and South America.

Atto Technology has teamed with Xyratex to offer a video production system based on Atto's Celerity Fibre Channel HBAs and Xyratex's F6412E RAID arrays.(Business BRIEFS)
February 1, 2009... Atto Technology has teamed with Xyratex to offer a video production system based on Atto's Celerity Fibre Channel HBAs and Xyratex's F6412E RAID arrays. The 4Gbps system is compatible with Mac OS X platforms.

Nimbus Data Systems, a developer of IP storage systems and software, announced that Info X, a provider of 10GbE connectivity equipment, has selected Nimbus' H-class.(Business BRIEFS)
February 1, 2009... Nimbus Data Systems, a developer of IP storage systems and software, announced that Info X, a provider of 10GbE connectivity equipment, has selected Nimbus' H-class unified storage systems as its flagship storage product line.

Verari Systems.(Business BRIEFS)
February 1, 2009... Verari Systems announced an Energy Credit Incentive Program for customers who plan to install the Verari BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms or FOREST storage container systems, both of which use Verari's Vertical Cooling Technology. Qualifying...

Crescendo Networks has partnered with Riverbed Technology to deliver end-to-end application acceleration to corporate customers.(Business BRIEFS)
February 1, 2009... Crescendo Networks has partnered with Riverbed Technology to deliver end-to-end application acceleration to corporate customers. The companies are combining Crescendo's AppBeat DC with Riverbed's Steelhead WAN acceleration appliances to provide...

Iron Mountain Digital.(Business BRIEFS)
February 1, 2009... Iron Mountain Digital has announced that its Connected Backup solution will be available for Mac users in March.

Atto Technology.(Business BRIEFS)(Xtend SAN iSCSI Software Initiator for Mac OS X )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Atto Technology's Xtend SAN iSCSI Software Initiator for Mac OS X has been updated to provide better security and automation. Xtend SAN now supports HeaderDigest and DataDigest with ERRORLEVEL 1 processing, which is used to guarantee the...

Don't be duped by de-dupe ratios.(Editorial)
February 1, 2009... In these belt-tightening times, "asset optimization" technologies, such as data compression, virtualization, thin provisioning, automated tiered storage and, perhaps most of all, data de-duplication, will be increasingly adopted by IT managers...

Nexsan combines SAS, AutoMAID.(NEWS analysis + trends)
February 1, 2009... Nexsan Technologies has once again combined its energy-saving AutoMAID (massive array of idle disks) technology with high-performance, SAS-based RAID storage to create the newly released SASBeast disk array. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The...

Dot Hill ships 2.5-inch SAS arrays.(NEWS analysis + trends)
February 1, 2009... Dot Hill Systems recently announced two entry-level RAID arrays equipped with smallform-factor (2.5-inch) SAS drives. The model 2722 with a 4Gbps Fibre Channel host interface is available now and the model 2522, with a 3Gbps SAS host interface,...

Seagate debuts 3.5-inch drives.(NEWS analysis + trends)
February 1, 2009... Enterprise customers are slowly shifting from 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) to infrastructures based on the smaller, high performance 2.5-inch form factor, but Seagate predicts there will still be a need for 3.5-inch enterprise HDDs for the...

Enterprise storage outlook: "asset optimization" a bright spot.(NEWS analysis + trends)
February 1, 2009... Throughout 2008, the enterprise storage market proved surprisingly resilient compared to the overall IT sector. But the outlook for 2009 is--well, sketchy. A recent Needham & Company report ("Enterprise Storage/DataCenter Tech Industry...

Understanding data de-duplication ratios: data de-duplication has obvious benefits, but vendors' claims regarding data de-dupe ratios have led to confusion.(Special REPORT)(Cover story)
February 1, 2009... Data de-duplication plays a vital role in helping to manage today's prolific growth of data. Optimizing data storage systems with de-duplication can be part of a broader stratetegy to provide an efficient data storage infrastructure that is...

Who uses SSDs, and why? Adoption of solid-state disk (SSD) drives depends on the market segment.
February 1, 2009... The arguments of whether to use solid-state disk (SSD) drives vary depending on the market. In certain markets, SSDs are a very reasonable choice, while in other markets SSDs are unlikely to gain much traction. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] ...

SSD product roundup.
February 1, 2009... Here's a quick rundown of some the more recent solid-state disk (SSD) drive announcements, with an emphasis on enterprise-class products: * At the Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas last month, Samsung introduced the 2.5-inch, 100GB...

FCIA makes the case for FCoE: the Fibre Channel Industry Association explains the advantages of the emerging Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard.
February 1, 2009... Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a new protocol that expands Fibre Channel into the Ethernet environment. FCoE combines, and leverages the advantages of, two technologies: the Fibre Channel protocol and Ethernet. The terms unified...

Hyper-scalability for virtual machine I/O: using Virtual Service Clients and Virtual Service Providers, Microsoft's Hyper-V creates a low-overhead environment for virtual machines that can provide a high degree of scalability on a state-of-the-art SAN.(lab REVIEW)
February 1, 2009... With the increasing turbulence in the business environment, the forces driving IT activity and reshaping the data center have intensified. Across the corporate landscape, the mandate for peak operations efficiency now has IT redoubling its...

VARs provide cost-effective replication.(VAR view)
February 1, 2009... Achieving offsite data replication is a growing concern for many small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). Many would like to replicate their critical data offsite but lack the facilities and technologies to get the job done quickly, easily, and...

Fujitsu boosts array performance.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Fujitsu Computer Systems )(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Fujitsu Computer Systems has introduced a family of midrange storage systems that use quad-core processors and advanced cache management to double the performance over previous models. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Eternus8000 and...

DataCore bundles SAN software.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2009... Designed for SMBs and virtualization environments, DataCore Software's bundled SAN software packages start at less than $2,000 per server, and include functionality such as thin provisioning, data migration, caching software, snapshots,...

Verbatim ships quad-interface drives.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Verbatim is shipping 500GB and 1TB hard disk drives with support for the USB 2.0 (480Mbps), FireWire 400 (400Mbps), FireWire 800 (800Mbps), and eSATA II (3Gbps) interfaces. The 3.5-inch drives have a 7,200rpm spindle speed and 32MB of cache...

Startup combines NAS, cloud.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2009... Storage startup CTERA Networks has unveiled a product that combines a local NAS device with cloud storage services to provide small businesses with low-cost data protection. CTERA's technology, dubbed CloudPlug, works in concert with...

Addonics adds iSCSI appliance.(NEW PRODUCTS)
February 1, 2009... The Addonics iSCSI Subsystem includes a RAID/ iSCSI stack, integrated hardware RAID controller, up to eight SATA drives (or up to 128TB of expansion capacity via port multipliers), 1GB of ECC memory, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports with load...

Calendar.(Brief article)(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... SEND BROCHURE/CONFERENCE INFORMATION TO STEVE SMITH, STEVESM@PENNWELL.COM OR FA X: (603) 891-0597. MARCH 1--6 SHARE--AUSTIN, TX The SHARE event features a technical program, compiled by users for users, across areas such as...