InfoStor articles from January 2005

InfoStor archives from January 2005

Consultants identify 2005 storage issues: backup still a big issue.(News Analysis + Trends)
January 1, 2005... InfoStor recently asked six analyst/consulting/services firms to identify the most significant storage challenges facing end users in the coining year and what, if anything, vendors are doing to help users tackle these issues. Not...

E-mail archiving on track for rapid growth.(E-Mail Management)
January 1, 2005... It's clear that the e-mail archiving market will continue to grow rapidly over the next few years. But what is less certain is what form the market will take as the lines between e-mail archiving, content management, records management, and...

IP SANs enable storage consolidation.(storage area networks, forecast)
January 1, 2005... By now, most enterprise IT groups have undergone some form of server and storage consolidation aimed at correcting problems with backups, provisioning storage, or reducing storage management burdens. Richard Villers, vice president of...

Symantec & Veritas: PB & J or oil & water?(Point)
January 1, 2005... LET'S SEE: A $13 BILLION acquisition resulting in a company with 13,000 employees. This is starting to sound unlucky to me. Although I should have figured out the Symantec-Veritas deal by now, I'm still scratching my head. We knew that...

Symantex-Veritas.(acquisition of VERITAS Software Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... * Expected value: $13.5 billion in an all-stock deal * Symantec shareholders to own about 60%, and Veritas shareholders 40%, of the combined company, which will retain the Symantec name * Deal is expected to close in the next quarter...

Why the Symantec-Veritas deal does make sense.(VERITAS Software Corp.)
January 1, 2005... WHEN SYMANTEC FIRST SPOKE to me about its new business division--Symantec Enterprise Administration (SEA)--last spring, I was a little skeptical, or at least confused, about the company's direction. Their vision of an integrated management...

Software, services are the sweet spots.(market research)
January 1, 2005... End-user spending in the overall storage market is expected to creep at an anemic 3.6% CAGR over the next few years, but spending on storage software and services will increase more rapidly and garner a larger share of the market (see figure),...

IBM delivers on SVC promise: supports full line of EMC disk arrays.(storage area network volume controller)
January 1, 2005... In adding support for EMC's complete line of CLARiiON CX disk arrays to its SAN Volume Controller (SVC) virtualization software, analysts say IBM has taken one small step for storage networking and one giant step for users. IBM has made it...

Hitachi targets SMBs with SATA array.(small to medium-sized business, serial advanced technology attachment, Hitachi Data Systems Corp.)
January 1, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems recently began shipping its first disk array for the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market--the Serial ATA-based Thunder 9520V Workgroup Modular Storage System. Research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) says...

MCI offers disk-to-disk backup services: uses Avamar's D2D software.(Avamar Technologies)
January 1, 2005... MCI recently launched its Enhanced Smart Backup data-protection service, which is based on disk-to-disk backup/ restore software from Avamar. (MCI already offers a tape-based backup service as part of its Enterprise Hosting portfolio of...

Emulex debuts next-gen embedded switches.
January 1, 2005... It may be an apples-to-oranges comparison, but Emulex last year shipped more Fibre Channel ports than all of the fabric switch vendors combined, and that includes Brocade, Cisco, and McData. Of course, Emulex's switch ports are on embedded...

Say hello to Symantec, the new Veritas.(VERITAS Software Corp., analysis)
January 1, 2005... Last year, EMC reached outside its traditional storage space to acquire Documentum. We all blinked. Why Documentum? With some cogitating it began to make sense. After all, how does a storage company really deliver on the information life-cycle...

HP expands 'tiered-storage' options.(new products from Hewlett-Packard Co.)
January 1, 2005... Hewlett-Packard last month expanded its storage portfolio with the introduction of three "tiered-storage" systems and a new release of its OpenView Data Protector software, which facilitates the movement of data/information among these...

EMC will acquire White Plains, NY-based System Management Arts (Smarts), a privately held maker of software for managing corporate data networks, for about $260 million in cash.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... EMC will acquire White Plains, NY-based System Management Arts (Smarts), a privately held maker of software for managing corporate data networks, for about $260 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the first quarter...

MaXXan Systems.(secured finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... MaXXan Systems has received an additional $29 million in venture funding led by BA Venture Partners, bringing the total secured financing in the company to $113 million. Other investors included US Venture Partners (USVP), Venrock Associates,...

Archivas.(secured finance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Archivas has secured $10 million in a second round of funding, bringing the company's total financing to date to $16 million. The round included original investors North Bridge Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners, and a new investor,...

FalconStor Software and ICM are collaborating on a new solution that will enable ICM to deliver a Storage GateWay Appliance for IBM iSeries.(International Creative Management Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... FalconStor Software and ICM are collaborating on a new solution that will enable ICM to deliver a Storage GateWay Appliance for IBM iSeries, the Nexus Storage Gateway, powered by FalconStor's IPStor software.

The Enterprise Storage Solutions division of Arrow Electronics Inc. has signed an agreement.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Enterprise Storage Solutions division of Arrow Electronics Inc. has signed an agreement to distribute and support BakBone Software's NetVault data-protection software products and services.

Is ILM HSM in disguise?(hierarchical storage management, information lifecycle management)
January 1, 2005... Q: ILM and HSM seem like the same thing. What's the difference between them? Your confusion is warranted. Information life-cycle management (ILM) has become a catch phrase for everything you can spend money on after you are tired of...

Fabric-based replication: new option for BC/DR: running applications such as replication from network-based devices provides a number of benefits, including lower costs and increased flexibility.(disaster recovery and business continuity)
January 1, 2005... An increasing number of users are implementing fabric-based replication for disaster recovery and business continuity. Some of these users are doing replication for the first time, while others are using fabric-based replication in conjunction...

How to build a tiered storage infrastructure: the key is to start by classifying data to determine the business value of information.
January 1, 2005... Today, many IT organizations are looking for strategies on how to tier or classify storage in order to realize the best value from their storage investment while minimally impacting storage management and operational practices. Storage...

Overcoming resistance to centralized storage: building a storage utility center requires storage consolidation as well as cooperative partnerships.
January 1, 2005... Centralization tends to scare nearly everyone who has ever experienced the process and its usual companions--bureaucracy and low service levels. This article addresses the business and human issues of overcoming resistance to change when data...

Understanding information life-cycle management: a successful ILM strategy encompasses four segments: data classification, data policy, data management, and a tiered storage infrastructure.(Analysts View)
January 1, 2005... EVERY FEW YEARS, IT vendors inundate CIOs and top management with new initiatives that they believe businesses must undertake as soon as possible for their survival. Consolidation, Y2K, ERP, CRM, grid computing, e-business, on-demand computing,...

Solving the RAID compatibility puzzle: SNIA's Common RAID Disk Data Format (DDF) promises to alleviate compatibility issues.(redundant array of inexpensive disks, Storage Networking Industry Association)
January 1, 2005... END USERS AND STORAGE INTEGRATORS consistently acknowledge the challenges presented by the lack of interoperability in RAID arrays. RAID has been a critical component of server and storage systems for many years, and vendors have developed many...

iSCSI market shows signs of life.(internet small computer systems interface, new products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Amid upbeat projections from industry analysts and signs of increased end-user adoption, the market for iSCSI-based IP SANs and related software seems to be picking up. Here's a smattering of some of the more-recent product introductions: ...

Constant Data supports Windows.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Constant Data continued to add platform support to its Constant Replicator real-time replication software, which now supports Windows, Linux, and Solaris. The software encrypts data and includes features such as multi-path technology,...

Seagate, Maxtor ship 15,000rpm drives.(Seagate Technology Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Seagate's 3.5-inch Cheetah 15K.4 hard disk drives are available with Ultra320 SCSI or Fibre Channel interfaces (with a Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS, interface due within the next two months) and in capacities of 36GB, 73GB, or 147GB. Features...

Recall manages media.(new network inventory software)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Recall recently launched a Web-based ReQuest Media Manager inventory management program to give IT organizations greater control over in-house and off-site backup data inventory. Developed with software vendor B&L, the program is hosted by...

Acronis upgrades imaging software.(New Products)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Acronis has released the 8.0 version of its True Image Enterprise Server and True Image Corporate Workstation software, which are based on the company's disk imaging technology. The software enables administrators to perform bare-metal...

Quest Software manages Exchange.(new email software)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Quest Software last month released Archive Manager for Exchange 1.0 software, which is based on the company's data migration technology. The software consolidates personal folder (PST) files and online messaging data to a central archive server...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... March 7-9 Network Storage Conference--Milpitas, CA The conference is dedicated to analyzing new architectural processes in network storage. Sessions focus on integrating systems, networks, and storage; provisioning and managing...