InfoStor articles from July 2004

InfoStor archives from July 2004

User survey shows fast growth for NAS.(Network attached storage)
July 1, 2004... NAS is finally getting a stronger foothold into data centers, as more early SAN adopters within Fortune 1000 companies plan to increase the amount of storage capacity they put on NAS, according to an extensive end-user survey conducted by...

Is online disk backup a fit for SMBs?(small to medium-sized businesses)
July 1, 2004... In a recent survey conducted by Gartner Research, 64% of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) said they backed up their data on-site, not off-site for disaster-recovery purposes. "That is a disaster waiting to happen," says Adam...

IBM takes 'virtual' steps with SFS.
July 1, 2004... IBM last month took what some analysts say are significant steps forward in its virtualization strategy with the 2.1 release of TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS). Notably, the new release includes support for non-IBM disk storage, additional...

A word about awards.(editorial)
July 1, 2004... There are a number of different ways to do awards, each with strengths and weaknesses. Some publications have their editors choose the "best" products. I suppose I can't speak for my colleagues on other publications, but I would be hard-pressed...

ARIO Data Networks.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ARIO Data Networks, a provider of next-generation OEM building blocks for SATA and SAS storage subsystems, has secured $17 million in series D financing led by Mellon Ventures. New investor Anthem Venture Partners and original investors...

Engenio Information Technologies, formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems, has joined 11 other companies to form the OpenIB Alliance.(Business Briefs)
July 1, 2004... Engenio Information Technologies, formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems, has joined 11 other companies to form the OpenIB Alliance. The 'alliance is chartered to deliver a single open source Linux software stack for deployment of the InfiniBand...

Luminex Software has become a member of Nexsan Technologies' Strategic Solutions (S2) Program.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Luminex Software has become a member of Nexsan Technologies' Strategic Solutions ($2) Program. Luminex and Nexsan are jointly marketing a storage platform that allows mainframe computers to become servers on a Fibre Channel SAN through a...

OuterBay.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... OuterBay has a partnership with SAP AG to develop and sell an integrated information life-cycle management solution for SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI), a core component of the SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform....

Yosemite Technologies and Exabyte have entered into an OEM partnership whereby Yosemite's base-level backup software solution, TapeWare XE, will be bundled with Exabyte's VXA-2 PacketLoader tape libraries.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Yosemite Technologies and Exabyte have entered into an OEM partnership whereby Yosemite's base-level backup software solution, TapeWare XE, will be bundled with Exabyte's VXA-2 PacketLoader tape libraries. Separately, Yosemite has secured $10...

GlassHouse Technologies has an agreement to purchase two British companies--Source Consulting and Sagitta Performance Systems.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... GlassHouse Technologies has an agreement to purchase two British companies--Source Consulting and Sagitta Performance Systems. The firms will be consolidated into a new subsidiary called GlassHouse Technologies UK Ltd. Financial terms were not...

FalconStor Software's virtual tape solution has received Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) certification from Hewlett-Packard.(Business Briefs)(Systemat)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... FalconStor Software's virtual tape solution has received Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) certification from Hewlett-Packard. Separately, FalconStor has a collaboration with SYSTEMAT, an integrator of storage solutions based in Brussels, to...

Ingram Micro has finalized an agreement in its Asia Pacific region.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Ingram Micro has finalized an agreement in its Asia Pacific region to distribute Intransa's IP SAN IP5000 system.

ArchivesOne, a records management and storage company, and AmeriVault have joined forces.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ArchivesOne, a records management and storage company, and AmeriVault have joined forces. Through this alliance, ArchivesOne will round out its existing records management and storage product offering by providing AmeriVault's online...

Brocade is collaborating with EMC to bring to market a pre-configured, entry-level networked storage solution.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Brocade is collaborating with EMC to bring to marker a pre-configured, entry-level networked storage solution designed to meet the expanding data management requirements of small and medium-sized businesses, institutions, and corporate...

ADIC has expanded its relationship with IBM by signing an additional agreement to license part of IBM's tape automation technology.(Business Briefs)(Advanced Digital Information Corp.)(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... ADIC has expanded its relationship with IBM by signing an additional agreement to license part of IBM's tape automation technology. The companies "also signed a patent cross-licensing agreement covering their respective patent portfolios in the...

Decru and SANRAD announced a joint solution and interoperability between Decru DataFort FC-Series storage security appliances and SANRAD V-Switches.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Decru and SANRAD announced a joint solution and interoperability between Decru DataFort FC-Series storage security appliances and SANRAD V-Switches. The joint solutions will protect sensitive data across a variety of IP SAN applications,...

Maxtor and LSI Logic will collaborate with EqualLogic to enable integration of Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) technology.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Maxtor and LSI Logic will collaborate with EqualLogic to enable integration of Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) technology into a line of automated, intelligent iSCSI storage arrays.

Alacritus Software's Securitus virtual tape library and Chronospan time-addressable storage recovery solutions have achieved compatibility certification with Engenio Information Technologies' (formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems) Serial ATA (SATA) storage systems.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Alacritus Software's Securitus virtual tape library and Chronospan time-addressable storage recovery solutions have achieved compatibility certification with Engenio Information Technologies' (formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems) Serial ATA...

EMC, Dell ship SATA arrays for SMBs: prices start at less than $6,000.(news analysis & trends)
July 1, 2004... EMC and Dell recently introduced a low-end disk array that executives say contains high-end functionality such as RAID data protection and snapshots for backup, but is as easy to install as a printer or VCR. In addition, pricing by EMC's...

Hitachi mixes SATA, FC drives; adds compliance features.(news analysis & trends)
July 1, 2004... Hitachi Data Systems last month began offering an "intermix" drive option for its Thunder 9500 V series disk arrays that allows users to mix Serial ATA (SATA) and Fibre Channel disk drives in a single array. Analysts expect similar...

Copan offers 'no-spin' D2D system.(news analysis & trends)(Copan Systems)(Disk-to-Disk)
July 1, 2004... Within the next two months, Copan Systems is expected to begin production shipments of its Serial ATA-based Revolution 200T RAID array, which was originally announced in April. One feature that differentiates the array from existing disk-based...

MaXXan upgrades intelligent switches.(news analysis & trends)
July 1, 2004... While vendors such as Cisco, Brocade, Maranti, and McData continue to focus oil first-generation intelligent switch platforms, four-year-old start-up MaXXan this month began shipments of its second-generation switch platform--the MXV500...

Who needs 4Gbps Fibre Channel?(news analysis & trends)
July 1, 2004... Host bus adapter (HBA) and switch vendors are expected to usher in 4Gbps Fibre Channel products late this year or early next year, a move that will make 4Gbps an interim speed before the industry takes on the major forklift transition to 10Gbps...

CA outlines ILM road map.(news analysis & trends)(Computer Associates)(information lifecycle management)
July 1, 2004... At its annual CA World conference--which attracted about 10,000 customers and partners--in late May, Computer Associates presented its strategy for information lifecycle management (ILM) product delivery. To differentiate, or distance, itself...

EMC has qualified the Emulex LP101 Fibre Channel HBA as E-Lab Tested for use with the new EMC CLARiiON AX100 networked storage system.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... EMC has qualified the Emulex LP101 Fibre Channel HBA as E-Lab Tested for use with the new EMC CLARiiON AX100 networked storage system targeting small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers.

Computer Associates has certified the Adaptec iSA1500 Storage Array as ca smart.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Computer Associates has certified the Adaptec iSA1500 Storage Array as ca smart with its BrightStor ARCserve Backup.

LightSand's S-series of storage extension gateways has completed Hewlett-Packard interoperability testing.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... LightSand's S-series of storage extension gateways has completed Hewlett-Packard interoperability testing and can now be used to provide remote access to HP EVA storage arrays.

Data Domain.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Data Domain announced its new SalesEDGE Program, a channel partner program designed to streamline the purchase and support process for resellers of the Data Domain DD200 Restorer, the company's storage recovery appliance.

SAN management: the good, the bad, the ugly: end-user adoption of SAN management software has been slow, but advances such as integration with SRM may improve the picture.(Special Report)
July 1, 2004... SAN management is something that almost all storage professionals think is a good idea. After all, as SANs have become bigger, more complex, and often more heterogeneous, the task of managing them has moved way past the stage where...

ILM and ECM: the confluence of technology, business: enterprise content management and storage management come together in information life-cycle management.(information life-cycle management)(enterprise content management)
July 1, 2004... Over the next few years, IT organizations will increasingly connect the technical elements of storage management with the business requirements of content management. Enterprise content management (ECM) is emerging as a critical infrastructure...

Building a SAN for SMBs, part 3: smart software, switches, HBAs, and even smarter storage arrays render the notion of direct-attached storage absolutely dumb.(lab review)
July 1, 2004... For IT, the ultimate goal is to make storage a resource that can scale without disruption, be self-managing, and provide users with intuitive access to features. To get to this storage nirvana, vendors such as iQstor have begun building serious...

Most Valuable Products awards.(Special Section)
July 1, 2004... In conjunction with the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (www.asnp.org), InfoStor recently co-sponsored the Most Valuable Products awards. Members of the ASNP as well as industry analysts narrowed a field of hundreds of product...

Why you need auto-provisioning: the goal is to decrease the manual, repetitive, error-prone steps that are typically required to provision storage.(analyst view)
July 1, 2004... Storage administrators are overwhelmed by the number of manual tasks they must perform repeatedly. Provisioning is one such task. The manual and complex nature of provisioning makes it susceptible to errors, resulting in delays, "application...

Dot Hill ships SATA array.(Disk/Connectivity)(SANnet II Serial ATA)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Last month, Dot Hill Systems began shipments of its SANnet II Serial ATA (SATA) disk array, which is resold by Sun Microsystems. The RAID subsystem includes 12 drive bays, or up to 3TB in a 2U rack, and can scale up to 16TB of RAID-5...

Accordance debuts 'plug-and-play' SATA.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... This month, Accordance Systems began shipping a Serial ATA controller unit--dubbed ARAID 2000--with an intelligent ASIC that eliminates the need for controller boards or software drivers. Users can insert SATA drives into the controller...

Digi-Data storms RAID arrays.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Digi-Data recently announced a number of enhancements to its STORM line of RAID arrays, which the company positions as high-end alternatives to systems such as EMC's CLARiiON and Hitachi Data Systems' Thunder. Enhancements the the line of RAID...

Cybernetics intros IP SANs.(Disk/Connectivity)(Internet Protocol)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Cybernetics has added an iSCSI disk array to its line of iSCSI backup products. The iSAN Vault array supports RAID 0, 1, and 5, as well as storage allocation, dynamic volume spanning, active-active fail-over, and snapshots. Cybernetics also...

Arena delivers NAS RAID.(Disk/Connectivity)(Network Attached Storage)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Arena Maxtronic's Pegasus is a family of NAS RAID arrays available in two-bay (model 220GT), four-bay (410GT), and eight-bay (820GR) configurations. All of the NAS devices support the AppleTalk AFP 3.1 protocol, as well as NFS and CIFS, and...

StorCase integrates Serial ATA.(Disk/Connectivity)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... StorCase Technology is shipping its InfoStation 16-bay 3U RAID enclosure, which supports Serial ATA (SATA) drive technology and Ultra320 SCSI host connections. Company executives say that in performance tests, the SCSI-to-SATA enclosure has...

Veritas upgrades NetBackup.(Software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Veritas Software recently announced its NetBackup Version 5.1 software, which includes enhancements for backup and recovery. Integrated with Network Appliance's Snapshot technology to create point-in-time images, NetBackup's Advanced Client...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... August 16-20 HP World 2004-Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo--Chicago, IL Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the conference features hundreds of technical and managerial breakout sessions; seminars and tutorials; keynote and...

NTP works with NetApp.(Software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... NTP Software has released a version of its flagship Quota & File Sentinel software that works with Network Appliance's filers. Dubbed QFS for NAS, NetApp Edition, the application is part of NTP's QFS for NAS line and is fully integrated with...

Deepfile adds file management application.(Software)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Adding to its file management products, which includes the Auditor and Enforcer product lines, Deepfile this month released the Sentinel application. Sentinel enables the distribution of file management responsibilities to end users. Files are...

StorageTek ships high-end library.(Tape)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... StorageTek recently announced availability of its SL8500 modular tape library, which is the first in the company's Streamline family of enterprise tape library solutions. The SL8500 Modular Library System scales from 1,456 to 300,000 cartridge...