InfoStor articles from July 2005

InfoStor archives from July 2005

User support for D2D rising ...(disk to disk)
July 1, 2005... A recent InfoStor reader survey appears to back vendor claims that disk-based backup has shed its "early adopter" status and is being more broadly implemented by users to protect growing data volumes. Of the 116 users polled, 45% said disk...

... But tape library market remains healthy.
July 1, 2005... Despite increasing use of disk in secondary storage environments, particularly for back-up/recovery, Ojai, CA-based Freeman Reports says there is little, if any, evidence of a significant shift away from tape to disk among users. "I...

Sun-STK to create 'info ecosystem'.
July 1, 2005... Sun's conference call last month announcing its plans to acquire StorageTek for $4.1 billion--the largest acquisition in Sun's history--provided a 50,000-foot overview of the transaction, but since then Sun has been in a relatively quiet period...

The sun sets in Louisville (CO).(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... THE SUN-STORAGETEK DEAL is still causing crowds at water coolers and more than a little confusion and consternation among the companies' customers, channel partners, and financial analysts. In one of our cover stories this month, we checked...

EMC, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Hewlett-Packard, Permabit, and Sun Microsystems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(content-addressable storage)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... CAS community, an educational online community based on content-addressable storage (CAS), has been founded by EMC, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Hewlett-Packard, Permabit, and Sun Microsystems to foster dialogue, broaden market awareness,...

Kashya.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Kashya's KBX5000 Data Replication Appliance platform has been qualified to provide remote replication functionality to the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) on the Cisco Storage Services Module. The KBX5000 supports heterogeneous...

IDC: healthy growth for disk systems.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(International Data Corp.)
July 1, 2005... In the first quarter of this year, revenue for worldwide external disk storage systems grew for the eight consecutive quarter, according to International Data Corp.'s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker report. In the first quarter of 2005,...

NetApp bolsters midrange.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2005... According to the META Group consulting firm, more than 70% of data-center storage requirements can be addressed by modular midrange storage arrays. Yet many users continue to use costly high-end disk arrays for the bulk of their storage needs,...

AppIQ adds modules to software suite.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2005... AppIQ wants to be a dominant player in the SAN management and storage resource management (SRM) space, and the company appears to have a good start. For example, the company OEMs its software through major storage vendors such as Hitachi Data...

Ellison's storage company launches.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2005... After nearly four years in stealth mode, Pillar Data Systems this month finally launched itself and its first product--the Axiom disk array. To date, Pillar has been known primarily as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's storage company. Ellison's Tako...

Njini manages unstructured data.(Njini)
July 1, 2005... In introducing the first modules in its Information Asset Management (IAM) software suite (see table), start-up Njini joins a growing list of vendors that are trying to help users not only better manage growing stockpiles of unstructured data,...

Brocade branches out.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(wide area file services)
July 1, 2005... Brocade recently signaled its intention to move beyond its switch and director focus with two announcements that fall under the new Tapestry product line umbrella, including the following: * The Tapestry WAFS (wide area file services)...

Availl adds twist to 'WAFS'.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(wide area file services)
July 1, 2005... Judging from recent business activity, wide area file services (WAFS) is among the hottest trends in the storage industry. Most recently, Cisco acquired WAFS player FineGround Systems (for $70 million)--only about a month after FineGround...

Signiant delivers 'active archive,'.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2005... Burlington, MA-based Signiant will enter the active archive market next month with production shipments of its ActiveArchiver software. Signiant is perhaps best-known for its carrier-class data movement products, technology it developed while...

NetEx accelerates replication.(Network Executive Software )
July 1, 2005... Network Executive Software (NetEx) makes no secret about it: The data transport company, spun off from StorageTek in 1999, wants to make Fibre Channel over IP WAN technologies obsolete. Its line of attack is the recent release of HyperIP DRO...

Guidelines for effective e-mail archiving: getting control of electronic messaging involves software tools, tiered storage, and enterprise content management (ECM).
July 1, 2005... Highly publicized corporate scandals have illustrated the dramatic consequences that can result when e-mail is misused. In addition, recent surveys have revealed electronic message misuse to be a growing problem even when it doesn't make the...

The benefits of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS): one key advantage is support for both SCSI and Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives.(SPECIAL REPORT)
July 1, 2005... The next generation of SCSI technology, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), will bring more-flexible storage solutions to end users and storage/ systems integrators in a variety of ways. Although SAS was not the first attempt to serialize the SCSI...

iStor iSCSI storage solutions: affordable, high performance, easy-to-manage IP SANs for SMBs.(Advertorial)(iStor Networks Inc.)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2005... End-user demand for higher performance, lower-cost data storage strains the limits of current technologies, which in turn are putting increasing pressure on IT budgets and staffing requirements. Regardless of company size and IT requirements,...

Do you need fabric-based intelligence? The first article in a two-part series examines the potential benefits of running storage applications in fabric devices.
July 1, 2005... Fabric-based intelligence is not new technology, but it is surrounded by a lot of hype. In this two-part series we will help readers answer the question, "Does fabric intelligence make sense in my operation?" In this article we discuss...

SNIA adds tests for SMI-S management software: a status report on the Storage Management Initiative Specification shows steady progress on all fronts.(SNIA on STORAGE)(SMI-Labs)
July 1, 2005... THE MATURITY of the SNIA's Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) can be seen in the number of vendors participating in the Storage Management Initiative Labs (SMI-Labs) and SNIA Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP). For details,...

PolyServe touts 'UnAppliance' strategy.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Fresh off the heels of a potentially lucrative OEM deal with Hewlett-Packard, and armed with PowerPoint slides with a bunch of "NotApp" boxes, PolyServe is taking direct aim at Network Appliance (and EMC) with an "UnAppliance" strategy and the...

BlueArc extends software portfolio.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... BlueArc recently announced a wide-ranging software suite for its Titan NAS storage systems. Key components in the suite include the following: Virtual servers: This feature allows administrators to create up to eight logical servers in one...

Bus-Tech upgrades virtual tape.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Mainframe Appliance for Storage )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Last month, Bus-Tech announced enhancements to its "tape-on-disk" controller with the release of Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) 2.0. The MAS system is offered by EMC through its Select Program and is available with FICON or ESCON...

Infortrend adds FC RAID arrays.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Infortrend recently added two redundant-controller Fibre Channel systems to its line of EonStor RAID subsystems. The 3U, rack-mount 16-bay enclosures support Serial ATA (SATA)II and Fibre Channel disk drives. Performance has been increased via...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... August 14-18 HP World 2005-Solutions and Technology Conference & Expo--San Francisco, CA Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the conference features hundreds of technical and managerial breakout sessions; seminars and tutorials; keynote and...

StorCase introduces SATA-SATA enclosure.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... StorCase Technology last month introduced its five-bay InfoStation desktop system--a high density RAID enclosure that supports up to five removable SATA II drives and integrated SATA II Port Multiplier. The enclosure supports RAID levels 0, 1,...

WD delivers SATA drives.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Western Digital)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Western Digital is now shipping hard drives with Serial ATA (SATA) interface featuring 300MBps burst data-transfer rate. The WD Caviar SE16 drive has 16MB of cache--2x to 8x the cache size of standard desktop hard drives--and rotates at...

Cepoint ships 12TB RAID systems.(Cepoint Networks)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Cepoint Networks' 12TB enterprise storage systems for VoIP, video, and telephony support RAID levels 0. 1, 5. and 10, as well as JBOD configurations. The units come with Fibre Channel or iSCSI Gigabit Ethernet ports. The Rx524 SATA RAID array...

Broadcom features software upgrades.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Broadcom's RAIDCore 4410/4810 Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller cards, or HBAs, can be upgraded via software license keys to add RAID-specific features, including RAID 5. The eight-channel BC4810 is priced at $205, while the four-channel BC4410...

Nimbus enhances IP SAN.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Storage Area Networks)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Nimbus Data Systems recently added a number of enhancements to its iSCSI appliances, including Serial ATA (SATA) drives for the IPS-1200 and IPS-1600 systems with capacity of up to 8TB and dual Ethernet ports with automatic fail-over and load...

Open-E releases iSCSI software.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Open-E is shipping software that enables developers to build iSCSI target subsystems for IP SANs. Features include support for IPSec encryption and authentication, 10Gbps Ethernet, and a variety of operating systems, including Windows 2000/XP,...

Unitrends expands DPUs.(NEW PRODUCTS)(data-protection unit )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Unitrends' DPU2000-1500 data-protection unit comes bundled with Unitrends' software suite, including its backup/restore and bare-metal recovery software, enabling the recovery of an operating system as well as permissions, passwords, and...