InfoStor articles from July 2007

InfoStor archives from July 2007

Brocade upgrades SAN, FAN products.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... Brocade is making good on its post-McData acquisition product road map with the launch of nearly a dozen enhancements to its SAN and file area network (FAN) offerings, all while tightening interoperability between the companies' respective...

Server virtualization: the case for iSCSI.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... In the context of server virtualization and storage, end users and vendors agree: Separate the storage from the server. Maximizing the benefits of server virtualization (such as resource consolidation) requires shared storage, which means SANs....

Vendors, users grapple with power concerns.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... Storage systems are major offenders when it comes to power consumption in the data center, but in the quest for energy-efficient technology the focus, at least so far, has been primarily on microprocessors and servers. So why has storage flown...

'To dupe, or not to dupe' is not a question.(EDITORIAL)(De-Duplication)
July 1, 2007... DATA DE-DUPLICATION SPECIALIST Data Domain's successful IPO last month was a clear signal that this technology has hit the big time. The IPO occurred amidst a flurry of de-duplication-related announcements. Quantum, for example, says that...

NEC selected Xyratex Ltd.'s E5412E SAS/SATA RAID system as the external storage solution for its IA server NEC Express5800.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... NEC selected Xyratex Ltd.'s E5412E SAS/SATA RAID system as the external storage solution for its IA server NEC Express5800. Separately, CorData, a storage networking solutions provider, has chosen the Xyratex F5402E 4Gbps RAID system as a...

3PAR announced support for a new storage consolidation solution.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... 3PAR announced support for a new storage consolidation solution that pairs its InServ Storage Server with Network Appliance's V-Series systems.

StoneFly, a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory (DNF), has signed more than 50 new channel partners as part of its MVP Channel Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... StoneFly, a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory (DNF), has signed more than 50 new channel partners as part of its MVP Channel Program. About 75% of its channel partners are in the US.

iStor Networks recently rolled out its inAbled Channel Partner Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... iStor Networks recently rolled out its inAbled Channel Partner Program, which initially includes distributors, integrators, and resellers such as Arbitech, Aura-Gen, Condre, RAID Inc., and Variel Technology. Other iStor channel partners include...

Hewlett-Packard has integrated 4Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs and EZPilot software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Hewlett-Packard has integrated 4Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs and EZPilot software from Emulex in the new HP EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit.

Zetera's Z-SAN technology is currently shipping.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Zetera's Z-SAN technology is currently shipping as the foundation for Netgear's Storage Central Turbo (SC101T).

Tek-Tools has a reseller agreement with AdviStor.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Tek-Tools has a reseller agreement with AdviStor, a provider of data storage and data-protection solutions. AdviStor will sell and support Tek-Tools' Profiler Suite.

QLogic's SANbox 6140 intelligent storage router.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... QLogic's SANbox 6140 intelligent storage router has been qualified with Symantec's NetBackup software.

Sonasoft has signed a sales and marketing agreement with the North American Components (NAC) business of Arrow Electronics.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Sonasoft has signed a sales and marketing agreement with the North American Components (NAC) business of Arrow Electronics. Arrow will sell Sonasoft's Point-Click Recovery software for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Windows file systems.

TimeSpring Software and LeftHand Networks have entered into a sales and technology alliance.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... TimeSpring Software and LeftHand Networks have entered into a sales and technology alliance. Components include TimeSpring's TimeData continuous data protection (CDP) software and LeftHand's SAN/iQ SAN platform.

FalconStor Software and V2 Electronics have a new range of storage appliances.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... FalconStor Software and V2 Electronics have a new range of storage appliances based on V2's hardware platforms and FalconStor's data-protection software, including IPStor, VirtualTape Library, Continuous Data Protection, and Network Storage...

EMC supersizes VTLs, extends de-dupe.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... EMC recently rolled out a pair of large, Symmetrix-based virtual tape systems and several new software upgrades for data de-duplication, backup, and archiving. The EMC Disk Library 6000 series scales up to 1.8PB of compressed capacity and...

Hitachi ups the ante in content archiving.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled a new version of its Content Archive Platform with a slew of enhanced features in replication, security, de-duplication, and compression, but the selling point could potentially be the sheer size of the system....

NetBackup upgrade focuses on D2D.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... Disk, tape, data movement: It doesn't matter. Symantec wants to unify the management of all things backup. And the company is betting that the disk-based backup support, application optimization upgrades, and new pricing model for the latest...

Brocade enters HBA market via LSI.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(Host Bus Adapter)
July 1, 2007... This month, Brocade marked its entry into the Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) market with shipments of re-branded adapters from LSI, putting the company in direct competition with market leaders Emulex and QLogic (which combined, have a...

Continuity Software tackles DR testing.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... Israeli start-up Continuity Software has set up shop in the U.S. and is making its disaster-recovery management software available to North American customers. The product, dubbed RecoverGuard, offers end users visibility into remote...

Start-up offers IP storage clusters.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
July 1, 2007... Start-up Pivot3 recently made its presence known with a new approach toward cost-effective network storage. Pivot3 has come up with a way to use off-the-shelf components and a parallelized I/O architecture to provide an IP-based storage...

iStor Networks and Fujitsu Ltd. have teamed up to demonstrate performance of 1,046MBps and 85,786 IOPS in a 10GbE iSCSI configuration.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... iStor Networks and Fujitsu Ltd. have teamed up to demonstrate performance of 1,046MBps and 85,786 IOPS in a 10GbE iSCSI configuration. The demo included Fujitsu's Primequest servers, iStor's GigaStor ATX target subsystems, 10Gbps Ethernet...

Designed in collaboration with Data Direct Networks (DDN), IBM has announced the DCS9550 disk system for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Designed in collaboration with Data Direct Networks (DDN), IBM has announced the DCS9550 disk system for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The DCS9550 scales up to 96TB with Fibre Channel disk drives or up to 160TB with SATA...

Storewiz.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Storewiz has closed a $9 million round of funding with venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.

Exanet.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Exanet has secured $18 million in its recent round of financing. Exanet's current investors include Evergreen Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Microdent, Kodak, CSK Fund (Hitachi), Dr. Giora Yaron, and others. The latest round of funding was...

Emulex's HBAnyware is now available for use in Sun Microsystems' SAN Foundation Software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Emulex's HBAnyware is now available for use in Sun Microsystems' SAN Foundation Software, which Sun developed for the Solaris OS.

ExaGrid Systems has expanded the availability of the ExaGrid Diskbased Backup System through several new distributor and VAR relationships.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... ExaGrid Systems has expanded the availability of the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup System through several new distributor and VAR relationships. Promark Technology, Synegi, USI Corp., and Voyant Strategies are among the latest companies to join the...

Brocade announced the availability of Brocade Access Gateway.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
July 1, 2007... Brocade announced the availability of Brocade Access Gateway for IBM BladeCenter solutions.

Tape market update: LTO's the bright spot: LTO libraries accounted for more than 88% of unit shipments last year, and the LTO-4 format promises to extend the technology's dominance.(SPECIAL REPORT)
July 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tape market research firm Freeman Reports recently released its annual Tape Library Outlook report--a 188-page compendium that covers virtually all aspects of the tape market--and in terms of tape formats, LTO is the...

Options abound for tape, disk encryption: choices include software-based encryption, switch-based encryption, drive- or library-based encryption, and dedicated appliances.(SPECIAL REPORT)
July 1, 2007... Protecting personal and private customer or employee data has become something of a national crusade these days. Unfortunately, so has the need to publicly expose any company that fails to adequately protect the sensitive data under its care....

The real state of SRM, part 2: storage resource management (SRM) challenges include multi-vendor support, homegrown versus vendor tools, and the trend toward SRM suites.
July 1, 2007... Part 1 in this series of articles (see June 2007, p. 31) focused on what SRM tools are good for--and where improvements are required. In an effort to reduce costs in their storage environments, most companies are deploying storage arrays...

Introducing 'data warehouse appliances': workload-optimized storage appliances are tuned to specific applications and I/O workloads.
July 1, 2007... Despite all the marketing talk about "intelligence" in the storage network, we still have a long way to go. The truth is that most storage devices today are simply not as aware as they should be of applications, data access patterns, and...

ILM isn't just about storage: storage-focused implementers can learn a lot from non-storage IT disciplines.(SNIA on STORAGE)
July 1, 2007... DEPENDING ON WHOM you talk to, information lifecycle management (ILM) is nothing more than "tiered storage," or, a new term for hierarchical storage management (HSM), or, a new way of classifying content for corporate or regulatory governance,...

Silver Peak boosts WAN performance.(NEW PRODUCTS)
July 1, 2007... As the amount of data moving across WANs continues to grow, vendors keep rolling out new tools for maximizing the performance of applications over distances. WAN acceleration appliance vendor Silver Peak Systems is the latest vendor to enhance...

Ciprico branches out.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Known primarily as a storage systems vendor focused on the entertainment market, Ciprico hopes to branch out beyond its traditional roots into the mainstream IT storage market. The seeds for the expansion were planted last year with the...

Adaptec enhances NAS software.(NEW PRODUCTS)
July 1, 2007... The 4.4 version of Adaptec's Guardian-OS software, which runs on the company's Snap Server NAS appliances, includes new features such as * A Data Migration Utility enables users to copy data, including security permissions, from any system...

Reldata upgrades virtual OS.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Operating System)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Reldata has enhanced its storage virtualization software, RELvos Version 2.0, with 64-bit performance designed to boost the throughput of the company's "unified storage systems." The RELvos Virtualization Operating System provides...

Overland doubles VTL performance.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Virtual Tape Library)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Overland Storage recently began shipping the REO 9100 virtual tape library (VTL), which boosts the performance of its predecessor by 2x. Features include Dynamic Virtual Tape technology (intelligent provisioning for optimizing capacity...

MonoSphere manages EMC arrays.(NEW PRODUCTS)
July 1, 2007... MonoSphere has added deeper support for capacity management and planning in EMC storage environments with the launch of Storage Horizon 3.2, a tool that maps storage usage from application hosts down to storage subsystems. Storage Horizon...