InfoStor articles from June 2004

InfoStor archives from June 2004

Users, vendors combine NAS, iSCSI: news from NetApp, Snap, FalconStor, String Bean Software.
June 1, 2004... Combining in the same device the benefits of file-based network-attached storage (NAS) and block-based storage area networks (SANs) via iSCSI is shaping up to be a trend in the end-user community. Network Appliance kicked off the trend more...

EMC focuses on ILM.
June 1, 2004... Not surprisingly, information lifecycle management (ILM) was front and center at the EMC Technology Summit last month. The event, which is held annually for EMC customers and partners, drew a crowd of more than 2,500--an increase of 25% from...

Veritas bangs 'continuous computing' drum: but integration still poses challenges.
June 1, 2004... Veritas CEO Gary Bloom and his executives spent the bulk of their time making sure the company's "utility computing" message was omnipresent during the company's annual Veritas Vision conference last month. Veritas first drove a stake into...

Replication options multiply.
June 1, 2004... It used to be that if you wanted to replicate data you had to do it at the array level using proprietary products such as EMC's SRDF, Hitachi Data Systems' XRC, or IBM's PPRC. But users' needs have changed, and vendors have responded. ...

SATA, PATA, FATA, SCSI, SAS, FC.(editorial)(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... According to our reader surveys, you're very interested in trends such as disk-to-disk backup/restore, tiered storage, fixed-content storage, and other nearline applications. What's making these trends possible, in part, are inexpensive disk...

AT&T introduced E-Mail Archiving, a managed service to help companies comply with data-retention regulations.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... AT&T introduced E-Mail Archiving, a managed service to help companies comply with data-retention regulations. The service (and data) is hosted at AT&T's 21 Internet Data Centers. AT&T E-Mail Archiving is based on EMC's Centera storage systems...

Catalyst Enterprises.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Catalyst Enterprises has entered the storage" interface test market with a line of protocol analyzers, exercisers, and emulators for Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) products. The company currently sells a range of test...

Tacit Networks .(Business Briefs)(finance)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Tacit Networks has secured $16.9 million in its second round of financing, bringing total capital raised to $24.2 million. JPMorgan Partners, the private equity arm of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., led the funding, with participation by new investor...

Intransa and Atempo have a strategic alliance to deliver IP SANs.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Intransa and Atempo have a strategic alliance to deliver IP SANs that combine Intransa's IP5000 storage system and Atempo's Time Navigator data-protection software.

Xtore has a national distribution agreement with Condre Storage.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Xtore has a national distribution agreement with Condre Storage, a service provider of data storage and interchange solutions, and a distributor of hard disk drive and rape storage systems. Condre Storage will offer the entire line of Xtore DAS...

IBM continues software integration push.(news analysis & trends)
June 1, 2004... IBM recently announced its TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning, in a move to integrate more automation capabilities into its storage management portfolio. Advanced Provisioning uses the Tivoli Provisioning Manager as...

Brocade squares off against McData, Cisco.(news analysis & trends)
June 1, 2004... Brocade still has the lion's share of the Fibre Channel fabric switch market, but the company has struggled in the high-end director-class segment against competitors Cisco, McData, and, to a lesser degree, CNT. However, Brocade's SilkWorm...

Hitachi expands software capabilities.(news analysis & trends)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Drawing from its seven-month partnership with AppIQ, a provider of storage area management software, Hitachi Data Systems last month made several enhancements to its software lineup, including the addition of two more jointly developed...

DCT joins 'CAS pack'.(news analysis & trends)(DataCenter Technologies)
June 1, 2004... Belgium-born DataCenter Technologies (DCT) this month announced its entry into the increasingly crowded content-addressed storage (CAS) market with its DCT Content Director software. The software includes tools for data assessment, data...

Symantec moves into storage, systems management.(news analysis & trends)
June 1, 2004... Symantec, a leading supplier of security software and services, last month created a new business division tasked with solving users' end-to-end security management problems. Symantec Enterprise Administration (SEA) will develop a line of...

AmeriVault has joined forces with Atlanta-based CareCentric, a provider of management information systems to the healthcare community to provide online backup and recovery to healthcare organizations throughout the US.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... AmeriVault has joined forces with Atlanta-based CareCentric, a provider of management information systems to the healthcare community to provide online backup and recovery to healthcare organizations throughout the US. Through this alliance,...

StorageTek announced the qualification of Veritas.(Storage Technology Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... StorageTek announced the qualification of Veritas NetBackup and Data Lifecycle Manager software with the StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System.

Infortrend Europe Ltd. has signed an agreement with Anacomp Ltd.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Infortrend Europe Ltd. has signed an agreement with Anacomp Ltd., a global provider of information outsourcing services, maintenance support, and imaging and print solutions, to provide support for Infortrend's line of RAID controllers and...

Zycko, a global distributor of networking, storage, and server accessories, has signed an exclusive partnership with US-based Troika Networks.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Zycko, a global distributor of networking, storage, and server accessories, has signed an exclusive partnership with US-based Troika Networks, which will allow Zycko exclusive UK distribution of Troika's Network Storage Services Platform...

OuterBay has an OEM partnership with Sybase that includes plans for the integration of OuterBay's ADM Suite and Sybase's relational database management System.(OuterBay Technologies)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... OuterBay has an OEM partnership with Sybase that includes plans for the integration of OuterBay's ADM Suite and Sybase's relational database management system, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), and its analytics engine, Sybase IQ, Both...

Signiant takes on remote data.(news analysis & trends)
June 1, 2004... Signiant, a provider of software and services for remote data protection, recently announced several enhancements, including a new release of its flagship Mobilize platform and a suite of remote data management products that can be layered on...

SATA blurs the lines between desktop and enterprise: serial ATA is somewhere between 'desktop' ATA and 'enterprise' SCSI and Fibre Channel disk drives, but will drive makers continue to classify (and price) disk drives based on interface technology?(Special Report)
June 1, 2004... Serial ATA (SATA) is steadily gaining ground--and not just in desktop PCs as a replacement for the tried-and-true parallel version of the venerable ATA disk bus and its IDE predecessors. SATA has now begun to infiltrate enterprise data centers,...

Tech preview: Serial-Attached SCSI + PCI Express: later this year you will be able to combine Serial-Attached SCSI and PCI Express to maximize server-storage performance.
June 1, 2004... Tight IT budgets are increasing pressure on organizations to use system resources with greater efficiency to serve more clients. More than ever, IT managers must choose technologies that make the most efficient use of their server and storage...

Guidelines for implementing ILM: an industry analyst provides tips on setting up a sound information life-cycle management strategy and avoiding the next client/server trap.
June 1, 2004... Information life-cycle management (ILM) is likely to be the "hot" storage topic through 2004-05, given that ILM (sometimes referred to as data life-cycle management) is being promoted by nearly every major storage vendor (e.g., EMC,...

Policies align IT with business units: strategic, tactical, and operational policies must be in place for IT managers and various business units to work cooperatively toward their respective goals.
June 1, 2004... Many organizations struggle to align IT and business units, yet we see a number of emotive terms used to characterize these often-misaligned relationships: armed camps, strange bedfellows, reluctant partners, and co-dependents. What triggers...

Strategic Storage Solutions: tactical storage solutions for the strategic plan.(corporate profiles)(Company Profile)
June 1, 2004... Business Description Founded in 2002, Strategic Storage Solutions is focused on bringing enterprise class tactical storage solutions to the small-to-medium business (SMB) market. Backup and restore is one of the most challenging storage...

Building a SAN for SMBs, part 2: how to go from boxed HBAs and switches to a fully functional, fault-tolerant SAN in 30 minutes.(lab review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 1, 2004... At any small to medium-sized business (SMB), the search for a high-throughput storage solution will very likely begin with the use of dedicated RAID arrays using Ultra320 SCSI technology. In InfoStor Labs' tests of Ultra320-based subsystems in...

SAN security: are you prepared? SNIA's Storage Security Industry Forum provides guidelines for ensuring storage network security.(SNIA on storage)
June 1, 2004... Companies of all sizes have discovered the benefits of storage area networks (SANs). But with the introduction of new information technologies, the maturation of business processes, and the ever-increasing importance and quantity of business...

Roadblocks to implementing storage SLAS: service level agreements are the key to information life-cycle management (ILM) and tiered storage.(analyst view)
June 1, 2004... Much continues to be written about the need to better understand, design, and implement information life-cycle management (ILM) and tiered storage solutions. Most of the major storage and system vendors provide evolving hardware, software, and...

ILM: separating hype from reality: information life-cycle management has suffered from vendor hype, but by understanding ILM fundamentals you can realize operational benefits.(opinion)
June 1, 2004... Does information life-cycle management (ILM) solve a real problem? What does it encompass? How can companies benefit from ILM? And how do organizations cut through exaggerated vendor claims? Everybody is talking about ILM, and seemingly...

What is information life-cycle management? It's all about putting data at the right place, at the right time.(Opinion)
June 1, 2004... Information life-cycle management (ILM), also referred to as data life-cycle management (DLM), is one of the most promising, loosely defined, and hyped terms of the year. Software and hardware vendors are using the term to describe both old and...

IBM.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... IBM recently announced its TotalStorage FAStT100 Storage Server, which includes up to 14 250GB Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives for a total capacity of as much as 14TB. Shipments are scheduled for next month. Previously, IBM's support for SATA was...

Engenio Information Technologies.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Engenio Information Technologies (formerly LSI Logic Storage Systems) last month added an entry-level disk array to its line of enterprise SATA systems. The model 2822 array is based on Engenio's 2822 controller and SANtricity Storage Manager...

Advanced Technology and Systems Co. Ltd. (ADTX).(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Advanced Technology and Systems Co. Ltd. (ADTX) is shipping three RAID subsystem models, each with SATA disk drives. The ArrayMasStor L-LM and L-HP Fibre Channel arrays have two 2Gbps Fibre Channel host connections per controller, and the...

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC).(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC), which acquired 3ware earlier this year, last month began shipments of three SATA RAID controllers: the 9500S-4LP ($399, four ports), 9500S-8 ($599, eight ports), and 9500S-12 ($899, 12 ports). All of the...

Digi-Data.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Digi-Data has added support for SATA in its STORM line of disk enclosures. For example, the STORM Xtreme now supports the multi-port SATA Disk Enclosure Module (DEM), as well as Fibre Channel disk drives. Fibre Channel capacity is 120TB, and...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 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...

Dot Hill.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Designed primarily for streaming video, rich media, and nearline storage applications, Dot Hill's 1U RIO Xtreme disk array supports SATA and Fibre Channel disk drives, as well as shared file systems and a number of video-editing software and...

Dynamic Network Factory.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Dynamic Network Factory last month debuted the Enterprise 16320 (2U, 12-drive, up to 3TB) and 16320 (3U, 16-drive, up to 4TB) SATA-to-Ultra320 SCSI RAID systems. Both models can be configured with as much as 1GB of cache memory and come with...

Enhance Technology.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Enhance Technology is shipping eight-drive (Ultrastor RS2080SA) and 16-drive (Ultrastor RS3160SA) RAID arrays based on SATA disk drives. Both versions come with two Ultra320 SCSI host channels or two 2Gbps external Fibre Channel ports, a 64-bit...

Fastora.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Fastora, the storage division of Axiomtek, this month announced network-attached storage (NAS) appliances with four SATA disk drives (PowerStor NAS-104-AW) or 15 SATA drives (PowerStor NAS-315-AW). Based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server...

Infortrend.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Adding to its line of SATA RAID arrays, Infortrend recently began shipping the dual-controller EonStor A16F-R1211 subsystem, which comes with two 2Gbps Fibre Channel host interfaces per controller and 16 SATA disk drives. The new model features...

TeraMaxx USA.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... TeraMaxx USA's RKSS series of RAID arrays stores 6TB with 26 SATA drives in a 5U chassis. The systems include dual Xeon processors, hot-swappable drives, up to three RAID controllers with 64-bit PCI-X support, four power supplies, and support...

Xtore.(Serial ATA roundup)
June 1, 2004... Xtore is targeting its XD 2000 series Fibre Channel-to-SATA disk arrays at applications such as video and broadcasting, disaster recovery, nearline archiving, disk-to-disk backup and recovery, and fixed-content storage applications. The XD 2000...

Nexsan doubles performance.(new products)
June 1, 2004... Nexsan Technologies has added dual Fibre Channel controllers to its ATAboy2 disk arrays, claiming a performance improvement of 2.5 times over previous models and a sustained RAID-5 read rate of more than 600MBps. The ATAboy2x systems have two...

Arena ships NAS RAID.(new products)
June 1, 2004... Arena Maxtronic has released three NAS fliers that support RAID, up to four 1.8GHz processors, and Gigabit Ethernet connections. The Pegasus 220GT (two-bay), 410GT (four-bay) and 820GR (eight-bay) fillers include ATA 133 disk drives; support...

Iomega expands entry-level NAS.(new products)
June 1, 2004... Based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003, Iomega's entry-level 160GB NAS 200m and 240GB NAS 300m appliances are priced at $1,099 and $1,699, respectively. The fliers support RAID 1 or 5 and leverage Windows features such as Volume...

LXI introduces vaulting appliance.(new products)
June 1, 2004... LXI Corp.'s OffStor is an off-site tape media management and vaulting appliance for Windows, Unix, Linux, and IBM iSeries platforms that includes LXI's Tape Tracker software. Tape Tracker provides a global view of all enterprise tape pools,...

NTP upgrades software.(new products)
June 1, 2004... Version 5.1 of NTP Software's flagship Quota & File Sentinel (QFS) storage management software adds features such as the following: * Storage Investigator, a real-time Web-based analysis tool that scans and delivers storage usage...

Blue lasers provide 23GB per disc.(new products)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Sony this month began shipments of a series of Professional Disc for DATA (Pro-DATA) kits that include optical disc drives based on blue-laser technology, which provides 23GB per disc. Sony is targeting applications such as document and medical...