InfoStor articles from June 2005

InfoStor archives from June 2005

SATA tops users' 'to-buy' list.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)(serial advanced technology attachment)(storage professionals surveyed)
June 1, 2005... The four hottest storage networking technologies today are Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives, virtual tape libraries (VTLs), policy-based archiving, and remote data mirroring, according to a survey of 153 storage professionals in Fortune 1000...

EMC ships virtualization platform.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
June 1, 2005... At its annual Technology Summit in New Orleans last month, EMC announced that it will begin a "controlled rollout" of its highly publicized and widely anticipated fabric-based virtualization platform this summer. Analysts say EMC's entry into...

HP enters new markets.(storage network hardware)
June 1, 2005... At its Americas StorageWorks Conference last month, Hewlett-Packard announced the "biggest storage launch in the history of our company," according to Ann Livermore, executive vice president in HP's technology solutions group. Although the...

From buzzword to the 'V' word.(analysis of virtualization)(Editorial)
June 1, 2005... You know a buzzword's in trouble when even vendors start referring to it as the "V" word. It's sort of like Voldemort in the Harry Potter books: "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named." Just when talk about virtualization was starting to simmer down,...

Acopia Networks has joined the EMC NAS Partner Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Acopia Networks has joined the EMC NAS Partner Program, enabling joint customers to deploy enterprise-wide file system solutions with virtual namespace and simplified data management capabilities across EMC's NAS product line.

Topio.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Topio recently has secured $8 million in venture capital financing, led by Star Ventures with participation of existing investors Sequoia Capital and Sigma Partners.

Zetta Systems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Zetta Systems recently launched its IR2 (Instant Recovery Reseller) channel program to provide resellers with Web-based sales tools, product demonstrations and training, and field-based pre-sales support.

Eastman Kodak.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Eastman Kodak has created the Reference Archive Services Network (RASN), made up of outsourcing partners that provide digital-to-film writing services. Using Kodak's digital-to-film writers and specially designed archival media (microfilm),...

ExaGrid Systems has named four new channel partners.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... ExaGrid Systems has named four new channel partners, including Continental Resources, Park Place International, TriAxis, and Webistix.

Compellent Technologies.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Compellent Technologies has secured $15 million in financing, led by new investor Centennial Ventures. The company has raised more than $38 million to date.

Brocade has acquired Therion Software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Brocade has acquired Therion Software, a developer of SAN management software, for about $9.3 million in cash.

Orchestria.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Orchestria, a vendor of active policy management (APM) software, has secured $21 million in Series D funding.

3PAR's InServ Storage Server is now qualified for use with Microsoft Cluster Services.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... 3PAR's InServ Storage Server is now qualified for use with Microsoft Cluster Services and select Hewlett-Packard ProLiant DL servers.

SRM: more than just reporting.(storage resource management)
June 1, 2005... Despite a 31% increase in market revenue in 2004, from $468 million to $612 million, storage resource management (SRM) remains the second-smallest--albeit the fastest-growing--segment of the overall storage management software market, according...

Brocade partners with Tacit for WAFS: HP teams with Riverbed.(wide area file services)(Brocade Communication Systems Inc., Tacit Networks Inc., Aether Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.)
June 1, 2005... Last month, Brocade announced an OEM partnership with Tacit Networks, a wide area file services (WAFS) vendor. According to analysts, the move should strengthen Brocade in the competitive ring with Cisco and give Brocade an edge over McData and...

3PAR offers service level optimization.(3PAR Dynamic Optimization)
June 1, 2005... 3PAR, the pioneer of thin provisioning, recently announced the availability of a Dynamic Optimization option that provides single-command, online, and nondisruptive service level optimization within the company's InServ disk arrays. ...

BiTMICRO's E-Disk solid-state disks (SSDs) are certified for use with Atto's host bus adapters (HBAs) for SCSI and Fibre Channel.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... BiTMICRO's E-Disk solid-state disks (SSDs) are certified for use with Atto's host bus adapters (HBAs) for SCSI and Fibre Channel. Separately, CaminoSoft's ILM suite has been certified for use with BiTMICRO's E-Disk SSDs.

Xiotech has joined IBM's BladeCenter Alliance Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(International Business Machines Corp)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Xiotech has joined IBM's BladeCenter Alliance Program and qualified IBM BladeCenter for use with Xiotech's Magnitude 3D disk array.

FileNet has become a member of Hewlett-Packard's Information Lifecycle Management Alliance Program.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... FileNet has become a member of Hewlett-Packard's Information Lifecycle Management Alliance Program. FileNet will extend its existing integration with HP storage technologies, including the Reference Information Storage System (RISS), and will...

Zetera.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Zetera has secured $13.5 million in Series A financing, led by Warburg Pincus, with existing investor WI Harper also joining this round of funding.

Nexsan Technologies and Diligent Technologies announced the availability of a joint solution for high availability, rapid recovery, and data protection.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Nexsan Technologies and Diligent Technologies announced the availability of a joint solution for high availability, rapid recovery, and data protection. The combination of Diligent's VTF Open software and Nexsan's SATA/ATA-based disk arrays...

Emulex and Brocade have introduced the EZPilot multi-vendor SAN management wizard.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Emulex and Brocade have introduced the EZPilot multi-vendor SAN management wizard, which provides a common installation and management tool for Emulex's HBAs and Brocade's switches.

Sun Microsystems has qualified QLogic's SANbox 5200 stackable Fibre Channel switches.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Sun Microsystems has qualified QLogic's SANbox 5200 stackable Fibre Channel switches and has added QLogic's SANblade QLA210 line of HBAs to the Sun StorEdge family of storage subsystems.

Hitachi Data Systems and CommVault have a distribution agreement.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems and CommVault have a distribution agreement whereby HDS will offer co-branded QiNetix software as the "Hitachi Data Protection Suite, powered by CommVault."

BakBone Software has an iForce initiative with Sun Microsystems.(alliance)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... BakBone Software has an iForce initiative with Sun Microsystems that comprises BakBone's NetVault data-protection software and Sun's StorEdge 5310 Compliance Archiving System.

Panasas has a strategic relationship with Verari Systems to co-brand.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Panasas has a strategic relationship with Verari Systems to co-brand and sell the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster for Linux clusters.

QLogic's SANbox 5602 stackable switch has earned compatibility certification with Engenio's 6998, a 4Gbps Fibre Channel storage system.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... QLogic's SANbox 5602 stackable switch has earned compatibility certification with Engenio's 6998, a 4Gbps Fibre Channel storage system. Separately, Engenio has certified the Brocade SilkWorm 4100 SAN switch for compatibility with its 6998 4Gbps...

Constant Data's Constant Replicator for Windows servers has completed Microsoft's platform testing for ISV Solutions.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Constant Data's Constant Replicator for Windows servers has completed Microsoft's platform testing for ISV Solutions and has earned Microsoft's Certified Partner Status.

TimeSpring Software and VeriStor Systems have an agreement.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... TimeSpring Software and VeriStor Systems have an agreement under which VeriStor will resell TimeSpring's TimeData continuous data protection (CDP) software.

Mimosa simplifies Exchange management.(NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server of Mimosa Systems)
June 1, 2005... New software from Mimosa Systems promises to simplify the management of Microsoft Exchange servers by enabling users to address with a single tool a variety of data management issues common to MS Exchange. Unlike alternative...

Alacritech accelerates iSCSI.(Alachritech SES2000 launched)(Internet small computer systems interface)
June 1, 2005... Although less than 10% of all iSCSI installations use accelerator cards, according to various surveys, that hasn't stopped Alacritech from plowing ahead with its annual refresh of the company's line of iSCSI and TCP/IP accelerator cards, or...

Montilio speeds up file servers, NAS.(network attached storage)(RapidFile)
June 1, 2005... Start-up Montilio Inc. last month began shipments of a "storage-to-LAN gateway" card that the company claims can boost the performance of single-CPU file servers or NAS appliances and gateways by a factor of 3x to 6x. Priced at $3,899, the...

Veritas branches out.(ANALYST VIEW)(VERITAS Software Corp. launched NetBackup 6.0)
June 1, 2005... At its recent Vision conference, Veritas introduced some key updates to its product line and provided a glimpse into its future product plans, particularly around storage virtualization, continuous data protection (CDP), and the integration of...

DataCore adds virtual capacity.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
June 1, 2005... DataCore Software recently began shipping its SANmelody 2.0 "disk server" software. The new release provides the benefits of virtual capacity to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), allowing them to combine virtual servers and virtual...

It's a long and winding road to ILM: although end users are convinced of the benefits of information life-cycle management, they are delaying adoption until better tools become available.(SPECIAL REPORT)(information life-cycle management)
June 1, 2005... Love it or hate it, the term "information life-cycle management" (ILM) is here to stay. Results from a recent survey of Fortune 1000 storage professionals conducted by TheInfoPro research firm (www.theinfopro.net) show that 62% of the...

Breaking through the iSCSI barriers: if IP SANs are going to enter the enterprise big leagues, iSCSI disk arrays will have to incorporate advanced technologies.(ANALYST VIEW)
June 1, 2005... IP NETWORKS running the iSCSI protocol to connect servers and storage arrays present a compelling value proposition: consolidating network infrastructures into one and using a common skill set to manage both Ethernet and storage networks. Yet...

iStor iSCSI storage solutions: affordable, high performance, easy-to-manage IP SANs for SMBs.(Advertorial)(small-to-medium size businesses)(Advertisement)
June 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,...

Storage Virtualization: an overview: a book excerpt from the recently published Storage Virtualization sets the stage for understanding and debate.(Excerpt)
June 1, 2005... The data storage industry is one of the most dynamic sectors in information technology today. Due largely to the introduction of high-performance networking between servers and storage assets, storage technology has undergone a rapid...

Most Valuable Product Awards.(SPECIAL SECTION)
June 1, 2005... In conjunction with the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (www.asnp.org), InfoStor recently co-sponsored the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Awards. Members of the ASNP and industry analysts narrowed a field of hundreds of product...

4Gb FC rollouts pick up steam.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Silicon Graphics Inc.)(Engenio Information Technologies)
June 1, 2005... Shipments and demonstrations of products based on 4Gbps Fibre Channel continued over the last couple months, providing end users with products that double the current Fibre Channel transfer rate. Leading the way was Engenio Information...

EMC introduces four-node Centera.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... EMC recently announced a four-node Centera configuration for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The content-addressable storage (CAS) system provides 2.2TB of usable storage capacity; leverages new "storage-on-access" nodes for better...

Sun partners with BakBone.(Sun Microsystems Inc., BakBone Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Sun recently expanded its NAS portfolio with a bundled system that includes the StorEdge 5310 Compliance Archiving Software and BakBone's NetVault data-protection software, which includes write-once, read-many (WORM) support for both tape and...

STORServer teams with NorthSeas.(NorthSeas AMT)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... STORServer, a vendor of business continuity appliances, has teamed with NorthSeas AMT to add e-mail archiving to its appliances. The bundle enables companies to automate the processes that determine how to store and when to delete e-mails and...

Calendar.(computer industry conferences)(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... August 14-18 HP Wodd 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...

Quantum delivers VTL compression.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... Quantum recently announced the availability of Optyon In-line Data Compression for its DX-Series of disk-based backup systems. The hardware-based compression reportedly doubles the usable capacity of the DX-Series with no degradation in...

ADIC upgrades D2D VTL.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... ADIC's new Pathlight VX 450 presents onboard disk capacity as a virtual tape library (VTL) to applications. It also integrates tape support, which allows users to create tapes in background mode outside the backup window in a single process...

Sepaton releases second-generation VTL.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... Sepaton's second-generation S2100 Virtual Tape Library includes a number of new features, including * Accelerated backup/restore performance and greater capacity: Backup speeds up to 4.3TB per hour and capacity of 3TB to 1PB; *...

MaXXan intros intelligent switch.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... This month, MaXXan Systems began shipments of its MXV250, a director-class Fibre Channel switch with 16 to 64 ports and a variety of storage applications enabled by FalconStor's IPStor software suite. Integrated applications include remote...

iStor launches iSCSI processor.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... iStor Networks recently began shipments to the channel of its GigaStorATX storage controller, which conforms to the ATX form-factor specifications. The controller is designed for OEMs, VARs, and systems integrators building iSCSI RAID arrays or...

SBE ships GbE ICP/IP TOE card.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... SBE has completed its merger with iSCSI software developer PyX Technologies and is shipping the dual-port iscsiPCI-2x and iscsiPMC-2x target/initiator controllers, which support Gigabit Ethernet and include TCP/IP offload engines (TOEs)....

Xyratex delivers 48-drive 4U RAID.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... Xyratex's 4835 RAID subsystem packs 48 hot-swappable Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives in a 4U enclosure for a total capacity of more than 14TB. (A future release will hold 24TB using 500GB SATA drives.) The 4835 includes Maxtor's 300GB Maxline...

Comtech targets SANs, virtual tape.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... Comtech's AHA362-PCIX GZIP boards provide compression/decompression to accelerate performance in SAN servers and virtual tape emulation backup/recovery systems. The PCI-X cards support data rates up to 3Gbps in full-duplex mode and...

Atempo software supports tiers.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... The 4.0 release of Atempo's Time Navigator data-protection software includes snapshots, replication, and disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) virtual library technology for backup-and-restore applications across multiple tiers of storage. A SnapBackup...

EVault enhances online D2D backup.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... Online backup-and-recovery provider EVault recently released Version 5 of its InfoStage software and the EVault Protect managed service offering. New features in InfoStage 5.0 include parallel restore, agents for Exchange/SQL/Oracle, on-the-fly...

Arsenal launches recovery service.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Arsenal Digital Solutions)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Arsenal Digital Solutions' ViaRecovery is an automated managed service for "bare-metal" server recovery--including operating systems, directories, applications, files, and databases--for business continuity and disaster recovery. The company...

Winternals recovers Windows.(NEW PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2005... Winternals Software's Recovery Manager 2.0 is a centralized recovery solution for Windows servers, desktops, and mobile PCs. The company claims recovery time of minutes for a full restore of operating systems, applications, data, and user...