InfoStor articles from March 2005

InfoStor archives from March 2005

EMC jump-starts iSCSI adoption: adds iSCSI to Clariion arrays.
March 1, 2005... EMC's addition of support for native iSCSI to its Clariion disk arrays is expected to accelerate end-user adoption of iSCSI-based IP SANs. "EMC and its channel, particularly Dell, will open up new markets for iSCSI in small businesses,...

Users benefit from consolidation.(Case studies: storage consolidation: Part 2)
March 1, 2005... Storage consolidation projects often begin as a means to reduce the storage management burden and gain more-efficient control of data growth and data protection. This was the case with Atlanta-based Cbeyond, a voice and broadband Internet...

Consultants offer ROI/TCO advice.(Return on investment, Total cost of ownership)
March 1, 2005... All vendors make ROI/TCO claims. But how helpful--or accurate--are they in determining or justifying the real benefits of implementing various storage technologies? Rather than placing too much stock in vendors' ROI/TCO claims, storage...

Is ILM simple or complex?( information life-cycle management )(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... WHEN YOU-KNOW-WHO started banging the information life-cycle management (ILM) drum, I paid careful attention to the definition... and then the many definitions that followed. I started getting deja vu all over again: ILM sure looked and...

SCSI Trade Association.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The SCSI Trade Association (STA) recently announced its new board of directors for 2005. Re-elected to the position of president is Harry Mason (LSI Logic). New members of the STA board of directors include Martin Czekalski, vice president...

The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Data Management Forum (DMF) have formed a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) special interest group within the Data Protection Initiative (DPI).(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Data Management Forum (DMF) have formed a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) special interest group within the Data Protection Initiative (DPI). The founding members of the CDP Special Interest...

Hitachi Data Systems announced availability of Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform virtualization support.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Hitachi Data Systems announced availability of Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform virtualization support for EMC Symmetrix and Clariion disk arrays.

GlassHouse Technologies has acquired PowerPM.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... GlassHouse Technologies has acquired PowerPM, a NY-based project management consultancy specializing in the financial services industry.

Adaptec has entered into a strategic alliance with Vitesse Semiconductor.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Adaptec has entered into a strategic alliance with Vitesse Semiconductor to develop and market SAS products.

Bell Microproducts signed a distribution agreement with Zetera.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Bell Microproducts signed a distribution agreement with Zetera to resell Zetera's just-introduced family of IP network storage solutions.

IBM hopes to homer with 'Blue SOX'.
March 1, 2005... IBM's new "Blue SOX" service is designed to relieve organizations of some of the day-to-day burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance by handing off data management/storage responsibilities of certain data types to IBM Global Services. ...

Deepfile reinvents itself, narrows focus.
March 1, 2005... One of the biggest problems users run into when trying to meet regulatory requirements for unstructured data types (e.g., e-mail and files) is determining what data needs to be saved for compliance purposes and what data doesn't. Saving...

STK targets fixed content, compliance.(StorageTek)
March 1, 2005... StorageTek recently expanded its write-once, read-many (WORM) capabilities beyond tape to include disk media with the introduction of its Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager (LFCM) 100, a SATA-based disk system for the long-term storage of fixed...

Ibrix debuts parallel file system.(FusionFS)
March 1, 2005... At Linux World last month, four-year-old start-up Ibrix demonstrated its ability to overcome scalability issues with Linux clusters with its FusionFS parallel file system, the central component of the company's recently announced Fusion...

Retailer chooses NAS for OLTP.(Association of Storage Networking Professionals Case Study, network attached storage, online transaction processing)
March 1, 2005... A member of the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (www.asnp.org.) who manages storage for a large North American retailer gathered the information in this case study. Due to rapid growth, this Fortune 500 company needed a major...

Sanrad adds replication to iSCSI switches.(Analysis + Trends)
March 1, 2005... Sanrad this month added network-based remote data replication to the storage services supported by its family of iSCSI-based V-Switches. Existing services include storage pooling, virtualization, mirroring, fail-over, and security. The...

InMage focuses on data continuity.(Analysis + Trends)
March 1, 2005... With the release of its DR-Scout product last month, InMage, a start-up led by Brocade co-founder Kumar Malavalli, says it is making it easier--and more affordable--for mid-tier users to protect their data, as well as consolidate data at remote...

IP storage addresses diverse applications: end users are taking advantage of IP SANs to inexpensively solve storage problems in companies of all sizes.(Special Report)(storage area networks)
March 1, 2005... This past year, IT organizations have accelerated their adoption of IP Storage solutions in a variety of mainstream IT production environments. In fact, analysts report that there were more than 2,500 IP Storage deployments at the end of 2004....

The power of the pipeline.(Storage In The Studio)
March 1, 2005... As post-production houses and studios move toward all-digital workflows, there has been a renewed focus on the importance of storage devices at the hub of these digital pipelines. Our look into the state of storage at a number of visual effects...

SNIA tackles grid storage requirements: although still in its infancy, grid storage promises to alleviate cost, flexibility, and reliability issues.(SNIA Storage)
March 1, 2005... BUSINESS-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS for IT are propelling a new stage in the evolution of data storage--one that emphasizes "data" over "storage." Networked storage enables more-efficient use of information assets. Yet there are end-user "pain...

Evaluating options for Windows clusters: options range from basic high-availability and load-balancing clusters to virtual machines and data-sharing clusters.( )
March 1, 2005... Nearly every IT manager has a horror story revolving around server or storage clustering: deployment complexity, integration issues, failed high-availability schema, over-provisioning of server and storage resources, and poor resource...

Testing LTO.3 vs. LTO.2 and SDLT: LTO-3 stores an impressive 400GB per cartridge, but its performance will be the bigger draw.(Lab Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 1, 2005... SPORTING A NATIVE (UNCOMPRESSED) throughput speed of 80MBps, an LTO-3 tape drive is capable of turning into a blazing backup device or a spotlight for performance bottlenecks on other I/O subsystems attached to the server. With this level of...

SGI is among the first to market with a 4Gbps Fibre Channel RAID array--the InfiniteStorage TP9700--which is based on Engenio Information Technologies' 6998 RAID controller and XBB architecture.(Spotlight on entertainment)(Silicon Graphics Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... SGI is among the first to market with a 4Gbps Fibre Channel RAID array--the InfiniteStorage TP9700--which is based on Engenio Information Technologies' 6998 RAID controller and XBB architecture. The TP9700 is integrated into SGI's...

Medea.(Spotlight on entertainment)(Fibre Channel disk arrays)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Medea's 1.6TB VideoRaid FCR2 (single 2Gbps interface) and 3.2TB FCR2X (dual 2Gbps interfaces) are Fibre Channel disk arrays designed for video post, graphics, and content creation applications, including high definition (HD). The systems are...

The Galaxy-HDX, from Bell Microproducts' Rorke Data subsidiary, uses Serial ATA II (SATA II) disk drives with native command queuing for increased performance and is targeted at the video and broadcast markets.(Spotlight on entertainment)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The Galaxy-HDX, from Bell Microproducts' Rorke Data subsidiary, uses Serial ATA II (SATA II) disk drives with native command queuing for increased performance and is targeted at the video and broadcast markets. Pricing starts at $13,750 MSRP...

Atto Technology is supplying 4Gbps, dual-channel Celerity FC-42XS Fibre Channel adapters to Facilis for integration into Facilis' TerraBlock Shared Storage System.(Spotlight on entertainment)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Atto Technology is supplying 4Gbps, dual-channel Celerity FC-42XS Fibre Channel adapters to Facilis for integration into Facilis' TerraBlock Shared Storage System, which is targeted at high-definition television (HDTV) and digital content...

Proware supports SATA-II, 4Gbps FC.(New Products)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Proware Technology's Simbolo SB-3163S-F4A3 RAID subsystem is a 4Gbps Fibre Channel to Serial ATA-II (SATA-II) disk array with 16 hot-swappable SATA-II disk drives in a 3U 19-inch rack-mount enclosure. The array supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... April 12-15 Storage Networking World--USA--Phoenix, AZ Sponsored by SNW, SNIA, and Computerworld, the conference includes a SNIA-endorsed education, an Interoperability and Solutions Demo, discussion groups that focus on NAS, SAN, and...

ADIC upgrades tape libraries.(New Products)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... ADIC last month announced that it has integrated its iLayer management software into its Scalar i2000 tape library. Benefits include * A hot-swap drive capability that allows users to remove and insert drives in the library without making...

Xiotech intros entry-level SAN.(New Products)(Storage Area Network)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Xiotech last month introduced the Magnitude 3D 1000e, an entry-level version of its Magnitude 3D SAN arrays that eliminates planned downtime and enables users to "pay as they grow," as opposed to over-provisioning storage capacity. Also last...

Spectra Logic adds LTO library.(New Products)(Linear Tape-Open)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Spectra Logic this month introduced the third member of its "T-Series" tape library family: the Spectra T50. The library reportedly has all the features and functionality of the company's higher-end Spectra T120 and T950 platforms but has been...

BreeceHill ships optical drives.(New Products)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... BreeceHill recently shipped its MaxOptix T8 and T7 optical drives. The T8, priced at $2,650, is based on blue-violet laser technologies, while the T7, at $1,840, is based on magneto-optical (MO) laser technology. The T8 drive has a 23.3GB...

FilesX pushes 'Tapeless Branches'.(New Products)
March 1, 2005... Continuing with its goal to eliminate cumbersome tape-based backup in branch offices, FilesX last month introduced its Tapeless Branches solution, which is based on the company's Xpress Restore disk-to-disk backup/restore appliances with the...

LiveVault expands online D2D services.(New Products)
March 1, 2005... Disk-based online backup/recovery provider LiveVault last month introduced LiveVault InControl for remote office backup and recovery and LiveVault InSync, a backup/recovery service for SMBs. Both services encompass backup, off-site storage,...

Storactive upgrades CDP software.(New Products)
March 1, 2005... Storactive recently released LiveBackup 2.8, its continuous data-protection (CDP) software for Windows laptops and desktops. New features include dynamic checkpoints, a file migration wizard, and bootable DVD support--all of which are designed...

Emulex simplifies HBA installation.(New Products)
March 1, 2005... Designed to simplify installation and configuration of the company's host bus adapters (HBAs) in Windows environments, Emulex's AutoPilot Installer includes automation features such as a single download executable, installation and/ or...

Arkeia offers SQL Server plug-in.(New Products)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Arkeia, a provider of enterprise backup software, recently released a plug-in for hot backup of Microsoft SQL Server. The plug-in takes advantage of embedded capabilities in SQL Server backup-and-restore functions; Arkeia has incorporated...