InfoStor articles from March 2008

InfoStor archives from March 2008

VTLs with de-dupe produce real ROI.(CASE STUDIES)
March 1, 2008... The rapid maturation of virtual tape library (VTL) technology--specifically, the integration of data de-duplication into many of the systems--is elevating VTLs from platforms for speeding backup-and-restore operations into a source of...

EMC unveils SaaS strategy.
March 1, 2008... EMC launched a new strategy for delivering software-as-a-service (SaaS) with the introduction of a new online backup-and-recovery service dubbed MozyEnterprise. The move marks EMC's first foray into the world of SaaS, and MozyEnterprise is the...

Who needs 8Gbps Fibre Channel?(Editorial)
March 1, 2008... EVERY TIME THE STORAGE INDUSTRY reaches a new milestone in interface performance, I question whether engineering excellence has outstripped end users' actual requirements. Such is the case with the latest generation of Fibre Channel, which...

SCSI Trade Association.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
March 1, 2008... The SCSI Trade Association (STA) announced their newly elected Board of Directors for 2008. Re-elected as president and vice president were Harry Mason of LSI and Martin Czekalski of Seagate Technology, respectively. Returning are Martin Or of...

Promise Technology.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
March 1, 2008... Promise Technology's VTrak E-Class RAID subsystems have been qualified with Apple's Xsan systems.

The Fibre Cannel Industry Association (FCIA) recently announced that the T11 Technical Committee adopted a common addressing structure for the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
March 1, 2008... The Fibre Cannel Industry Association (FCIA) recently announced that the T11 Technical Committee adopted a common addressing structure for the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard. FCIA supporters include Amphenol, Broadcom, Brocade,...

LSI's MegaRAID technology has been selected by IBM for integration into IBM's System x server line.
March 1, 2008... LSI's MegaRAID technology has been selected by IBM for integration into IBM's System x server line, via its new Serve-RAID-MR10 family of adapters and ROMB solutions.

Fujitsu and Reldata.
March 1, 2008... Fujitsu and Reldata announced the interoperability of the Fujitsu XG 10 GbE family and Reldata's 10GbE 9240 Unified Storage Solution.

ProStor Systems announced interoperability between its InfiniVault archive appliance.
March 1, 2008... ProStor Systems announced interoperability between its InfiniVault archive appliance and CommVault's Simpana Data Archiver and Exchange Compliance Archiver software.

DataCore Software has entered into a Technology Partner Alliance with Vizioncore.
March 1, 2008... DataCore Software has entered into a Technology Partner Alliance with Vizioncore, a provider of management solutions for virtual infrastructure environments.

QLogic and LSI will be working together to cross-certify Infini-Band-based storage systems.
March 1, 2008... QLogic and LSI will be working together to cross-certify Infini-Band-based storage systems from LSI with QLogic Infini-Band networking products.

Isilon Systems.
March 1, 2008... Isilon Systems' IQ clustered storage systems have been tested for interoperability with Enterprise Vault from Symantec.

Bell Micro has signed an agreement with long-time partner Hitachi Data Systems.
March 1, 2008... Bell Micro has signed an agreement with long-time partner Hitachi Data Systems to distribute the new Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 product line.

CipherMax.
March 1, 2008... CipherMax's CM140T storage security solution and KeyCruiser lifecycle management system have been certified with the HP TAC Partner Program for HP Storage Works VTLs.

CA upgrades Recovery Management.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... CA has released new versions of three products in it Recovery Management portfolio, including ARCserve Backup, XOsoft High Availability, and XOsoft Replication, offering customers and channel partners centralized management, security, and...

Emulex delivers 8Gbps FC HBAs.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... Emulex has begun shipments of 8Gbps Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs)-effectively doubling the I/O performance of existing HBAs-to its OEMs. The single-channel LightPulse LPe12000 and dual-channel LightPulse LPe12002 support the PCI...

HP first to ship 8Gbps QLogic gear.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... Hewlett-Packard recently began shipping a new StorageWorks Simple SAN Connection Kit based on 8Gbps Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters (HBAs) from QLogic. The kit includes the StorageWorks 8/20q 8Gbps Fibre Channel switch, four...

CommVault adds SaaS-based service.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... CommVault is shipping a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering designed to help companies enhance system availability and better manage their storage environments. The Remote Operations Management Service (ROMS) is a subscription-based...

FalconStor ships clustered VTL with de-dupe.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... FalconStor Software has released the next generation of its virtual tape library (VTL) product, this time with an eye toward enterprise environments in need of scalable VTLs with global data de-duplication. The new VTL Enterprise Edition...

HDS launches pre-configured VTLs.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has quietly made a name for itself in the virtual tape library (VTL) market by selling custom VTL systems with data de-duplication capabilities to enterprise customers. Now the company is taking the technology to the...

Dell EqualLogic launches iSCSI array.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
March 1, 2008... One week after finalizing its $1.4 billion acquisition of EqualLogic, Dell introduced the PS5000 series of iSCSI disk arrays and held a town meeting to assuage its channel partners regarding pricing and overlap between the channel and Dell's...

The quest for unified storage management, part 1.(OPINION)
March 1, 2008... IN APRIL 2005, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) held a press conference to announce the results of a conformance testing program focused on its Storage Management Initiative--Specification (SMI-S). SMI-S is based on two...

Storage solutions for fast-paced studios.(CASE STUDIES)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Digital content creation studios have unique requirements when it comes to their storage infrastructures. Most shops, whether large or small, require the utmost in performance, capacity, and content sharing and...

The benefits of clustered block storage: clustered storage offers advantages in both performance and scalability, but users need to evaluate three different architectures.(SPECIAL REPORT)(Cover story)
March 1, 2008... Today's data centers can add storage capacity to almost incomprehensible levels. However, optimal storage capacity utilization or increased capacity does not necessarily equate to increased or optimal performance. In fact, performance upgrades...

Evaluating options for file system software: options include single-instance file systems and distributed file systems--both federated and clustered.(ANALYST VIEW)
March 1, 2008... ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES facing IT organizations today is the exponential growth of unstructured data. This trend is a result of numerous business drivers such as regulatory requirements to retain data, increasing amounts of information...

XAM standard addresses archiving issues.(SNIA on STORAGE)(eXtensible Access Method )
March 1, 2008... FIXED CONTENT CONSISTS OF DATA that doesn't change over time, such as digital images, e-mail messages, presentations, video content, medical images, and check images. Fixed content data must be kept for long periods of time, often to comply...

HP unveils low-cost SAN array.(NEW PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... Hewlett-Packard recently began shipping the newest member of its family of SAN arrays for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs)--the StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array (MSA2000). But this time, the company has narrowed its focus by...

Reldata adds wizards.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... In an effort to simplify storage operations, Reldata has added Adaptive Storage Wizards to its line of 9240 Unified Storage Systems and Gateways. The wizards guide storage administrators through tasks such as virtualizing disks, assigning iSCSI...

Tek-Tools addresses VMs.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Tek-Tools' Profiler for VMware, a new module in the company's Profiler Suite, is designed to optimize capacity utilization, performance, and availability in virtual server environments, and to provide end-to-end monitoring of VMware ESX hosts,...

Data Domain targets ROBOs.(NEW PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... Designed for remote offices and branch offices (ROBOs), Data Domain's DD120 is a data de-duplication appliance that includes functions such as replication, management, and support for diskbased backup and nearline data. The appliance provides...

Infortrend debuts SAS arrays.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Infortrend has added two systems to its "Cube" series of RAID arrays--the EonStor A08S-C2131 and A08S-C2132. Both are SAS-to-SATA arrays with eight drive bays for up to 8TB of capacity. The systems are available with one or two power supplies...

Verari unveils blade server-storage system.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Verari Systems recently began shipping a high-density blade server-storage system that users or integrators can configure with as many as 72 single-server nodes or 144 double-server nodes per rack (up to 672 cores) and up to 672TB of storage...

Sans Digital ships RAID/JBOD.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Sans Digital's two-bay (2.5-inch disk drives) InstaRAID IR12TB (RAID) and IS12TB (JBOD) disk arrays come in the same form factor as desktop 3.5-inch disk drives and can be configured as RAID-1, RAID-0, or JBOD devices. The IS12TB has dual SATA...

DataCore expands VIF.(NEW PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... DataCore has added a number of new features to its Virtual Infrastructure Foundation (VIF) SAN virtualization suite. The PLUS version of VIF (VIF+) includes support for thin-provisioning storage pools up to 4TB, snapshot technology, and Fibre...

Permabit ships multi-PB archive.(NEW PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... Permabit's Enterprise Archive Data Center Series system is a long-term archiving platform with data reduction and availability features aimed at alleviating the cost and management problems caused by the growth of fixed data. What separates the...

Calendar.(Brief article)(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... April 7--8 Storage Networking World--Orlando, FL Produced by Computerworld and co-owned by d Computerworld and the d Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the conference focuses on the rapid growth of user implementation of...

Continuity offers DR service.(NEW PRODUCTS)
March 1, 2008... Continuity Software has joined the Software as a Service (SaaS) movement with the introduction of its Disaster Recovery (DR) Assurance service based on the company's RecoverGuard DR testing and monitoring software. RecoverGuard detects...