InfoStor articles from May 2003

InfoStor archives from May 2003

Users contend with growing e-mail stockpiles.
May 1, 2003... According to the Yankee Group, e-mail is the fastest-growing storage consumer from an application standpoint, increasing at a rate of 38% annually. At these levels, e-mail management is quickly becoming a source of considerable angst for IT...

IBM begins virtualization rollout.
May 1, 2003... IBM late last month put an end to speculation about its virtualization strategy, announcing the phased rollout of initial products this year. The rollout begins with the release of IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller in July and culminates...

Storage security gains users' attention: SNIA forum proposes best practices.(Storage Networking Industry Association )
May 1, 2003... While a recent Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) survey confirmed that users are still awaiting new security products and technologies for their storage networks, security start-up vendors say options exist today to meet those...

Are your storage resources (and data) really secure? (Editorial).
May 1, 2003... Maybe we just live in paranoid times, but security has once again become a top concern in many IT organizations. In a recent survey conducted by International Data Corp., security ranked number two (behind uptime) among the top issues for IT...

CNT has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inrange Technologies. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... CNT has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inrange Technologies, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $190 million, or $2.31 per Inrange share. CNT and SPX have entered into an agreement whereby SPX will sell its...

EMC and MTI Technology have a global agreement. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... EMC and MTI Technology have a global agreement whereby MTI will sell EMC Automated Networked Storage systems and software. Also, MTI has become a member of the EMC Authorized Services Network and will provide end-to-end service for the Clariion...

Finisar has entered into a partnership with Infinity I/O. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Finisar ha entered into a partnership with Infinity I/O to provide SAN training. Classes range from the basic "introduction to Fibre Channel SANs" and "SAN Technical Planning and Design," to the more technical "Debugging Techniques for SAN...

NeoScale Systems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... NeoScale Systems has secured $12 million in second round equity funding led by Sevin Rosen Funds, bringing total financing to $25.5 million. Other investors include Bay Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Veritas Software. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Veritas Software announced its first enduser certification program, a new component of its Certified Professional Program (VCPP). The program is designed to help companies better manage the performance and availability of critical business...

Softek has established a partnership with Sanera Systems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Softek has established a partnership with Sanera Systems, whereby Softek SANView SAN software will support Sanera's new data-center class, 1.6TBps switching platform, the DS10000.

Avamar Technologies received $13 million in its latest round of funding. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Avamar Technologies received $13 million in its latest round of funding. Separately, Computer Media Technologies (CMT), a storage backup and disaster recovery provider, has joined the Avamar Technologies Alliance Program. As part of the...

Crossroads Systems and Quantum have a new channel program. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Crossroads Systems and Quantum have a new channel program that bundles Crossroads storage routers with Quantum ATL P-Series rape libraries to authorized solution providers. The bundle provides resellers with a solution for the latest 2Gb Fibre...

Storage networking vendors of the SNIA Supported Solutions Forum (SSF). (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Storage networking vendors of the SNIA Supported Solutions Forum (SSF) debuted a demonstration of interoperable Fibre Chanel switches and directors at the recent Storage Networking World Spring 2003 show. The demonstration featured...

JNI has expanded its reseller agreement with Sun Microsystems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... JNI has expanded its reseller agreement with Sun Microsystems, which enables Sun to install JNI FibreStar HBAs at the factory and resell JNI HBAs through authorized Sun channels worldwide.

Atempo has secured $6.2 million in funding. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Atempo has secured $6.2 million in funding, led by Banc of America Equity Partners, KBC Investco, Plantagenet Partners, and Vision Capital.

Adaptec has acquired Eurologic Systems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Adaptec has acquired Eurologic Systems, a provider of external and networked storage solutions, for $30 million, enabling it to expand its product line to include more external storage solutions.

Fujitsu Softek augments SRM software. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... Cash-strapped IT departments are increasingly realizing that, although storage resource management (SRM) software can be expensive, it can also significantly decrease overall hardware costs and ongoing storage management costs. As a result of...

CommVault delivers storage management pieces. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... This month, CommVault Systems introduced the first data management components of its QiNetix platform (which was announced last October): QNet Management Console and QiNetix Storage Manager. A third product--QNet SAN--is slated for release in...

InterSAN adds SRM, boosts SAM automation. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... InterSAN has added storage resource management (SRM) capabilities and enhanced policy-based management in the latest version of its storage area management (SAM) software--Pathline 2.5. The company also announced that Fidelity Investments is...

High-end NAS market heats up. (News Analysis & Trends).(Industry Overview)
May 1, 2003... The high-end network-attached storage (NAS) market will be getting more competitive this year as the reseller agreement between Hitachi Data Systems and Network Appliance kicks in with both vendors delivering a NAS gateway. Also at the high...

Sun tackles storage virtualization. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... Last month, Sun began shipping its N1 Data Platform, which is based on hardware and virtualization software that it acquired from Pirus Networks last year. The platform provides storage pooling and consolidation by allowing users to allocate...

SNIA begins SMI-S testing. (News Bytes).
May 1, 2003... The Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), a management interface for multi-vendor storage networking products, is undergoing a six-month testing period as part of the newly formed CIM-SAN-2 Developer's Demonstration Program,...

Dell SAN bundle includes EMC CX200s. (News Bytes).
May 1, 2003... Dell recently shipped entry-level storage area network (SAN) configurations based on EMCs CX200 disk arrays, which Dell is now manufacturing. The SANs are available for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database environments, as well as for file...

Rapid recovery for Oracle. (News Bytes).
May 1, 2003... 3PARs Virtual Copy DBA provides disk-based backup and recovery for Oracle databases. Features include copy-on-write snapshots (which decreases the amount of disk space required), support for hundreds of snapshots per volume, readable and...

How fast is iSCSI? (News Bytes).
May 1, 2003... In an attempt to demonstrate that SCSI can handle I/O-intensive applications such as databases and OLTP--and compete with Fibre Channel on the performance front--chip vendor Silverback Systems has benchmarked its iSNAP 2100 processor at 92,000...

Broadcom swallows Gadzoox. (News Bytes).
May 1, 2003... Broadcom, which makes chips for broadband communications, has acquired most of the assets of the once high-flying Gadzoox Networks. Gadzoox was a pioneer in Fibre Channel silicon and switches and hit a market capitalization of $2 billion in...

Mountain View acquires Linux software. (News Bytes).
May 1, 2003... Mountain View Data acquired TurboLinux's PowerCockpit software for deploying, provisioning, and managing clusters of Intel-based servers running Windows or Linux. The software allows users to configure and manage racks of Linux and Windows...

IP SAN costs less than 2 cents per MB. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... One of the long-standing promises of IP storage area networks (SANs) based on the iSCSI protocol has been low cost compared to Fibre Channel SANs. But few companies have actually backed up those claims to date. Start-up Intransa Inc., in San...

FilesX focuses on fast data recovery. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... To date, litde attention has been paid to the recovery side of the backup-and-restore equation. But Southborough, MA, start-up FilesX is hoping to change that. The company joins a growing list of vendors intent on improving the way users...

Emulex and Intel team up on FC, SATA, SAS. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... At last month's Storage Networking World conference, Emulex and Intel announced a partnership that is expected to lead to "next generation" storage processors and related boards and software by the fourth quarter. The resulting technology...

Sanera director aimed at high-end SANs. (News Analysis & Trends).
May 1, 2003... Most storage start-ups prefer to graze in pastures ignored by the larger vendors, but a handful of switch start-ups are going right to the top of the food chain with director-class switches. Often, the switches have very high port counts,...

Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (SRSS). (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Seagate Removable Storage Solutions (SRSS) has changed its name to Certance. The company is owned by New SAC, a private corporation created by an investment group led by Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in connection with the...

SNIA has joined forces with HCL Technologies. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... SNIA has joined forces with HCL Technologies, global IT and technology services provider to create a Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) test suite. The suite will provide interoperability testing to ensure that multi-vendor...

The Data Storage Division (DSD) of Ovation has contracted with Sony. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... The Data Storage Division (DSD) of Ovation has contracted with Sony to be its first Master Systems Integrator for Sony-branded S-AIT products. Under this agreement, Ovation will be the first master VAR/SI for new -generation Sony-branded S-AIT...

InfiniSwitch has obtained IBM. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... InfiniSwitch has obtained IBM Server-Proven status. The InfiniSwitch solution, which includes a 12/24 Port Leaf Switch and a dual-port host channel adapter, passed compatibility testing for three IBM eServer xSeries platforms: the x335, x345,...

Z-force and Rackable Systems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Z-force and Rackable Systems, a provider of rack-mount high-density compute server and storage solutions, have announced a NAS solution with up to 72TB of NAS storage, two Z-force file Gigabit Ethernet networking infrastructure in a single 44U...

Legato is integrating Verity's K2 Developer software. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Legato is integrating Verity's K2 Developer software into its Application-Xtender. The resulting package will reportedly be a suite of enterprise content management solutions with a search technology that can manage large volumes of data....

Tech Data. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Tech Data has launched a technical support team for resellers developing technology compliance solutions required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The team consists of systems engineers, technical support, and...

Silverback Systems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Silverback Systems has secured $15 million in its third round of funding, bringing total capital raised to $32.3 million. This round was led by existing investor, Excelsior Venture Partners III LLC, with all previous investors--Gemini Israel...

AppIQ announced a channel program. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... AppIQ announced a channel program designed to broaden the availability of AppIQ Solution Suite to Fortune 1000 and government customers. The company has signed seven charter members, including Accunet Solutions, FedTek, NET Source, Rand...

Topspin Communications. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Topspin Communications entered into channel sales and marketing partnerships with Total Tec, Microway, Promicro, and Rackable in North America; Miel in Europe; and Sumitomo in Asia for its complete InfiniBand-based switched computing product...

Inrange Technologies and Nishan Systems. (Business Briefs).
May 1, 2003... Inrange Technologies and Nishan Systems have a reseller agreement that will make Nishan's IP storage switches available through Inrange's worldwide sales organization.

Calendar.
May 1, 2003... June 3-6 Storage Networking World EuroStorage--Cannes, France Sponsored by SNIA and Computerworld, the event is a forum where IT decision-makers get SNIA-endorsed education as well as a view of the Interoperability and Solutions...

You can do more with less. (Advertorial).
May 1, 2003... President, The Storage Group Inc. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, The Storage Group is an independent consulting firm specializing in selecting, designing, implementing, and auditing storage systems for companies of all sizes. More...

Putting together the pieces of SAN management software. (Special Report).
May 1, 2003... To ease the complexity of managing heterogeneous storage networks, vendors are moving toward standards such as SMI-S. This past year has seen major changes m of what in the landscape of what is referred to as either the storage area...

Business as usual: an intelligent storage network foundation-key enabler for business continuance and disaster recovery. (Advertisement).
May 1, 2003... Business continuance is not a new concept; however, it has become top of mind with corporate executives from all industry segments. In fact, implementation of a business continuance strategy has become a necessary cost of doing business today....

Maximize SAN and NAS ROI with SRM: matching application requirements with appropriate storage resources enables administrators to fully realize the value of networked storage.(storage resource management )
May 1, 2003... Business applications will continue to demand increasing amounts of storage. Applications driving capacity growth include e-mail, e-commerce, transactional databases, digital photography/audio/video, medical imaging, and regulation-required...

Disk-based database recovery slashes restore time: new recovery techniques put the emphasis on restore, as opposed to backup, operations.
May 1, 2003... Your enterprise-wide transactional database has suffered a catastrophic event and you're now facing a 17-to 25-hour system rebuild process from the backup tapes. It's a nightmare scenario that would make any storage administrator operating in a...

U.S. Army leverages SNIA Tech Center: a case study shows that end users, integrators, and vendors can take advantage of SNIA facilities to reduce risk and costs in proof-of-concept testing. (SNIA on Storage).
May 1, 2003... The U.S. Army is well on its way to the "biggest technological rollout in decades," according to Jim Riggs, project manager with the Army PERMS Project. The PERMS (Personnel Electronic Record Management System) Projects mission is to provide a...

Ultrium 2 LTO tape drives pass the test: Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks Ultrium 460 racks up impressive capacity and performance scores. (Labs Review).
May 1, 2003... "Super drive" is the new buzzword in the rape storage market. According to industry analysts, super drives have tape cartridges that can hold at least 100GB (uncompressed) of data. In that category you'll find Mammoth 2 from Exabyte, SuperDLT...

Corporate profile.
May 1, 2003... Business/Corporate Description Founded in 1984, Dantz Development Corporation is the leading worldwide provider of backup and restore software focused on small and midsize businesses. The Dantz[R] Retrospect[R] family of backup products...

Disk- or tape-based backup, or both? Speedy disk backup is gaining popularity as networking demands increase, but traditional tape-based data protection won't disappear overnight, so consider combining the best of both. (Opinion).
May 1, 2003... With more and more pressure on IT administrators to protect data and make it readily accessible 24 hours a day, an increasing number of companies are looking for alternatives or supplemental solutions to traditional client-to-tape backup and...

Iomega continues NAS push. (New Products).
May 1, 2003... Providing up to 1.44TB of RAID-5 capacity, Iomega's latest additions to its network-attached storage (NAS) appliances--the P800m and P850m--are based on Windows 2000 and include the Distributed File System (DFS), Active Directory Services (ADS)...

FIA expands NAS filers. (New Products).
May 1, 2003... FIA is shipping the POPnetserver 4600 NAS device with capacities ranging from 160GB to 1TB in a 1U form factor. The 4600 uses a 400MHz bus to support Intel's Celeron and Pentium 4 processors. It includes four hot-swappable drives, RAID, and...

Xtore introduces 1U enclosures. (New Products).
May 1, 2003... At last month's Networld+Interop show, Xtore Extreme Storage unveiled a 1U (1.75 inches) "white box" storage enclosure that includes RAID controllers from Accusys. The USTOR enclosure can be configured with ATA disk drives for a capacity of up...

Start-up ships 'Virtual Storage Gateways'. (New Products).
May 1, 2003... FibreStream Inc., a start-up based in Minneapolis, has begun shipments of a Virtual Storage Gateway that combines snapshots, file serving (NAS), and block serving (SAN) in a single appliance. The device plugs into Ethernet LANs and supports...

BakBone upgrades backup/restore software. (New Products).
May 1, 2003... At the Storage Networking World conference last month, BakBone Software introduced the 7.0 version of its NetVault backup-and-recovery software. key features include * Policy-based job management tied to event notification; *...

Arkivio management software supports Unix. (New Products).
May 1, 2003... Arkivio has added support for Unix to its auto-stor data resource management software. (The package already supports Windows.) The software enables automated, agent-less discovery, monitoring, and reporting of data and storage resources in...