InfoStor articles from May 2007

InfoStor archives from May 2007

WAN acceleration improves DR.(wide area networks, disaster-recovery)
May 1, 2007... Disaster preparedness has raced to the top of the IT to-do list for many large companies since 2001, and as companies move more data between multiple locations, the cost and latency issues inherent in wide area network (WAN) connectivity have...

Focus on: tape trends.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
May 1, 2007... As always, the main trend in the tape market is the inexorable march toward higher capacity and faster transfer rates, a trend exemplified by the imminent arrival of LTO-4 tape drives, libraries, and media. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO)...

CAS users wary of vendor lock-in.(content-addressed storage )
May 1, 2007... When InfoStor examined the pros and cons of content-addressed storage (CAS) technology one year ago, users were singing the praises of CAS platforms and their ability to securely store and retrieve unaltered data for long periods of time. But,...

Start-ups versus acquisitions.(forecasting computer storage device industry)(Editorial)
May 1, 2007... AN INTERESTING--ALBEIT PREDICTABLE--dynamic is taking place in the storage market: The number of startups are dwindling rapidly, while the number of acquisitions are skyrocketing. An edition of StorageNewsletter from earlier this year put this...

Microsoft and EMC have a licensing agreement whereby Microsoft will license EMC's Smarts network discovery and health monitoring technology.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Microsoft and EMC have a licensing agreement whereby Microsoft will license EMC's Smarts network discovery and health monitoring technology to integrate into a future version of System Center Operations Manager. EMC will develop and deliver...

A number of vendors have banded together to propose a specification, dubbed Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), to the ANSI T11 standards committee.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... A number of vendors have banded together to propose a specification, dubbed Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), to the ANSI T11 standards committee. FCoE would enable SAN traffic to be natively transported over Ethernet networks. Initial...

Network Appliance.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Network Appliance has renamed the Topio TDPS software as NetApp ReplicatorX. The software provides block-level continuous data replication across heterogeneous storage platforms. NetApp acquired Topio last year.

Neterion and iStor Networks demonstrated an iSCSI-based SAN.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Neterion and iStor Networks demonstrated an iSCSI-based SAN operating at line rate 10Gbps speeds in the Solution Center at the Storage Networking World conference last month.

Permabit has entered into a partnership agreement with CaminoSoft.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Permabit has entered into a partnership agreement with CaminoSoft. CaminoSoft's Premier Channel Partner Program will enable both companies to provide organizations with solutions for setting information storage policy and managing information...

Plasmon and Nexsan announced the Enterprise Active Archive (EAA) platform for managing business-critical and compliant information.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Plasmon and Nexsan announced the Enterprise Active Archive (EAA) platform for managing business-critical and compliant information. The EAA integrates Nexsan's Assureon software with Plasmon's Archive Appliance to provide a multi-tier archiving...

NTP Software is partnering with Decru, a NetApp company.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... NTP Software is partnering with Decru, a NetApp company, to offer joint customers integrated data-management and security solutions.

Sepaton has secured $22 million in series E financing.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Sepaton has secured $22 million in series E financing. New investor HarbourVest Partners led the funding round, which also included participation from existing investors Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Menlo Ventures, and Valhalla Partners.

Ciprico's MediaVault RAID series has been certified with Tiger Technology's MetaSAN cross-platform.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
May 1, 2007... Ciprico's MediaVault RAID series has been certified with Tiger Technology's MetaSAN cross-platform, file-sharing SAN management software.

User survey: e-mail maintenance inadequate.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
May 1, 2007... Even as organizations become more dependent on e-mail to run their businesses, many don't dedicate enough staff or technology to prevent downtime, according to a recent King Research survey. The survey, conducted by ApplicationContinuity.org...

HP debuts new AiO array for SMBs.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
May 1, 2007... Hewlett-Packard continues to roll out new storage systems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the latest addition to its family of All-in-One (AiO) disk arrays--the StorageWorks AiO1200. The AiO1200 combines file serving, shared...

Sun touts open source storage.(NEWS: ANALYSIS+TRENDS)
May 1, 2007... Sun Microsystems has announced that it is handing some of its storage technologies over for free to the storage developers within the OpenSolaris community in the hopes that users and developers will combine the open source Solaris operating...

Gresham enters VTL fray.(Gresham Enterprise Storage introduced Clareti Virtual Tape Library software)
May 1, 2007... Gresham Enterprise Storage, the storage arm of UK-based software and services company Gresham LLC, recently announced a new virtual tape library (VTL) product with built-in monitoring and statistical analysis features, marking the firm's first...

Consider apps when deploying CDP: continuous data protection (CDP) should include data classification, retention policies, and integration with applications.(SNIA on STORAGE)
May 1, 2007... BUSINESS CONTINUITY IS consistently ranked among the top IT initiatives, according to end-user surveys. As a result, continuous data protection (CDP) as a function of business continuity is a growing market segment. Server consolidation,...

Data classification lays the foundation: classification is the foundation for larger projects such as information lifecycle management (ILM), tiered storage, and intelligent archiving.(SPECIAL REPORT)
May 1, 2007... When we profiled data-classification practices one year ago, we found many storage professionals using data-classification products to discover what the heck was taking up so much space on their G: drives. More often than not, they were...

Tips for data retention and purging: a successful data purging project requires cooperation among many non-IT and IT groups, including the storage team.
May 1, 2007... With the ever-decreasing cost of primary storage, why bother purging data? The status quo is to do nothing. Most legacy applications have never purged data, and new applications are rarely designed to accommodate purging. At the same time,...

Data-center power and cooling strategies: environmental costs are going through the roof in most IT shops. Here are some tips to minimize the problems without moving or rebuilding the data center.
May 1, 2007... The equipment that IT puts into data centers today is stressing power and cooling systems in a way that was not fathomed when most data centers were built years ago. In an era of "greener" living, it would seem that we should be reducing--not...

Storage's star rises in the entertainment market: enormous increases in capacity and performance requirements are leading to new storage strategies and technologies.
May 1, 2007... Data storage is a key element in the digital transformation of content creation, editing, distribution, and reception. Digitalization of content enables that content to be made readily available in the various formats required for traditional...

Symantec upgrades BESR.(NEW PRODUCTS)
May 1, 2007... Symantec recently began shipments of a major upgrade to its Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR) product line. BESR is designed to help IT administrators restore complete Windows systems and perform full bare-metal recovery to dissimilar hardware...

Yosemite adds encryption.(NEW PRODUCTS)
May 1, 2007... Yosemite recently released a new version of its Yosemite Backup software, keep data secure in the event the media is lost or stolen. Geared for SMBs, Yosemite Backup 8.5 allows users to choose among low, medium, and high levels of encryption....

Moonwalk enters US with ILM software.(NEW PRODUCTS)
May 1, 2007... Moonwalk, an Australian developer of data-management and protection software, made its US debut last month with the introduction of the Moonwalk 6.0 information lifecycle management (ILM) software suite. The software is designed to...

Calendar.(Calendar)
May 1, 2007... June 12-14 Symantec Vision--Las Vegas, NV Sponsored by Symantec, the event is expected to attract more than 3,500 attendees. Sessions focus on application management, data management, industry solutions, security management, and storage and...

Overland debuts VTL.(Overland Storage Inc.'s REO 1500 virtual tape library )(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Overland Storage has extended its disk-to-disk (D2D) backup appliance lineup with the REO 1500 virtual tape library (VTL). The company claims a 5x performance improvement over the REO 1000 and support for up to 2TB of capacity, six VTLs, 32...

EqualLogic adds NAS gateway.(DakotaNAS-EQ network attached storage gateway)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... EqualLogic recently began shipments of a NAS gateway, based on Windows Storage Server software, that works with the company's PS Series of iSC SI-based IP SANs. The gateway is manufactured by AMS Storage. The NAS-SAN combo provides an...

ONStor delivers global namespace technology.(ON-Stor GNS )(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... This month, ONStor delivered global namespace GNS) technology in the 3.0 version of its Pantera NAS systems and Bobcat NAS gateways. The cluster-wide namespace enables multiple file systems to be virtualized on disparate machines to present a...

Bocada monitors backups.(Bocada Enterprise 5.0)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Introduced this month, Bocada Enterprise 5.0 is data-protection management software that includes enhancements such as in-depth media and drive utilization analysis, improved data collection functionality, and a SQL 2005 upgrade. The new media...

AMCC ships 24-port controller.(NEW PRODUCTS)
May 1, 2007... Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) has expanded its line of PCIe-to-SATA RAID controllers with the addition of a 24-port version--the 3ware 9650SE-24M8. The controllers support RAID 6, which safeguards data against two drive failures....

Infortrend supports SAS, SATA, FC.(EonStor A16S-G2130 RAID subsystems supporting software as a service and serial advanced technology attachment)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Infortrend's EonStor A16S-G2130 RAID subsystems have host-side SAS connections and drive-side SATA disk connections. The 3U SAS-to-SATA array includes 16 drive bays, two SAS channels (with 12Gbps per channel), and support for all RAID levels....

Micronet, XyXEL ship NAS.(Micronet Inc. introduced Platinum NAS 4.0 appliance)(XyXEL introduced 2TB NSA-2400 appliance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Priced at $879 for a 1TB configuration, and scalable to 4TB using 1TB SATA disk drives, Micronet's Platinum NAS 4.0 appliance includes a 64-bit Intel XScale processor, a RAID controller that supports four SATA drive channels, 256MB of cache,...

Iomega NAS targets SMBs.(NEW PRODUCTS)
May 1, 2007... Iomega has added a new rack-mount unit to its line of NAS appliances for SMBs. The 1U StorCenter Pro NAS 450r Series has print-server capability and is available in 1TB and 2TB models. The appliances are based on Microsoft's Windows Storage...

Dot Hill speeds up 2730 array.(Dot Hill Systems Corp.'s 2730 Turbo RAID array)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Dot Hill's 2730 Turbo RAID array, which is targeted primarily at OEMs and integrators, is up to 30% faster than the 2730 due to a new processor. The company claims 1,154MBps sustained throughput and transfer rates of more than 124,000 I/Os per...

STORServer protects VMware.(introduced VCB Appliance backup system)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... STORServer's VCB Appliance is designed to protect VMware environments with centralized backup, disaster-recovery, and archiving capabilities. The appliance incorporates VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) for backing up ESX servers. VCB creates a...