InfoStor articles from November 2003

InfoStor archives from November 2003

IBM delivers SAN file system, falls short: support to be delivered in phases.
November 1, 2003... After several years in development and a number of false starts, IBM this month began shipping the first iteration of its TotalStorage SAN File System, more commonly known as "StorageTank." The TotalStorage SAN File System, a by-product of...

When does database-on-NAS make sense?
November 1, 2003... If you're running DB2, Oracle, or SQL. Server on network-attached storage (NAS), you're not alone. Increasingly more IT administrators are hosting database applications on NAS to leverage its ease of use and relatively low cost. Database...

User group options multiply.
November 1, 2003... If you're a storage end user with a desire to join an association of your peers, your alternatives are expanding. The Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) recently became the newest end-user organization dedicated to storage...

Good news for tight storage budgets.(editorial)
November 1, 2003... If you're in the process of finalizing your 200/1 storage budget, you're probably pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to handle capacity growth, hardware procurement, and ongoing storage management costs on such a puny allowance. The...

GlassHouse Technologies.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... GlassHouse Technologieshas secured $7.1 million in a Series C round of funding led by Kodiak Venture Partners. Returning investors include Sigma Partners, GrandBanks Capital, and Globespan Capital Partners (formerly Jafco Ventures). This most...

Neartek.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Neartek has received an additional $8 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, and Magnum Telecom.

NSI Software.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... NSI Software expanded its professional service team through certified system integrators (Sis). NSI's SI program extends its Professional Services Organization by allowing regional business consultants to deliver NSI's planning and...

PolyServe.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... PolyServe a provider of shared data clustering software for Linux-based data centers, has reached an OEM agreement with XIOtech. Under the agreement, XIOtech will bundle and sell the PolyServe Matrix Server software as an offering for its...

StoneFly Networks and CommVault Systems have a strategic alliance to provide disk-based (D2D) backup solutions.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... StoneFly Networks and CommVault Systems have a strategic alliance to provide disk-based (D2D) backup solutions to reduce backup time and maintain efficient LAN performance during backup-andrestore procedures. StoneFly will offer Galaxy as part...

Fujitsu Siemens (FSC) will ship LSI Logic's MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 and MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 RAID.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Fujitsu Siemens (FSC) will ship LSI Logic's MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 and MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 RAID host storage adapters integrated into the FSC PRIMERGY server product line.' FSC will also use the MegaRAID SCSI 320-4X, a quad-channel Ultra320 PCI-X...

ADIC has signed a letter of intent with Benchmark Electronics.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... ADIC has signed a letter of intent with Benchmark Electronics to expand the two companies' existing outsource manufacturing relationship to include a portion of ADIC's entry level and workgroup tape automation product line, As part of the...

NSI Software extended its OEM agreement with Hewlett-Packard to provide host-based.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... NSI Software extended its OEM agreement with Hewlett-Packard to provide host-based data replication software to protect Microsoft applications. Under the agreement, NSI's Double-Take replication software is being branded as HP OpenView Storage...

Yosemite Technologies TapeWare will now ship with DLTSage.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Yosemite Technologies' TapeWare will now ship with DLTSage. Quantum's preventive diagnostic management tools.

EqualLogic and Maxtor are planning to develop storage systems.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... EqualLogic and Maxtor are planning to develop storage systems based on iSCSI and Serial-Attached SCSI technology. The companies will cooperate in product planning and development activities, including the exchange of prototype Maxtor SAS disk...

Incipent.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Incipient has secured $25 million in Series B financing. Investors include HLM Venture Partners of Boston, and existing investors Greylock, Sigma, and Globespan Capital Partners (formerly Jafco Ventures). Total funding to date is $35 million.

Ontract Data Recovery has a reseller agreement with Unitrends Software.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Ontrack Data Recovery has a reseller agreement with Unitrends Software to provide Unitrends' customers with Ontrack's Power Controls Mailbox Recovery Software.

XOsoft.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... XOsoft has achieved Microsoft: Windows 2000 Professional, Server, and Advanced Server certifications for its WANSync 3.5 and Data Rewinder 1.5 software through VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge Technologies.

Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS).(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... The Fiber Optics LAN Section (FOLS) of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) launched a new Website-www.fols.org--to serve as a resource to network planners and others seeking information about the benefits of using optical fiber in...

EMC continues midrange NAS push.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... EMC is continuing its move into the midrange network-attached storage (NAS) market by expand ing its line of proprietary Celerra NS600 devices, as well as adding the Windows-based Net Win 200 last month (see "EMC debuts Windows based NAS,"...

DataCore counters performance criticism.(User Case Studies)
November 1, 2003... No longer a start-up after more than five years in business, feisty DataCore Software doesn't take criticism lying down. Responding to long standing charges (mostly from large disk array vendors) that its in-band "storage area network (SAN)...

HDS emphasizes information life-cycle management: introduces new modular array.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... Tiffs month, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) began shipping a modular disk array (the Thunder 9580V) with twice the raw capacity, Fibre Channel connections, and LUNs and nearly twice the bandwidth of the Thunder 9570 V. In addition to the...

IP SAN activity picks up.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... The IP storage area network (SAN) market is still in its infancy, but a number of smaller vendors recently debuted new devices and expanded existing products with performance upgrades and more functionality. Analysts expect the competition to...

Emulex acquires Vixel.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... This month, Emulex completed its acquisition of Vixel Corp., a manufacturer of embedded Fibre Channel switches. Formerly a player in the market for external Fibre Channel fabric switches, Vixel refocused last year on the market for embedded...

Sonasoft provides fast recovery for SQL.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... The SQL Server Worldwide User's Group recently awarded five out of a possible five stars to Sonasoft for its data-protection console for SQL Server databases. The Sonasoft appliance, called SonaSafe, was introduced in January for SQL Server;...

Luminex links mainframes, open-systems storage.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... Users know how costly it can be to scale mainframe environments--even in small increments--to meet growing data needs, but few have thought to ask why. "It's the mainframe culture," says Bill Colestock, head of storage business at Mainline...

Symantec acquires PowerQuest.(news analysis & trends)
November 1, 2003... Best known for its Norton line of security products, Symantec recently signed an agreement to acquire PowerQuest, an Orem, UT-based company that specializes in volume imaging and server provisioning. Symantec will incorporate Power Quest's...

EMC and documentum: a marriage made in heaven?(Analyst Perspective)
November 1, 2003... Whether or not you think EMC's acquisition of Documentum is a masterstroke or a billion-dollar-plus blunder, you have to admit that the move is unprecedented. For the first time, an independent storage company has reached well outside its own...

Toyota Motorsport GmbH and EMC have extended their business and technology agreement for three more years.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Toyota Motorsport GmbH and EMC have extended their business and technology agreement for three more years. The companies will continue to collaborate on solutions to manage the collection, movement, use, and storage of race-day information as...

Enhance Technology's UltraStor ATA-based storage systems are now available through Real Storage.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Enhance Technology's UltraStor ATA-based storage systems are now available through Real Storage, a storage solutions provider in southwest Florida.

Candera announced relationships with IBM Global Services.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Candera announced relationships with IBM Global Services, a unit of IBM, and Sanmina-SCI, an electronics manufacturer. Through IBM Global Services, Candera offers customers 24x7 technical support and field service; working with Sanmina-SCI...

EDS will leverage data-protection software from Connected Corp.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... EDS will leverage data-protection software from Connected Corp. as part of its Mobile Information Protection Service to extend information protect,on to data that is increasingly distributed and stored outside of the data center on desktops and...

Gateway has adopted the Certance AL810 LTO Ultrium.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Gateway has adopted the Certance AL810 LTO Ultrium 1-based autoloader into its newest offerings of storage solutions for businesses and institutions.

Sun and Emulex have an expanded alliance.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Sun and Emulex have an expanded alliance whereby Solaris OS x86 Platform Edition customers can use Emulex's 2Gbps LightPulse PCI and PCI-X HBAs, including the LP10000, LP9802, and LP9002 families. Separately, Emulex's LP10000, LP10000DC,...

NeoScale Systems' CryptoStor storage security appliances have been verified by Brocade.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... NeoScale Systems' CryptoStor storage security appliances have been verified by Brocade as interoperable with Brocade-based SAN infrastructure, according to the testing requirements conducted through the Brocade Fabric Aware Program. The program...

Crossroads Systems is now shipping product under an agreement with EMC.(Business Briefs)
November 1, 2003... Crossroads Systems is now shipping product under an agreement with EMC. The company becomes a qualified solutions provider for embedded Fibre Channel connectivity of iSeries servers into external EMC storage arrays, including EMC Symmetrix and...

EMC, BMC get tighter.(news Bytes)
November 1, 2003... EMC recently became a Foundation Partner in BMC Software's Business Service Management (BSM) initiative, a broad plan to enable organizations to align IT management with business processes. The two companies have completed Phase 1 of their...

Free ILM report.(news Bytes)
November 1, 2003... Arkivio has posted a report on information life-cycle management (ILM) on its Website: www.arkivio.com/ product_solutions. The report is based on a forum that the company hosted. The report examines how ILM tools can help companies with issues...

Is it a logical or physical copy?(Business continuity planning)
November 1, 2003... In today's 24x7 data centers, one copy of a critical application volume is not enough. To run backup operations, load data warehouses, or test new versions of applications without disrupting the flow of information to users and applications, IT...

What are the benefits of storage area networks? TCO and ROI are part of the justification for SANs, but for most organizations the real bottom line is measured in more-tangible benefits.(Special Report)
November 1, 2003... The U.S. Air Force's 4[5.sup.th] Space Wing, headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base near Cocoa Beach, FL, exemplifies an almost literal "mission-critical" storage area network (SAN) customer. It supports and manages space launch programs for...

User view: storage management software; the first article in a five-part series looks at various types of storage management software, including storage resource management, SAN management, and storage virtualization.(Part I)
November 1, 2003... There are many challenges associated with the ups and downs of storage and storage management (see figure). While many aspects of data storage are growing rapidly, just as many are shrinking. What does all of this growing and shrinking mean...

The role of secure archiving in the e-mail life cycle: regulatory requirements are putting pressure on IT to develop policies and procedures for e-mail archiving and security.
November 1, 2003... E-mail is the lifeblood of modern commerce, and preserving and protecting e-mails is now a critical business function. E-mail is crucial to internal communications, as well as to reaching suppliers and customers. According to the 2003...

Data replication: host, network, or array? The first article in a three-part series examines the pros and cons of the three approaches to replication.
November 1, 2003... It should come as no surprise that replication is a hot topic today. Because of the huge increase in the amount of mission-critical data as well as growing concerns and new regulations regarding data availability disaster recovery and business...

Fibre Channel versus IP SANs.(Special Report)
November 1, 2003... Until recently, Fibre Channel was the only game in town when it came to building storage area networks. However, with the arrival of iSCSI products--including drivers, host adapters, disk arrays, and management software--end users and storage...

Technical view of disk journaling for secondary disk: using disk journaling in a disk-to-disk-to-tape architecture can solve a lot of backup/restore issues.
November 1, 2003... Previous articles in this series have shown how introducing a secondary disk layer between the primary storage (application) layer and the tape layer can enhance the utility and value of the data protection process in many ways, including ...

Xeon CPUs + Ultra320 SCSI = blazing speed: super-fast processors and an Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller achieve impressive throughput and response time results.(labreview)
November 1, 2003... We recently began testing commodity servers based on Intel's Xeon processors. One of the leading examples in this new class of server is the IBM xSeries 235 eServer. Sporting dual Xeon CPUs with 533MHz front-end buses, up to 12GB of ECC DDR266...

Snap offers 1TB NAS expansion.(Disk/Connectivity)
November 1, 2003... Snap Appliance is shipping Snap Disk 10, a 1TB rack-mountable storage expansion array in a 1U form factor for its Snap Server 4500 network-attached storage (NAS) appliance. The expansion array is not a stand-alone NAS device; it connects via a...

HP introduces Windows-based NAS.(Disk/Connectivity)
November 1, 2003... Hewlett-Packard recently introduced StorageWorks 9000s. 4000s, and 1200s NAS devices based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003. The 9000s combines NAS and storage area network (SAN) functionality via connectivity to HP's Enterprise...

Diligent enhances virtual tape storage.(Disk/Connectivity)
November 1, 2003... Diligent has enhanced its Virtual Tape Facility (VTF) Open and VTF Mainframe software. VTF Open now provides 2:1 compression so that users can double the capacity of storage connected to a VTF Open server. The software resides on Linux or...

RAID arrays from Atto, Winchester.(Disk/Connectivity)
November 1, 2003... Atto Technology has added a number of features to its Diamond Storage Array line of RAID subsystems, including: * Up to 256MB of ECC DRAM for increased reliability; * A simplified ExpressNAV GUI; and * Hot-spare disk drives that...

Arco releases mirroring option.(Disk/Connectivity)
November 1, 2003... Arco Data Protection Systems recently released DupliDisk3 with EzMIRROR for data mirroring DupliDisk writes data to both a primary hard drive and to a mirror drive simultaneously. Each time a change is made to the primary drive, the same action...

Exabyte debuts VXA-2 autoloader.(Tape)
November 1, 2003... Exabyte's VXA-2 PacketLoader is a 1U tape autoloader with up to 1.6TB of compressed capacity and a 43.2GB-per-hour compressed transfer rate. Other features include a barcode reader, remote management, and field-replaceable tape drives. Pricing...

Gateway ships DAT72 drives/autoloaders.(Tape)
November 1, 2003... Continuing its push into the storage market, Gateway has introduced an internal DAT72 drive ($899), an internal autoloader ($1,499), and an external 2U autoloader ($2,499 with six cartridges). DAT72 provides a 25% performance improvement and a...

NuView extends data life-cycle management.(Software)
November 1, 2003... NuView's File Lifecycle Manager (FLM) is policy-based data management software for automating file movement between primary and secondary storage. FLM moves files based on their attributes and access patterns, while maintaining user access to...

Tek-Tools enhances SRM NAS support.(Software)
November 1, 2003... Tek-Tools' Storage Profiler 3.0 storage resource management (SRM) software supports any NAS device and has added support for Veritas Backup Exec, Windows XP/2003, and Network Appliance's Vfiler and NetCache. Other new features include...

Princeton adds active archiving for Oracle.(Software)
November 1, 2003... Princeton Softech recently released its Archive for Servers Oracle Applications Edition for "active archiving" in Oracle E-Business Suite environments. Inactive data can be archived based on user-specified parameters. The software provides...

E-mail recovery software for Exchange.(Software)
November 1, 2003... Kroll Ontrack has released the 2.0 version of its PowerControls mailbox recovery software, which restores individual mailboxes, messages, folders, attachments, etc., for Microsoft Exchange Server database (.EDB) files. PowerControls 2.0...

LiveVault supports Exchange.(Software)
November 1, 2003... LiveVault recently launched Version 4 of its online backup-and-recovery service, which provides data protection and recovery for Exchange environments. LiveVault 4 also doubles NAS-based restore performance and optimizes network-based...

Corporate description.(corporate profile)
November 1, 2003... Overland Storage[TM] is a leading global supplier of innovative storage solutions for mid-range computer networks. For more than 20 years, IT professionals have trusted Overland to manage and protect their mission-critical information. Overland...

Product Description.(corporate profile)
November 1, 2003... The REO SERIES[TM] delivers the industry's fastest backups and immediate data recovery with an iSCSI-based family of appliances. The REO SERIES includes the R2000 network backup accelerator, the RA2000 backup server accelerator and the RX2000...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2003... December 7-12 CMG 2003-Dallas, TX Sponsored by the Computer Measurement Group, this 29th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems features standard presentations (60 or...