InfoStor articles from November 2004

InfoStor archives from November 2004

Survey reveals users' storage priorities.
November 1, 2004... TheInfoPro (TIP) is in the process of completing Wave 4 of its bi-annual study of the storage networking and storage management markets based on in-depth interviews with hundreds of Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies in North America, as...

IBM strengthens disk platforms: focuses on partitioning, virtualization.
November 1, 2004... IBM recently countered disk array announcements from Hitachi Data Systems (and resellers Hewlett-Packard and Sun) with two introductions of its own-the TotalStorage DS6000 and DS8000 families. Both arrays are part of IBM's new TotalStorage...

Disk-based WORM eases compliance issues.(Compliance Series: Part 3)(write-once, read-many technologies)
November 1, 2004... Of the more than 25 petabytes (PB) of Centera capacity EMC says it has shipped to date, 7PB comes from sales of the platform's Compliance Edition in the first quarter of this year, according to the company. This statistic not only reflects...

2D or not 2D: that is no longer the question.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE DOUBT that disk-to-disk (D2D) backup/recovery is the hottest trend in the storage industry today. According to our reader surveys, as well as a soon-to-be-released report from ThelnfoPro (TIP) research firm, D2D backup...

Diogenes Analytical Labs.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Diogenes Analytical Labs was recently launched "to provide IT organizations with unbiased, labtested product information to assist in making purchasing decisions." The firm hopes to differentiate itself from other consulting firms in that it...

Seagate Technology.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Seagate Technology has introduced the SAS Knowledge Center (http://specials.seagate.com/sac/pr), an online resource to educate and prepare IT professionals and system builders for the transition to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology....

Exabyte has extended the bundling of Yosemite Technologies' base-level backup software solution.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Exabyte has extended the bundling of Yosemite Technologies' base-level backup software solution, TapeWare XE, to Exabyte's VXA-1 and VXA-2 drives.

EqualLogic has an agreement with Sun Microsystems to resell the PeerStorage Array 100E.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... EqualLogic has an agreement with Sun Microsystems to resell the PeerStorage Array 100E. EqualLogic has successfully completed Sun Blade Server Verification and achieved Solaris Ready Certification last year.

Emulex and Brocade will expand a multi-year strategic partnership to simplify the deployment of SANs in enterprise.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Emulex and Brocade will expand a multi-year strategic partnership to simplify the deployment of SANs in enterprise, midrange, and the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market segments. As part of the agreement, the companies will co-develop...

Computer Associates will acquire Waltham, MA-based Netegrity in a $430 million cash deal that will merge the computer security software makers.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Computer Associates will acquire Waltham, MA-based Netegrity in a $430 million cash deal that will merge the computer security software makers. The deal is expected to close within 90 days, subject to approval of regulators and Netegrity...

XOsoft has signed a new reseller partnership with AmeriVault.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... XOsoft has signed a new reseller partnership with AmeriVault. To accelerate large data recoveries, AmeriVault will incorporate XOsoft's WANSync and WAN-SyncHA solutions into its mobile HOTBOX recovery solution and will begin hosting an online...

CBL Data Recovery Technologies has expanded its partnership with Nexlnnovations, a Canadian-based independent technology services provider.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... CBL Data Recovery Technologies has expanded its partnership with Nexlnnovations, a Canadi an-based independent technology services provider. Under the expanded partnership, NexInnovations will handle all packaging and shipping of the media to...

Datacenter Technologies and Atempo have entered into a global OEM relationship to deliver PC client protection to Atempo's customer base.(Business Briefs)(Original Equipment Manufacturer)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Datacenter Technologies and Atempo have entered into a global OEM relationship to deliver PC client protection to Atempo's customer base. Under this OEM agreement, Atempo will license modules from DCT's DCProtect software to provide PC client...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2004... The article entitled "Asigra reels in remote data," in the September 2004 issue (see p. 8), erroneously stated that Asigra has an OEM relationship with Network Appliance and Sun. We regret the error.

Cisco extends SANs.(News Analysis + Trends)(Storage area networks)
November 1, 2004... AT A GLANCE MDS 9216i and the MDS 9000 Multi-protocol Services Module * Support for Fibre Channel. FCtR and iSCSI --14 Fibre Channel ports + 21P ports iFibre Channel or iSCSI) * SAN extension enhancements --Hardware-based...

McData router consolidates storage area network islands.(News Analysis + Trends)
November 1, 2004... McData recently extended it SAN router line with the announcement of the 16-port Eclipse 2640, which can link heterogeneous SANs. McData officials claim interoperability with switches and directors from all of the company's competitors,...

EMC picks up Dantz.(News Analysis + Trends)(Dantz Development Corp.)
November 1, 2004... EMC recently acquired Dantz Development Corp., a 20-year-old provider of backup-and-recovery software for the small to medium-sized business (SMB) market, to the tune of about $50 million. Dantz is the latest in a string of software...

StorageTek acquires storability: expands, re-brands disk arrays.(News Analysis & Trends)
November 1, 2004... Storage Technology Corp. recently gobbled up business partner Storability, an ailing start-up that developed enterprise storage resource management (ESRM) software, which now will be used to help the tape company morph into an information...

Consortium focuses on information sharing.(News Analysis + Trends)
November 1, 2004... Twenty-eight vendors representing a cross section of companies in the telecommunications, government, military, aerospace, and IT industries banded together recently to create the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), a...

CreekPath upgrades software.(News Analysis + Trends)(CreekPath Systems Inc.)
November 1, 2004... CreekPath Systems recently released an enhanced version of its storage management suite that includes a new active multi-path management capability as well as features that make the software more scalable. Mike Koclanes, CTO and co-founder...

Microsoft eyes data-protection market.(News Analysis + Trends)
November 1, 2004... Microsoft has signaled its intent to jump further into the storage market with the announcement of a continuous disk-based replication and recovery product. However, its Data Protection Server (DPS) will not be available until at least the...

Iron Mountain to acquire Connected.(News Analysis + Trends)
November 1, 2004... Iron Mountain last month announced its intent to acquire Connected Corp., a provider of online backup-and-recovery products and services, in an all-cash transaction valued at about $117 million. The deal, which has been approved by iron...

InfiniBand holds promise for HPC environments.(Reader/Expert I/O)(high-performance computing)
November 1, 2004... Q: In a previous column, you discussed the challenges of providing storage to high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. How does InfiniBand enable storage for HPC clusters? InfiniBand has tremendous promise for enabling SAN, NAS, and...

Gateways bring NAS into the data center: NAS gateways converge SAN and NAS, enabling storage consolidation and a single pool of storage to manage.(Special Report)
November 1, 2004... The debate about networked storage architectures at the enterprise level no longer centers on the SAN versus NAS controversy. As organizations have begun to reap the benefits of consolidated storage, the question has now changed into how to...

Disk-to-disk-to-tape backup alternatives, part 2: D2D2T devices can be categorized as appliances, disk libraries, or virtual tape systems, all of which are viable solutions.
November 1, 2004... In part 1 of our series examining disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solutions, we were primarily concerned with establishing the difference between data replication technologies and D2D2T (see InfoStor, October 2004, p. 37). Upon full examination of...

SNIA road map sets course for ILM: the data management forum plans to clear the confusion surrounding information life-cycle management.(Storage Networking Industry Association)
November 1, 2004... IT'S CLEAR THAT INFORMATION LIFE-CYCLE management (ILM) holds great promise for end users. However, exactly what ILM is and how the industry will get there have been hotly debated for more than two years. In response, the Storage Networking...

Overland adds D2D appliance.(New Products)(disk to disk, Overland Storage Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Overland Storage recently released a high-end addition to its line of disk-based backup-and-recovery appliances. The REO 9000 stores up to 9.6TB on hot-swappable Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives, supports RAID 5, and includes two iSCSI (Gigabit...

Nexsan claims 125,000 IOPS.(New Products)(input/outputs per second, Nexsan Technologies)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... When configured in a three-unit configuration, Nexsan's SATAblade appliance can sustain 125,000 I/Os per second, or a throughput speed of more than 1GBps, according to the company's internal benchmark tests, which were based on the iometer...

Data Domain adds replication feature.(New Products)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Data Domain, a provider of data-protection systems for backup/restore, recently announced an optional replication feature for its DD200 Restorer recovery appliance that uses the company's Global Compression technology. The primary benefit,...

Breece Hill launches D2D2T system.(New Products)(disk-to-disk-to-tape, Maxoptix Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Breece Hill last month expanded its existing line of disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) products with the iStoRA 4000 system, which leverages SATA disk drives and SAlT tape. The system can archive up to 15TB of data. It is available as a 4U...

Iomega ships D2D autoloader.(New Products )(disk to disk device)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Iomega recently announced its REV Autoloader 1000, a disk-to-disk device designed as a replacement for SCSI-based tape autoloaders and other backup devices in small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The REV Autoloader is a 2U, single-drive...

Lockstep supports open file backup.(New Products)(Lockstep Systems)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Lockstep Systems, a vendor of disk-based backup-and-recovery systems, last month released version 2.5 of its Backup for Workgroups software. The release features new support for open file backup, which allows users to perform complete backups...

Rackable enters NAS market.(New Products)(Network Attached Storage, Rackable Systems)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The NAS market became a little more crowded last month with the entry of Rackable Systems, which is known primarily as a vendor of x86 servers. Although relatively unknown as a storage supplier, the company has been shipping storage subsystems...

Exanet claims 203,182 OPS.(New Products)(operations per second, EX600FC NAS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Based on the industry-standard SPEC SFS benchmark, Exanet is claiming performance figures of 203,182 operations per second for a six-node clustered configuration of its EX600FC NAS systems running the new 2.0 version of the company's ExaStore...

Sepaton announces 'synthetic full backup'.(New Products)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... At the Storage Networking World conference last month, Sepaton ("no tapes" spelled backwards), a provider of data-protection appliances, announced a Synthetic Full Backup application for its S2100-ES Virtual Tape Library (VTL). The application...

CNT introduces replication appliance.(New Products)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... At the Storage Networking World conference last month, CNT introduced the UltraNet Replication Appliance (URA), which provides SAN-based local and remote heterogeneous data replication over unlimited distances. IBM has certified the URA for use...

Bus-Tech links mainframes, Centera.(New Products)(contract with EMC)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Bus-Tech recently began shipments of two models of its Mainframe Appliance for Storage (MAS) for EMC's Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) systems. The MAS-FX has dual FICON Express attachments to mainframes, and the MAS-EX has dual ESCON...

Digi-Data touts tiered storage.(New Products)(STORM Xtreme Array)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Digi-Data's STORM Xtreme Array is based on a modular "grid/nodal" architecture and can be configured with up to 840 Fibre Channel or Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives, enabling users to create tiered storage. Capacity ranges up to 300TB, and...

Atto bridges SCSI, iSCSI.(New Products)
November 1, 2004... Atto Technology's iPBridge 1500E/D is an iSCSI-to-SCSI bridge that allows users to put SCSI devices on an Ethernet-based IP SAN. The bridge supports Microsoft's iSCSI software initiator, and 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet. The iPBridge 1500E is an...

Verari enters iSCSI market.(New Products)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Known primarily as a vendor of blade servers, Verari Systems (formerly RackSaver) last month entered the iSCSI market with a clustered configuration called the PURE-cluster ipSAN. The bundled system includes a storage server, virtualization,...

Princeton Softech upgrades software.(New Products)(database mangement software)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Princeton Softech, a provider of database archiving and test data management tools, last month announced the general availability of Archive for DB2 V 5.3 and Relational Tools V 5.3. The 5.3 release of Archive for DB2 includes expanded...

LSI ships entry-level host bus adapter.(New Products)(LSI Logic Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LSI Logic last month began shipping a single-channel Ultra320 SCSI host bus adapter (HBA) for PCI-X systems. The LSIU320 is based on the LSI53C1020A SCSI processor and LSI's Fusion-MPT architecture. The HBA is available through LSI's channel...

Zantaz enhances e-mail management.(New Products)(File Archive Solution, EAS Supervisor, and EAS Reviewer)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Zantaz last month shipped the 4.0 version of its EAS e-mail management product. The release includes three optional modules: File Archive Solution (FAS), EAS Supervisor, and EAS Reviewer. FAS allows organizations to manage both e-mail...

Calendar.(trade shows)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... December 5-10 CMG 2004--Las Vegas, NV Sponsored by the Computer Measurement Group, this 30th International Conference for the Resource Management and Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing Systems brings together industry...