InfoStor articles from November 2008

InfoStor archives from November 2008

Online backup services gain traction.(CASE STUDIES)
November 1, 2008... It has become painfully evident to many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that they don't have the budgets or the personnel to effectively manage their own backups. It is a fact that storage vendors, value-added resellers, and service...

HP nears LeftHand acquisition.(NEWS analysis + trends)
November 1, 2008... Hewlett-Packard made a move to strengthen its presence in the iSCSI SAN market last month when the company announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks for $360 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be...

The hottest technologies at SNW.(EDITORIAL)
November 1, 2008... Cruising the exhibit booths, press conferences, sessions, and bars at the Storage Networking World conference, which we did last month, is always a good barometer of what technologies and trends are hot. Here are our picks, in ascending order:...

Emulex's LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapters (CNAs) have been qualified by EMC for use in SANs using the new EMC Connectrix NEX-5020 and Clariion.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... Emulex's LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapters (CNAs) have been qualified by EMC for use in SANs using the new EMC Connectrix NEX-5020 and Clariion. Celerra, and Symmetrix platforms....

IBM is integrating Adaptec's RAID Storage Processor (RSP) technology in the IBM BladeCenter S. Adaptec acquired the RSP technology when it bought Aristos Logic in August.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... IBM is integrating Adaptec's RAID Storage Processor (RSP) technology in the IBM BladeCenter S. Adaptec acquired the RSP technology when it bought Aristos Logic in August. IBM incorporated Adaptec's RSP in its SAS RAID Controller Module.

Isilon Systems' IQ X-Series clustered storage systems.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... Isilon Systems' IQ X-Series clustered storage systems have been certified with VMware ESX 3.5.

3PAR and Symantec are jointly integrating.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... 3PAR and Symantec are jointly integrating 3PAR's thin-provisioning technology with Veritas Storage Foundation to allow space reclamation within the 3PAR storage array.

Mimosa Systems has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... Mimosa Systems has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems, combining Hitachi's Content Archive Platform (HCAP) and Mimosa NearPoint.

DataCore Software's SANsymphony and SANmelody products have been certified.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... DataCore Software's SANsymphony and SANmelody products have been certified on Citrix's XenServer 5.

InMage Systems.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... InMage Systems has secured $15 million in a Series C round led by Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital organization. Additional investors in the round include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Kumar Malavalli.

Pillar Data Systems is using Emulex's InSpeed SOC 422.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... Pillar Data Systems is using Emulex's InSpeed SOC 422 embedded storage switches in all of its "application-aware" Axiom storage systems.

Ocarina Networks.(Business BRIEFS)
November 1, 2008... Ocarina Networks has expanded its ECO System storage optimization products to include file type support for the media and entertainment, oil, and gas, and medical imaging industries. Previously aimed at photo-sharing Websites, the technology...

Brocade ships encryption switches.(NEWS analysis + trends)
November 1, 2008... Brocade recently began delivering a pair of new switching products equipped with security features that provide fabric-wide encryption for data "at-rest." The company also unveiled its long-awaited integrated fabric management platform that...

SNIA launches SSD initiative.(NEWS analysis + trends)(Storage Networking Industry Association's solid-state disk )
November 1, 2008... The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is stepping into the solid-state disk (SSD) fray by announcing the formation of the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI), with the goal of fostering technology standards and industry...

Dell dives further into D2D.(NEWS analysis + trends)
November 1, 2008... Dell recently began shipments of the PowerVault DL2000, a disk-to-disk backup-and-recovery appliance with integrated backup software from partners CommVault and Symantec that promises to reduce backup times by up to 55% and restore times by up...

Do you need thin provisioning?(ANALYST VIEW)
November 1, 2008... Thin provisioning has become one of the hottest storage technologies. There is some consensus among vendors and end users regarding what thin provisioning means--fundamentally or theoretically--but to level the field, let's define the concept...

What's next for NAS?(ESg insights)(network attached storage)
November 1, 2008... The information we store today is very different from the information we stored 30 years ago. In the past few years, every electronic device has become a content capture and sharing device. The Web has changed everything, and new ways of using...

Get ready for next-gen 6Gbps SAS: components have been shipping for more than a year, and 6Gbps SAS systems for end users are due next year.(Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface)
November 1, 2008... The next generation of the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface promises a wealth of new features, most notably a doubling of the SAS data- transfer rate from 3Gbps to 6Gbps. A number of manufacturers have been delivering SAS components for...

What are the key differentiators in SAN switches and adapters?(Special REPORT: Fibre Channel Switches and HBAs)
November 1, 2008... Unlike the market for, say, Fibre Channel disk arrays, the markets for Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters (HBAs) are not crowded. In both cases, two vendors essentially comprise a duopoly in terms of market share: Brocade and Cisco in...

The benefits of cloud-based storage, part 2: what are the core capabilities that end users should look for when evaluating "storage-in-the-cloud" solutions?
November 1, 2008... As discussed in part one of this three-part series (see "What is cloud-based storage?" at infostor.com), at the heart of cloud-based computing is a loosely coupled infrastructure that is self-healing, geographically dispersed, and...

Overland adds midrange NAS.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... Overland Storage has filled a gap in its family of NAS systems and upgraded its operating system and replication software with the introduction of the Snap Server 620 and new versions of its GuardianOS (GOS) and Snap Enterprise Data Replicator...

IBM ships SAS 'SAN' for blades.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... IBM recently began shipping a blade system chassis that includes blade servers, networking gear, management software, and a "SAN" based on a SAS fabric. The system is aimed at small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices in search...

Nexsan enables archiving-as-a-service.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Nexsan's Assureon 6.0 is a new version of its archiving platform designed to alleviate the security, management, cost, and energy consumption concerns associated with content-addressable storage (CAS) archives. The Assureon 6.0 software...

Fujitsu debuts 'unified storage'.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... Fujitsu Computer Systems is targeting resellers and SMBs with a new "unified storage" system that serves both block and file data. The UDS 1000 is a NAS appliance that scales in capacity to as much as 24TB using the company's Eternus storage...

ONStor targets channel.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... ONStor has released two members in its Pantera family of clustered NAS platforms designed specifically for the channel. The Pantera 3110 and 3110-HA filers include virtual file server technology and Nexsan's SATABoy RAID arrays, which can pack...

Super Talent ships <$300 SSDs.(NEW PRODUCTS)(solid-state disk )(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Super Talent Technology is shipping a 64GB solid-state disk (SSD) flash drive priced at $179, and a 128GB SSD priced at $299. Common features of the 2.5-inch MasterDrive LX SSDs include a SATA interface, NAND flash technology, sequential read...

Double-Take: DR for 2nd tier.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Double-Take Software's Livewire disaster-recovery tool )(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Double-Take Software has released Livewire, a disaster-recovery tool for second-tier servers that are low on the priority list in most disaster-recovery plans. Livewire sets up continuous full system image backups to a central disk-based...

UltraBac targets VMware.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... The latest release of UltraBac Software's UBDR Gold software includes an option that can create a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) file while capturing a live system snapshot backup. This simplifies disaster recovery by eliminating the...

iStor adds HA to iSCSI.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... The latest version of iStor Networks' software adds high-availability features for the company's iS512 iSCSI subsystems, which support 1Gbps or 10Gbps Ethernet. The new feature enables dual-controller iS512 arrays to automatically detect...

Seagate launches SaaS company.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... Seagate Technology has formed a new company created to provide all of its software-as-a-service (SaaS), hosting, managed storage, and consulting services under a single brand. Seagate has been building toward the i365 launch since 2006,...

Product highlights from SNW.(NEW PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2008... Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched a new line of midrange storage systems and software enhancements for its Universal Storage Platform V (UPS V) and USP VM platforms, including hardware-based encryption for data "at-rest." The new...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... SEND BROCHURE/CONFERENCE INFORMATION TO MARCY KOFF, MARCYK@PENNWELL.COM OR FAX: (603) 891-0597. DECEMBER 7-12 CMG 2008--LAS VEGAS, NV Sponsored by the Computer Measurement Group, this 34th International Conference for the Resource...