InfoStor articles from October 2005

InfoStor archives from October 2005

Symantec joins growing CDP field.(Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers, Backup Exec Continuous Protection Server)(continuous data protection)
October 1, 2005... Aiming to ease the management burden of embattled Windows administrators, Symantec launched a pair of backup-and-recovery products and for the first time entered the world of continuous data protection (CDP). Symantec, which has dropped...

IBM delivers file-based CDP.(continuous data protection, IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files)
October 1, 2005... IBM recently made its first foray into the continuous data protection (CDP) market with the release of IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files software, which was known as VitalFile in the beta program. The real-time backup software can...

EMC rounds out virtualization; Rainfinity buy provides NAS virtualization.(acquisition of Maranti Networks)(survey)
October 1, 2005... EMC recently completed the acquisitions of two San Jose-based companies--Rainfinity and the intellectual property of Maranti Networks. Financial terms of the Rainfinity acquisition were not disclosed, but an EMC spokesperson confirmed that the...

The ABCs of CDP.(continuous data protection)(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... As you read this, we're probably sweating it out in Orlando at the semi-annual Storage Networking World extravaganza. It was one year ago, at the last SNW Fall show, that so-called continuous data protection (CDP) leapt into the top-five...

Storage World Conference.(management)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The organizers of the annual Storage World Conference (SWC) will be adding a second event in 2006. SWC Fall will be held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA, September 19-21, 2006, and will include tutorials, expert panel...

EqualLogic has entered into a strategic partnership with Western Scientific.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
October 1, 2005... EqualLogic has entered into a strategic partnership with Western Scientific to integrate EqualLogic's PS Series platform into its high-performance computing and storage solutions.

XOsoft and CGNET Services International, a provider of e-mail and network services, have signed a strategic agreement, whereby CGNET will sell services using XOsoft's WANSync and WANSyncHA software.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... XOsoft and CGNET Services International, a provider of e-mail and network services, have signed a strategic agreement, whereby CGNET will sell services using XOsoft's WANSync and WANSyncHA software. Separately, XOsoft has signed an OEM...

Brocade's 4Gbps SilkWorm 200E Fibre Channel switch.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
October 1, 2005... Brocade's 4Gbps SilkWorm 200E Fibre Channel switch has been certified compatible with all models of Engenio's Fibre Channel storage arrays.

Pillar Data Systems has signed a distribution agreement with Bell Microproducts.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
October 1, 2005... Pillar Data Systems has signed a distribution agreement with Bell Microproducts, whereby Bell Microproducts will sell Pillar's Axiom storage solutions to OEMs, VARs, and system integrators throughout the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Emulex will provide Hewlett-Packard with a customized version of its InSpeed Model 350 embedded storage switch.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
October 1, 2005... Emulex will provide Hewlett-Packard with a customized version of its InSpeed Model 350 embedded storage switch for the next generation of HP's Storage-Works Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family: the EVA8000, EVA6000, and EVA4000

Evertrust, a developer of storage software to meet compliance and security regulations, and Pegasus, a software company specializing in archive management solutions, have a partnership to deliver a storage solution for long-term retention, management, protection, and disposition of fixed content/reference information.(Pegasus Software Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Evertrust, a developer of storage software to meet compliance and security regulations, and Pegasus, a software company specializing in archive management solutions, have a partnership to deliver a storage solution for long-term retention,...

MCI has added a Utility Storage Service to its Enterprise Hosting Services portfolio.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... MCI has added a Utility Storage Service to its Enterprise Hosting Services portfolio. The on-demand storage hosting service is based on a pay-as-you-go model and is designed to offload storage and storage management tasks from IT organizations,...

Do SAS-based SANs make sense?(Serial Attached SCSI)(Storage area networks)
October 1, 2005... There is a growing debate over a new way to build SANs using Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) as a fabric interconnect. The technology exists and does have potential benefits, but there is some question as to whether end users really need yet another...

Case studies: online backup/recovery.(University of Pennsylvania, IPR International L.L.C., Laura Hunter)
October 1, 2005... Laura Hunter, senior IT specialist at the Student Financial Services office of the University of Pennsylvania, realized she had a problem the minute she saw the fire trucks outside her downtown Philadelphia office. That's because Hunter is...

HP expands data protection, archiving: resells MS DPM for 'near CDP'.(NEWS: ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
October 1, 2005... At last month's Storage Networking World Europe (SNW-E) trade show, Hewlett-Packard announced a slew of new data-protection and archiving products and services, many of which are based on products from OEM partners. Three of the more...

Nexsan combines CAS and encryption.(content-addressed storage)
October 1, 2005... Nexsan Technologies recently introduced Assureon, a storage appliance with built-in encryption, authentication, compliance capabilities, content-addressed storage (CAS), information life-cycle management (ILM), continuous data protection (CDP),...

NAS virtualization simplifies file management; NAS virtualization is an emerging technology that can solve the major problems that users have identified with complex NAS environments.(SPECIAL REPORT)
October 1, 2005... As with any emerging technology, there is hype and confusion surrounding NAS virtualization. A small group of early adopters have implemented solutions from a small group of vendors, including Acopia Networks, NeoPath Networks, NuView, and...

IP Storage: state-of-the-market report: the Storage Networking Industry Association's IP Storage Forum provides a market overview, with a focus on iSCSI-based IP SANs.(SNIA on STORAGE)
October 1, 2005... IT IS NOW MORE THAN two-and-a-half years since the release of the first standards-compliant IP Storage products. Since then, a rapidly growing market for the technology has developed. Products are available from a broad range of vendors. And...

iStor iSCSI storage solutions: affordable, high performance, easy to manage IP SANs for SMBs.(iStor Networks Inc. )
October 1, 2005... End-user demand for higher performance, lower-cost data storage strains the limits of current technologies, which in turn are putting increasing pressure on IT budgets and staffing requirements. Regardless of company size and IT requirements,...

Continuous data protection: is it about time? With the emphasis rapidly shifting from backup to restore, CDP--whether "periodic" or "constant"--can meet your RTO and RPO goals.
October 1, 2005... The IT marketplace is awash with buzzwords, acronyms, and rallying cries, with storage vendors playing dual roles as both players and cheerleaders. Continuous data protection (CDP) is one the more recent buzzwords--or "buzzphrases." To...

Evaluating continuous data protection (CDP): an analysis of continuous data protection explains what it is, how it works, why you need it, and what's available.
October 1, 2005... Continuous data protection (CDP) is the next evolutionary step in data protection. Traditionally, data-protection schemes have been designed to back up data at specific intervals. CDP, as its name implies, continuously backs up the data, giving...

Taking the right steps toward ILM; information life-cycle management is a process that involves capturing, classifying, storing, protecting, accessing, and destroying information.
October 1, 2005... One problem with information life-cycle management (ILM) is that it means different things to different vendors. The definition of ILM has ranged from "the ability to ensure that the right information is on the right storage asset at the right...

NBA entertainment: it's NAS- and SAN-tastic: the NBA's new IT infrastructure relies on NAS and custom software, with plans to move to a SAN and shared file system.(CASE STUDY)
October 1, 2005... WHEN YOU STRIP AWAY the three-point shots, slam dunks, and fast-paced action, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is a business. And like any business, managers are constantly looking to provide their customers with additional services...

SAN array supports IP and FC; MPC's DataFRAME 420, with software from LeftHand Networks, unifies Fibre Channel and ISCSI SAN technologies, eliminates single points of failure, and creates a single point of management.(MPC Computers L.L.C.)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2005... LAST YEAR, THE volume of external disk storage grew 57.7%. However, measured in revenue growth, rather than capacity growth, the year was at best a modest success for vendors as revenues rose by only about 5%. Only in networked storage, both...

Data is baggage: travel light; take steps to radically reduce the amount of data you have to lug around.(Column)
October 1, 2005... IT IS OFTEN SAID that IT administrators, and storage administrators in particular, are highly risk-averse, which is true. Look at any of the surveys that query storage managers about their most pressing issues. These surveys point to data...

CA enhances management suite.(Computer Associates International Inc., BrightStor r11.5)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Computer Associates recently shipped BrightStor r11.5, an integrated set of storage management software modules. BrightStor ArcServe Backup was improved by automating the disk-to-disk and disk-to-disk-to-tape processes, reducing the number of...

NetApp targets Oracle backup/recovery.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... Network Appliance is shipping a controlled release of SnapManager for Oracle software, which is designed to simplify backup and recovery of Oracle databases on NetApp's hardware platforms. General availability is slated for January 2006. ...

NuView ships D2D recovery tool.(Data on Demand Manager, disk-to-disk)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... NuView's Data on Demand Manager (DDM) is a data-recovery tool designed to decrease the recovery time objective (RTO) for disk-based backups. DDM works with disk-to-disk (D2D) backup products from Symantec/Veritas, EMC/ Legato, CommVault, and...

Mendocino intros CDP software.(Mendocino Software, continuous data protection)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Mendocino Software recently shipped RecoveryONE, block-based recovery management software that the company claims will return any application, database, or file system to any previous point in time or process. RecoveryONE is continuous data...

Calendar.
October 1, 2005... November 1-3 In-depth SCSI seminar-Santa Clara, CA Solution Technology's In-depth Exploration of SCSI gives students an understanding of the operation of the SCSI interface. Attendees learn how to interpret timing charts and gain an...

Permabit adds archiving modules.(Permeon Compliance Store 2.0)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The 2.0 version of Permabit's Permeon Compliance Store modularizes its high-availability and replication features and adds a new retention policy module. Although it is primarily a software product, Permeon is delivered to users as an appliance...

Overtone reduces e-mail overhead.(Overtone Software's Overtone ManageTone reduces the cost email archiving)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Overtone Software claims it can reduce total overhead costs of e-mail archiving by 30% to 50% by not using the journaling feature in Microsoft messaging environments. Traditional approaches to compliance require journaling (copying) of all...

Quest suite manages Exchange.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Quest Software last month began shipments of the Quest Storage Suite for Exchange e-mail management software, which integrates a number of the company's software products under a management console based on the Microsoft Management Console...

DataCore enables iSCSI remote boot.(emBoot, DataCore Software Corp., partnership)(small computer system interface)
October 1, 2005... DataCore Software and emBoot introduced a solution that allows administrators to remotely boot Windows servers off an iSCSI-based IP SAN using standard Ethernet cards. The combination uses DataCore's SANmelody or SAN-symphony software along...

StoneFly ships low-cost IP SAN.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... Breaking the $10,000 price barrier, StoneFly Networks' ValueSAN is based on the company's Storage Concentrator i3000 array, which provides block-level provisioning and centralized management and monitoring of logical storage volumes. The system...

JMR enters IP SAN market.(storage area networks)(new product from JMR Electronics Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Designed in collaboration with Intel, JMR Electronics' Z-IPSAN is based on iSCSI and includes 16 hot-swap Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives for 8TB of capacity per 3U enclosure. The array supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50. In addition to dual...

Chelsio claims 400,000 IOPS.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... Chelsio Communications' new iSCSI target stack software, in conjunction with its iSCSI adapters, delivers more than 400,000 I/Os per second (IOPS), according to company claims. Chelsio sells chips, such as the Terminator ASIC, to OEMs, as...

Netgear launches SoIP.(storage-over-internet protocol, Storage Central)(agreement with Zetera)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Netgear's Storage Central is the first commercial offering of Zetera's Z-SAN Storage-over-IP (SoIP) technology. While Storage Central is targeted primarily at the consumer and SOHO markets, both Bell Microproducts and StorCase are expected to...

Quantum adds SD LT/LTO libraries.(linear tape open)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Quantum recently began shipments of the PX500 series tape libraries, which includes the PX502, PX506, and PX510. The products feature SDLT 600, LTO-2, or LTO-3 drive/media technologies. The PX502 (7.6TB to 15.2TB of native capacity) is designed...

Anthology NAS includes LAN switch.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... Anthology Solutions' P400T Yellow Machine is a 1TB (expandable to 2TB) NAS appliance that includes an 8-port LAN switch and WAN router, built-in double firewall (NAT and SPI), secure Internet gateway, automated backup, custom ASICs, and support...

MaxTronic ships SATA II RAID.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... The Janus series of RAID arrays from Arena-MaxTronic is based on the SATA II specification and includes an Intel i80331 processor, dual Flash ROM components on each controller, up to 7.5TB of capacity with 16 SATA drives, Ultra320 SCSI or 2Gbps...

Spectra debuts entry-level library.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... Spectra Logic's $50 tape library has up to 40TB of capacity (50 LTO tape cartridges) in a 4U (seven inches) form factor and can scale to a throughput rate of 576GB per hour. The library is rack-mountable and can be configured with up to four...

Tandberg targets SMB backup/recovery.(Tandberg Data Inc., small and medium sized business)(new product InteliStor)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Tandberg Data's InteliStor is a backup/recovery appliance that integrates the company's InteliNAS filer (which is based on Windows Storage Server 2003), StorageLoader LTO2 tape autoloader or 420LTO tape drive, and Symantec's Backup Exec...

Fujifilm adds Super DLTtape II.(NEW PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... Fuji Photo Film U.S.A.'s Fujifilm-branded Super DLTtape II tape cartridges are designed for use with Quantum's SDLT 600 tape drives and provide a native capacity of 300GB and support for drive-transfer rates of up to 36MBps. When coupled with...