InfoStor articles from September 2007

InfoStor archives from September 2007

De-dupe tops users' to-do list.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
September 1, 2007... The latest study from TheInfoPro (TIP) research firm has revealed that data de-duplication is the top storage technology in the adoption plans of Fortune 1000 organizations, while the same enterprises say data archiving and archive management...

Symantec ships next-gen SRM software.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
September 1, 2007... Symantec recently released the next generation of its Veritas CommandCentral storage resource management (SRM) software, with added support for both physical and virtual environments, advanced process automation and reporting features, and...

WAFS influences data-center design.(CASE STUDIES)
September 1, 2007... The surface benefits of deploying integrated wide area file services (WAFS) and WAN acceleration/ optimization products are apparent. They cut down on bandwidth costs, speed file sharing and application access, and make managing data across...

Thin provisioning, clusters, e-mail, and open-source backup.(In this issue ...)
September 1, 2007... By now, the benefits of thin provisioning are clear--reducing physical storage requirements, cost savings, better capacity utilization, and even improved application performance. As such, implementing thin provisioning would appear to be a...

Emulex's embedded storage bridges have been deployed across Xyratex's RS-1602-F4-SBD storage systems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Emulex's embedded storage bridges have been deployed across Xyratex's RS-1602-F4-SBD storage systems. Separately, CaminoSoft's Managed Server HSM software suite has successfully completed interoperability testing and certification with storage...

Autodesk has entered into an agreement to integrate Atto Technology's Celerity 4Gbps Fibre Channel.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Autodesk has entered into an agreement to integrate Atto Technology's Celerity 4Gbps Fibre Channel host adapters as part of the Autodesk visual effects and editing/finishing solutions.

RenewData has added the Index Engines.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... RenewData has added the Index Engines Offline Tape Discovery technology to its suite of Data Migration Services.

QStar.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)(QStar joined Archive Management)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... QStar has joined up as a premier and founding partner of Archive Management.org (www. archivemgt.org/). To aid organizations in the development of archiving strategies, the Data Management Institute and Toigo Partners International have...

Princeton Softech is using Onaro's SANscreen Application Insight.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Princeton Softech is using Onaro's SANscreen Application Insight to gain visibility into the alignment of storage resources with application requirements.

AT&T.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Gartner has positioned AT&T in the leaders' quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America, 1H07" report.

Verari Systems.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Verari Systems is now a member in The Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

ONStor.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... ONStor has closed a $27 million mezzanine round of funding. New investor Sand Hill Capital joins existing investors Foundation Capital, Mayfield Fund, ComVentures, and Worldview Technology Partners.

ProStor Systems' RDX systems have been certified to run with EncryptX's SecurMedia.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... ProStor Systems' RDX systems have been certified to run with EncryptX's SecurMedia automatic encryption software.

Asempra is now an approved gold level developer.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Asempra is now an approved gold level developer in HP's Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Partner program.

Incentra Solutions, a provider of IT and storage management solutions for mid-sized enterprises and service providers.(BUSINESS BRIEFS)
September 1, 2007... Incentra Solutions, a provider of IT and storage management solutions for mid-sized enterprises and service providers, has been accepted into the Symantec Technical Support Partner Program (TSPP). Incentra has been authorized to provide first...

Cisco unites virtual resources.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
September 1, 2007... Cisco recently introduced a slew of new products for managing virtualized server and storage resources, including new fabric switches, encryption features, a data migration tool, and VFrame Data Center--an appliance that automatically...

Caringo upgrades CAS software.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
September 1, 2007... Start-up Caringo recently rolled out the second version of its CAStor content-addressed storage (CAS) software with new local and wide area replication features and better performance and expectations that its software can change end-user...

agami targets SMBs with iSCSI-NAS combo.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
September 1, 2007... agami Systems is taking its unified NAS and IP SAN technology downstream with a new storage system designed for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), claiming enterprise-class features and performance at an entry-level price. The agami...

HP buys Opsware for $1.6 billion.(NEWS ANALYSIS + TRENDS)
September 1, 2007... Hewlett-Packard is expected to complete its acquisition of data-center automation software vendor Opsware next month in a deal that was valued at approximately $1.6 billion, the third-largest acquisition in HP's history behind only Compaq...

Trends in RAID drives, interfaces, controllers: users and integrators are evaluating RAID 6, SAS-SATA combos, and software-based RAID.(SPECIAL REPORT)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the paper that launched the RAID revolution in the storage industry. It's rare that a technology development in this industry truly qualifies as...

Thin provisioning goes mainstream: there are many benefits to be gained from thin provisioning, but there are also some potential drawbacks.
September 1, 2007... With the recent spate of announcements from a variety of vendors regarding thin provisioning, it is clear that this technology is rapidly expanding into the IT mainstream. NAS devices have long supported thin provisioning, but only recently has...

Clustered file storage is enterprise-ready: four trends are accelerating end-user adoption of clustered storage and file virtualization.
September 1, 2007... Clustered storage is an idea whose time has finally come. For the past decade, the concept of a "pay-as-you-grow" resource with unlimited scalability has been an elusive vision of end users and vendors alike. However, with the events of the...

Focus on: e-mail management and archiving: the center of gravity for e-mail archiving is shifting from the IT server room to the boardroom via the courtroom, and the technologies and business processes associated with e-mail archiving are shifting as well.
September 1, 2007... For several years, the growth of unstructured content has been substantially more rapid than structured information. Because they contain highly structured data and metadata, applications such as ERP, financials, CRM, supply chain, etc., can be...

Open-source backup coming of age: potential benefits include flexibility, security and, of course, low cost.
September 1, 2007... Enterprise data centers are usually joined at the hip to high-priced, feature-heavy backup software. For large data centers, this arrangement works quite well: There is money in the budget for costly licensing and support; the enterprise is...

Sun Microsystems adds Solaris-based VTL.(NEW PRODUCTS)
September 1, 2007... Sun Microsystems has added to its virtual tape lineup with the launch of the Sun/StorageTek Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Value System, a Solaris-based VTL for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The VTL Value System is Sun's first...

Isilon expands clustered storage.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Isilon recently released a larger clustered storage platform and new management software. The IQ 9000 and EX 9000 are high-density 2U nodes that use 12 750GB SATA-II drives from Seagate. The new software is called SmartQuotas and offers quota...

LeftHand enhances thin provisioning.(NEW PRODUCTS)
September 1, 2007... Enhanced thin provisioning is among the 20 new features added to Version 7 of LeftHand Networks' SAN/IQ software. The company hopes to differentiate its thin-provisioning implementation from a growing number of vendors that are offering the...

Unitrends encrypts on backup appliances.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Unitrends is tightening security on its backup appliances with the introduction of InCrypt, a security option that encrypts data stored on the company's Data Protection Unit (DPU) and Data Protection Vault (DPV) systems. InCrypt uses...

Asigra targets VMs with 64-bit code.(NEW PRODUCTS)
September 1, 2007... With all the companies scrambling to virtualize their servers onto fewer physical machines, Asigra says it has the answer to the complications that result from backing up the virtual machines. The company claims that its agent-less...

Yosemite teams with Double-Take.(NEW PRODUCTS)
September 1, 2007... Yosemite Technologies and Double-Take have partnered to provide "core-to-edge" data protection by combining their data-protection and replication technologies. Storage administrators who implement Yosemite's FileKeeper notebook/desktop...

Aptare adds capacity planning.(NEW PRODUCTS)
September 1, 2007... Aptare is enhancing its backup reporting and predictive analysis software into a platform for overall storage reporting. StorageConsole Platform 6.5 provides integrates backup reporting and storage capacity management. The software gives...

Overland VTL features SAS.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Virtual Tape Libraries)(Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface)(REO 4500)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Replacing the Overland REO 4000 line of virtual tape libraries (VTLs), the REO 4500 is based on a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller and up to 27TB of capacity, and support for six VTLs, 32 virtual tape drives, and 512 virtual cartridges....

InMage CDP supports Linux.(NEW PRODUCTS)
September 1, 2007... InMage Systems has added a Linux VX Client for its DR-Scout disaster-recovery and business continuity software, which provides continuous data protection (CDP) functionality. The software supports Red-Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, SuSE...

Horizon DataSys protects Windows.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Horizon DataSys' RollBack Rx Pro 8.0 is Windows-based data-protection software that provides real-time recovery for desktops and laptops with CDP functionality based on snapshots. The software takes snapshots of a hard drive in one to three...

MicroNet RAID supports e-SATA.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... MicroNet's Blackbird RAID array has four SATA drive bays for up to 4TB of capacity, eSATA-300 support with native command queuing (NCQ), and 16MB of buffer cache. The company claims read performance of up to 240MBps and write performance of up...

Coraid virtualizes AoE.(NEW PRODUCTS)(EtherDrive VS21 )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Coraid has introduced a virtualization appliance for the open-source ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol. The EtherDrive VS21 VirtualStorage Appliance and Logical Volume Manager provide fabric-based virtualization by performing block address...

Calendar.(NEW PRODUCTS)(Conference news)(Calendar)
September 1, 2007... October 15-18 Storage Networking World - USA--Dallas, TX Sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and Computerworld, the conference focuses on the continued rapid growth and implementation of storage networking,...