Table of ContentsNews Analysis + TrendsDell extends EMC deal; Celerra added to lineupDell and EMC announced last month that they have extended the length and scope of their storage partnership, and that Dell will add EMC's Celerra NX4 NAS systems to its storage portfolio.
FalconStor brings de-dupe to NAS backupsFalconStor Software has extended the data de-duplication capabilities of its widely used Virtual Tape Library (VTL) product to a new segment of the data protection market?NAS-based disk-to-disk (D2D) backups.
Brocade adds fabric monitoring serviceBrocade has revamped an acquired network monitoring technol-ogy to offer customers a more comprehensive remote monitoring, alerting, and reporting service for data center fabrics.
CA offers SaaS-based DR serviceAdd CA to the list of software vendors turning their data protection products into services. The company recently announced the availability of CA Instant Recovery On Demand, a hosted and managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of its CA XOsoft High Availability technology that protects application servers in SMB environments.
ESG insights: pNFS boosts NAS performanceIn our last column (see ?What?s next for NAS?? at infostor.com), we discussed scale-out NAS. As a follow-on to that article, we?re going to explore some new functionality that leverages scale-out architectures to drive performance improvements: parallel NFS (pNFS).
Analyst View: Scalability is a multidimensional challengeTraditionally, scalability has been myopically viewed in terms of capacity growth demands and addressed by simply adding more storage. However, an extreme rate of data growth, greater demands for online data availability and accessibility, and a growing demand for operational efficiencies (power, space, management), are all trends that question the viability of this lazy man?s approach to managing storage growth.
DepartmentsEditorialThe 'C' in CDP has been downgradedWhen I started writing this month’s Special Report on continuous data protection (CDP), I had a goal of not gettinginto the “true CDP” vs. “near CDP” discussion/argument. Business BriefsBriefsThis section takes on late-breaking business and partnership news written for industry insiders.
New ProductsProductsEach month, InfoStor rounds up timely new product announcements, providing a buyer?s guide for professionals.
Special ReportCDP delivers granular recovery“True” continuous data protection (CDP) enables companies to recover to any point in time (APIT), but do you really need to?
FeaturePrimary storage optimization moves forwardAdoption of PSO is picking up, but there are a number of issues and developments that may change the game.
SNIA on StorageiSCSI plants roots in the Global 2000There is ample evidence that iSCSI can provide significant benefits to organizations of all sizes today.
Analysis ViewVDI and snapshots: A winning combinationThe case for boot image snapshots is compelling in a vast majority of situations, including 75% or more storage space savings of boot image data.
Lab ReviewSANmelody = storage virtualization panaceaWith DataCore’s SANmelody, SMB IT administrators can create central pools of virtual disk blocks using DAS and SAN-connected arrays, and then apply advanced features from thin provisioning to mirroring from one GUI.
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