Toshiba rolls out 600GB, 6Gbps SAS drives February 18, 2010 -- Toshiba has completed its acquisition of Fujitsu's HDD unit and is rolling out a line of enterprise-class, small form factor 6Gbps SAS drives with self-encryption capabilities.
Recent announcements from: Brocade, GlassHouse Technologies, Intel, McAfee, Mellanox Technologies, ParaScale, Promark Technology, Scale Computing, Voxell dot Net and Xiotech.
HP refreshes entry-level, LeftHand SANs February 17, 2010 -- HP is slapping a new naming scheme on its entry-level MSA and midrange LeftHand SANs in conjunction with a round of hardware and software upgrades that improve performance, scalability and capacity utilization.
Overland debuts iSCSI array February 16, 2010 -- Overland Storage today announced the SnapServer SAN S2000, Overland's first pure iSCSI SAN array.
EMC intros GeoProtect, new hardware for Atmos February 16, 2010 -- EMC today announced a round of hardware and software upgrades to its Atmos cloud storage platform with faster processors, higher-capacity disk drives, and more options for protecting data over distances.
Exar to acquire Neterion February 12, 2010 -- Exar this week announced that it plans to acquire Neterion, which specializes in 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapters for virtualized environments, servers and storage devices. The deal is expected to close next month at an estimated purchase price of $10 million to $11 million.
Symantec OpenStorage This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of consolidated management and automated data protection services across multiple sites and diverse storage technologies using Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage.
IBM debuts SONAS scale-out NAS system February 11, 2010 -- IBM is making its bid for the scale-out NAS market with the debut of the Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) system, an appliance-based platform that combines IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS), Systems Software and NAS hardware to create a system that scales up to 14.4PB.
Does MLC flash belong in enterprise SSDs? February 11, 2010 -- There's a good bit of debate about whether or not enterprise-class SSDs can use multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology, as opposed to single-level cell (SLC) technology, which is currently the dominant technology for enterprise SSDs.
Recent announcements from: Asigra, CA, Chelsio Communications, Double-Take Software, Emulex, Laurus Technologies, LSI, NEC, NetApp, NTP Software, RES Software, Siemens Business Services and Xsigo Systems.
Riverbed adds SSDs to WAN optimization appliances February 10, 2010 -- Riverbed Technology has announced availability of the Steelhead 7050 WAN optimization appliance with SSDs, 10GbE connectivity and better performance than previous models for disaster recovery environments.
Startup Nasuni puts primary NAS in the cloud February 9, 2010 -- Storage startup Nasuni today debuted a VMware-based virtual NAS file server that, according to the company, consolidates NAS clusters by putting primary storage data in the cloud.
Guidelines for FCoE deployment February 8, 2010 -- Network convergence will enable enterprises to preserve their existing investments in Fibre Channel storage, reduce data center costs and complexity, and simplify network management.
Lab Review: Disk imaging for physical and virtual machines February 5, 2010 -- Paragon's Drive Backup 10 Server software leverages disk imaging tools to simplify storage management issues, from consolidation to disaster recovery protection, in both physical and virtual environments.
Disk imaging for physical and virtual machines Paragon's Drive Backup 10 Server software leverages disk imaging tools to simplify storage management issues, from consolidation to disaster recovery protection, in both physical and virtual environments.
Survey: Users not very interested in cloud storage February 4, 2010 -- According to the results of a recent survey conducted by Forrester Research, end-user interest in hosted cloud storage is, at best, lukewarm and deployment is not on the horizon.
Recent announcements from: Atempo, Bell Micro, BlueArc, DataCore Software, Host.net, Neterion, NTP Software and Sony Corporation.
Lab Review: Unifying backup and replication for VMware February 3, 2010 -- With support for all of the new features in vSphere 4, Veeam Backup & Replication brings near-CDP levels of data protection to virtual machines.
Unifying backup and replication for VMware With support for all of the new features in vSphere 4, Veeam Backup & Replication brings near-CDP levels of data protection to virtual machines.
ProStor adds backup to InfiniVault appliances February 2, 2010 -- ProStor Systems' InfiniVault appliances, which are based on RDX removable disk drives, are typically used for archiving. But this week the company added the ability to use the appliance as a backup target in addition to an archive platform.
CommVault connects Simpana software to the cloud February 1, 2010 -- CommVault is now shipping a software option that allows its Simpana data management software to write backup and archive data directly to cloud storage platforms.
SAN management user case study, part 4 February 1, 2010 -- The last installment in our series illustrates the inadequacy of traditional SAN management tools in large, heterogeneous storage networks.
SAN management user case study, part 3 January 29, 2010 -- The third installment in our 4-part series, written by members of the wikibon.org community, focuses on the need for end-to-end SAN monitoring tools for large, heterogeneous storage networks.
Continuity Software adds SLA management to DR software January 29, 2010 -- Continuity Software is set to release version 5.0 of its RecoverGuard software with enhancements including service level agreement (SLA) management, cluster support, and new signatures for validating disaster recovery configurations.
SAN management user case study, part 2 January 28, 2010 -- The second installment in our four-part series on how a SAN manager solved his SAN management issues focuses on performance monitoring and cost justification.
SolarWinds acquires Tek-Tools for SRM January 28, 2010 -- Network and applications management software maker SolarWinds has acquired storage resource management (SRM) vendor Tek-Tools in a bid to move into the enterprise storage management market.
Recent announcements from: 3PAR, American Megatrends, Atempo, Bell Micro, Coraid, gCLOUD3, GreenBytes, Neterion, Neverfail and StorageCraft Technology.
Oracle becomes one-stop-shop with Sun storage, servers January 27, 2010 -- One day after officially closing its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle has outlined its new strategy as a complete systems vendor by providing pre-packaged hardware and software systems with operating system, virtual machine (VM), server and storage technology from Sun.
SAN management user case study, part 1 January 27, 2010 -- This is the first installment in a four-part series on how a SAN manager at a major U.S. credit card firm solved his SAN management challenges in a storage network with more than 450TB of capacity.
