IBM System Storage DS5020/DS3950 Express and IBM BladeCenter HS22 This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed application performance benchmark which was designed to assess the real-world performance capabilities of a SAN-attached IBM System Storage DS5020 Express/DS3950 Express storage, IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers and VMware vSphere software deployed in a highly virtualized, consolidated data center.
EMC brings replication monitoring to Data Protection Advisor December 14, 2009 -- EMC today announced a round of upgrades to the EMC Data Protection Advisor backup monitoring and analysis tool, including new support for replication software.
Gluster upgrades open-source clustered storage December 11, 2009 -- Storage startup Gluster has become the latest vendor to develop an open-source storage platform that scales to hundreds of petabytes in a single volume across commodity storage nodes.
F5 targets midrange with file virtualization appliance December 11, 2009 -- File virtualization hardware and software vendor F5 Networks is beefing up its product line with a new midrange file virtualization appliance and enhanced support for Microsoft/CIFS storage environments.
Seven10 archiving software integrates with EMC Atmos December 11, 2009 -- Seven10 Storage Software this week announced that its StorFirst EAS file system-based archiving and disaster recovery software is now integrated with the EMC Atmos cloud storage platform.
Dell ships 10GbE EqualLogic arrays, networking gear December 10, 2009 -- Dell continues to beat the drum for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) as the underlying fabric for next generation data centers with today's debut of 10GbE networking products, a pair of new EqualLogic disk arrays, and infrastructure management software.
Recent announcements from: 3PAR, Atempo, Axxana, EMC, Emulex, Enhance Technology, Hitachi Data Systems, LaCie, Microsoft, NetApp, QLogic, Symantec and Verari.
Seagate enters the enterprise SSD market December 9, 2009 -- The world's largest hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer has finally entered the solid-state disk (SSD) drive market with its first line of enterprise SSDs aimed at blade servers and general-purpose servers.
EMC delivers automated storage tiering with FAST December 8, 2009 -- EMC is making good on its promise to automate storage tiering across Fibre Channel, SATA and solid-state disk (SSD) storage with today's debut of the company's fully automated storage tiering (FAST) technology for use across all of EMC's primary storage platforms.
Symantec upgrades Storage Foundation, supports SSDs December 7, 2009 -- Symantec announced a slew of product enhancements today with its sights set on boosting the performance and management of solid-state disk (SSD) drives, improving failover processes, and rounding out its thin provisioning strategy.
Recent announcements from: Aptare, Avnet Technology Solutions, Fujitsu Storage Systems, Hitachi Data Systems, Index Engines, the Planet, STEC and StoredIQ.
EMC virtualizes, aggregates Centera archives December 2, 2009 -- EMC today took the wraps off the Centera Virtual Archive, a new technology that ties multiple Centera content addressed storage (CAS) systems together as a single virtual archive.
Scale Computing upgrades scale-out architecture December 1, 2009 -- Storage startup Scale Computing today unveiled version 2.0 of its Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) architecture with a new set of "StarterSAN" product configurations for building scale-out storage clusters.
InQuinox accelerates PureDisk deduplication November 24, 2009 -- InQuinox launched itself recently with the release of an acceleration appliance for Symantec's NetBackup PureDisk deduplication software, and followed up this month with the introduction of a migration utility for SAN booting systems.
CA ARCserve Backup - Enterprise-Class Data Protection and Deduplication This ESG Lab Validation focuses on the key functionality in CA ARCserve backup driving greater efficiency: embedded data deduplication, backup and recovery performance, Media Assure data verification, and tape integration.
Data Robotics upgrades iSCSI RAID arrays November 23, 2009 -- Data Robotics boosted performance by up to 50% on its RAID arrays via an additional GbE/iSCSI port, faster processors and more memory, and software techniques such as multiple stream optimization.
It's not your father's NAS anymore November 20, 2009 -- Traditional NAS approaches often fall short in environments with rapid growth in file-based data.
Managed service offers customized recovery for Data Domain systems November 19, 2009 -- Simply Continuous is set to release a new version of its managed data recovery service with a new software tool that lets customers define their own SLA for data recovery on EMC Data Domain appliances.
Recent announcements from: Axxana, Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems, InQuinox, Paragon Software Group, Riverbed Technology and StorMagic.
Highlights from Supercomputing 09 November 18, 2009 -- A number of storage vendors used this week's Supercomputing 09 conference in Portland to announce new products or partner agreements.
November 17, 2009 -- EMC began offering a new version of its Avamar data deduplication software today with several new features, including support for desktop and laptop data deduplication.
ParaScale beefs up cloud storage platform November 16, 2009 -- ParaScale announced a new version of its ParaScale Cloud Storage software (PCS) today with added support for virtual server environments and new API support that streamlines the process of adding applications to the cloud.
VTL primer and predictions November 13, 2009 -- Upcoming features include support for alternate media, clustered VTL engines, content search capabilities, and support for protocols such as NFS and CIFS.
Recent announcements from: AutoVirt, EMC, Mimosa Systems, NextIO, ProStor Systems, SandForce, StoneFly, Symantec, Tandberg Data and Texas Memory Systems.
3PAR Autonomic Groups This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of 3PAR Autonomic Groups in a clustered VMware environment - paying special attention to ease of provisioning and management.
3PAR automates provisioning for virtual servers November 11, 2009 -- 3PAR has unveiled a trio of software updates for its InServ Storage Server arrays that automate storage provisioning, monitoring, and data protection in clustered and virtual server environments.
Spectra Logic libraries scale to 180PB November 10, 2009 -- Spectra Logic today took the wraps off a system that scales to 45PB per library, or 180PB in a library complex. Those capacities assume a library equipped with LTO-5 tape drives and cartridges, which aren't expected until April 2010.
