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.
Avere adds SSDs to tiered NAS appliances January 26, 2010 -- Avere Systems this week added solid-state disk (SSD) drives to its "tiered NAS" appliances, which also have DRAM and NVRAM storage tiers.
NetApp, Cisco, VMware collaborate on the cloud January 26, 2010 -- NetApp, Cisco and VMware today extended their existing partnerships via an integration deal focused on the "dynamic data center" that involves virtualization and cloud computing.
Symantec integrates dedupe with Backup Exec, NetBackup 7 January 25, 2010 -- Symantec made good on its promise to integrate data deduplication into its flagship backup and recovery products today with the releases of Backup Exec 2010 and NetBackup 7.
Lab Review: Data deduplication for real tape January 22, 2009 -- To provide the infrastructure and storage resource virtualization needed to integrate D2T and D2D technologies, Spectra Logic's nTier Deduplication appliances extend the data protection operations of VTLs to physical tape libraries, enabling backup and recovery that meets data retention or off-site storage requirements.
Data deduplication for real tape To provide the infrastructure and storage resource virtualization needed to integrate D2T and D2D technologies, Spectra Logic's nTier Deduplication appliances extend the data protection operations of VTLs to physical tape libraries, enabling backup and recovery that meets data retention or off-site storage requirements.
Bocada brings ITSM to data protection with Prism January 22, 2010 -- Bocada has completed its transition from a backup reporting software maker to a full-fledged Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) vendor with the debut of Bocada Prism, a workflow-driven application that goes beyond backup reporting.
Pillar Data doubles Axiom performance January 21, 2010 -- Pillar Data Systems is now shipping a new version of its Slammer storage controllers with twice the cache and CPU horsepower of previous Slammers, boosting the overall performance of its Axiom 600 storage system.
Quantum adds deduplication to StorNext software January 20, 2010 -- Quantum today announced the latest release of its StorNext data management software with integrated file system data deduplication and replication.
EMC doubles density of Clariion with 2TB HDDs January 19, 2010 -- EMC today announced its latest offerings in the midrange SAN market with new high-density configurations of the EMC Clariion CX4 and Celerra Gateway systems, delivering twice the capacity of previous systems in half the floor space using 2TB hard disk drives (HDDs).
LSI adds 6Gbps SAS controllers, adapters January 19, 2010 -- LSI today introduced a slew of controllers and adapters that support the 6Gbps SAS interface, including cards in its MegaRAID and 3ware RAID controller families.
