Infostor Archives for Month, Year

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Business Briefs

This section takes on late-breaking business and partnership news written for industry insiders.

New products

Each month, InfoStor rounds up timely new product announcements, providing a buyer’s guide for professionals.

News Analysis Trends

Cisco to purchase NeoPath

Cisco last month announced an agreement to acquire privately held NeoPath Networks, a maker of file storage management software and appliances.

Emulex ships fabric application platforms

At the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, last month, Emulex introduced the first systems-level products resulting from its acquisition of Aarohi last year.

FANs shape the future data center

When the analysts at the Taneja Group research/consulting firm coined the acronym file area network (FAN) last year, the firm was attempting to classify an emerging amalgam of various networking, storage, and software technologies that, when used together, offer significant improvements in data access and management across geographically dispersed locations.

HP acquires PolyServe

Hewlett-Packard has extended its plans in the NAS market with the acquisition of OEM partner and clustered file system vendor PolyServe.

Iron Mountain outsources e-mail management

Iron Mountain Digital recently launched a new digital service dubbed Total Email Management Suite.

Mendocino offers ‘hybrid’ CDP

Recognizing that “true” continuous data protection (CDP) can sometimes be overkill, Mendocino Software has added a “near-CDP” option to its InfiniView software.

NetApp bolsters midrange

Network Appliance last month added new models to its midrange FAS (stand-alone) and V (virtualization) series of “unified storage” disk arrays.

Snia On Storage

Data-center storage trends, challenges

Data centers have become extremely complex. New technologies, fast growth, acquisitions, the online data explosion, and increased security concerns have driven complexity up and utilization rates down.

Analyst View

LTO-4 on the way: Long live tape

The next generation of the LTO tape format will double the capacity to 800GB and increase the data-transfer rate to 120MBps.

What’s the right ‘fit’ for CDP?

Some continuous data protection (CDP) products emphasize data protection and others emphasize business continuity, but it’s not an either/or purchasing decision.

Editorial

The ABCs of CDP, RTO, RPO

Continuous data protection used to be only for very large enterprises with very large budgets and extremely stringent requirements in terms of recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs).

Special Report

The role of CDP for SMBs

Now that affordable implementations of continuous data protection (CDP) are available, SMBs can take advantage of technology that was once available only to larger enterprises with big IT budgets.