Brocade and Thales on Tuesday announced that they have integrated Thales Encryption Manager for Storage with Brocade’s SAN switches. The Brocade Encryption Switch and the Brocade FS8-18 will now be key encryption/key management-enabled with Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS). TEMS is a ready-to-use appliance that consolidates and automates the management of encryption keys for storage systems. Hitachi Data Systems will be among the first organization to offer the solution in their product line. Read more
SteelEye Technology on Monday announced that SteelEye DataKeeper now supports Windows Server R2 and multi-site clusters of Hyper-V, SQL Server, file and print, DHCP servers. DataKeeper is data replication software for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. DataKeeper Cluster Edition allows administrators to build geographically dispersed Hyper-V clusters that do not share storage.
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Riverbed on Monday announced that it has enhanced the software for its Steelhead WAN optimization appliances. RiOS 6.0, which powers Riverbed’s appliances has been enhanced with support for Citrix XenApp, Mac clients, Oracle E-Business Suite 12 and Microsoft SharePoint. The company also has added the capability to recognize disaster recovery traffic and optimize it on a per-TCP connection basis. This capability enables the autonomic adjustment of compression and deduplication. RiOS 6.0 is expected to be available on November. Read more
IBM rolled out on Thursday the DS8700 storage array, which performs 2.5 times faster than the DS8300 and is 50% more energy efficient. The DS8700 is based on the Power6 processor and is backward compatible to previous DS arrays. The array incorporates solid state drives and uses software that automatically migrates data from Fibre Channel drives. The DS8700 starts at $290,000. Read more
Quantum on Wednesday rolled out a new family of deduplication appliances for network-attached storage devices. The DXi6500 family deduplicates files and ranges from 3T to 30TB of primary data. Targeted at midsize customers, the DXi6500 supports most backup software, including NetBackup and Symantec's OpenStorage API. The DXi6500 starts at $64,000 and is expected to be available in November. Read more
StorageCraft Technology announced new flexible pricing, licensing and delivery options for its StorageCraft ShadowProtect IT Edition. Customers can now purchase the software on a per-project basis or on annual, quarterly, monthly or two-week period bases. ShadowProtect IT Edition is available through authorized resellers and StorageCraft managed service providers and value-added resellers. Read more
BakBone Software last week announced a new version of its NetVault backup software. NetVault 8.5 features disk-to-disk data protection and deduplication options. NetVault: Smart Disk allows customers to deduplicate the primary copy of data and encrypt the secondary copy. In addition, 8.5 includes job-level encryption using AES-256 and CAST-256 encryption algorithms and a Hyper-V plug-in that allows backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments. Read more
Inquinox on Thursday introduced the SD3 appliance for Symantec NetBackup PureDisk deduplication software. The SD3 uses Atrato's solid-state drive appliance and controllers from Corevalent to speed deduplication of data in backup environments. SD3 draws fewer than 5 watts per terabyte and 15 BTUs per hour per terabyte, allowing customers to save 75% in real estate costs and a 50 to 80% reduction in power and cooling expenses. The SD3 appliances consist of four models designed for both remote office environments and data centers ranging from 1.3TB to 96TB of storage capacity.
IBM on Tuesday entered the cloud with the introduction of IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud Services, a bundled hardware/soft/services offering, that let's customers deploy either internal or external clouds. The Smart Business Storage Cloud Services is compatible with IBM xSeries Servers, XIV storage, Scale-Out File Services, KVM and Tivioli Service Automation Manager. IBM's cloud services are expected to be available on a subscription basis later this year. The company also on Tuesday unveiled its IBM Information Archive, a storage repository for unstructured and structured data. Read more
Symantec on Monday introduced FileStore, a new storage service that lets customers deploy file-based services into the cloud. FileStore, which is available now, uses Symanteec NetBackup and Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server to manage the backup of data into the cloud. A FileStore system scales to as many as 16 nodes and 2PB of total storage. FileStore is available immediately and pricing starts at $7,000 for two nodes and two CPU sockets. Read more
Emerson and Avocent Corporation announced Tuesday they have reached agreement for a cash purchase of Avocent at $25 per share, or approximately $1.2 billion. The purchase is expected to close around the first of the calendar year pending regulatory approvals and shareholder acceptance. Avocent's sales in 2008 were $657 million, with about half of its revenue in the United States. The agreement extends the integrated solutions Emerson provides to data center managers. Read more
Brocade has put itself up for sale, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The company with a $3.2 billion valuation is being shopped by Frank Quattrone of the Qatalyst Group, who is famous for brokering the acquisition of Data Domain by EMC. Possible suitors include HP and Oracle. In 2008, Brocade acquired Foundry Networks to extend its capabilities into the Ethernet switch space. The company offers an array of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and Gigabit Ethernet switches. Brocade had net income of $167 million on $1.5 billion in revenue in 2008.
RELDATA on Wednesday announced its latest RELDATA 9201i storage system, which uses a new release of its RELvos 2.4 64-bit operating system, to consolidate SAN and NAS traffic. The 9240i has a single or dual controller configuration and supports iSCSI bridging and mirroring, as well as asynchronous replication. In addition, customers are able to pause replication at any point, view system utilization and I/O statistics charts and by using wizards automate time-consuming tasks. Further the 9240i can be configured with SAS storage and 1Gigabit Ethernet or 10G Ethernet interconnects. Read more
Idera announced that its SQLsafe 6.0 is now in beta. Upgrades to 6.0 include use of a new IntelliCompress2 technology that speeds backups, fault-tolerant capability that pauses backups when the network is down and resumes where it left off, and AES-256 encryption. To participate in the public beta, go here Read more
Emulex announced on Tuesday that HP will be using its 8Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters in the new StorageWorks X3820 Network Storage System. The HP StorageWorks X3820 includes two Emulex LightPulse LPe12002 8Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel HBAs. Read more
EXludus Technologies of Montreal announced on Tuesday the general availability of MCOPt version 3.0 for Linux. By adding a management layer to Linux, multi-core performance is improved by prevention of memory swapping and resource conflicts, and eliminates cluster and cloud job submission latencies. MCOPt allows existing serial and parallel applications to leverage multi-core and cluster computers without the complexity of parallel re-programming and engineering. Read more
HP on Tuesday announced two new storage system bundles for small and mid-size businesses. The HP StorageWorks X3000 Network Storage Systems High Availability Bundle includes an HP StorageWorks X3000 gateway, HP StorageWorks MSA2000 array and a host bus adapter and cabling. The bundle includes file-level deduplication of data, replication and RAID 6 data protection. The X3000 HA bundle can be expanded into a pre-configured bundle. In addition the bundle uses iSCSI and has print serving capabilities. It also supports Fibre Channel and Serial Attached SCSI interfaces. Read more
SMBs don't understand how disaster recovery works, say a recent study from Symantec. Read more
Dataram unveiled on Monday the XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance that speeds application performance by as much as 30x. XcelaSAN sits in the network between the Fibre Channel switch and the storage array and uses caching algorithms to place the most active block-level data on solid state drives. The XcelaSAN has eight 4Gbps Fibre Channel ports and can connect to the storage fabric or directly to back-end storage. It features hot-swappable, redundant power supplies, Intel's chip kill technology and internal mirrored flash drives. The XcelaSAN starts at $65,000.
LSI on Monday announced enhancements to its Engenio 7900 storage array. The enhancements include a new high-density Serial ATA drive enclosure, solid state drive support and iSCSI host interface support. In addition, LSI has added Tek-Tools Storage Profiler to the software for the array. The new Serial ATA drive enclosure can house 60 3.5-inch Serial ATA drives in a 4U (7-inch) high space. The enclosure allows 480TB to reside in a standard 19-inch rack. Read more
Deni Connor is the principal of Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) which was founded in 2007. Deni is a well-known Servers expert, who was previously a reporter for IDG’s Network World. In addition, Connor worked in marketing and editorial positions for Novell, IBM, Control Data, Radix International, Thomas-Conrad and Networking Solutions magazine. SSG-NOW is located in Austin, Texas.
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