EMC, HP and Fujitsu among those with new products

The network storage market is having a busy few weeks, with a slew of new products being introduced by big names and new names:

• EMC last week announced its entry into the busy identification, classification and management market with Infoscape, software that combines technologies from its Legato, SMARTS and Documentum acquisitions. Infoscape identifies all Microsoft Common Internet File System (CIFS) and EMC Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) files and classifies them according to content and attributes such as create or modify date.
• HP last week announced a set of storage arrays for small and mid-ize businesses designed to help them easily manage, grow and protect their data. The StorageWorks All-in-One Systems consist of the AiO400 and AiO600, which have either iSCSI, storage-area network or NAS connectivity.
• Adaptec next week plans to introduce three NAS appliances for departments and workgroups within large organizations. The SnapServer 110, 210 and 410 use the high-end Guardian operating system, which provides secure and fast performance and supports Microsoft's CIFS, the Unix/Linux Network File System and Apple's AppleTalk File Protocol and iSCSI. The appliances scale from 160GB to 1TB and range from $549 to $3,500. They are expected to be available in October.
• Index Engines this week introduced an appliance that indexes the contents of tape for e-discovery purposes. The eDiscovery Tape Engine creates a searchable repository of tape contents and lets customers retrieve the contents in the event of litigation. The product is tape-drive agnostic and works with backup software from Tivoli, EMC/Legato and Symantec Veritas. It starts at $29,500 for a package that supports as many as 2 million files.
• Wasabi Systems, which started out as a BSD Linux vendor, last week rolled out enhancements to its iSCSI target that turns an industry standard server into a networked storage appliance. Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN 2.1 now supports logical drives of more than 2TB capacity, enhanced error recovery and support for VMware ESX Server 3.0.
• The Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) this week announced Version 1.0 of its Working Group Specification, which standardizes the physical, electrical and enclosure management characteristics of storage enclosures. The SBB, which was started by Dell, EMC, Intel and others, now includes IBM, Network Appliance and Xyratex, among others.
• Yosemite Technologies this week enhanced its backup software to include support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop 10, as well as 64-bit hardware and software operating systems. The company added a Backup Quick Access Tray, which simplifies backup for small and mid-ize businesses, and added support for SQL Server 2005. Yosemite Backup starts at $800.
• Zmanda, the company that is commercializing the open source AMANDA backup software, announced this week its Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL, software that backs up and recovers MySQL databases. ZRM for MySQL includes the ability to set backup retention policies, and report and monitor system operations. It is available on a yearly subscription basis from Zmanda.com. A community version is freely downloadable.
• Fujitsu Computer Systems this week announced two disk subsystems that are capable of storing almost 1.4PB of data and include features such as disk encryption. The ETERNUS 8000 provides 1.38PB of storage; it contains eight controllers, each powered with a 3.6-Hz dual-core processor. The 8000 is 2.5 times faster than previous ETERNUS 6000 models. The ETERNUS4000 is 1.5 times faster than previous ETERNUS3000 models. The new ETERNUS systems can attach to Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows or Linux host computers. They can store data using 128-bitaz Advanced Encryption Standard. Additionally, they have iSCSI connectivity and support the Massive Arrays of Inactive Disks, which reduces power consumption by spinning the disks only when data is stored or retrieved.
• Signiant unveiled its Mobilize for Remote Data Protection product, which aggregates data from remote offices and transports it across the WAN to the data center.