EMC, Xiotech, Nimbus and Actifio launch new storage products

Actifio announces company launch, funding

Developments of the week in storage

EMC, Xiotech, Nimbus and Actifio announced this week a variety of news – a new deduplication appliance, an SSD appliance, a desktop virtualization initiative and the launch and funding of a new storage startup.

EMC introduced the Data Domain DD670 deduplication system that incorporates the Nehalem-based Intel Xeon 5500 processor and uses the EMC Data Domain Boost software to increase its performance. The company also announced the EMC Disk Library 5000 system and a deduplication option for its Disk Library for Mainframe. All these appliances now support 2TB disk drives.

Nimbus launched its third SSD appliance – the S1000 – that provides 10TB of SSD capacity per storage shelf for a total capacity of 250TB. Additionally, the company announced that it FlexConnect technology is available across its SSD appliances. FlexConnect allows 12 10GbE ports per appliance. The S1000 uses 34nm enterprise multi-level cell flash, and has 24 x 400GB flash blades. The S1000 starts at $100,000. FlexConnect is $10,000.

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EMC, Xiotech, Nimbus and Actifio announced this week a variety of news – a new deduplication appliance, an SSD appliance, a desktop virtualization initiative and the launch and funding of a new storage startup.

EMC introduced the Data Domain DD670 deduplication system that incorporates the Nehalem-based Intel Xeon 5500 processor and uses the EMC Data Domain Boost software to increase its performance. The company also announced the EMC Disk Library 5000 system and a deduplication option for its Disk Library for Mainframe. All these appliances now support 2TB disk drives.

Nimbus launched its third SSD appliance – the S1000 – that provides 10TB of SSD capacity per storage shelf for a total capacity of 250TB. Additionally, the company announced that it FlexConnect technology is available across its SSD appliances. FlexConnect allows 12 10GbE ports per appliance. The S1000 uses 34nm enterprise multi-level cell flash, and has 24 x 400GB flash blades. The S1000 starts at $100,000. FlexConnect is $10,000.

Xiotech rolled out three new products – the Emprise 9000 storage controller, ISE Manager – a storage management application for hypervisors such as VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V – and the ISE Analyzer. The Emprise 9000 controller supports a range of 57.6 to 1.8PB of storage and incorporates two toeight8 Fibre Channel and two to four iSCSI connections. It supports from 1,024 to 4,096 servers.

Finally, Actifio, a storage management startup founded by Ash Ashutosh, formerly of HP and AppIQ, announced funding of $8 million from North Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. The company is introducing software in the data management virtualization space which takes information in individual silos and virtualizes them.

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Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.