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Overland bolsters data protection with disaster recovery appliance: 07/08/09; Overland Storage this week debuted a disaster recovery and business continuity appliance for small and mid-sized businesses. The REO Business Continuity Appliance is available in two models – the BCA 100 and BCA 200 – which are targeted for supporting as many as 10 application servers.
Virginia Credit Union deploys NetApp: 07/06/09; Jason Bane, vice president of infrastructure operations at the Virginia Credit Unit, deployed a variety of NetApp filers to deduplicate his data and to replicate it from a Midlothian-based data center to headquarters in Richmond, VA., ten miles away. Bane deployed two FAS 6070 arrays with 90TB of total capacity in Midlothian and two FAS 3020 arrays (with 50TB total capacity) in Richmond to replace an EMC Symmetrix that didn’t perform well and was expensive. (The Symmetrix remains in the Midlothian data center to support mainframe-tier applications.)
Publisher chooses Quantum for deduplication: 07/01/09; For Mark Fishell of book publisher Hay House, de-duplication of data wa everything.
Mimosa revs up new version of its content archiving system: 06/29/09; Mimosa Systems this week announced version 4.0 of its NearPoint content archiving system, which includes capture, de-duplication, data protection, full-text indexing, data retention and mailbox management for Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint and Windows file servers, desktops and laptop computers.
Memory virtualization debuts: 06/24/09; Memory virtualization vendor this week announced software that allows x86-based servers to share memory and make a pool of memory available for large data sets that require it.
10Gbit Ethernet heats up: 06/22/09; You might ask what 10G Ethernet has to do with storage. There's an obvious connection now with storage vendor QLogic getting into the game.
Vultures circle over Data Domain: 06/17/09; Not a lot of news last week, but anticipating this week will be full of the gyrations between EMC and NetApp over the body of Data Domain. Already the carrion are circling ready to pick off the remainders – a law firm called Levi & Korsinsky is soliciting people in a class action securities litigation matter against Data Domain.
Cisco Fibre Channel share plummets: 06/15/09; Cisco's share in Fibre Channel networking fell 45% in the 1st quarter of this year, according to a Dell’Oro report, a move Dell'Oro says may have come about because of channel conflict.
EMC/NetApp recap on Data Domain: 06/10/09; Unless the EMC-NetApp-Data Domain changes in the past five days, here's what happened in NetApp's efforts to acquire the deduplication vendor.
Storage performance/energy consumption rises: 06/08/09; Last week, industry arbiter The Storage Performance Council (SPC) announced a new benchmark for measuring the energy consumption of storage devices.
Hitachi unveils virtualization clustering: 06/03/09; Hitachi Data Systems last week introduced clustering for its Universal Storage Platform V virtualization array, a move that disappointed many analysts in the industry because they expected HDS to announce a next-generation array that would rival EMC's V-Max.
Help Nick Glasgow: 06/01/09; EMC employee Nick Glasgow needs a bone marrow transplant. He's suffering from leukemia. Here's the catch – if he was white, he'd be assured finding a match – but Glasgow is one-quarter Japanese and the chances for finding a match are slim.
IBM rolls out converged network architecture: 05/27/09; If converged networking was a Texas Hold ' Em game, IBM and QLogic came up with royal flushes this week.
NetApp acquires Data Domain: 05/22/09; NetApp blew its top last week with the acquisition of data deduplication vendor Data Domain for $1.5B.
Rackable becomes SGI: 05/20/09; When storage and server vendor Rackable acquired SGI recently, no one expected the company would take the name of a flagging vendor. But that is exactly what happened – Rackable became Silicon Graphics International this week.
Data Domain introduces data shredding: 05/18/09; Lots is going on in data retention and destruction this week as Data Domain introduced a shredding feature as part of its Retention Lock software.
Compellent and SSDs: 05/14/09; I spent last week at Compellent's C-Dive Partner and Customer Conference in Minneapolis. While Compellent didn't announce any new products or technologies, the company presented a fresh view of not only its Storage Center array, but of its software offerings such as Data Progression, which provides for the automatic migration of data between tiers.
PowerFile rolls out Blu-ray appliance for archive data: 05/12/09; PowerFile this week rolled out a new appliance for long-term archiving of fixed content, which is estimated to be 80% of all network data. The Hybrid Storage Appliance (HSA) uses a distributed performance architecture that allows petabyte scalability and virtualization. It is based on quad-core processing and disk-based caching. The HSA can ingest more than 32TB per day and handle 30,000 file requests per hour.
Data Domain expands replication capabilities: 05/07/09; Data Domain this week announced enhancements to its Data Domain Replicator software. The company, which provides deduplication appliances to mid- and enterprise-size businesses, claims new software that supports a 90 to 1 remote site fanning in to a single controller. This capability allows enterprises the ability to set policies that span across topologies, while increasing scheduling and WAN resource throttling.
Consolidation, trading barbs: 05/05/09; It's been an interesting month in storage what with all the consolidation happening.
Novell's Storage Manager: 04/30/09; Novell introduced Novell Storage Manager some years back. Formerly called File System Factory, the software allows IT managers to monitor and manage the unstructured data - Word, Excel, PDFs - residing on the file servers in their environments.
CA upgrades ARCserve, XOsoft with virtualization capability: 04/28/09; CA this week made its yearly update to ARCserve Backup and XOsoft software, which includes more attention to virtualized environments.
3PAR rolls out new, fast arrays: 04/23/09; 3PAR recently rolled out a new midrange array - the 3PAR InServ F-Class Storage Server - that has features many associate with high-end arrays.
EMC launches a new Symm: 04/21/09; EMC last week introduced what it calls a new high-end storage architecture - the Symmetrix V-Max (short for Virtual Matrix).
Rain on Storage Networking World?: 04/16/09; Storage Networking World (SNW) happened last week in Orlando, or did it? Attendance, which was flagging and blamed on the economy, seemed to be about half of previous years. Despite a lack of users - most of those attending looked to be from Florida and a close drive from Mickey - there were some interesting announcements of products.