Symantec touts Discovery Accelerator 6.0
Symantec Corp. announced the immediate availability of Enterprise
Vault Discovery Accelerator 6.0, which extends the search functions
of the Symantec Enterprise Vault email and file archiving software.
According to Symantec, the software has been developed specifically
to help customers comply with e-discovery requirements established
by
amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure (FRCP), scheduled to take effect on Dec. 1, 2006.
Discovery Accelerator 6.0 enables the creation of automated
legal holds, as well as the ability to produce email, instant
messaging, files and other content in their native formats, also a
requirement of the FCRP changes.
Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator 6.0 is one component of
the new Symantec Messaging Retention and Discovery program. It also
includes records retention and e-discovery preparedness consulting
services with e-discovery law firm Redgrave Daley Ragan &
Wagner LLP, a software and services partnership with RenewData
Corp., to restore and migrate historical data from backup tapes and
legacy archives. It is also a technology partner program to
facilitate integration of popular legal software tools with
Symantec Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator 6.0 through
open
application program interfaces (API).
Elsewhere, EqualLogic Corp. names former Symantec and Veritas
Software Corp. executive Edwin Gillis to the company's board of
directors.
IBM to buy Internet Security for $1.3 billion
IBM said that it has agreed to buy Internet Security Systems Inc.
(ISS) this week in a deal that is almost $1 billion less than
EMC Corp.'s $2.1 billion acquisition of RSA
Security in June. Internet Security runs data centers that
remotely protect businesses against Internet-based attacks and
sells security hardware and software. IBM said it plans to use
Internet Security products as the basis for services through its
global services unit and integrate its programs into IBM's
Tivoli software.
Continuing an acquisition drive that has seen Big Blue snap up
40 companies over two years, IBM will pay $28 a share for Internet
Security, which is a 7.7% increase added to Tuesday's closing price
of $26.
IBM also announced another
recently acquired subsidiary, FileNet Corp.,
which performs records and enterprise content management.
Texas A&M University's Finance Division Computing Group is
reportedly using FileNet's Records Manager, as well as its ECM
system to archive millions of the university's records associated
with the school's 44,000 students.
Exabyte introduces Magnum
Exabyte Corp. introduced the Magnum 448
Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape library, which
allows users three tape-format options and scales up to either
19.2 terabytes (TB) or 38.4 TB, depending on tape format. The
library is available in three configurations consisting of a
single LTO-2 half-height SCSI drive, a single LTO-3 full-height
SCSI drive or a single LTO-3 full-height Fibre Channel (FC) tape
drive, along with four cartridge magazines that can hold a total
of 48 LTO tape cartridges. Maximum data storage capacity is 19.2
TB using LTO-2 cartridges and 38.4 TB using LTO-3 cartridges.
The Magnum 448 is available at an estimated street price
starting at $7,950.
Dot Foods deploys Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa Systems Inc. said that foodservice redistributor Dot Foods
Inc. has selected Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server to
archive, manage and recover Exchange information for its eight U.S.
locations.
Dot Foods redistributes more than 57,000 dry, frozen and
refrigerated products from America's food manufactures to local
distributors in all 50 states. The company has integrated a fax and
imaging system into its Exchange environment to send and receive
signed contracts and delivery receipts, resulting in an average
Exchange database growth of 66 MB per day from its 2,500 employees.
"Until we deployed Mimosa NearPoint, we relied on aggressive
mailbox quotas and the use of
PST files to reduce the dramatic increase in
Exchange server storage," said Eric Ellerman, network manager at
Dot Foods.
BlueArc adds 4Gbps to Titan
BlueArc Corp., said that it has qualified and integrated the latest
storage arrays from LSI Logic Corp. into its Titan 2000 storage
systems. Shipping immediately, the new storage arrays feature a 4
Gbit data pipeline. With the new arrays, BlueArc also now offers FC
and SATA drives from 73 GB up to 500 GB per drive, including the
latest SATA II drives.
Emulex failover software gets HP support
Emulex Corp. has announced that the Emulex MultiPulse host bus
adapter (HBA) driver software is now supported by Hewlett-Packard
Co. (HP). The MultiPulse software aggregates the bandwidth and
availability of HBAs, switch ports and array controllers, and
manages multiple I/O streams, directing each request to the least
utilised path. The product will be offered with both 32-bit and
64-bit HP Integrity and ProLiant serves, including BladeSystem
models. The MultiPulse HBA drivers are also supported in HP's EVA
4000, 6000 and 8000; MSA1500cs; XP12000 and XP10000 arrays.
Riverbed joins NetApp partner program
Riverbed Technology Inc. said that it has joined the Network
Appliance Inc. (NetApp) Partner Program. As a member of the
program, Riverbed will accelerate NetApp SnapMirror data transfer
rates.
FarStone announces PC disaster recovery patent
PC utilities developer FarStone Technology Inc. announced that the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded it the patent number
7,039,830 for its RestoreIT disaster recovery (DR) software. This
latest patent addresses the ability of RestoreIT to automatically
create restore points on a PC before downloading content from a
network or the Internet.
Capricorn announces new low-end PetaBoxes
Capricorn Technologies Inc. has begun shipping two additions to its
PetaBox product line. The new offerings include the GB3000, a 3 TB
1U standalone box and the TB120, a 120 TB storage system built from
racked GB3000s. The GB3000 and TB120 PetaBoxes are available
immediately from Capricorn. No entry-level pricing was
available.