EMC expands Oracle alliance
EMC Corp. plans to invest $20 million over the next 12 months on
test and development lab equipment and joint services with Oracle.
As part of the updated deal (EMC and Oracle first began a
partnership over a decade ago), EMC has donated over 30 terabytes
(TB) of storage gear, as well as software products to the Oracle
Enterprise Technology Centres in Reston, Va., and Atlanta. The two
companies have also agreed to jointly design, build, test and
document management products for Oracle Database 10g and Oracle
E-Business Suite 11i . EMC has established a dedicated team of
Oracle architects for both enterprise and midsized organisations to
assist customers with Oracle/EMC deployments, specifically for
Oracle's new Real Application Clusters and Automated Storage
Management (ASM) application.
Meanwhile, there was a flurry of Oracle-related announcements
this week made to coincide with Oracle OpenWorld 2006 in San
Francisco. Elsewhere in the storage market, Sepaton Inc. announced
at Oracle that its S2100-ES2 Virtual Tape Library (VTL) system has
attained certification with Oracle Secure Backup tape backup
management software. In another release, Solix Technologies Inc.
announced a nontrigger-based version of its Archivejinni archiving
platform for Oracle database. Previous versions of the archiving
product used database triggers in order to archive data, which
caused performance overhead.
LSI Logic makes StoreAge acquisition official
LSI Logic Corp. will acquire virtualisation player StoreAge
Networking Technologies for approximately $50 million in cash, as
reported by
SearchStorage.com. StoreAge is a privately
held company based in Nesher, Israel with U.S. offices in
Irvine, Calif.; Upon closing, LSI anticipates offering
employment to all StoreAge employees, who are expected to join
the company's Engenio Storage Group. The transaction is expected
to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, LSI also certified IP storage
management appliance Reldata Inc.'s 9200 IP storage gateway with
its storage. The combined products will allow for parallel iSCSI
SAN and CIFS/NFS NAS storage provisioning, as well as remote
replication and recovery services.
Nexsan MAID gets in bed with FalconStor
Nexsan Technologies and VTL software supplier FalconStor Software
Inc. announced the availability of a joint VTL product that
combines FalconStor's VTL software and Nexsan's AutoMAID (massive
array of idle disks) array, a SATA-based disk array that can
connect over iSCSI/IP or Fibre Channel (FC) and scale up to 315 TB
in one rack. Nexsan MAID competitor Copan Systems has had its own
MAID VTL since April 2004.
Exanet, Asigra claim storage of a billion files
Clustered NAS supplier Exanet Inc. and agentless remote backup
software player Asigra Inc. announced that a joint configuration of
the companies' ExaStore and Televaulting systems has stored more
than one billion files on one distributed file system. Using an
ExaStore two-node high performance cluster and an Asigra N+1
DS-System, 1.13 billion data files were distributed to remote site
servers during the test.
Stellent does records management for Enterprise
Vault
Stellent Inc. announced a Stellent Universal Records Management
agent for Symantec Corp.'s Enterprise Vault email archiving
software. Stellent's agent for Enterprise Vault automatically
applies records and retention rules. and litigation holds to email
and other content within the archive in accordance with corporate
policies.
NeoScale touts 4 Gbps tape encryption
NeoScale Systems Inc. announced the addition of two products to its
CryptoStor Tape line of security appliances: the CryptoStor Tape
FC712 and the CryptoStor Tape SC702. The new appliances support
native 4 Gbps interfaces; the CryptoStor Tape 712 allows customers
to double the number of tape drives secured on a single channel --
up to five at one time. The CryptoStor Tape SC702 secures data to
SCSI-attached tape drives.
DNF, iQStor ship 4 Gbps entry-level arrays
Dynamic Network Factory Inc. (DNF) introduced the Enterprise F16fz,
a RAID subsystem that supports 750 GB SATA-2 drives and dual 4 Gbit
FC host connections. The system is available in configurations from
2 TB to 12 TB and also supports up to 1 GB of RAID cache. Pricing
starts at $12,000 for entry-level configurations.
Meanwhile, iQstor Networks Inc. announced general availability
of its iQ2880 storage system in a 4 Gbps FC configuration. As in
previous versions, the iQ2880 also includes storage services,
including snapshot, mirroring and remote replication. Each iQ2880
supports up to 15 drives providing 4.5 TB of storage capacity using
300 GB FC4 or 11.25 TB using 750 GB SATA2 drives. It can scale to
72 TB with FC or 180 TB with SATA2 drives and can be scaled using
the J2880 switched bunch of disks (SBOD) expansion enclosure. A 1.2
TB configuration with volume manager and system manager software is
priced starting at $12,995.
Mimosa reaches 100 customer mark
Mimosa Systems Inc. announced Pinnacle Financial Corp. as its 100th
customer for its NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server archiving
product within 15 months of product availability. Other recent
customer additions include: AAA; Dot Foods; Florida Department of
Law Enforcement; Grange Mutual Insurance Co.; Halifax Medical
Centre; Kirton & McConkie law firm; Pacific Gas and Electric
Co.; and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
SBE IP SAN director suite supports iSCSI boot
SBE Inc. and emBoot Inc. announced that SBE's IP SAN Director Suite
has been added to emBoot's list of supported iSCSI targets for
winBoot/i. Using winBoot/i, SBE customers can now boot any
Microsoft Windows 2003 server from iSCSI storage.
Australian engineering firm picks Juniper
Juniper Networks Inc. announced that Aker Kvaerner Australia, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Aker Kvaerner ASA, a provider of
engineering and construction services, has deployed Juniper
Networks WXC 250 WAN application acceleration platforms to
accelerate wide area network (WAN) CIFS traffic between a project
site in South Western Australia and design offices in Perth,
Western Australia and Santiago, Chile.
NetApp touched by stock options scandal
Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) announced that a shareholder
derivative lawsuit has been filed against the company alleging
improper practices relating to the timing of stock option granting.
"The company believes the lawsuit to be completely frivolous and
without merit … [and] is confident that the record will support its
determination that no backdating of stock options occurred," NetApp
said in a press release.
Stock options backdating suits and, in some cases, criminal
charges, have swept through companies in the tech sector recently,
most of it relating to incidents that occurred during the "tech
bubble."
Azaleos offers email services version 2
Managed email services startup Azaleos Corp. announced availability
of version 2.0 of its managed email offering that will add
archiving, reporting and security features to its OneServer and
BladeMail email appliances -- each of which is sold together with
Azaleos' OneStop managed services for email management.