ORLANDO, Fla., --
EMC Corp. will float a raft of software
updates for backup and recovery;
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP)
will announce a new virtual tape library (VTL), as well as the next
step in its "blade everything" strategy; and hundreds of other
vendors will be polishing their wares for demonstration at this
week's Storage Networking World conference.
EMC's software announcements cover a laundry list of products,
all within its backup and recovery portfolio, and all part of what
it says is a strategy to trim the fat across its product offerings
in the wake of many acquisitions.
Most notable among the announcements is Backup Manager for
SharePoint, the fruits of EMC's acquisition of Internosis. Backup
Manager for SharePoint will use backup and recovery software
layered over a SQL database to make disk-based backups of
collaborative data created using Microsoft SharePoint. Previously,
EMC had the ability to back up the SQL database only, "which was
fine for disaster recovery (DR) and can still be used for offsite
vaulting, but it didn't offer recovery at the file level,"
according to Rob Emsley, director of marketing at EMC.
On the theme of streamlining its software offerings, the new
Replication Manager 5.0 will meld two previously separate
Replication Manager products: Replication Manager and Replication
Manager SE, which were designed for the Clariion and for
heterogeneous environments, respectively. The new console will
combine both variants into a common management system for any EMC
replication management types.
NetWorker will now be able to manage Celerra's PowerSnap
snapshot capabilities, which have existed for some time without
being integrated with EMC's backup software, according to Emsley.
NetWorker will also be grabbing at the burgeoning healthcare
storage market with a new module specifically designed to integrate
with Meditech, a popular healthcare IT systems administration
application. Finally, NetWorker will get a new brushed-up
dashboard. Backup Manager for SharePoint, however, will not be
integrated under the Legato umbrella until mid-to-late 2007, Emsley
said.
EMC Backup Manager for SharePoint will be available in November
priced at $2,500. The NetWorker module for Meditech 1.0 is
available now at $4,950. Replication Manager 5.0 software will be
available in December 2006 and is priced starting at $4,000 per
managed host. The NetWorker PowerSnap Module for Celerra 2.3 will
be available in November and is priced at $4,995. And the new
NetWorker dashboard, also available in November, starts at
$2,000.
EMC clarified its integration plans for Invista and
RecoverPoint, its heterogeneous replication product based on the
Kashya Inc. acquisition. In November, RecoverPoint will be
qualified to work with Invista, allowing users with both products
[Ed note: all three of them], to remotely replicate to a virtual or
physical environment. True integration of remote replication
features of RecoverPoint within Invista will come at a later,
undisclosed date.
IBM boosts tapes, sweetens DS8000 warranty
IBM announced that the DS8000 Turbo will be available
with a new flexible Enterprise Choice warranty, which allows users
to choose 24/7 warranty options in one-year increments from one
year to four years, rather than the previous four-year warranty.
IBM is also debuting the 3599, a 700 GB tape cartridge. Finally,
Big Blue is introducing a HyperPAV (Parallel Access Volume) feature
for z/OS environments, and the DS8300 Turbo four-way model 932 will
now support up to four expansion frames, for up to 512 terabyte
(TB) capacity.
Meanwhile, HP will unveil the SB40c, a storage blade containing
876 GB of
serial attached SCSI (SAS) capacity for its
C-class BladeSystem. The product is pretty limited at this
point, providing a single storage blade per server blade, and
the two must reside next to each other. But it's good news for
small businesses or remote offices looking for a simple, blade
system with
direct attached storage (DAS).
HP is also announcing a new competitor to the EMC Clariion Disk
Library that will come in the form of VTL software from Sepaton
Inc., which will run on a gateway device in front of its Enterprise
Virtual Array (EVA). "This will benefit existing EVA customers who
are looking to add VTL services to EVA, as we already allow with
clustered NAS [network attached storage] or iSCSI," Fitze said.
Finally, HP will be introducing a
storage area network (SAN) starter kit based
on software from Emulex Corp., which will take setup out
of users' hands through wizards. Once the wizards guide a user
through provisioning
logical unit numbers (LUN), the starter kit
software automatically kicks off CommandView, HP's EVA
management software.
The HP StorageWorks SB40c storage blade will be available in
mid-November, with list prices starting at $1,599. The HP
StorageWorks VLS300 EVA Gateway will ship Nov. 20 with a list price
of approximately $57,750 for the base unit, which includes two
nodes plus switches with 25 LUN base license/node; a node expansion
kit that includes a single node with 10 LUN base license (20 TB) is
approximately $27,500. Finally, the EVA4000 SAN starter kit is
available today for $33,100.
In the yellow corner, Symantec Corp. will launch Backup
Exec 11, which is expected to include encryption and more granular
recovery features for Microsoft applications and a new version of
its desktop backup software, Ghost.
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