EMC to refresh Symmetrix, Clariion at RSA show
According to internal EMC Corp. documents obtained by SearchStorage
as well as information from industry insiders, EMC is set to
announce major updates to both its Symmetrix and Clariion product
lines next Tuesday, as well as some new integration between its
storage and IP from last year's acquisitions of RSA Security Inc.
and Kashya Inc. as part of the RSA Security Conference in San
Francisco.
On the Symmetrix front, EMC will be announcing a platform it
calls Engenuity 5772, which will use IP acquired with RSA to
prevent unauthorized service actions via Symmetrix Service
Credential and create an audit trail of who has accessed the
array.
EMC will also be introducing EMC Certified Data Erasure software
for failed Symmetrix disks; tiered storage optimization through
cache partitioning; and a QoS throughput feature it calls Symmetrix
Priority Controls, similar to a QoS update made to Clariion last
year. The announcement will also make RAID 6 and 4 Gbps Fibre
Channel (FC) support officially available on the Symmetrix.
EMC is also planning to announce new disaster recovery software
targeted at mainframe customers using Symmetrix called the EMC
Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR).
EMC is also planning to announce a new entry-level Clariion
model, the CX3-10, which will be half the size of the previous
lowest-end Clariion, the CX3-20 with 2 gigabytes of cache; FC and
iSCSI capabilities; space for up to 60 disks, up to 512 LUNs, and
up to 64 high-availability hosts; as well as the ability to mix
Fibre Channel and SATA disks. The announcement will also include
new RecoverPoint asynchronous replication software for Clariion.
The new software will also include a new bandwidth reduction
option. RecoverPoint is the new EMC brand name given to Kashya
products.
Pillar to add 'sleepy drives'
Pillar Data Systems Inc. said this week that the company will be
adding "sleepy" drives to its Axiom arrays in the second half of
this year. What Pillar is calling "sleepy drives" are SATA disks
that will spin down in order to save power. This is in contrast to
massive array of idle disks (MAID) products, such as those from
Copan Systems, which shut the drives totally off. However, Pillar
spokesman Russ Kennedy said the "sleepy drives" will continue
spinning at a lower rpm. In Pillar's view, powering drives up and
down completely hurts the long-term durability of the drive, he
said. The company is waiting for the drives to become available
from manufacturers, and Kennedy indicated an announcement would be
forthcoming in the second half of this year.
Mimosa adds mobile support
Mimosa Systems Inc. announced expanded platform coverage for Mimosa
NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server to include support for
handheld messaging devices, including RIM BlackBerry, Windows
Mobile 5.0 and Palm operating systems products.
Also, users of the Apple Macintosh platform can now access their
Mimosa archive from within native and third-party mail and Internet
browsers. Mimosa email archive access is supported from Entourage,
Safari, Thunderbird, Firefox and Opera Web browsers. The new Mimosa
NearPoint cross-platform support is available now in Version 2.1 of
Mimosa NearPoint for Exchange.
MonoSphere introduces Version 3.0
Capacity management software startup MonoSphere Inc. introduced
Version 3.0 of its Storage Horizon product, which will now track
actual storage utilization as opposed to allocation within storage
arrays and report on the information based on application. New
features include the following: data collection and reporting from
storage arrays; automated supply-to-demand mapping of storage array
logical devices to host volumes; automated association of usage and
usage forecasts to storage arrays; automated, storage array-based
capacity plan generation; 20 template-based analytical reports, in
addition to more than 500 custom reports; and alerts for potential
"trouble spots" and over-provisioned areas. The product currently
supports EMC Symmetrix arrays and Network Appliance (NetApp)
storage running Version 7.0 of the OnTap operating systems. Support
for more arrays, including EMC's Clariion, Hewlett-Packard's (HP)
EVA. Hitachi Data Systems' TagmaStore will be added in future dot
releases, the company said
Index Engines announces e-discovery platform
Index Engines Inc. announced the Enterprise Discovery Platform, a
search and restoration appliance capable of retrieving content
directly from backup/archive tapes without the need to first
restore the data back to disk. Index Engines has had tape search
capability in previous products, but previous releases generated a
tape catalog number for manual retrieval of data from tape. This
release also adds extraction of metadata, meaning metadata and file
contents can be exported to document management systems for further
review, analysis and deduplication within search results. The Index
Engines Enterprise Discovery Platform is currently available with
prices starting at $50,000 for a package that scales to support a 4
million file network.
Spectra Logic ships 1,000th library, adds LTO-4
support
Spectra Logic Corp. announced that it has shipped its 1,000th
Spectra T50 LTO tape library. The Spectra T50 is configured with up
to four LTO drives and 50 media slots in 4U. The small and midsized
business or remote location library is available in LTO-2 and LTO-3
configurations. T50 customers can opt to prepurchase LTO-4 drives
from Spectra Logic now and upgrade the library when LTO-4
begins shipping from manufacturers
midyear.
Backup service providers choose Asigra
Asigra Inc. announced several new customers among managed backup
service providers, including CoreVault, AllConnected, More Group,
Diversified Disaster Recovery Services, Horry Telephone Cooperative
and Data Storage Corp. Those customers join HP Business Continuity
Services, Bell Canada Business Solutions, AmeriVault, DS3
DataVaulting, VaultLogix, Terian, NetMass, NetStandard and others
as Asigra users.
Defense agency picks Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Inc. announced that the Defense Information Systems
Agency has selected Iron Mountain to provide offsite tape vaulting
services for 19 of its locations.
Chelsio updates Linux iSCSI target
Chelsio Communications Inc., a maker of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and
iSCSI acceleration adapters and ASIC solutions, today announced its
Version 3.0 of its iSCSI Target software, which can turn any Linux
partition into an iSCSI target. The company says that Version 3.0
more than doubles throughput performance over Chelsio's previous
iSCSI Target 2.0 software release. The target is priced at $495 per
instance.
Chinese Academy of Sciences to push FalconStor for disaster
recovery
The Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), Chinese Academy of
Sciences and FalconStor Software Inc. announced plans to provide
FalconStor's PrimeVault data protection services throughout China.
As the first step toward this goal, the two parties are entering
into a joint research and development partnership to establish a
CNIC/FalconStor laboratory to develop data protection and remote
disaster recovery services for the Chinese government and
enterprises.
Imation, Hi-Stor partner on storage monitoring
Removable storage maker Imation Corp. and storage system consulting
and software development company Hi-Stor Technologies announced an
agreement to sell Hi-Stor's StorSentry monitoring software to
Imation's end-user customers, as well as channel partners in the
U.S.
IBM partners with 3PAR, LeftHand
3PARdata Inc. announced that its InServ Storage Server will now
support IBM High-Availability Cluster Multiprocessing for AIX
(HACMP). HACMP provides monitoring, failure detection and automated
recovery of applications on IBM AIX servers. Users of the product
can now use 3PAR's storage services software to back up data from
the HACMP environment, including 3PAR's replication, thin
provisioning, virtual copy and thin copy snapshots.
Separately, LeftHand Networks Inc. announced its SAN/iQ IP SAN
software can now run on IBM System x3650 servers. The licensing
agreement between the two companies is a meet-in-the-channel deal,
according to LeftHand.
IBM still does not have an official entry-level IP SAN partner
since
discontinuing its Adaptec low-end SAN
offerings in favor of new Fibre Channel/SAS products from
LSI Logic. 3PAR, which has offered iSCSI connectivity as an
option on its InServ boxes since August, has a close
relationship with IBM, as an IBM Advanced Business Partner and
an advanced level member of the IBM PartnerWorld developer
program, but most of its current offerings are not priced at the
entry level.
Diligent reports growth
Diligent Technologies Corp. said that since it became generally
available in January 2006, its ProtecTier deduping VTL product has
seen 250% sales growth over the last year. In the fourth quarter
alone, Diligent said, customers purchased more than 3 petabytes of
physical storage in association with ProtecTier systems.
Panasas earns patent
Clustered storage maker Panasas Inc. announced the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office granted the company a new patent for its file
system check/recovery mechanism. Panasas was awarded U.S. Patent
No. 7,155,464 for "recovering and checking large file systems in an
object-based data storage system."
EqualLogic appoints execs
EqualLogic Inc. announced the appointments of Richard S. Haak Jr.
as chief financial officer and Raymond F. DeMeo as vice president
of sales in the Asia-Pacific region. The hires are "a necessary
step … to build out our financial team to support the sales growth
we are experiencing" and do not necessarily mean an initial public
offering is getting closer, a company spokesperson told
SearchStorage.com in an email.
DataCore certified on Virtual Iron
Virtual Iron Software Inc. announced that DataCore Software Corp.'s
SANmelody virtualization storage software is now certified for use
with Virtual Iron's virtual infrastructure management platform
supporting Windows and Linux virtual servers.
NetApp supports Storage Foundation 5.0
NetApp announced an agreement with the Symantec Corp. Technology
Enabled Program (STEP) to qualify NetApp SAN storage systems with
Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec, which was
released Jan. 19.