1 TB drives hit PCs
Dell and Alienware customers purchasing XPS, Aurora and Area 51
gaming desktop computers have the option to add the first consumer
one terabyte (TB) hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies (HGST). Dell XPS system details and pricing are
available at www.dell.com/XPS. Alienware system details and
pricing are available at
www.alienware.com/desktops.
In a separate announcement, MicroNet Technology announced that
version 4.0 of its Platinum NAS appliance will now scale up to 4 TB
using 1 TB SATA disk drives. The product will be available in the
second quarter with pricing starting at $879 for a 1 TB model.
Meanwhile, HGST announced it is cutting 4,500 jobs at a hard drive
production plant in Mexico this year, in an effort to consolidate
its manufacturing to Asia in order to boost production.
Siafu offers encrypted data replication as standard
feature
Siafu Software announced that all of its Siafu Swarm Series IP SAN
Appliances now support scheduled asynchronous replication between
two Swarm appliances using VSS-enabled snapshots, which are also
encrypted with AES-256 before being replicated. The products are
available now starting at $8,995
NASA, USGS go with Isilon
Isilon systems announced that both NASA and USGS are using Isilon
IQ clustered storage to power satellite imaging projects collecting
high-res imagery of Earth and Mars, respectively. NASA is using
Isilon clusters for World Wind, a virtual globe for online users.
USGS is using Isilon for the High Resolution Imaging Science
Experiment (HiRISE) digital imaging project on Mars being led by
the University of Arizona.
Swiss reinsurance company deploys Brocade directors
Brocade announced that Switzerland's largest reinsurance company
has implemented 4 Gbps Brocade 48000 Directors for the expansion of
the SANs at its two data centers. Swiss Re used the new directors
to consolidate open systems and mainframe storage.
Nexsan unveils archiving for ROBO
Nexsan Technologies announced its Assureon NX Easy Archive
Appliance, intended for small enterprises, branch offices and
departmental groups. The product is a CAS system which performs
file-level deduplication like its larger sister product, but
without the same search capabilities. Pricing starts at
$53,000.
FarStone, CyGem launch SMB backup
FarStone Technology announced a new product line of backup software
marketed to SMBs called DriveClone, which includes versions for
work stations, servers, networks and a new version for system
builders. The software can perform complete and incremental backups
from within Windows without the need to reboot the system, and
offers a new snapshot feature. The new products will be available
starting next quarter. In a separate announcement, CyGem, Ltd.
launched a new backup service aimed at SMBs what will keep local
copies of data onsite and a "golden copy" offsite.
Fujitsu offers solid state drives in tablets
Fujitsu introduced notebooks with solid state drives (SSDs) instead
of mechanical disk. The LifeBook P1610 and LifeBook B6210
ultra-portable models will offer an option for NAND flash-based
configurations of 16 GB or 32 GB.
In other flash news, Kingston Technology announced two new 8 GB
USB 2.0 Flash drives. The DataTraveler Secure version is priced at
$282, and the Privacy Edition at $350.
Spectra Logic touts 16 PB library
Spectra Logic announced the Spectra T950, a tape library that
expands up to 16.08 petabytes compressed and up to 10,050 slots.
The product can be used to partition and integrate a combination of
tape, VTL and encryption using the AES-256 algorithm and
compression through a FIPS-compliant chip. Entry-level pricing for
the big version, which will be available in the second quarter,
starts at $240,250; a single-frame T950 library with the same
features is available today for $100,950.
AMCC adds PC support for consumer RAID
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation announced that its 3ware Sidecar
desktop SATA II storage box will now support Windows and Linux PCs;
the product was first released for the Apple Power Mac G5 in
September. The new version will also ship with a new PCI Express
9650SE RAID controller, which AMCC claims offers write and read
speeds of up to 200MBps. Suggested list price for the box is
$1,295, disk drives not included. The 9650SE RAID controller is
also available separately at suggested list prices of $195 for 2
ports, $995 for 16 ports and $1,595 for 24 ports.
Pogo Linux touts NAS with built in management
features
Pogo Linux Inc. announced the release of the StorageDirector 3000
NAS appliance. The appliance includes Web-based management of
storage and backup, cross-platform file sharing for Linux, Windows,
Mac and Unix, as well as support for all NFS, CIFS and AppleTalk;
scheduled snapshots, remote mirroring and remote replication;
multipathing and IP failover; and both hardware and software RAID,
including RAID-6. The appliance is available in three models -- the
StorageDirector 3004 (4 TB), StorageDirector 3008 (8 TB), and
StorageDirector 3012 (12 TB) -- starting at $8,399.
AXS-One offers hosted archiving
AXS-One Inc. announced the launch of a hosted version of the
AXS-One Compliance Platform. The service is a combination of
AXS-One's email and electronic records archive and management
software and managed hosting and storage services from technology
services partner EDS.
In a separate announcement, Azaleos announced that its OneServer
hosted-archiving platform has been updated for Exchange 2007.
Azaleos claims the BladeMail clustered version of the appliance can
now support up to 42,000 users with the new 64-bit operating system
included with Exchange.