Copan users get electricity rebate from PG&E
Copan Systems announced that users of its
MAID array in San Francisco and northern
California are eligible for an electricity rebate from Pacific
Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E). According to Copan, one major
Web 2.0 company, a social networking site for college kids, has
already signed up for the program and stands to receive a
$12,000 rebate this year. Copan was unable to release the name
of this company.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) worked with Copan to
create a metric calculating the electricity cost savings of using a
MAID storage array, which powers down disks not in use, versus a
regular storage array. The findings will determine the rebate
amount for each eligible user, according to an undisclosed formula
used by PG&E.
PG&E announced a rebate program that offered to reimburse up to
50% of the cost of server consolidation products last October.
Users of Sun servers are also eligible for rebates from PG&E.
Copan said it was currently working to get more utilities to offer
similar rebates.
In separate announcements this week, Copan and Pillar Data
announced they have joined The Green Grid, a new industry
organization concerned with environmental issues.
Brocade sells off switches
Brocade and IntelliPath Corp., a new startup based in New Jersey,
announced that IntelliPath will purchase IP from Brocade belonging
to its UltraNet Connectivity System 2900. The product line consists
of physical layer switches that support Fibre Channel (FC), ESCON,
ATM and SONET. The switches allow users to move Fibre Channel links
without disrupting cabling. The UCS product line has an installed
user base, including over one-third of all Fortune 100 companies,
as well as federal government agencies. IntelliPath also announced
Series A funding of $6.5 million.
Sepaton lands new funding, eyes IPO
Sepaton has just completed a $22 million round of financing led by
Boston-based Harbourvest Partners, which Sepaton said it will use
to step up its marketing. Sepaton's president and CEO, Mike
Worhach, said the company has plans to go public next year "if we
continue to execute this calendar year."
Seagate launches file recovery software
Seagate announced the launch of do-it-yourself data recovery
software. File Recovery for Windows supports Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Outlook PSTs, databases, AutoCAD, and Microsoft SQL
files, as well as photo, music and video formats, including JPG,
GIF, MPEG, AVI and MP3. The product supports all FAT12/16/32 and
NTFS file systems running Microsoft Windows, even if partitions are
formatted, damaged or deleted. Users can download a preview version
of the software for free from Seagate's Web site and preview its
disc and file content in a hexadecimal viewer to find out if a
successful recovery is possible.
Xyratex introduces nearline array
Xyratex announced the F5404E 4 Gb FC-SAS/SATA RAID storage
subsystem, which includes SATA II disks, redundant RAID
controllers, host-based multipathing capabilities and lower power
consumption than previous subsystems from the company. The array
scales to 36 terabytes (TB) in a 4U enclosure. Xyratex will display
the F5404E at Spring SNW 2007 in San Diego next week.
Princess Cruises brings aboard MicroNet NAS
MicroNet announced that Princess Cruises is installing its
PlatinumNAS product on each of its 17 cruise ships for the storage
of digital photos taken by staff photographers and passengers
aboard ship. The company said it picked PlatinumNAS because of
redundancy features, like the ability to hot-swap disks and 256 MB
of write-back/write-through error-correcting cache memory.
Cardinal Logistics archives with CommVault, NetApp
CommVault and NetApp announced a joint customer, Cardinal Logistics
Management Co., a supply chain and transportation services company
based in Concord, N.C. Cardinal uses CommVault Data Migrator to
offload email messages on the primary Microsoft Exchange email
server to secondary NetApp storage at the disaster recovery site.
Cardinal has recognized a 65% cost savings because of reduced
management overhead and more cost effective use of disk storage,
according to Marty Hurd, IT administrator in a press release.
In a separate announcement, NetApp also announced that its
StoreVault products are now certified with VMware Infrastructure
3.
Labcyte deploys Data Domain
Data deduplication vendor Data Domain announced that pharmaceutical
firm Labcyte Inc. has replaced a nondeduping disk-based backup
system with a 7.5 TB Data Domain DD340 array. The swamp allows
Labcyte to keep backups on site for six months, as opposed to two
weeks with the previous disk product.
Idealstor launches removable disk system
Idealstor announced a removable disk-based backup appliance called
the Teralyte, which plugs directly into a backup server using a
SATA connection. The product comes in two models, the single-drive
1000 model and two-drive 2000 model, and currently supports up to
750 GB SATA disks. Teralyte will support 1 TB disks when they
become available from manufacturers, the company said. Retail
pricing for the Teralyte 1000 is $1,995 and the Teralyte 2000 lists
at $2,995.
Tape hardware vendors test LTO-4
The LTO Consortium announced that the next version of its tape
format, LTO-4, has completed testing at Hewlett Packard (HP) and
IBM (both members, along with Quantum in the LTO consortium). No
new products have yet been announced. LTO-4 will include AES 256
encryption, as well as higher speeds and feeds.
Gresham announces VTL 2.0
Gresham Enterprise Storage has renamed its Storage Consolidation
Platform, announced last year, as Gresham Clareti VTL 2.0 and
announced this week that the new product will be available at the
end of Q2. New in 2.0 is the ability to cluster VTL disk nodes for
greater scalability. The VTL also includes data protection
monitoring (DPM) software built in (based on Gresham's Enterprise
DistribuTape product) and can manage multiple heterogeneous tape
libraries, as well as other vendors' virtual tape libraries (VTL)
behind the cluster.
Symantec qualifies Plasmon Optical storage maker Plasmon
announced that its UDO archive appliance has been qualified through
the Symantec Technology Enabled Program with Symantec Enterprise
Vault 7.0 for non-WORM.
HP to resell QLogic gateway
QLogic announced the release of the HP StorageWorks IP Distance
Gateway, an intelligent storage router based on the QLogic SANbox
6142. The gateway is qualified with HP StorageWorks Continuous
Access EVA software and HP StorageWorks Business Copy for
replication on HP StorageWorks XP and EVA arrays.