Weekly compilation of storage news:EMC buys Indigo Stone for bare-metal restore
EMC has acquired Indigo Stone International, Inc., in a quiet move
first uncovered by a report in CRN. The company's Enterprise Rapid
Recovery Methodology software provides multi-platform, multivendor
server recovery; the company is a technology partner of EMC's
Avamar subsidiary.
EMC did not announce the acquisition, which closed in March.
Reached for comment, EMC's director of PR Michael Gallant said,
"the transaction value was so small that it did not warrant an
announcement from a business materiality perspective."
In a separate release, EMC announced that Timmons Group, a civil
engineering and environmental design firm, has migrated to a
Clariion CX3-20 FC/iSCSI system, and also attached a Celerra
networked-attached storage (NAS) gateway for Microsoft Exchange.
Timmons Group also bought the latest version of EMC Replication
Manager software .
Unisys launches pay-for-use storage
Unisys announced two new global offerings -- a hosted utility
storage service in which the user still manages the environment,
called Metered Storage, and an outsourced storage service called
Managed Utility Storage. Storage use is measured by gigabytes per
month.
Boeing Selects Ciprico storage software
Ciprico Inc. announced that it has been awarded a multi-year, $1
million contract to supply storage software in up to 250 of its
Talon appliances to Boeing. Ciprico was represented by Federal Edge
Inc., a VAR serving the United States military, government
agencies, and aerospace industry. Ciprico's products will be
incorporated into platforms Boeing is selling to the military.
Falconstor dials in Korea telecom
FalconStor announced that Korea Telecom has deployed its virtual
tape library (VTL). According to a press release, the company cut
its backup window from 30 hours to minutes by adding disk-based
backup.
Brookfield Homes picks Mimosa
Mimosa announced that Brookfield Homes, one of America's largest
home builders, has deployed the Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft
Exchange Server email archiving. Brookfield has been able to
eliminate brick-level backups of Exchange by using email archiving,
shrinking Exchange storage in production by 25 percent.
Southeast Alabama Medical Center installs Digi-Data
Digi-Data Corporation announced that Southeast Alabama Medical
Center deployed a storage array based on Digi-Data's T-2000
controller, which was installed by local VAR LH Computer Services.
The array, which stores backups from TSM, has a capacity of 22
terabytes.
RedEnvelope selects Pillar Data Systems
Pillar Data Systems announced that online gift-giving Web site
RedEnvelope has chosen the Pillar Axiom array for customer
information and files. According to a press release, RedEnvelope
was attracted in part to the power efficiency of the Axiom array,
saying it offered twice the disk spindles in less floor space than
competitors' products that RedEnvelope evaluated.
Alibris consolidates on 3PAR
3PARData Inc. announced that online used-book retailer Alibris has
deployed 3PAR's InServ S800 Storage Server to support its inventory
management system, retail Web site, search engine and e-commerce
order-processing system, which are all based on multiple clustered
Microsoft SQL Server databases. The company was previously managing
multiple direct-attached storage (DAS) repositories.
IBM invests $1 billion in energy efficiency
IBM announced this week that it has invested $1 billion in a data
center redesign that the company claims will allow a doubling in
compute power within the next three years without increasing power
consumption or carbon footprint. IBM is also launching "Project Big
Green", an assessment service/product package meant to help
customers diagnose and restructure data centers for power
efficiency.
Sun to give away encryption key management
Sun announced that the StorageTek Key Management System (KMS), an
instance of Secure Solaris running on an UltraSparc server plus
with implementation services, will be offered free from now on.
When first announced last year, the system came with a price tag of
$45,000.
NetApp adds support for bigger disks
Network Appliance Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) announced the availability of
two new hard disk drives: a 750GB SATA drive and a 300GB Fibre
Channel (FC) drive. Previously, the largest SATA drive offered by
NetApp was 500 GB; the new FC drive includes 4 Gbps
connectivity.
C2C updates email archiving tool
C2C, a UK email archiving company, announced a new version of its
Archive One product. The product will now support Windows Vista,
Exchange 2007, enhanced PST management and pre-defined archiving
templates.
Akorri adds service-level management for VMware
Akorri, Inc. announced the availability of BalancePoint 1.5
management software. The new version offers cross-domain management
for applications running on VMware, including visibility into
server and storage resources to help resolve performance problems
and improve service levels.
QLogic working on virtual HBAs
QLogic Corp. announced that it is working with Microsoft to
integrate N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology with
Microsoft's virtualization management product, System Center
Virtual Machine Manager. The result would be the ability to
provision virtual QLogic HBA ports across multiple physical
servers.
Onaro announces scaled-down software
Onaro announced a version of its SANscreen software for small and
midsized businesses (SMBs) called SANscreen SME Edition. Onaro
defines the SME market as corporations with switch port counts
under 500. Pricing for SANscreen SME Edition starts at $9,995.
QLogic and Onaro have also signed an agreement in which QLogic will
license a trial version of Onaro SANscreen SME Edition with the
QLogic 10 Gb FC backbone architecture to offer a SAN assessment
program.
Teneros unveils bigger email archiving appliance
Teneros released a new member of its email archiving appliance
product line. The new appliance supports 1,000 mailboxes and
includes 400 GB of storage.