Weekly compilation of storage news:NetApp stock dives on new guidance
Network Apppliance (NetApp) unexpectedly forecast a downturn in
revenue , which it attributed to a general slowdown of technology
spending in the US in March. The company, which has been showing
heady growth in the 30% range over the last year, said it expects
first-quarter revenue to decline 6% to 7% from the fourth quarter
and took back its earlier full-year revenue forecast of 28% to 30%,
saying further updates would be coming on a quarterly basis. The
stock fell more than $7 in trading between 22 ansd 23 May.
Separately, NetApp also announced this week that managed hosting
provider The Planet has picked up some of its storage systems to
offer to its end-user customers.
Google to open source enterprise search appliance
Google is developing an open source framework for its OneBox
Enterprise search appliance that will allow developers to port
applications directly into the box rather than having to jointly
develop interfaces the way existing partners have, according to
reports around the industry this week. Google already offers
similar open APIs for its Enterprise Applications programs. Also,
the search giant announced that it has doubled the maximum
attachment size in Gmail from 10 MB to 20 MB.
IBM adds NetApp data deduplication
IBM announced the N5300 array, its version of the NetApp FAS3040,
which, when combined with a NearStore license, will also offer
data deduplication via NetApp's A-SIS feature. IBM will also
resell two new N-series gateways, the 5300 and 5600, based on the
NetApp V3040 and V3070, as well as the ESN4000, a 4 Gbps FC
expansion drawer. The rebranded NetApp products will be available
June 8.
Separately, IBM revealed performance boosts and incremental
software updates to SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in version 4.2. The
company claims that new SVC model 8G4 storage engines could double
throughput on the virtualisation appliance. The software will also
allow FlashCopy to make up to 16 copies from one source and
supports new operating environments and disk systems. IBM's
TotalStorage Productivity Center, announced at the same time, will
integrate storage device management, fabric management and storage
resource management, and be available on July 6. Finally, the IBM
System Storage DS8000 will now support two additional expansion
units as of July 27.
Stratus announces 'green' array
Stratus Technologies announced the ftScalable storage array, which
is configurable up to 10.8 terabytes (TB) capacity and includes
hot-swappable RAID arrays, power supplies and fans, as well as
environmental monitoring, rolling firmware upgrades and online RAID
expansion.
Florida company offers free email disaster recovery
Email antispam service provider AppRiver, based in Gulf Breeze,
Fla., announced that companies needing emergency email failover
during hurricane season can sign up through the Florida Chamber of
Commerce Web site to have email services taken over by AppRiver for
free. Users must be able to demonstrate they're within the
three-to-five day "cone of uncertainty" for a named storm making
landfall on the Florida peninsula. Between 20 and 25 companies used
the service during Hurricane Wilma two years ago.
Mortgage company archives email with C2C
C2C announced that Market Street Mortgage, a $3.2 billion
residential mortgage loan company, has bought C2C's Archive One
email archiving to replace PSTs and backup tapes. The company is
now archiving more than 20,000 email messages a day.
Golf club maker picks Compellent
Compellent announced Ping, a designer and manufacturer of golf
clubs, has selected Compellent's Storage Center SAN for its
Automated Tiered Storage feature. The company estimates the feature
cut its storage management time by 70%.
Double-Take integrates with WysDM
Double-Take announced the first product based on its OEM
relationship with backup reporting software maker WysDM. The new
Double-Take Reporting Center will allow reporting and analysis,
including predictive capacity forecasting. Also announced this week
were incremental updates to Double-Take Application Manager 4.5
(DTAM), including enhancements for SQL, Exchange and file system
environments.
IDC: InfiniBand to near $1B market by 2011
IDC released a report this week sponsored by the InfiniBand Trade
Association (IBTA) that predicts that InfiniBand will grow as the
line between high-performance computing and enterprise IT continue
to blur. More demanding applications will push worldwide InfiniBand
host channel adaptor (HCA) factory revenues from $62.3 million in
2006 to $224.7 million in 2011. Factory revenue from InfiniBand
switch port sales is expected to grow from $94.9 million in 2006 to
$612.2 million in 2011, according to the report.
Asempra targets SMBs
Asempra, a continuous data protection (CDP) company that has
recently reinvented itself with a small and midsized business (SMB)
focus, announced Business Continuity Server (BCS) version 2.5.
Updates include support for Windows applications running on VMware,
integration with tape backup software, Microsoft clustering
protection, and enhanced scalability and performance
improvements.
Panasas donates PFS code to open source project
Panasas announced it is sending the code for its proprietary
parallel file system (PFS) to the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF), which has plans to complete a new specification for
parallel NFS (pNFS) this fall.
Brewing company taps MessageOne for email archiving
Boulevard Brewing, the largest specialty brewer in the Midwest, has
deployed MessageOne's Email Management Services (EMS), MessageOne
announced.
O&O ships filesystem monitoring software
O&O Software GmbH of Berlin, Germany, announced O&O
DiskStat, software that scans file systems, sorting by file type,
by date last modified and by user in the server, and includes a
"Top 10" function for identifying the largest space wasters.
Zmanda announces funding
Open source backup software startup Zmanda announced that it has
secured $8 million in its Series B round of funding led by Helion
Venture Partners, current investors BlueRun Ventures and Canaan
Partners. Zmanda will use the funds for research and
development.
Adaptec updates operating system
Adaptec announced version 4.4 of its GuardianOS for use with its
SnapServer appliances. Updates include a new data migration
utility, print server and tape drive support, iSCSI support for up
to 255 LUNs and specification-compliant IQN names, backup for Snap
Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap EDR) management console settings
and support for command-line interface.