Legal firm finds cheap alternative to EMC disk
Reldata announced today that legal-hosted service provider doeLegal
has put Reldata's 9240 multiprotocol storage gateway appliance in
front of EMC Celerra
NAS boxes and less expensive Infortrend RAID-6 arrays to extend
its storage. "The Reldata solution could handle petabytes of
storage, not just 16 terabytes (TB), like the EMC system, and it
could do both active-active and active-passive failover," said
Chalkley Matlack, senior network engineer for doeLegal, in a press
release.
US Army deploys Data Domain DDX
Data Domain announced that the U.S. Army has deployed Data Domain's
DDX Arrays to protect a major military communications portal that
serves 1.8 million globally dispersed users. The implementation
includes both backup and disaster recovery with network-based
replication via satellite network from a Data Domain DDX Array
located in Southwest Asia to a DDX Array located in the U.S. (The
U.S. Army isn't available for interviews, but the Data Domain press
release, while somewhat cryptic, does make
mention of "Southwest Asia," "the sandy environmental conditions of
the desert" and "deployed troops" -- not hard to read between the
lines there.)
CommVault, Bull sign OEM agreement
CommVault and the Paris-based Bull announced the signing of a
multiyear agreement that will allow Bull to market and sell
Bull-branded versions of CommVault's data replication, data
protection, archive, data classification and content-indexing
software through its channels worldwide. The products will be sold
by Bull under the name Calypso primarily in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa beginning this summer.
Clearinghouse replaces disk with RAM SAN
Texas Memory Systems announced that IC Source, a clearinghouse for
electronic components, has accelerated its SQL Server database with
a RamSan solid-state disk to give over 3,000 customers access to 40
million inventory records. The company found that conventional disk
drives couldn't handle the large numbers of simultaneous read and
write access requests required by IC Source -- for example, 70,000
inventory line items might need to be written to the database while
users need read access to search and view available inventories at
the same time.
TV station picks ATTO for digital streaming
ATTO announced that its FastStream SC 5300 RAID Storage Controller
appliance has been installed at Thirteen/WNET NY, a public
television station in New York City, for use in an Avid
post-production environment. Previously, the storage at WNET could
only record approximately four hours of material, or material from
just two clients at the same time.
Fujitsu announces four new enterprise drives
Fujitsu announced two new SAS and SATA hard disk product lines and
a total of four new individual disk drives within them. One new
portfolio consists of three new enterprise class SAS drives, a
10,000 rpm drive with up to 147 GB capacity; a 2.5-inch 15,000 rpm
SAS drive with up to 73 GB capacity; and a 15,000 rpm drive with up
300 GB capacity. Finally, Fujitsu has announced that a new 2.5-inch
SATA drive with up to 120 GB capacity will begin shipping in the
third quarter of 2007.
Verio launches PC backup service
Verio announced the availability of its PC Data Backup service,
which will be sold through channel partners to the small and
midsized business (SMB) market. Verio is partnering with Iron
Mountain to offer the service. Users backing up word processing
documents, simple spreadsheets or financial information can choose
from plans offering 1 GB, 2 GB or 10 GB of backup, while businesses
that need to backup larger media files, digital photographs or
higher volumes of data can get a plan offering 30 GB of backup
storage. Verio is offering the first month of service free to
resellers.
Carestream Health ports app to HDS archive
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that Carestream Health has
ported its Versatile Intelligent Patient Archive (VIParchive) to
the newly updated
Hitachi Content Archive Platform, also
announced this week.
Openet and ETI partner on data retention
Openet, a vendor of Transactional Intelligence products for service
providers, and ETI Connect, which makes Lawful Intercept compliance
systems for service providers worldwide, announced a joint product
for obtaining, storing and reporting transactional information to
meet data retention requirements, as well as forwarding
requirements to law enforcement. The product, like
Hewlett-Packard's recently announced DRAGON bundle, is aimed at
telecoms facing new legislation in the European Union requiring
they keep customer data online for law enforcement agencies.
Renew Data adds e-discovery services
RenewData, a provider of e-discovery services for law firms and
corporations, announced the addition of new electronic evidence
service capabilities, including performing onsite collections using
its StoredIQ appliance, foreign language culling capabilities and
deduplication, culling and output of Lotus Notes and Domino native
NSF files.