EVault backs up VMware
EVault, a Seagate Technology company, announced general
availability of its VMware plug-in for users of its EVault Protect
online backup service. EVault claims it's the first backup and
recovery service provider to offer disaster recovery protection of
VMware virtual machine environments, including all major operating
systems, applications and files.
EVault reseller, Network Technology Group plans to add the
plug-in to its backup service as many of its customers are VMware
users. Before the plug-in, it could only provide operating
system-level backup. With the plug-in it can offer system plus data
restore of any VMware virtual machine to any datacentre, anywhere
in the world, according to William Sellers, system engineer with
Network Technology.
Seagate claims high capacity low-power drive
Seagate unveiled the Cheetah NS hard drive, developed for storage
applications where the highest available storage capacity and the
lowest power consumption are required. Seagate claims the 400 GB,
10K rpm Cheetah NS offers the lowest price per gigabyte and watts
per gigabyte value for customers.
Emulex, Brocade bundle San starter kit for HP
Emulex and Brocade announced that the two companies' 4 Gbps
storage area network (San) connectivity offerings and storage
provisioning software have been incorporated into the new HP
EVA4100 San Starter Kit. Specifically, Emulex's EZPilot San
installation and storage provisioning software, 4 Gbps host bus
adapters (HBA) and the Brocade 210E switch, which provides eight
ports of 4 Gbps connectivity, have been rolled into the HP EVA4100
San Starter Kit for small companies getting into networked
storage.
Gear6 scores customers
Storage caching upstart Gear6 said its "cracked three verticals,"
entertainment, financial services and its latest customer, GX
Technology (GXT), offers seismic imaging services for oil and gas
companies. Gear6's storage caching appliance sits on the network
next to any
storage array and accelerates access to the data. An entry
level device starts at $400,000 and is targeted at organisations
with large data processing requirements.
Xiotech scores even more customers
Xiotech announced several new customers have signed contracts for
the company's Magnitude 3D 3000 and Magnitude 750 storage systems.
New customers include Apollo Information Services Inc., the
Archdiocese of St. Louis, Century College (White Bear Lake, Minn.),
DISA Inc.,Kansas State Department of Education, United Network for
Organ Sharing (UNOS) and Weiss Group Inc.
Iomega, Postini partner
Iomega is offering Postini's security and compliance offerings to
small businesses worldwide, via its channel. Beginning next month,
Tech Data Corp. will offer its customers the new Iomega
OfficeScreen Managed Email Security and Spam Defense powered by
Postini.
RoboBak targets SMBs
Small business remote backup software supplier, RoboBak has added
its Open File Manager for backing up open files to its backup
product, as well as block-level deduplication, encryption and
archival modules. The company claims its software is cheaper than
most standalone data deduplication products on the market but
includes much more functionality.
Siafu adds tape library support
Siafu Software announced that it's Siafu Sypher Series of tape
encryption appliances now supports heterogeneous tape libraries,
including support for newly released LTO-4 tape drives. With
built-in data encryption and compression technology, the Siafu
Sypher is backup software agnostic and provides automatic
encryption key management for data storage at offsite
locations.
Infortrend adds snapshots to RAID storage
RAID storage supplier Infortrend had added snapshot software to its
line of EonStor RAID subsystems. Called SanWatch, the feature
offers point-in-time "snapshot" copies of data that look and behave
like complete backups without consuming equivalent disk space, the
company said.