Weekly compilation of storage news:Windows Home Server targets SMB NAS
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its Windows Home Server
software has been finalized and released to manufacturers, the
final step before general availability of new products from
products Hewlett-Packard (HP), Gateway, LaCie and Iomega.
HP plans to base a new MediaSmart network attached storage (NAS)
box for small office/home office (SOHO) and prosumers on the
Windows software, which will include up to 6 terabytes (TB) of
storage internally, as well as up to four USB 2.0 ports for
external expansion and an automated backup
function. The product will be released in time for the holidays
this year. Iomega is developing a similar user-expandable product
for consumers with up to four hot-swappable drives. Finally,
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is developing a product called Scaleo
Home Server.
SunGard boosts collocation facilities with
VeriCenter
Disaster recovery managed services and collocation provider
SunGard announced this week that it will acquire VeriCenter for an
undisclosed amount. Much of VeriCenter's business is based around
managed hosting and applications, but according to Mark Hughes,
SunGard's executive vice president for availability services,
VeriCenter is also bringing in storage customers, as well as new
sites for collocation and disaster recovery services. According to
Hughes, adding VeriCenter's data centers to its network means that
in cities like Boston, for example, SunGard can now offer both a
downtown and suburban location for disaster recovery
facilities.
Cambridge University deploys Reldata gateway
Reldata announced that the University of Cambridge, Geography
Department, will be using its 9000 series multiprotocol gateway.
According to a press release, the university has started by using
the device to consolidate new and existing storage into a single
iSCSI pool served by an existing Linux file server. For the future,
the university plans to remove load from the file server by
provisioning file storage directly using the gateway's NAS
functions. The gateway also provides both block- and file-level
snapshots and block-level replication.
Arsenal adds VMware backup
Hosted storage and backup service provider Arsenal Digital
announced new virtual server capabilities for its ViaRemote
service. The capability handles both file- and block-level data for
virtual server environments and also includes data deduplication.
To backup data within individual virtual machines, an agent must be
installed in every virtual machine that needs to back up data. Once
configured, the individual ViaRemote agents deduplicate data and
automatically backup changed blocks securely to an Arsenal data
center.
HDS to resell QLogic directors
QLogic announced that its SANbox 9000 Series Fibre Channel
director switches are now available from Hitachi Data Systems
(HDS). HDS also resells the SANbox 1400 and 5600 series from
QLogic, as well as QLogic host bus adapters.
Bus-Tech boosts performance on mainframe VTL
Bus-Tech announced the release of version 5.0 of its software for
both the Mainframe Data Library (MDL) and the Mainframe Appliance
for Storage (MAS) tape-on-disk controllers for IBM and compatible
mainframes. The MDL and the MAS are tape-on-disk controllers that
attach directly to the mainframe via FICON or ESCON I/O channels
and use standard Gigabit Ethernet to attach to open systems storage
version 5.0 with throughput of up to 600 megabytes per second
(MBps), representing a 50% improvement over previous versions, the
company claims.
Yosemite backup software supports LTO-4
Yosemite announced that its Yosemite Backup 8.5 software will
support hardware encryption offered by the LTO-4 format. The
software allows users to choose LTO-4 256-bit Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) hardware or 128/256-bit AES software encryption and
compression.
Symantec certifies Oracle
Oracle and Symantec today announced that Symantec's Veritas
Storage Foundation 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0,
Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0, Veritas Cluster
Server 5.0, Veritas NetBackup 6.0 Client and Veritas i3 are now
certified interoperable with Oracle Enterprise Linux.
Atto certified with EMC Retrospect
Atto Technology announced that its iPBridge 2600 and iPBridge 1550
iSCSI-to-SCSI bridge products have successfully completed
interoperability testing with EMC Retrospect for Mac OS X backup
and recovery software.
Retrospect itself, meanwhile, has faded in
the market in recent months.
Ciprico integrates with H3C
Ciprico announced today that its RAIDCore storage software is
being integrated into Hangzhou H3C Technologies' Neocean IX1000 and
EX800 lines of iSCSI servers for small and midsized businesses
targeted for the China market.
Xyratex joins Green Grid
Storage subsystem maker Xyratex became the latest storage player
to join the Green Grid, an industry group focused on power and
cooling issues.