Weekly compilation of storage news:Financial firm replaces SQL DAS with EMC
StoreFinancial, a prepaid card processor, has replaced the direct
attached storage (DAS) used for its SQL Server environment with a
multiprotocol EMC CLARiiON CX3 system. An EMC press release quotes
Jim Poteet, StoreFinancial's director of technology, as saying that
moving the SQL Server database to a Fibre Channel partition on the
CX3 improved the response time by 70%. The company is also using an
iSCSI partition on the box for tiered storage purposes.
Purdue University deploys BlueArc
BlueArc announced that the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at
Purdue University has deployed a Titan 2000 network attached
storage (Nas) system. The Titan will support data from research
computation generated by life science and climate modelling
applications.
Microseismic picks Panasas
Panasas announced that seismic imaging firm MicroSeismic has
deployed the Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Cluster. Panasas
claims MicroSeismic has halved the time it takes to process images
for oil and gas customers after implementing its system.
ExaGrid lands patents
ExaGrid has been awarded two patents: US Patent No. 7,246,140,
Method and Apparatus for Storage System to Provide Distributed Data
Storage and Protection, and US. Patent No. 7,246,275, Method and
Apparatus for Managing Data Integrity of Backup and Disaster
Recovery Data. The patents cover ExaGrid's disc-based backup
products with byte-level data deduplication.
HDS picks up QLogic San router
QLogic announced that its Sanbox 6142 intelligent storage router is
now available from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and qualified as
interoperable with HDS Adaptable Modular Storage and Workgroup
Modular Storage systems.