Weekly compilation of storage news:Pillar ships 1 TB drives
Pillar Data Systems announced the availability of 1 terabyte (TB)
SATA drives for its Pillar Axiom storage system. The new drives
push the Axiom's overall usable capacity to 760 TB. Network
Appliance (NetApp), EMC, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Overland Storage,
Pillar, BlueArc, Isilon, Dot Hill, Xyratex and Xiotech have all
told SearchStorage.com that they plan to
incorporate the drives when they become available. ONStor has
also recently announced that it will support 1 TB drives later
this year. NetApp and HP have indicated they will support 1 TB
drives in the first calendar quarter of 2008. Dynamic Network
Factory (DNF) announced that it added 1 TB SATA drive support to
its
Enterprise F12-HA RAID subsystems in
September.
IBM SVC fully certified with VMware
IBM and VMware announced that IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is
the first storage virtualization product to be fully certified with
VMware as part of its new
storage virtualization certification program
launched last week. SVC has recently been added to VMware's
hardware compatibility list with support for Windows guest
operating systems, QLogic host bus adapters (HBA) and VMFS.
Prior to the certification program, SVC users have had to
purchase a specialized version of ESX server from IBM through a
separate request for quotation (RFQ) process, and this version
doesn't support ESX clusters and other features of VMware
Infrastructure 3 (VI3).
In a separate announcement this week, IBM announced a new
version of its GPFS software that features a new policy-based
automation capabilities. The new version of the software acts like
a search engine to identify and migrate files between different
storage pools and feed high-speed business intelligence and
scientific computers.
Google ups Premier mailbox limit to 25 GB
The
inbox-sized arms race between Web-based
email hosts continues. Google has announced that its Gmail inbox
within its subscription Google Apps Premier Edition for
enterprises has been extended from the previous limit of 10 GB
to 25 GB.
NetApp announces NAS, StoreVault, A-SIS customers
NetApp announced that Roma Metropolitane, which manages Rome's
public transportation systems, is using its FAS270 array. Teavana,
a specialty tea reseller, has installed its StoreVault S500 low-end
storage product and Polysius, which designs industrial equipment
for the cement and mineral industries, has added its A-SIS data
deduplication feature to an existing 3020 array.
Financial firm runs FalconStor CDP
FalconStor announced that Maxim Group, a New York-based investment
banking, securities and investment management firm, has deployed
disk-based backup using FalconStor's continuous data protection
(CDP). The product is backing up data from customer-facing
financial applications and has been used to centralize backup for
remote offices.
German bank picks Brocade file virtualization
Brocade announced that Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822, a member of
Sparkasse Finanzgruppe, one of the largest banking groups in
Germany, is using its StorageX file virtualization product.
StorageX is mirroring Windows NT4 access rights between two
geographically separate data centers.
SpectraLogic offers free encryption
SpectraLogic announced that all of its tape libraries will ship
with encryption based on LTO-4's native embedded encryption or its
own AES-256 encryption. All the encryption on SpectraLogic's
libraries can be managed through free key management software from
partner BlueScale. SpectraLogic had already been offering free key
management for LTO-4 but now will no longer charge for support.
Startups Parascale, StorMagic hit the storage scene
Two more new storage startups came out of stealth over the last
week, both selling software to make storage systems out of
commodity hardware. StorMagic focuses on the small and medium-sized
(SMB) market with a product similar to iSCSI-SAN-on-a-memory-stick
products from
Open-E. At the other end of the spectrum,
Parascale's software makes high-performance parallel file system
grids using commodity Linux x86 server hardware.