Weekly compilation of storage news:CA announces acquisition integrations
CA announced that CA Message Manager, the result of its
acquisition of email archiver iLumin and CA Records Manager from
the purchase of MDY, are now integrated and can feed data to one
another. It's part of CA Information Governance, a new strategy
also launched this week that has CA's research and development, and
sales force newly refocused on the e-discovery, records management
and archiving space. CA has also officially announced product
features that have shipped to customers over the last year but were
not publicized, including centralized, policy-based management of
documents, new federated search capabilities and new integration
with SharePoint.
Autonomy ports data classification to Zantaz
Autonomy announced the first integration of its larger product
line into the messaging and email archiving products sold by its
newly acquired subsidiary, Zantaz. Zantaz's EAS products will now
run with Autonomy's data classification and search capabilities
embedded into it and will also snap in to the larger Autonomy data
management framework, known as the Intelligent Data Operating Layer
(IDOL).
ProStor creates removable disk archive system
ProStor, makers of the RDX removable disk cartridges rebranded by
Imation, Dell and others, announced its first storage subsystem,
dubbed InfiniVault. The product comes in form factors ranging from
a commodity server tower to a 39 terabyte (TB) 2U rack mount. Each
version has a cache of RAID storage for nearline archival, and its
software automatically migrates data based on date of creation down
to an array of removable RDX cartridges. The product also provides
file-level deduplication, 2x data compression and hardware-based
AES 256-bit encryption. Prices range from just over $10,000 for the
entry-level system to $75,000 and up for the largest model.
Bycast ventures past healthcare
Grid archiving vendor Bycast, which until recently has been making
hay as a medical archiving player through its partnership with IBM,
recently announced a new statement of direction. According to Moe
Kermani, Bycast will be taking the most recent version of its
software, StorageGrid 7, into verticals other than medical images
and records archiving.
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In separate announcements also made this week, Clearwell Systems
and Quest Software announced that they will jointly market the
Clearwell Intelligence Platform and Quest Archive Manager, hailing
the combination as a way to address the full e-discovery process.
Google Inc. beefed up its search for
enterprise archives, and
Copan added an archive "personality" to its
MAID array.