Weekly compilation of storage news:
Adaptec reported net revenue for the company's second quarter
of fiscal 2008 was $44.0 million, compared with $73.6 million for
the second quarter of fiscal 2007. The company noted that it had
received a one-time tax benefit of $49.1 million relating to
dispute settlements with the U.S. and Singapore taxing authorities.
The company also posted a sequential loss between the first and
second fiscal quarters of $7.6 million.
"While our top line results were above the company's
expectations, we continue to face difficult market conditions,"
said Sundi Sundaresh, president and CEO, in a statement. "Despite
these challenges, the company has made significant progress during
the quarter in several key areas: our restructuring plan announced
last quarter is on track to fully realize the expected savings by
the end of the fiscal year, our data protection and storage
solutions groups have each released new products and the early
indicators of customer reaction are positive."
Sundaresh identified
iSCSI as a growing market and a good opportunity for Adaptec,
although the company lost its OEM deal with IBM for iSCSI SAN
products. IBM has since picked up iSCSI products from LSI Corp.
DataDirect reports record InfiniBand shipments
DataDirect Networks said it shipped its 3,000th S2A InfiniBand
storage appliance since the first unit was sold to NASA in 2000 and
shipped more than 250 S2A9550 storage appliances with a total
capacity of 19 PB of storage in the third quarter. That number
exceeds all shipments of the device in the year 2006.
Cellcom deploys RecoverGuard disaster recovery
software
Israeli cellular communications operator Cellcom has deployed
Continuity Software's RecoverGuard software to support its disaster
recovery plans. RecoverGuard identifies "configuration gaps" in the
storage infrastructure that could compromise disaster recovery
plans. The tool also identified terabytes of high-end storage that
was being underutilized.
U.K. healthcare community picks FalconStor
Plymouth Healthcare Community in the U.K. has deployed a FalconStor
IPStor storage virtualization software in its 18 TB shop. The
community estimated that IPStor has reduced labor costs and time by
the equivalent of one storage administrator. while the flexibility
of the storage system has directly saved more than $100,000 in
capital investment through the redeployment of existing
equipment.
Onaro integrates with BMC service automation
Onaro's storage service management (SSM) products have been linked
up with BMC Service Automation datacenter automation software. The
partners are joining fellow startup Akorri, Cisco, EMC and
Hewlett-Packard Co. in attempting to create an overarching data
center management framework.
DataCore ships server-side performance acceleration
DataCore released server versions of its UpTempo performance
accelerators for Windows applications. UpTempo adds intelligence
and predictive caching algorithms to speed up workloads and
maximize I/O throughput. The software is available now for $498 per
license.
Pillar debuts storage monitoring consulting service
Pillar Data has launched Pillar Pulse Axiom Health Check and
Assessment Service, which will provide an on-site technician to
help users analyze information from the newly released Pillar Pulse
Health Check software, a rebadge of Brocade's SAN Health software.
The service will cover Pillar arrays only and starts at
$25,000.
FilesX supports Microsoft Exchange 2007
CDP player FilesX announced that it has added Microsoft Exchange
2007 support to its Xchange RestoreTM software. Xchange Restore
2007 backs up any Exchange 2007 object, including individual
emails, calendars, address books, journal entries and folders, and
can restore objects even from corrupted Exchange databases, the
company claims.
BakBone supports PostgreSQL
BakBone announced version 3.0 of BakBone NetVault: Backup
Application Plugin Module (APM) for PostgreSQL. The APM will
support the open source database on all major operating systems,
including Linux, Solaris and Windows.