Weekly compilation of storage news:Ibrix and Mellanox debut InfiniBand NAS
Ibrix and Mellanox Technologies have come out with a
clustered NAS product that connects to hosts using InfiniBand.
InfiniBand is often used in clustered systems in high-performance
computing (HPC) environments to connect the members of a server
cluster at single-port speeds of 10 Gbps or 20 Gbps, but rarely to
connect storage to hosts.
Alacritech boosts EqualLogic NAS gateway
Alacritech's Scalable Network Accelerators (SNA) have been
integrated into Advanced Media Services (AMS) Windows Storage
Server NAS Gateways, specifically supporting EqualLogic PS Series
iSCSI SANs. Alacritech SNAs are TOE cards that offload the
processing of IP traffic from primary storage and server CPUs.
Chelsio juices up FalconStor IP SAN
Chip startup Chelsio and FalconStor have certified Chelsio's S310
10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) Storage Adapter as interoperable with
FalconStor IPStor Enterprise Edition software for RedHat Enterprise
Linux 4 (RHEL4). The combination can be used to create a 10 GigE IP
SAN.
DataCore bundles IP SAN virtualization
DataCore is packaging up iSCSI versions of its storage
virtualization software into Virtual Infrastructure Foundation
(VIF) Acceleration Bundles marketed to small and medium-sized
businesses (SMB). Bundles include the SAN bundle for SMBs, which
wraps up SANmelody virtual iSCSI SAN software, SANmotion for
migration and caching algorithms for performance acceleration,
starting at $1,000. A business continuity starter bundle for
midsize enterprises (SME) adds failover for between $8,000 and
$16,000. A disaster recovery starter bundle includes asynchronous
IP mirroring and replication, priced from $8,000 to $16,000. A
business continuance/disaster recovery bundle includes campus-level
failover and long distance replication for between $14,000 and
$20,000. Separately, Datacore announced a new SANMelody customer,
Australian construction firm Glenvill Group.
EmBoot debuts new Windows iSCSI SAN boot
EmBoot has shipped winBoot/i v2.1, an update to its iSCSI
boot-from-SAN product for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 and the
forthcoming Microsoft Windows Server 2008. New features include
support for Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) for
quiescing open files while copying boot images, support for writing
crash dump results from Windows servers directly to iSCSI storage
and the ability to install Windows Server 2008 from DVD.
3PAR adds LDAP support
3PAR has added native support for LDAP, an open source counterpart
to Microsoft's Active Directory, which provides end user
authentication. Users with LDAP can now use the same console to
manage 3PAR's InServ Storage Servers that they already use to
manage other LDAP-compatible devices.
LeftHand lands Nikon Europe
ISCSI SAN maker LeftHand Networks announced that Nikon Europe
replaced a Fibre Channel SAN with its SANiQ system. Ten remote
offices spread across Europe have the IP SANs installed,
replicating to a central location.
CipherMax, NeoScale offer key management for LTO-4
CipherMax's CM140T key management software now supports the key
management functions for LTO-4 encrypting tape drives and media, as
well as line-speed data encryption capabilities for virtual tape
libraries (VTL). Elsewhere, NeoScale announced two new APIs for
partners to integrate storage products with its KeyVault key
management system. The APIs come in two flavors, one for LTO-4 and
one for disk.
Spectra Logic adds upgrade paths to tape line
Spectra Logic's new midrange Spectra T200, T380 and T680 tape
libraries now offer a direct growth path from 1-to-24 tape drives,
50-to-680 slots of tape media and up to 136 TB of disk storage in
one rack-mount unit.
Pharmaceutical firm picks Riverbed
Riverbed reported that Cubist Pharmaceuticals has deployed its
Steelhead WAFS appliances on a globally distributed network. The
company picked Riverbed to accelerate replication of VMware virtual
machine images for disaster recovery.
California school district extends contract with
SSP
California's Riverside Unified School district has extended its
contract for another three years with a hosted storage provider,
School Web Lockers, which specifically services K-12 schools and
school districts. The agreement will provide online collaboration
and storage services to 46,000 students, teachers and
administrators in 45 schools.
Sanz wins $930,000 DoD deal
Sanz has received an approximate $930,000 renewal order for backup,
recovery and archive products for a Department of Defense customer.
The customer was not named.
MessageLabs launches v3.0 of email archiving
service
MessageLabs launched v3.0 of its archiving service. New features
include attachment stubbing and support for Microsoft 2007
applications.
Neverfail adds low-end replication
Server failover vendor Neverfail released Neverfail Replicator,
designed for business processes that can tolerate some downtime.
The product supports failover and failback, LAN and WAN networks,
physical and virtual servers, a low-bandwidth module for speeding
WAN transfers and a direct upgrade path to Neverfail's higher end
products.
Plasmon rebrands Arkivio file migration
Plasmon has partnered with Arkivio to rebrand its file migration
software as Plasmon's Archive File Manager, released this week. The
software pulls static data off NAS and SAN-based storage and
migrates or copies it to Plasmon's UDO Archive Appliance or
Enterprise Active Archive.
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