New SSD Systems Scale to
Tens of Terabytes
WASHINGTON D.C. -
July 18, 2006 - ViON has selected Texas Memory Systems to
manufacture its new HyperStor line of very high performance data storage
systems.
HyperStor systems will start at 256G and extend up to
tens of terabytes of solid state storage. In benchmark testing for some
of the largest users of Oracle in the federal government, ViON has repeatedly
demonstrated that its HyperStor system and multi-processor open systems servers
can improve Oracle database performance from 300% to 1,500%. ...Texas Memory Systems
profile, ...ViON profile
Softek Enhances Nonstop Data Mobility Software
Vienna, Virginia -
July 13, 2006 - Softek today announced enhanced functionality and
scalability for its distance data migration software that enables faster and
more convenient migrations over TCP/IP within Unix and Linux environments.
New features include Restartable Full Refresh, which enables
existing migrations to re-start from the point of broken network connection.
The Restartable Full Refresh feature provides storage administrators
considerable time savings, especially if a broken link condition occurs near the
middle or end of a large data migration. In addition, TDMF IP now allows
migration of disk volumes up to four times larger than previously supported
volume sizes. ...Softek
profile
Editor's comments:- migration is a pivotal part of any long
term strategy related to
data storage
reliability. Simplifying the process will become a fast growing business.
Running SPARC / Solaris Apps on Intel Hardware
Editor:- July 11,
2006 - an article today in ITJungle.com paints an interesting portrait
of a company called Transitive.
The company, which
designs emulation software, will soon launch a package which will run SPARC /
Solaris applications on Intel / Linux servers. ..read the article,
Solaris
Migration
STORAGEsearch.com Reports 42% Reader Growth
Editor:- July 5, 2006 -
STORAGEsearch.com reports that in the first half of 2006 pageviews
and readership grew 40% and 42% respectively compared to the
year before period.
"With over 460,000 unique readers
viewing STORAGEsearch in the past 6
months, and our high reader growth rate we'll easily exceed our goal of more
than one million readers in calendar 2006" said editor and publisher Zsolt
Kerekes.
"September will be the 8th anniversary of starting this
site, but we're still adding new strategic directory subjects like the recently
launched
storage reliability
page. With the storage market surging towards $200 billion in 2007 - there are
always new topics and applications for readers to learn about. Although the sexy
side of the storage market is in the fast growing segments like
flash,
solid state disks and
iSCSI - some long
established old timers like
storage security have
seen innovations this year which are more significant than anything in that
segment in the past 5 years."
The top 3 subjects viewed by
readers in June (out of 70 storage categories on our
home page) were once again:-
Hard disk drives,
Solid state disks and
NAS. For more information
on the top subjects, articles etc see Market research
Historical
notes:- in the summer of 1998 when I started the detailed planning for
STORAGEsearch.com, I'd already been
publishing the SPARC Product
Directory for 6 years. STORAGEsearch grew out of 3 main roots
- An insurance policy... I was asked in 1997 - what would happen to my
publishing business if the SPARC market collapsed? - Although it seemed
inconceivable at the time (the dotcom boom was in a steep upward growth curve at
the time) it did eventually
happen. The SPARC market contracted from hundreds of oems in a seemingly "Open"
market down to a handful in a seemingly "Proprietary" market with
less than half the annual revenue. Due to my investment in the storage market -
my ad revenue actually grew during the time that the Sun server market (and
every other part of the server market too) was crashing.
- Storage manufacturers
had been an important part of my SPARC advertising and market data customer
base in the mid 1990s. But the products being advertised - fibre-channel adapters,
RAID systems etc -
appealed to a much bigger base than the Sun market. At the time there were no
enterprise storage
publications - so launching the first one seemed risky - but possibly met a
market need.
- The desire to launch a pure play dotcom publication. The SPARC Directory
had been migrated from a print format to a web format in 1996 - but the idea of
starting with a clean sheet and no history was attractive.
See also:-
Squeak! - Animal
Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market | |
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New SSD Systems
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Softek Enhances Nonstop Data Mobility
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Running SPARC / Solaris Apps on Intel Hardware
STORAGEsearch.com
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Epoka Group,
with sales offices in
Germany, Denmark and Russia is a leading
European
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