SPARC T2
Gets Carrier Grade Linux
SAN JOSE, CA - April
16, 2008 - Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced it will port its
Carrier Grade Linux and Workbench development suite to Sun's
UltraSPARC T2 processor.
This will be the first carrier grade
Linux for Sun's CMT processors. Sun's Netra Carrier Grade rack servers and ATCA
blades will be the first CMT systems to run Wind River Carrier Grade Linux.
...Wind River
profile,
Operating Systems
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Computer Joins Oracle PartnerNetwork |
FREMONT,
California - July 31, 2007 - Themis has joined the Oracle
PartnerNetwork.
Themis' Quorum appliance is an availability and
dynamic workload manager. It can automate the management of Service Level
Agreements, applications and hardware resource in real-time, mission critical
distributed systems. Standards-based, Quorum supports a wide variety of industry
standard platforms including Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Microsoft Windows
servers, as well as various network switches and SMI-compliant
SANs and
NAS devices.
"We are very pleased to bring Quorum appliance and software to
the Oracle PartnerNetwork," stated William E. Kehret, president of Themis
Computer. "Themis' Quorum helps CIOs and IT managers drive down total cost
of ownership for mission critical IT resources and infrastructure. We also
realized the need to provide standards driven APIs for enhanced application
monitoring and control. Quorum uniquely addresses this market need and
integrates well with other managers in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor
environment."
...Oracle
profile, ...Themis
profile, Storage
Software, storage
reliability
Solid Data Launches Terabyte Fibre-Channel SSD
SANTA CLARA,
Calif. - July 17, 2007 - Solid Data Systems, Inc. today StorageSPIRE
solid-state disk arrays providing up to a Terabyte of high-speed, non-volatile
storage.
StorageSPIRE
utilizes Solid Data's patented SSD technology, capitalizing on the company's 15
years experience in solid-state
disk solutions. With immediate response to read or write commands, SSDs
eliminate large server queues; thus, dramatically improving server stability and
response times during peak periods.
StorageSPIRE's advanced design provides persistent, non-volatile data
retention and easy configuration with no special device drivers required.
Designed with 4 Gigabit data paths and up to 12
Fibre Channel
connections, StorageSPIRE supports direct-connect, arbitrated loop and switched
fabric mode configurations with 500G to 1T of high-performance data capacity per
enclosure.
StorageSPIRE complements existing
SANs and
NAS by presenting a high
volume of LUNs to servers and serving data 10 to 50x faster than
mechanical disks, eliminating I/O bottlenecks. The StorageSPIRE solution deploys
transparently in the data center to preserve current infrastructure,
applications, file systems, and storage management software.
...Solid Data Systems
profile, RAM SSDs
CommVault Adds Enterprise Search in Simpana 7.0
Oceanport, N.J. - July 9,
2007 - CommVault today announced the largest software release in its
history - CommVault Simpana 7.0.
The Simpana 7.0 suite
provides major enhancements to data protection, archiving and replication
solutions, additional platform coverage, and also delivers a rich set of new
product features, including: Enterprise-wide Search and Discovery, Single
Instance Store, High Performance Content Indexing, Data Classification,
Expanded Security and Encryption Capabilities, and Post-processing. Pricing
starts at approximately $12,000 for an entry level single server
configuration.
Dave West, VP, Marketing at CommVault said "The
real story (about pricing) is not how much it costs you to acquire the software,
but rather how much you can save by not needing to deploy multiple point level
products requiring separate hardware infrastructures to support them. Add on top
of that the administrative costs associated with multiple products and
consumables associated with those multiple products."
...CommVault profile
Editor's
comments:- I asked for more info about the
enterprise search.
Dave West said "The CommVault content indexing engine, which
allows for full text search, now uses an embedded OEM version of the
FAST
inStream
indexing engine. It's worth noting that this is an extension to
CommVault's existing distributed indexing system which maintains a logical
catalog of all the objects under management. The web search application for
end-users and discovery users is based on our own code. This provides the web
interface, security model, user result sets / export capabilities."
Mendocino Extends InfiniView to VMware
Fremont, CA - June
19, 2007 - Mendocino Software today announced that its InfiniView
continuous data protection solution, now supports VMware ESX Server, Version
3 and higher.
By offering
InfiniView's
"one button" instant recovery capability for use with virtualized
servers running on ESX Server, Mendocino is offering faster, simpler recovery
that will help to maximize the overall availability of VMware environments.
Mendocino also supports Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux.
"Through
our OEM partners such as
HP,
Mendocino's technology is being placed in Fortune 1,000 companies to help
optimize the recovery, administration and maintenance operations for mission
critical application environments," said Steve Colman, President and CEO of
Mendocino Software. "More and more, we are seeing these types of customers
using VMware and asking about instant recovery capabilities for virtualized
environments." ..Mendocino profile,
SAN
Mimosa "Visionary" - Says Gartner
Email Archiving Report
Santa Clara, Calif -
June 11, 2007 - Mimosa Systems today announced that Gartner's
'Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Active Archiving, 2007' report is available for free
download.
The report is focused on enterprise-class products that
met specific criteria and were able to prove, through strong references, their
ability to address the need of a market looking to support hundreds and
thousands of users. With its in-depth guidance and independent 3rd party vendor
evaluations, the Magic Quadrant report can assist organizations of all sizes in
implementing an effective email archiving solution. Mimosa was analyzed and
placed in the Visionaries Quadrant.
...read the
article (registration required),
...Mimosa Systems profile,
...Gartner profile
Data Compression Wiz Storewiz Secures $9 million
Funding
SAN
JOSE, Calif - June 5, 2007 - Storewiz Inc. today announced that it has
closed a $9 million round of funding with leading venture capital firm Sequoia
Capital.
The investment by
Sequoia enables
Storewiz to aggressively expand its sales and marketing teams to meet soaring
demand for its realtime, transparent
data compression appliances.
The company has applied for 18 worldwide patents, which are pending for its
NAS,
iSCSI and
Fibre Channel
applications.
"Our investment strategy is to search out those
companies that we believe will have the greatest impact in the industry in which
they perform," said Shmil Levy, Sequoia Partner. "We believe Storewiz
to be that market disrupter and feel that their leadership in the data
compression industry is something that will not soon be overcome." ...Storewiz profile,
Storage Software,
VCs in Storage
SafeErase 3 for Windows Vista
Berlin - May 15,
2007 -
O&O Software GmbH today releases SafeErase 3 for Windows Vista.
With 5 different deletion methods complying with recognized international
standards, the user can create individual configurations, adapted to each
scenario. The deletion methods differ from each other in the number and the way
data is actually overwritten. As well as the standard deletion procedures of US
DoD and German BSI, users can also select the
Gutmann Method, which
meets the highest possible security criteria and overwrites data up to 35 times
The full version costs EUR 29.90.
...O&O Software
profile,
Storage Software,
Disk Sanitizers
New Version of UltraBac
Bellevue,
Wash. - May 3, 2007 - UltraBac Software today announced the release of
UltraBac Version 8.2 with major enhancements, including file-by-file backup
support for Volume Shadow Copy Service, Secure FTP, and a brand new SharePoint
Server Agent.
The UltraBac SharePoint Server Agent enables organizations running
SharePoint to incorporate seamless backup and recovery within multiple layers of
collaborative data. Pricing starts from US$495 per server with the ability to
back up an unlimited number of workstations....UltraBac Software profile | |
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Squeak!
- the Fastest Solid State Disks
Speed isn't everything, and
it comes at a price. |
But if you do
need the speediest SSD
then wading through the web sites of over 55 current
SSD oems to find a suitable
candidate slows you down.
And the SSD search problem will get even
worse. |
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I predict
there will be over 100 SSD oems in 2008.
I've done the research for
you to save you time. And this page is updated daily from
storage news and direct
inputs from oems. ...read
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Virtual
Tape: Can You Afford to Ignore It? - article by MaXXan Systems
Network
connected disk to disk backup systems for the enterprise have come a long way
since the first pioneering products started to appear in the pages of
STORAGEsearch.com in the late 1990s.
Some of the growing
sophistication in the market can be seen by the way that the marketing
terminology has morphed from the early D2d (let's kill tape backup), via D2D2T
(let's be friends with tape / peaceful coexistence) to the current VTL (Virtual
Tape Library - let's just see if they notice that it's more reliable and works
faster - and don't tell them that there isn't a tape in the box) type of
approaches.
But if you think that speed, reliability and cost are the
only things you need to know about the "virtual" versus "real"
tape library argument - take a look at this comprehensive article from MaXXan
Systems which shows there are a lot more benefits than that. ...read the article,
...MaXXan profile,
Disk to disk backup | |
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What are
Digital Vaults? - article by Cyber-Ark Software
Digital
Vaults enable users across the internet to share access to sensitive information
in a simple secure way. This article by Cyber-Ark gives a brief overview on
digital vaults and looks at why they are growing in popularity.
...read the
article,
...Cyber-Ark Software
profile,
Storage Security | | |