Emerson Launches Aperture Data Center Optimization Suite
3/9/2010 3:31:48 PM
Emerson Network Power claims that its Aperture Integrated Resource Manager, a result of Emerson's acquisition of Aperture in February 2008, is the industry's first data center optimization software that doesn't require a new server to run it. - NASHVILLE, Tenn. Emerson Network Power, which once specialized in power supplies but has been expanding into a range of other data center-related products, on March 9 launched a data center management package that combines all facility resources yet requires no new servers to run. The company ...

Tangent's DataCove DT Eases E-Mail Archiving
3/9/2010 3:14:42 PM
REVIEW: Todays enterprises are bound by legislative requirements that dictate how data is stored, archived and retrieved. For many, e-mail is the biggest compliance challenge. Tangent helps to solve those e-mail compliance issues with its DataCove DT appliance. - Many businesses are struggling to meet compliance requirements, and for most, the biggest challenge is e-mail. E-mail compliance is a complex endeavor, since administrators need to save e-mail conversations, archive them, build indexes and have a means to retrieve those conversations. Whats more...

3PAR Introduces Autonomic Storage Tiering for High-End Arrays
3/8/2010 10:51:17 PM
At its optimum, autonomic tiering actually prevents problems from happening in the first place through a combination of business and operational intelligence, gained by a constant collection of data. - 3PAR, which has established much of its identity around the idea of thin provisioning for data center storage, has brought to reality another concept: autonomic storage tiering. The company introduced its newest software feature, Adaptive Optimization, which does this tiering, on March 8. ...

eWEEK Newsbreak Video March 5 2010
3/5/2010 2:53:24 PM
Data protection and business continuity solution provider Axcient recently announced ServerAlive. The new appliance will enable MSPs and IT administrators to launch a virtual instance of a customer's failed server, as it unifies backup, business continuity and disaster recovery on a single platform; Microsoft is apparently All In when it comes to the cloud; Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a speech at the University of Washington to suggest that the companys strategy moving forward will focus primarily on the cloud. YouTube is Adding Captions to Videos for Hearing-Impaired Users; According to Gartner, the Apple iPad and netbooks are said to Drive PC Market Growth in 2010; Given such statistics by Gartner its no surprise that the CeBIT 2010 show in Germany is piled high with netbooks; Among them are Asus and Acer who are both introducing new netbooks at the show; Last month's massive earthquake in Chile was powerful enough to actually shift the earth's axis and shorten the length of a day by 1.26 millionths of a second. - Video Content....

Intel Brings Atom to Storage Devices
3/5/2010 12:28:17 PM
At the CeBIT show, Intel unveiled an Atom platform aimed at storage devices for small offices and homes. The new platform is the latest push by Intel to expand the reach of the Atom chip, which was initially intended for netbooks but now is finding its way into entry-level desktops, mainstream notebooks and embedded devices. - Intel is continuing to push its Atom chip platform, initially designed for netbooks, into new areas, the latest being storage. At the CeBIT show held in Hannover, Germany, Intel on March 4 unveiled an Atom-based platform designed for networked storage devices used in smaller business offices, h...

Higher Storage Product Quality Cramping Worldwide Sales, Reports Say
3/5/2010 10:58:24 AM
Overall sales were down slightly year over year; key factors were the world economic recession and, ironically, the continuing overall improvement in the quality of new-generation storage hardware and software. - Researchers IDC and Gartner both came out with their quarterly data storage markets reports March 5, and they each show a slight decline in worldwide sales over the last year. Key factors in the downturn turn out to be not only the world economic recession but, ironically, also the continui...

Google Adds Synchronous Replication to Protect Apps Data
3/4/2010 6:43:46 PM
Files stored in Google Docs or in Gmail files are broken up into digital pieces (some people call them chunks ) and stored on random servers in Google data centers around the world. When the time comes to gather the file back up for download or online viewing, the pieces are quickly reassembled for the user's session. - Google on March 4 said it has added a storage disaster recovery feature that's growing in demand synchronous data replication to its Google Apps lineup, which includes Google Docs, Gmail, Google Sites, Calendar and several other apps. The search and Web services giant told eWEEK that it, in f...

Nexenta Unveils Gateway Deduplication for Tier 1 Storage
3/3/2010 6:24:27 PM
A significant new factor regarding NexentaStor 3.0 is that it is the first storage software to offer inline deduplication at the gateway for Tier 1 storage, CEO Evan Powell told eWEEK. - Nexenta Systems introduced an upgrade to its frontline NexentaStor enterprise package March 2 that includes the Sun Microsystems-developed Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and Virtual Machine Datacenter 3.0, a new version of the Nexenta virtualization management platform. The Mountain View, Calif.-...

WD Ships Its First SSDs for Consumer Devices
3/3/2010 3:17:38 PM
WD said that the new 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue drives use a native 3G-bps SATA interface to perform at a sustained read speed of 250MB per second, compared with about 100MB per second for WD's fastest 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Scorpio Black. - Western Digital, which recently shortened its corporate identity to WD, said March 3 that it has begun shipping its first line of consumer-oriented SATA (serial ATA) solid-state drives. WD said that the new 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue drives use a native 3G-bps SATA interface to perform at a su...

Iron Mountain Fine-Tunes Cloud Storage for Medical Records
3/1/2010 4:17:44 PM
Iron Mountain's Digital Record Center for Medical Images is designed to back up and archive digital medical information, which often includes large, bulky X-ray files. Due to the sensitivity and importance of medical data, another level of redundancy is built into the package. - As data storage gets more sophisticated, with intelligent tiering, automatic deduplication and other eminently useful features, some vendors are beginning to fine-tune their storage products for use in specific vertical markets such as health care and finance. For example, Iron Mountain on Ma...

Simplifying Ownership of UPS Solutions
2/26/2010 1:43:35 PM
UPS products are an essential part of the datacenter infrastructure. No sane IT professional would risk running without power back-up. However, as IT staffs have shrunk, and the workload has increased, IT staffs are looking to reduce the time spent and the number of tasks necessary to support the day to day operations of the datacenter. APC, by Schneider Electric, has met this challenge with the new line of UPS products, SmartUPS. SmartUPS reduce the time and resources needed to manage and operate UPS products with superior management tools, battery monitoring/management, and configurability. - Video Content....

Overland Revamps Its NEO Tape Libraries
2/25/2010 6:45:49 PM
Overland Storage's new NEO E Series enterprise tape backup and archive packages use the company's homegrown and updated LTO-5 software, which consolidates disk and tape storage and essentially doubles the capacity of previous Overland deployments. - Eighteen months ago, disk and tape storage maker Overland Storage was facing several serious business challenges. It had just bought the popular Snap Server franchise for $3.6 million from Adaptec at the beginning of what was to become a worldwide recession. Tape wasn't selling all that well,...

Parallels Ships New 'Bare Metal' Server for Apple Xserve
2/24/2010 5:28:42 PM
Parallels Server for Mac/Bare Metal Edition runs virtual machines on an Xserve machine so businesses can standardize on the Apple platform and still run Windows and Linux-based applications if they desire. - Virtualization software maker Parallels said Feb. 24 that it is expanding its product line by adding a new hypervisor specifically designed for Apple's Mac OS X and Xserve server. Parallels Server for Mac/Bare Metal Edition runs virtual machines on an Xserve machine so businesses can standardi...

10 Inexpensive Flash Drives from Sony, HP, SanDisk
2/24/2010 2:10:17 PM
Compact, flexible and increasingly stylish (and ubiquitous), USB flash drives are a must-have storage accessory for business and for life, and companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sony and SanDisk are bringing out a range of affordable ones. Rugged construction, low prices and simple interfaces, combined with security enhancements that work to keep your data safe, make USB flash drives a perfect solution to transferring and storing large amounts of data quickly and compactly. Here are 10 of the best that won't bust your budget. - ...

IBM Takes Deduplication to System z Mainframes
2/23/2010 11:08:45 PM
IBM announced that, for the first time, it is adding a deduplication appliance to its System z mainframe server. The new feature sports a rather verbose moniker: System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z. - One doesn't often hear the IT terms quot;mainframe quot; and quot;deduplication quot; used in the same context, or even the same sentence. But IBM is now connecting those dots. IBM said Feb. 24 that, for the first time, it is adding deduplication to its System z mainframe server. The new...