NetApp to buy Onaro to boost storage management
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InfoWorld - Storage vendor Network Appliance said Thursday it plans to buy Onaro, a Boston company that develops storage management software.
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprises are reaching deeper into their pockets to add data storage capacity to their computer networks, according to an industry report released Friday. Worldwide revenue for external disk storage systems rose to $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2006, a 9.9 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the research firm IDC. This is the 14th consecutive quarter of storage revenue growth, a trend IDC attributes to more companies buying storage because of the demand to save more data, and to existing customers buying larger capacity systems. "There is definitely a bump in the quarter on the systems side," said Brad Nisbet, manager of IDC's Storage Systems Program. Sales growth has been particularly strong for midrange-priced systems while flat for high-end systems, Nisbet said. While the cost per megabyte of storage has continued to decline, the average selling price of systems has continued to rise because enterprises are buying larger and larger capacity storage. The market share rankings of the top storage vendors were unchanged in the latest report. EMCÂ kept the No. 1 spot with a 21.4 percent share on an 18 percent increase in revenue over the year-ago quarter to $927 million. Hewlett-Packard ranked second with a 17.6 percent share on only a modest 1.8 percent revenue increase to $760 million. Third place went to IBM, with a 13.7 percent share. Dell, which sells co-branded Dell/EMC storage, ranked fourth with an 8 percent share, and Hitachi Data SystemsÂ was in fifth place with a 7.9 percent share. The entire disk storage systems market grew 7.9 percent to $6.186 billion. In the overall market, the top five vendors, in order of share, were HP, IBM, EMC, Dell, and Hitachi. Also of note, the market for storage area network (SAN) technology grew 17.3 percent. The SAN market excludes sales of network-attached storage (NAS), in which servers are liked to just one storage appliance. SAN refers to a larger network of multiple storage devices that are grouped together as a single resource. In particular, storage networks linked together with iSCSI (for Internet Small Computer System Interface) connections showed dramatic growth of 108.4 percent over the third quarter of 2005. IDC attributes that growth to the ease of use and low total cost of ownership of iSCSI-based networks compared Fibre Channel-connected storage. The IDC report excludes sales of tape storage technology.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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LINDON, Utah, Dec. 15  /PRNewswire/ -- Solera Networks, Inc., the technology leader in network packet record and playback appliances, today announced that source code for DataEcho, a web session reconstruction application, will be made available under the GNU General Public License.
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has today launched a high-end Raid storage platform and software offering complex data management. The TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP) is designed to provide up to 32
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NetApp's new FAS 2020 and FAS 2050 storage arrays are designed for companies with between 100 and 1000 employees.
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Hitachi Data Systems has announced a new enterprise storage lineup to include features such as a virtualisation which allows customers to manage up to 32Petabytes of internal and external storage.
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(Source: Nexsan)  Can your data center meet your growing storage needs without breaking the bank? Do you have the power and cooling capacity neccessary to meet the demands of today's high-density equipment? Is is necessary to trade off performance and accessibility for storage density and energy efficiency?Attend this live Webcast, featuring Nexsan CTO and co-founder Gary Watson, for expert insight on "green storage" and learn what high capacity, energy-efficient storage systems can do for you, with topics including: - Cost-effectively conquering ever growing amounts of data - Reducing storage power costs by a factor of 10 - Simple, software transparent energy savings - Highest drive capacity equals smaller, more efficient footprint - Performance and efficiency - not mutually exclusive! - Leveraging green storage to reduce total operating costs and carbon footprint year after yearThis webcast will air on Thursday, June 28th 2007, at 2:00 PM, EDT.
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The vendor adds features to its storage appliance to quickly bring back online storage that had been dedicated to an underused application.
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Intel&#39;s venture-capital arm has invested in Nirvanix, a San Diego start-up company that offers a scalable online storage service.Intel Capital said Wednesday it had invested an undisclosed amount in Nirvanix, which in turn expects to benefit from access to technologies that can improve its service and expand the number of storage nodes it owns.At the heart of its service is an API (application programming interface) called Nirvanix Web Services that allows developers to incorporate the online storage service in their applications, and can be used by companies to store application data. That service charges customers a monthly rate of $0.18 per gigabyte of data that is stored or transferred. The API allows developers to control the amount stored and the bandwidth made available to the application.In addition to Intel Capital, Nirvanix investors include Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures.
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With the price of disk storage plummeting, the storage capacity administrators find themselves managing is set to explode. But, the simple introduction of network block virtualization permits the use of underutilized storage management technologies such as mirroring, snapshots and replication on a much broader scale.
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Nokia Adopts SD Card Tech into Storage Portfolio TechNewsWorld
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Citing need among its customers and the broader market, Netezza announced on Monday that its Netezza Performance Server, a data warehousing appliance for BI (business intelligence) analytics, will soon be scalable to the petabyte level.
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(InfoWorld) - Web content delivery company Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Netli, which provides services to help accelerate content and services online, the companies announced Monday. In the deal, Akamai would acquire Netli in exchange for about 3.2 million shares of Akamai common stock, or about $170 million depending on Akamai's share price on the closing date. The companies expect the deal, which Netli stockholders must approve, to close by the end of this quarter. The acquisition would improve Akamai's application acceleration offerings and add to the company's goal of being the leading managed service provider for Web application acceleration, Akamai said. The market for application acceleration spending is projected to grow from $967 million in 2004 to $3.3 billion in 2010, according to IT analysis firm Gartner. Akamai and Netli's combined managed services will focus on two important market segments: application delivery controllers and WAN optimization controllers, said Akamai, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The merged company will combine Netli's high-performance communications protocol with Akamai's global scale and its capabilities to reroute Internet traffic around points of congestion, Akamai said. The company will target large companies offering dynamic applications, such as customer portals, collaboration platforms, e-learning environments, and business-to-business commerce. The two companies "both emphasize leading-edge technology to help businesses deliver more effective, higher-performing online applications," Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai, said in a statement. Netli, based in Mountain View, California, has about 70 employees, and most of them would stay with Akamai, said Jeff Young, an Akamai spokesman. In November, Akamai announced plans to buy Nine Systems, a multimedia management service provider, in a stock and cash deal worth about $160 million.
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(InfoWorld) - Hoping to gain customers among fast-growing small businesses, Dell launched a storage array optimized for simple operation and low price on Monday . Dell unveiled the MD3000i, a SANÂ array that uses the iSCSI protocol so customers can connect it to their existing Ethernet networks instead of more expensive Fibre Channel, Dell CEO Michael Dell said in a webcast. Dell will have to battleÂ IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the rush to provide low-cost storage products for the SMB sector. Both companies have launched low-end versions of their storage systems this year. But Dell said on the webcast that competing products fall short of SMB needs because they are too complex. In the past, storage vendors have focused too closely on making products for large enterprises, assuming their customers have the sophisticated technical support departments to manage them, Dell said. In contrast, the MD3000i is designed to be simple to manage and will allow even small businesses to consolidate their server resources through virtualization. The product will also help small businesses manage the burgeoning amount of data that flows over the Internet and within organizations, without breaking their limited budgets for buying new hardware or hiring IT managers, he said. That makes the array a good fit for beta testersÂ like Tellurian Networks, a medical records hosting company, and Pennsylvania State University, which manages a host of small departments. Executives from both organizations spoke at the press conference. Dell is selling the MD3000i worldwide at prices beginning under $10,000 for an array supporting up to 16 host servers, room for expansion, and backup and recovery software. The system uses either SAS or SATA hard disk drives to store up to 18TB of data on 45 drives.
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Network Appliance has announced what it terms a key milestone in its Storage Grid vision with the release of its Data ONTAP 7G enterprise storage software, which the company is touting as bringing newer functionality and lower costs to the concept of
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Computer Associates is not messing around with its storage management software line. The company this month will upgrade all 13 versions of the BrightStor family, release a new product aimed at automating
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Company hopes increased storage will boost its format's fortunes.