Adaptec to update entry-level NAS
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(InfoWorld) - Adaptec will soon refresh the low end of its Snap Server NAS (network attached storage) product line, releasing new systems that will use the same operating system and virtualization software as its higher-end products, company executives said. The new products will include the single-drive Snap Server 110, the two-drive Snap Server 210, and the four-drive, one rack-unit (1U) Snap Server 410, according to executives at Adaptec, a storage hardware and software vendor in Milpitas, California. The products are designed for use in remote offices, home offices, workgroups, and smaller business environments. Besides being based on new hardware, the new products will run the GuardianOS operating system used in the company's higher-end NAS products, said Demetri Christodoulou, country manager for Adaptec Australia. The current entry-level Snap Server products, the 1100, 2200, and 4100, run the SnapOS operating system. Those products will be replaced by the new entry-level systems, he said. Adding the high-end software to low-end products could help users by providing better interoperability among their Snap Server systems. It could also benefit Adaptec, by helping it to reduce its costs and sell more equipment to enterprises customers, who would benefit from the interoperability. Since they will all run the GuardianOS, even the lowest end Snap Server will now integrate directly with Active Directory, said Neil Cameron, field application engineer at Adaptec Australia. The company will also standardize its synchronization software across its Snap Servers, removing the S2S Synchronization in favor of the Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (EDR). âWe need to bring all the disparate parts of Adaptec into a line, into working with one another,â Cameron said. Adaptec, which had decided last year to pull out of the systems business, announced in July that it would retain the Snap Server line of block and file storage systems as it saw new growth opportunities from those products. The Snap Server became part of Adaptecâs product line after itÂ acquired Snap ApplianceÂ in July 2004. The new entry-level products, which will start at $500, will no longer be expandable. The company does not see a lot of customer interest in expandability in the low-cost, entry-level market, according to Christodoulou. The 110 will come in 80GB, 160GB, 250GB, and 500GB capacities, the 210 will ship with 250GB and 500GB capacities, while the 410 will have up to 640GB of capacity, Cameron said. Adaptec is also working with VARs (value added resellers) who will integrate its software, called OnTarget, with third-party hardware to sell an IP (Internet Protocol) SAN product, Christodoulou said. The software will allow VARs to deploy storage as part of an iSCSI SAN, he said. It's a revision of an earlier IP SAN product from Adaptec, the iSA1500 storage array, but will have better software and better mirroring and synchronization capabilities, Cameron said.
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iomega Corporation , a global leader in data storage, today announced the release of the new Iomega(R) NAS 100d entry-level network-attached storage (NAS) server.
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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.Systems capable of that scale will be available beginning in the middle of this year, according to the company. The increased performance will be made possible in part through the company&#39;s recently announced Compress Engine, for advanced compression, according to Netezza. The new systems will also support multiterabyte per hour data-loading, the company said.Netezza, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, has regularly announced performance improvements since launching its appliance in 2002. That initial version could handle up to 6TB of data, according to the company. That leapfrogged to 27TB in 2004 and 100TB in 2005, Netezza said.&quot;We have a number of customers who are now at or approaching that upper range,&quot; said Phil Francisco, the company&#39;s director of product marketing.Francisco said the new systems will preserve the company&#39;s existing pricing model. Low-end systems start below $200,000 and scale up from there, with support coming at additional cost, he said.Richard Winter, a consultant with Winter Corp. in Waltham, Massachusetts, said the BI market is ripe for more powerful data-crunching products. &quot;Every time you turn around you see another industry that&#39;s facing a tidal wave of data and they need to understand what this data is saying,&quot; he said. &quot;Many of them have data volumes in this range that they haven&#39;t been able to afford to analyze, as much as they&#39;d like to. ... [Netezza] can deliver that analytic capability, and at a very attractive price.&quot;James Kobielus, an analyst with Forrester Research, said Netezza is now aiming for the highest end of the data warehousing market, going after the likes of Teradata.&quot;Being able to scale up to a petabyte in context of an NPS deployment will go a long way toward getting Netezza in that inner circle of vendors,&quot; he said.The company may face certain problems of perception when attempting to poach such vendors&#39; customers, however. &quot;Their chief challenge is the fact that they&#39;re a startup,&quot; Kobielus said. &quot;They&#39;re definitely not as old and mature as the IBMs and Teradatas.&quot;Netezza also may have limited appeal to customers that would prefer a one-stop shopping approach for their BI-data warehousing needs. Instead, Netezza has partnered with BI vendors such as Business Objects.In addition, heightened competition may be around the corner for the firm, according to the analysts.&quot;Over the course of the year you&#39;ll also see some appliance-type offerings from the major players like Teradata and Oracle,&quot; Winter said. &quot;They&#39;ll compete down the road.&quot;Kobielus said he sees Microsoft making a particularly strong push in coming months.&quot;I am confident Microsoft will have some really important announcements this year,&quot; he said. &quot;Definitely look out for those guys.&quot;
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Freeline range to serve content to Streamium AV kit
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Storage Expo Do you want a SAN or a SANity check?
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Emulex has introduced a new entry-level line of SANÂ  switch products designed for small and midsize businesses and small departmental SAN applications in a large enterprise.Â  The new line has already been adopted by IBM for its recently introduced TotalStorage DS400, an entry-level Fibre Channel storage array announced last week.
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McData plans to introduce a new SAN router this week designed to connect the growing number of isolated SAN networks in corporations.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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Here are 10 storage utilities you can download and start using to manage your storage-area network (SAN), deploy network-attached storage (NAS) or monitor and assess the privacy of your network.
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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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(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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Vendor offers server, switch, and host-channel adapter bundle with increased I/O bandwidth, processing capability, and memory. By Larry Greenemeier.
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Latest PECL Releases:sam 0.2.0PDO_IBM 1.0.0SCA_SDO 1.1.0zip 1.8.1
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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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(Source: Network Appliance)  Microsoft Exchange Server has evolved into a critical application for many companies. Legacy storage infrastructures based on traditional direct-attached storage (DAS) are insufficient for meeting service level requirements associated with data availability, recoverability, manageability, and scalability.  Leveraging an iSCSI-based storage network, Snapshot&trade; technology-based recovery mechanisms, and storage virtualization technologies provides an appropriate infrastructure for meeting the increasingly demanding requirements of Exchange - at a cost structure appropriate for Microsoft Windows&reg; environments.
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Delivering the capabilities of traditional EAI products within a light-footprint, standards-based infrastructure supporting incremental integration
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(InfoWorld) - Storage appliance maker EqualLogicÂ says its newest product improves performance by doing a better job of balancing the data load between storage arrays in a network. EqualLogic Tuesday introduced the PS3900XV, the third model in the PS3000 line that debuted in September 2006. The product is a SAS (serial attached SCSIS) array and is designed to store data from high-demand applications such as OracleÂ or MicrosoftÂ SQL databases or the Microsoft Exchange messaging and collaboration platform. SCSI stands for small computer system interface, an industry protocol for transferring data between computers. Like the previous PS3800VX the 3900 operates at up to 15,000 rpm but features larger storage capacity, 4.8TB, versus 2.3TB for the 3800. EqualLogic says its SCSI storage array can support more end users but still require less storage capacity based on the FC (Fibre Channel) protocol for transferring data, which is faster and has higher capacity than SCSI, said John Joseph, vice president of marketing for EqualLogic. "There is a lot of concern in the industry about 1GB [SCSI] Ethernet and how it competes against 4GB FC. Well, the wire is not the bottleneck," said Joseph. EqualLogic says it moves data faster across its storage arrays by automatically balancing the load between storage devices. "We are able to load balance the workload ... without the user ever having to click on a window to reconfigure or rebalance or retune or do anything manually," he said. GartnerÂ forecasts that SCSI unit shipments will surpass those of FC in 2008 and continue to grow faster. Even though FC offers better performance than SCSI, SCSI is cheaper and is a more well known protocol, said Stanley Zaffos, vice president and research director for Gartner. SCSI unit growth will be strongest in the SMB market as these companies' storage needs grow, said Zaffos. According to 2006 research from IDC, EqualLogic holds a 19 percent market share for SCSI disks based on units shipped, second only to Network Appliance. It also competes with storage startups like LeftHand Networks and Nexsan Technologies. The PS3900XV, which begins shipping in March, carries a list price of $67,000, although Joseph said it will be more expensive in international markets.
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Apple today announced a major upgrade to Xsan, its enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) file system for Mac OS X. Xsan 2 represents the first upgrade since the original product was released in 2005.