The Planet Offers Enterprise-Level Performance and Storage for SMBs With New Server Launch
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The Planet, now the world's largest privately  held dedicated hosting company, today announced the availability of the  Dell PowerEdge 2900 based on Intel's new  Clovertown quad-core technology. The new systems offer customers one of  the most powerful servers in the industry.
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HP is the latest to offer a server-storage product targeted to small- to mid-size businesses.
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(Source: BlueArc)  BlueArc's Titan architecture is a revolutionary step for file servers, by implementing a hardware accelerated file system that can scale throughput, IOPs and capacity well beyond conventional software-based file servers. Through the world's first hardware-based file system, Titan can virtualize a storage pool with greater than 250 terabytes capacity, and can scale with expanding requirements. This technical white paper analyzes the technical details behind Titan's architecture to best assist technical readers to understand the system's unique design and framework.
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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today announced that the ETERNUS(R)4000 Model 500 storage system achieved the top position with the Storage Performance Council (SPC) in two benchmarks for mid-range disk array performance.
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IBM has unveiled two new enterprise-class storage arrays which, despite being aimed at different markets, can be managed through a single interface and data can be replicated between them.
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IBM on Wednesday unveiled the next major upgrade of its WebSphere application server, which focuses on better performance and ease of use, instead of dramatically new functionality.
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OCTOBER 15, 2004  - IBM today unveiled two high-performance p5 servers in its eServer line. The new servers run Unix or Linux and are aimed at medium to large businesses.
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IBM has released a new low-cost eServer BladeCenter chassis and a unique set of &quot;business-in-a-box&quot; solutions to help lower the cost and speed the time it takes for SMBs to purchase, deploy, and implement blade servers.
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IBM last Friday announced that it will release a low-price disk server aimed at midsize companies that want to establish storage area networks.
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New products include slightly faster mainstream models and new lower-power server chips.
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The new machines support service oriented architecture and virtualization.
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As small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) save more data and rely on it more, they are turning to networked storage even under the burden of limited budgets and IT expertise.Regulatory requirements, more sophisticated applications and reliance on Web-based supply chains all are forcing small businesses to collect and store more information, according to IDC analyst Rick Villars. They may not have enough data to fill an enterprise-class storage system today, but they want systems that let them add more capacity as they grow, he said.EMC is aiming at this growing market with its Clariion AX4, a platform that can scale from a few terabytes of storage to 60TB and take advantage of many advanced EMC storage management applications designed for large enterprises. The company was set to announce and ship it Tuesday.Swervepoint, a provider of promotional gifts in Middleton, Mass., has less than 1TB of data between its two locations but wants to be able to add storage capacity without buying new servers.&quot;We should buy our servers for the server qualities and buy storage for our server needs,&quot; said Kevin Phoenix, principal in charge of operations and administration.The 15-employee company&#39;s main concerns about networked storage are cost and complexity, and the AX4 eased those worries, Phoenix said. Swervepoint, which counts EMC as one of its own clients, has been a beta tester of the AX4 and purchased a unit. It came with management software that was easy to use, said Phoenix, who said he handles IT for the company but is not an IT specialist.The AX4 comes with at least 3TB of storage and can be expanded by stringing together as many as five systems with 12 drives each. Each AX4 can be ordered with either a Fibre Channel or a iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) connection, meeting demand for IP (Internet Protocol) connectivity among SMBs, according to Barry Ader, senior director of Clariion marketing at EMC. Smaller companies tend not to have expertise with Fibre Channel, which is typically used in large enterprises, he said. On the AX4, there is no price difference between the two interface options.The systems will come with 750GB drives at first, but 1TB drives will be available starting in March, opening the door to the AX4&#39;s top-end storage capacity of 60TB, Ader said. Within the full AX4 system and even within each enclosure, users can mix and match SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drives. Companies can use management tools including snapshot, failover, business continuity and Microsoft Exchange replication capability with the AX4.By mixing SAS and SATA drives, users can set up a tiered storage system in which the more critical data is on better-performing, more expensive SAS drives and less critical on lower-performance SATA disks, said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT. Support for enterprise-class software is another benefit of the AX4, which goes up against SMB storage products from competitors including Network Appliance and Equalogic, King said. In particular, its support for virtualization software from EMC&#39;s VMware subsidiary appears to be stronger than in competing products, King said.
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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Company releases revamped version of server software for linking Windows servers to mainframes, other large computers.
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Sybase has entered the cluster-database market with Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition.
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International Business Machines Corp  on Sunday announced a new computer server using its Power5 microprocessor tuned for the popular Linux operating system, as the No. 1 computer maker aims to broaden the adoption of Linux in broader corporate computing markets.
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Mtron is launched new solid-state disk drives later this year with 120M Bps read and 90M bps write speed performance.