Drobo storage box gets NAS add-on
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'Infinitely expandable' capacity now on the network Data Robotics' Drobo may have a daft name, but it's a clever take on expandable external storage. And today, it became a NAS box too, courtesy of a clip-on network adaptor.â¦
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OCTOBER 26, 2004 (NETWORK WORLD) - Installing and configuring storage-area network technology has gotten simpler as companies such as Dell Inc.
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com November 12, 2004, 8:58 AM PT. Organizations are replacing aging servers with newer more-powerful boxes, often Linux--based, and theyâre also investing in storage.
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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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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.
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com November 8, 2004, 4:29 PM PT. Organizations are replacing aging servers with newer more-powerful boxes, often Linux--based, and theyâre also investing in storage.
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Iomega on Friday introduced a new network-attached storage appliance for Windows networks in small and midsized businesses. The Iomega NAS 400r incorporates Serial ATA drives and uses Microsoft&#39;s Windows Storage Server 2003 technology.
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A new DVD-based storage appliance is aimed at making archiving data faster and retrieving it easier.
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Among the âpretty sweet new featuresâ that distinguish Xsan 2, Chris Foresman  points to the new MultiSAN feature, which âgives simultaneous access to multiple volumes that are hosted by separate controllers.â Xsan 2 âalso allows file copies from one SAN volume to another directly over FibreChannel for a significant speed boost.â In addition, Foresman points to the redesigned admin tools that simplify setup and to Xsan 2âs tighter integration with Open Directory, Mac OS X Leopard, and Server Assistant on Leopard server.
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But it's all a Dell plot, say high-end rivals. The Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) working group (www.sbb.org) is to release version one of the SBB spec next week. This defines standard electromechanics for the controller modules that go into stuff such as disk arrays.â¦
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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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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems's Linksys division thinks SMBs should have some of the same features enterprises get, such as backup power and virtualization, when they attach storage to their networks. On Monday, the company rolled out its first NAS products for businesses, filling a need it found in smaller organizations when it started investigating the technology about two years ago, said Ivor Diedricks, a senior product marketing manager. The rollout includes two lines of NAS chassis, ranging in price from $999.99 to $2,499.99. NAS is common in enterprises and a fledgling category in consumer electronics, but neither of those types of gear suits enterprises with between five and 100 users, Diedricks said. The company's goal was to key capabilities of the large-enterprise systems into products that are affordable to SMBs. Linksys' well-known parent also serves some enterprises in that five-to-100-user range, Diedricks said. But those companies generally have an in-house IT staff and want a direct support relationship with Cisco, whereas Linksys customers generally turn to resellers for management and support. The NAS products are available with an optional redundant power supply unit to keep the NAS units running in case of a power outage as well as standard on-disk encryption, a system within the chassis for encrypting data. With on-disk encryption, disks can be taken out and moved, and the data will stay secure, Diedricks said. Linksys introduced four NSS (Network Storage System) chassis, each with four drive bays. The NSS6000 includes some advanced features that are not in the NSS4000, notably virtualization capability, Diedricks said. This feature lets a business organize more than one NAS chassis into a single virtual volume. An NSS4000 can be part of one of these virtual volumes, but the NSS6000 is required to run virtualization. Also, the NSS6000 can handle 75 simultaneous users, while the NSS4000 is limited to 15. Both the NSS4000 and NSS6000 also are available in versions that already include a set of 250GB RAID drives for a total capacity of 1TB. Also Monday, Linksys introduced its first stackable switches for SMBs. The devices are designed to help enterprises expand their networks as they grow. As many as eight can be stacked together and managed as one switch, and an optional redundant power supply can keep a stack of as many as six running in case of an outage. The switches range from a 24-port 10/100M bps device with four Gigabit Ethernet ports and two interfaces for fiber Gigabit links to an all-Gigabit Ethernet switch with four fiber interfaces and Power over Ethernet to run VoIP phones and other devices. They all have quality-of-service features to support VoIP. Estimated street prices range from $409.99 to $999.99.
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Consolidated backup and archiving not a Herculean effort NEC of America is rolling out the first product based on its HYDRAstor grid storage platform this week, offering a high-tier system for businesses looking to cram backup and archive data into a single system.â¦
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According to Jim Dalrymple , one of the goals for Xsan 2 was to make it easier for customers to set up a storage area network (SAN). âOne of the ways Apple has accomplished this is with the SAN Setup Assistant, which is integrated into Mac OS X Leopard Server or as an application that can be run on its own.â  âThe setup assistant, Dalryple explains, does âall the heavy lifting for you, setting up everything including Open Directory permissions.â
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4.8TB in one array - but are these drives getting too big? IP-based storage is thoroughly enterprise-ready, claimed iSCSI specialist EqualLogic as it doubled the capacity of its high-end SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) storage box with almost no change in price.â¦
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EMC is rolling out a new Clariion A4X storage system for small- and medium-size businesses that scales up to 60TB. The array mixes SAS and SATA drives, so users can set up a tiered storage system for both critical data and less important data to be stored on the disk best suited for the task.
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Clever 'perpendicular recording system' boosts storage capacity