IBM invigorates LTO tape storageÂ
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LTO (linear tape open)-based drives are invigorating the tape storage market. New third-generation LTO drives from Certance and IBM are powering the trend.
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IBM, one of the key leaders in the enterprise server market, annouced two additions to its family of high storage products yesterday.
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With the proclamation that it intends to overtake EMC as the top enterprise storage supplier, IBM announced today the DS6000, a disk storage system slightly bigger than a VCR, and the TotalStorage
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IBM is the latest storage giant to step up efforts to woo IT buyers, promising partitioning capabilities cribbed from its mainframe heritage, as well as space-saving formats and better server connectivity.
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IBM wants to topple the world&#39;s leader in computer storage technology with a new shoe-box sized disk system developed at IBM Storage Systems Divisions in Tucson.
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IBM recently unveiled the TotalStorage DS6000, a roughly VCR-size system aimed at mid-size businesses. The new DS8000 series system features IBM Power5 microprocessors and IBM&#39;s Virtualization
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IBM on Tuesday bolstered its storage portfolio with several new systems, including a product the vendor says packs the power of a larger system but is about the size of a couple of pizza boxes.
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Storage networking via iSCSI gets a data transfer boost from the addition of InfiniBand high-speed communication technlogy.
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(InfoWorld) - Quantum introduced a disk storage appliance Monday that could both appeal to enterprise customers and improve its partnerships with other storage vendors. Quantum's DXi7500 is an integrated data deduplication, disk backup, and tape archiving device, also called a VTL (virtual tape library), that is a complement to the smaller DXi3500 and DXi5500 modelsÂ Quantum introduced in December 2006. The DXi7500 offers up to 240TB of disk storage capacity, versus 4.2TB and 11TB for the 3500 and 5500, respectively. A terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes of data. The new model also has a healthy appetite for data, deduplicating and saving it to disk at the rate of 8TB per hour. The DXi7500 would serve an enterprise by taking data already deduplicated by the smaller DX appliances at remote offices of a company and deduplicating it further, said Mike Sparkes, product manager for disk systems at Quantum. Deduplication is the software-based process of searching through data and eliminating multiple copies of files so that less data needs to be saved to disk storage. The Quantum system also creates a backup tape copy of that data, which is stored for archiving purposes. The system eliminates the need for tape backup at remote locations, which can be difficult for limited staffs there to manage. "Suddenly, you get to retain two or three months of backup data instead of two or three days," said Sparkes. "Instead of just being a buffer to tape, which VTLs have usually been, it becomes more of a permanent repository of backup data." The DXi7500 also gives enterprise storage managers the option of using either the in-line or post-process approach to saving to disk. With the in-line approach, data is transferred from a production server to the disk storage appliance for deduplication, but that is a time-consuming process that ties up the server, preventing it from doing more computing. The post-process approach moves data off the server quickly so the server can get back to work, but requires additional capacity in the storage appliance to hold all that data while it deduplicates it. Giving storage administrators a choice is welcome, said Robert Amatruda, research manager at IDC. "What they are doing is to provide some flexibility for the customers." VTLÂ technology is a nascent market, Amatruda said. IDC forecasts market revenue to grow to $4.1 billion by 2011 and for the amount of data stored in VTL systems to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 47.4 percent over the same period. Quantum can leverage the DXi7500 to strengthen existing ties with OEMs, such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and others, said Greg Schulz, founder of Storage I/O Group, an industry research and consulting firm. "Quantum sells a turnkey solution, which means for an OEM that they can just put their logo on it andÂ rebadge it, and people will buy it knowing it's a Quantum-based product," said Schulz.
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IBM says it has found the answer: New technology that squeezes more memory onto a slice of silicon. By the Associated Press.
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When is tape virtualisation true tape virtualisation? Fujitsu Siemens Computers is taking its CentricStor virtual tape appliance to midsize users, introducing two entry-level models with a mere 2.7TB of caching disk each and the ability to connect to one tape library and up to four physical tape drives.â¦
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Small and midsize businesses still like tape storage, says Quantum, introducing a new tape library.
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New device offers 1TB of storage, can record seven channels simultaneously.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
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OCTOBER 18, 2004  - NEW YORK -- IBM last week unveiled two new enterprise-class disk arrays. One is aimed at the high end and one at midrange environments, but both have compatible software
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By 2012, disk drives will surpass tape cartridges in external capacity, according to the figures from Enterprise Strategy Group
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Big Blue is the latest to embrace iSCSI, a protocol increasingly being used to build low-cost storage area networks.