June 2008

• June 30, 2008 30 Jun'08

  Atempo, Nirvanix offer cloud-based file archiving

  Atempo is trying to strum up new business in the Storage as a Service market for its Atempo Digital Archiving (ADA) file archiving software through a partnership with cloud storage startup Nirvanix. The agreement makes ADA one of the few integrated ...  Continue Reading

• June 30, 2008 30 Jun'08

  Overland buys Snap Server NAS family from Adaptec

  By acquiring the SMB NAS Snap Server product line from Adaptec, Overland looks to move away from making tape backup its primary business.  Continue Reading

• June 27, 2008 27 Jun'08

  Data storage security issues for SMBs

  Federal compliance is as complex for the SMB as it is for the large enterprise. This tip discusses how your business can implement a secure business and technology storage environment to ensure it meets the required standards.  Continue Reading

• June 25, 2008 25 Jun'08

  Solid-state drives quiz

  While solid-state disk (SSD) devices offer faster speeds and consume less power than hard disks, the high price of solid-state memory has kept the devices confined to limited use in the data center. Storage professionals are now seeing more ...  Continue Reading

• June 24, 2008 24 Jun'08

  How to boot from a SAN

  Not too long ago, the idea of storing a server's operating system on the SAN was treated with skepticism. Now, with the growing adoption of iSCSI storage, some SMBs moving to networked storage are reconsidering having their servers boot from shared ...  Continue Reading

• June 24, 2008 24 Jun'08

  Proofpoint buys email archiving SaaS provider Fortiva

  Proofpoint is the latest security and storage vendor to fish from a teeming pond of smaller email archiving companies.  Continue Reading

• June 20, 2008 20 Jun'08

  For an SMB, what are the advantages and disadvantages of an in-house email archiving system vs. a ho

  There are a lot of pros and cons for both at all business sizes. But SMBs tend to be more price and administration sensitive. In other words, if you are a company that has an annual IT budget from $10,000 to $100,000, you simply can not go out and ...  Continue Reading

• June 20, 2008 20 Jun'08

  Who are the major players in the hosted email archiving space?

  Certainly most hosting providers have their own hosting solution. Nearly every data center provider that I've met with has a host solution based on one of the in-house solutions you might buy. For example, if you're really keen on buying Symantec ...  Continue Reading

• June 19, 2008 19 Jun'08

  How to create Tier 0 storage by leveraging solid-state drive technology

  With prices of solid-state drive (SSD) technology dropping, companies are starting to use SSD technology in a high-performance tier of storage called Tier 0.  Continue Reading

• June 18, 2008 18 Jun'08

  Xiotech dumps Daticon to embrace Emprise

  I had a technology demo Tuesday with Xiotech, where they showed off their new baby, the Emprise storage system. A technology demo might seem like a worse fate than death to most, but I appreciate ...  Continue Reading

• June 17, 2008 17 Jun'08

  Best practices for getting the most out of an iSCSI SAN

  One best practice overrides all others when deploying an iSCSI SAN. An IT organization must separate the storage traffic, physically or logically, from the ordinary LAN traffic.  Continue Reading

• June 17, 2008 17 Jun'08

  iSCSI SAN solutions getting boost by shared storage, virtual servers

  Enterprises are increasingly considering iSCSI SANs for departmental applications, server workloads that aren't bandwidth-intensive, and virtual servers. In fact, the connection between shared storage and virtualized servers is changing the iSCSI ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  Symantec to build clustered NAS for cloud computing

  At a Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server roadmap session at Vision on Thursday, a Symantec exec revealed it will be coming out with its own clustered NAS system, based on the next ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  Q&A with Symantec about SwapDrive

  After Symantec confirmed its acquisition of backup SaaS partner SwapDrive on Wednesday, I sent out some questions to Symantec. Here are the responses I got back from a spokesperson: How will ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  What are the drawbacks of using content-addressable storage (CAS) for archiving?

  There are the likely suspects like cost, capacity, power and cooling because there is more data online than you have in alternative archiving solutions like tape. Some people discussed the performance limitations of CAS, but CAS was not designed to ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  What are the alternatives to content-addressable storage (CAS) that address the same problems?

  Tape is one. But SMBs that are forced to deal with increased accessibility and multiple retention periods with a long-term archive have found that tape storage is not feasible. SMBs will likely be deterred from choosing CAS as a media of choice for ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  What is content-addressable storage (CAS), and how does it work?

  Content-addressable storage (CAS) is a way of storing information that can be retrieved based on its content, instead of its storage location. It's typically used for long-term storage and retrieval of fixed content, like documents stored with ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  Who offers content-addressable storage?

  Probably the most well known is EMC, with its Centera platform that has had more than 4,500 customers to date. It has been out since about 2002. The other big players have jumped into the CAS pool; IBM with the DR550 and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) ...  Continue Reading

• June 13, 2008 13 Jun'08

  Effects studio calls on Titan NAS storage to make Incredible Hulk

  Visual effects studio turns to BlueArc's Titan storage system to handle special effects for the movie The Incredible Hulk.  Continue Reading

• June 12, 2008 12 Jun'08

  A guide to storage virtualization

  Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Without a guide to explain the different storage virtualization solutions, storage administrators who want to deploy this technology will be lost.  Continue Reading