June 2008
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June 30, 2008
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Jun'08
Friction grows between storage vendors, VMware
As the booming server virtualization market spawns new competitors to VMware, how virtual machines connect with storage is becoming a matter of contention among vendors. Continue Reading
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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
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June 30, 2008
30
Jun'08
QLogic gives 8 Gbit capability to SANbox 9000 FC switch
Despite speculation, QLogic isn't killing the SANBox 9000 Fibre Channel switch. It has, however, given up trying to compete as an enterprise director and is setting its sites on SMBs. Continue Reading
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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
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June 27, 2008
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Jun'08
Brocade still a fan (not FAN) of software
Although Brocade has a lot on its connectivity plate these days as it transitions to 8-Gbps FC switches, plots its move to FCoE and gets into the HBA game, it still has plans for its fledgling ... Continue Reading
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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
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June 26, 2008
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Jun'08
Litigation update: Sun 1, NetApp 0
According to a blog posted today by Sun's general counsel Mike Dillon, at least one of the patent-infringment counts is off the table in court, after the US Patent Office (PTO) granted a ... Continue Reading
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June 26, 2008
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Jun'08
Dot Hill gives Fibre Channel arrays DC power option
DC power supplies now available with Dot Hill's 5730 Fibre Channel storage arrays; Virtual Machine ediiton of Exanodes software creates virtual SANs; Sepaton adds data dedupe software to VTL. Continue Reading
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June 26, 2008
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Jun'08
Brocade waves caution flag for Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Brocade says it will take at least three years for FCoE to emerge as a viable enterprise storage option, while rival Cisco expects FCoE deployment in the next year or two. Continue Reading
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June 26, 2008
26
Jun'08
Storage administrators wary of SSD deployment
Don't expect hard drives to disappear from enterprise storage just yet. Users say they will take a wait-and-see approach before implementing any new storage medium, and vendors are split whether to put the SSDs in servers or disk arrays. Continue Reading
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June 25, 2008
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Jun'08
Nirvanix readying cloud-based NAS
Startup Nirvanix today unveiled CloudNAS, which will combine Nirvanix software agents with Linux or Windows servers at the customer site to offer standard NAS storage in the cloud. Until now, ... Continue Reading
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June 25, 2008
25
Jun'08
The enterprise and open-source storage
Jesse at SanGod wrote an interesting post the other day entitled "Enterprise storage vs....not." I have a cousin. Very well-to-do man, owns a company that does something with storing and providing ... Continue Reading
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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
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June 25, 2008
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Jun'08
Tek-Tools adds path reporting on VMware and VTL
With Tek-Tools' updated Profiler software, admins can map individual VMware guest hosts to networks and storage, and monitor secondary disk usage on VTLs. Continue Reading
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June 24, 2008
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Jun'08
Email archiving FAQ podcast
Stephen Foskett, director of data practice with Contoural, discusses email archiving in this podcast. Continue Reading
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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
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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
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June 23, 2008
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Jun'08
Yahoo, I hardly knew ye
I've watched the story unfold about Microsoft and Yahoo, but from a removed perspective because it has little to do with the storage industry and when it comes to most things Web-based and search ... Continue Reading
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June 23, 2008
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Jun'08
Symantec’s SwapDrive: $500 a year for 2 GB?
I wasn't convinced at first when an alert blog reader flagged an error in my previous posts about Symantec and SwapDrive: a comment from "kataar" pointed out that yearly, SwapDrive actually ... Continue Reading
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June 23, 2008
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Jun'08
Data Domain, Mimosa add data compliance capabilities
Data Domain looks beyond backup with file-locking software; Mimosa opens its email archiving application to partners, so compliance vendors can add e-discovery and search features. Continue Reading