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StrataScale has announced the availability of a new managed server environment that gives users on-demand control of automated server and storage provisioning via the Web. The new offering, dubbed IronScale, is an automated managed server hosting environment designed to provision and re-provision entire IT environments with a few mouse clicks. The approach is slightly different from some other managed services because it relies on physical servers rather than virtual machines. The IronScale non-virtual, dedicated-server environment offers users the benefits of both physical and virtual infrastructures by automating the provisioning of servers and storage.
Sun Microsystems Inc. has unveiled its first JBOD storage appliances, calling them an expansion of its Open Storage initiative. The new Sun Storage J4000 product line of JBOD (just a bunch of disks, or non-RAID storage) appliances compete is a greenfield opportunity for Sun, which has never had a stand-alone JBOD offering, said Ray Austin, group manager of storage product management for the vendor. The new offerings, Sun Storage J4200, Sun Storage J4400 and Sun Storage J4500, are currently available.
Seagate Technologies Inc. has launched a 300-GB 2.5-inch hard drive for computer servers and storage arrays. The Savvio 10K.3, which is more than double the capacity of its predecessor, consumes 70% less power and can hold more information than traditional 3.5-inch drives. The drive has a speed of 10,000 revolutions per minute. In addition, the product has a reliability rating of 1.6 million hours, which is the mean time between failures, and a SAS 2.0 interface, which delivers a data rate of 6 Gbps. The drive also has government-grade full disk encryption data protection.
Netgear Technologies has announced the availability of the industry s first six-bay desktop network-attached storage solution (NAS) for small- and medium-sized businesses. The product is designed to meet the centralized network storage upto 200-user SMBs. 5TB (RNDP6350), 3TB (RNDP6310), and 6TB (RNDP6610) broadening the company s already existing ReadyNAS product portfolio. ReadyNAS Pro, the newest member of the ReadyNAS product family, provides up to 6TB of network-attached storage, enabling users across the LAN or WAN to store, back up and share digital data from a combination of Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms.
Advanced Media Inc. has announced that FryÕs Electronics now carries its Ridata 233x Lightning Series CompactFlash cards, apart from the Ridata award-winning Turbo Series 16GB/32GB SATA SSD that the store already carries. The capacity of CompactFlash cards range from 4GB to 32GB. Proving size does matter in memory cards, these cards boast some of the largest capacities and fastest transfer rates available. 32GB 233X Lightning Series CompactFlash card delivers the faster read and write times and larger capacities for more sophisticated devices.
ATTO Technology Inc. has announced that its Celerity FC-84EN, FC-82EN, and FC-81EN Fibre Channel Host Adapters have been verified by Brocade Communications Systems Inc. as compatible with Brocade-based Storage Area Networking (SAN) infrastructure, according to the testing requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready Program. The program is an initiative designed to foster interoperability in multi-vendor Brocade-based data center environments. Testing was conducted at the Brocade Data Center Ready labs, which are state-of-the-art facilities supporting end-to-end interoperability and performance testing of SAN products in multi-vendor and large fabric environments.
Nexsan Technologies’ SATABeast disk-based backup and fixed content storage product with AutoMAID was awarded the Green Product of the Year. AutoMAID is Nexsan’s own enhancement of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disk) technology that places disk drives into several levels of energy savings without compromising application performance. This powerful combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to lower the cost of owning storage. In cooperation with Channel partner NCE Computer Group, Nexsan also picked up the Green Project of the Year award as the storage backbone of an overall 100 TB plus solution provided to the Honda Racing F1 Team.