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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.
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.
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.
Riverbed Technology is extending its product portfolio in the storage area with the launch of ‘Atlas’ in the first half of 2009. Atlas, designed to improve the efficiency of enterprise storage, is a stateless, diskless gateway appliance that logically sits in between the primary storage device and the data center Steelhead. Atlas is a transparent solution. Customers can continue to leverage the existing storage network and infrastructure. It aims at addressing one of the critical issues in IT operations - the exploding amounts of storage.
Idera has announced the upcoming release of its Pointbackup™ product, a powerful, easy to use backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SharePoint sites and site collections. It enables administrators to ensure the safety and integrity of vital SharePoint content by automating the backup and recovery process. A powerful and flexible scheduling engine enables automation of backup operations, ensuring that vital content is backed up regularly. Pointbackup saves storage costs by employing powerful compression technology. This reduces backup file sizes by as much as 95 percent.
Plasmon has re-launched its RAID product, courtesy of NetApp, with Plasmon’s software providing a two-tiered storage capability with online disk and online optical archival UDO drives - which can be taken off-site. The new NetArchive product integrates NetApp RAID technologies with Plasmon’s Archive Appliance and data management software to allow customers to provision data within NetArchive according to its unique storage requirements. It’s policy-driven with data moving automatically between the NetApp storage and the archival drives.
Seagate Technology has unveiled a network hard drive that allows families to back up their media collection. The Maxtor Central Axis network drive provides up to one terabyte of storage which can be linked to multiple computers in a home, to allow for video, photo and music files to be centrally backed-up. Automatic back-up of the computer on the network can also be carried out by the Maxtor Central Axis network drive, removing the responsibility from the user to save data on the second system.
(SAN) systems, along with TimeScale(R) GeoRep software. The new storage systems and software will support the college’s move to a virtualized server environment, while ensuring student, faculty and administrative files are available and protected from natural and unnatural events.
NetApp’s NetApp® FAS series storage systems has been named 2008 “Products of the Year” in the Networked Storage category by eWeek Channel Insider. The NetApp FAS storage systems offer a single unified architecture across all tiers of storage and allow customers to readily consolidate direct-attached storage (DAS) for virtualized servers into a single networked solution and scale on demand. The systems offer unmatched business agility, superior application uptime, simplicity of management, and breakthrough value for enterprise customers. The eWeek Channel Insider 2008 Product of the Year is the latest in a string of honors this year for NetApp FAS systems. Earlier this year, the NetApp FAS2000 series was named the winner of the Silver Award in the Disk and Disk Subsystems category of the Storage magazine SearchStorage.com “2007 Products of the Year” awards, and the FAS2020 was named “Best Unified Storage Solution of the Year” by InfoWorld.