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| AMHERST,
NEW YORK - February 21, 2007 - ATTO Technology, Inc. has been cited
as "well armed to win battles in the emerging SAS market" according
to a new product brief by the Enterprise Strategy Group. ESG gave ATTO's ExpressSAS RAID controller technology high marks for performance features and affordability and the broadest operating system support of any SAS RAID vendors "so interoperability issues aren't even a blip on users' radars." ATTO's new ExpressSAS RAID adapters have a true low-profile form factor that fits standard-length PCI Express slots and leverage Intel's new 800MHz PCIe IOP348 I/O Processors. Fault-tolerant features include:- hot swap, hot spares, online capacity expansion, battery back-up, and optimized disk utilization for SAS drives, SATA II drives, or any combination of the two. ...ATTO Technology profile, ...Enterprise Strategy Group profile, RAID controllers Incipient Scores with Network World's Editors WALTHAM, Mass. - February 21, 2007 - Network World has named Incipient's iNSP software suite, one of the "10 Best Products for Next-Generation Network Infrastructure." Network World editors and advisors selected the top 10 products deemed to offer the most innovative solutions to simplify today's "New Data Center." Incipient's software suite is a fully embedded switch-resident storage virtualization solution with enterprise-class scalability. Using it storage administrators can build SAN storage tiers with zero planned downtime. iNSP software abstracts the SAN data path, eliminating application downtime normally associated with data migrations and device reconfigurations. ...read the article, ...Incipient profile, SAN software AoE Towers Above iSCSI Rackmounts SAN CLEMENTE, Calif - February 21, 2007 – Coraid Inc. today announced it is introducing a tower configuration of its SR1521 EtherDrive Storage Appliance. The Coraid Storage Tower can hold up to 15 standard 3.5-inch SATA drives. Hard drives are hot swappable. The SR1521T is available now and is priced at US $4,495. Customers are able to buy disk drives of their choice. "Not all customers want rack mounted storage equipment, especially in an office environment. The newly configured SR1521T suits those customers that need powerful and scalable network storage readily available at the departmental level," said Coraid CEO Jim Kemp. "A single SR1521T EtherDrive Storage Appliance can provide 11.25TB of shared storage on the network, as your needs grow, you simply add more SR1521T's to the network using standard Ethernet." AoE is a block level storage protocol that is simpler to implement than other SAN technologies and at less cost than iSCSI and Fibre Channel solutions. AoE is a non-routed protocol, therefore eliminating the need for TCP/IP processing overhead or expensive network adapters. Servers simply connect to EtherDrive storage appliances using ordinary Ethernet connections. AoE is native in the Linux 2.6 kernel and software drivers are available for Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD. ...Coraid profile, Storage Boxes, NAS Molex Announces Fully Buffered DIMM Socket Lisle, IL - February 20, 2007 - Molex announces the new Fully Buffered DIMM (FB DIMM) Socket. Unlike the limited capacity of current shared bus architecture, the FB DIMM channel features a point-to-point serial memory interface that uses a bi-directional serial memory bus to pass data through each memory module to increase storage capacity and speed. "The market need for higher performance servers has doubled memory bit density every two years," said Paul Ee, senior product engineer, Molex. "At this rate, current shared bus architectures will not be able to support the increased size and memory capacity that is required. The Molex FB DIMM Socket handles this increased capacity at 6 times the current speed of DDR2 to meet customers' present and future high-end memory needs." ...Molex profile, RAM Aleratec Super Tower Duplicates 120 DVDs Per Hour CHATSWORTH, Calif - February 20, 2007 - Aleratec, Inc. unveils its new 11 way DVD duplicator. The new model can produce more than 120 typical DVDs per hour. The Super Copy Tower supports DVD-RAM and 8.5GB Double Layer technology. Also featured is a new removable 160GB hard disk drive for secure storage of frequently used source discs. Estimated street price is $1,999. ...Aleratec profile, DVD duplicators SiliconSystems Signs New European Distributors for SSDs ALISO VIEJO, Calif - February 20, 2007 - SiliconSystems, Inc. today announced the expansion of its European sales channel by signing agreements with 5 of Europe's top manufacturers representative organizations. The new reps, which have long-standing relationships in the Enterprise System OEM and embedded systems market include: ActiveComp in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland; Cedar Technologies Ltd in the UK and Republic of Ireland; Cedar Scandinavia AB in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden; IC-4S in Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain; and OVERTEK S.r.l. in Italy. Michael Hajeck, CEO at SiliconSystems said "European OEMs will now be able to take advantage of the design and application engineering expertise of our local sale channel partners to accelerate their design-in process for our high performance, high reliability SiliconDrive technology which provides them with the lowest total cost of storage ownership in the industry." ...SiliconSystems profile, UK Storage VARs, storage chips Adtron Ships 160G 2.5" SSDs Phoenix, AZ - February 20, 2007 - Adtron Corp today announced the immediate availability of 2.5" SSDs with upto 160GB capacity in its new Flashpak® Family. The Adtron products are available with IDE or SATA interfaces and deliver sustained read/write performance in the 70MB/sec range far exceeding the capabilities of rotating media (HDDs). Adtron's Flashpak SSDs also offer a broad range of security and sanitization functions "New geometries and chip densities in SLC NAND enable Adtron to significantly expand the capacities of its industry leading high performance products," stated Alan Fitzgerald, Adtron Chief Technology Officer. "In addition, the economics of these new flash drives combined with the increased capacities in standard form factors, greatly expand the applications among our historic flash disk customers in the industrial and defense markets, as well as addressing bandwidth intensive server and storage acceleration applications in a much broader emerging market previously the domain of HDD products." ...Adtron profile Hard Disk MTBF Specs Incredible - Say User Reports Editor:- February 20, 2007 - Researchers at Google recently published a paper at the recent Usenix conference about hard disk reliability and failure prediction - based on their own experiences as a large user of hard disk drives. The fascinating paper describes how Google measured available metrics and status reports generated by the drives themselves and how this correlated with actual failure patterns. One of the key insights in the report is Google's view of how useful SMART parameters were for predicting failures. "Our results are surprising, if not somewhat disappointing. Out of all failed drives, over 56% of them have no count in any of the four strong SMART signals, namely scan errors, reallocation count, offline reallocation, and probational count. In other words, models based only on those signals can never predict more than half of the failed drives... ...even when we add all remaining SMART parameters (except temperature) we still find that over 36% of all failed drives had zero counts on all variables." ...read the article, Hard disk drives, storage reliability PS - the measured data on the percentage of disks which fail each year over a 5 year cycle under various conditions is essential reading for disk to disk backup contingency planning. the Fastest Growing Storage Companies Editor:- February 19, 2007 - STORAGEsearch.com today published the 6th annual edition of - "the Fastest Growing Storage Companies." 2006 was the best year ever for cumulative storage revenue growth. That set the bar higher than ever for a listing in this popular feature. The top 3 fastest growing companies reported growth over 300%. ...read the article iGLASS Improves Response Times with SAS SSD Editor:- February 19, 2007 - Solid Access Technologies and LSI Logic have published an article study about the use of solid state disks by online network monitoring services company iGLASS. The article says that "Many customers are on the fence when budgeting and assessing SSD implementation. However, they evaluate the wrong metric, looking at cost per GB storage capacity when the relevant metric should be cost per IOPS." iGLASS Networks monitors over 7 million servers / devices in real-time for its own customers. By using Solid Access Technologies' SAS connected SSD iGLASS was able to reduce the number of of data gathering servers from 7 down to 4 and improve reliability while speeding up the generation of reports to its customers. ...read the article (pdf), ...Solid Access Technologies profile, ...LSI Logic profile, SAS SSDs NetApp Wants More of that Bloated (with Money) Feeling Editor:- February 16, 2007 - NetApp would like to be a $6 billion storage company - according to Dave's Blog. And they play serious management games to see how they might get there. The answer probably lies in what happens outside their company and outside their thinking - so it's unlikely they will acheive it even though they are a fast growing company - and a graph would suggest all they need to do is double revenue and then some. That won't happen with conventional thinking because most of NAS is going to change before that to a consumer market - and what's left for the enterprise will be a commodity market for crates of low cost white boxes. To get up to the next level of the top 10 biggest storage companies - means doing something clever with silicon storage. And I think that's a revolution too far for a company so long rooted in networking hard drives. The switch companies are already ahead of them there. ...Network Appliance profile PS - Megabyte would like to be taller and have a smaller stomach. But the genetic dice are loaded against him. I think that's what I'm saying about NetApp. It's better to be a good healthy mouse than a smelly dead rat. SanDisk Announces Layoffs and Salary Freeze Milpitas, CA - February 16, 2007 - SanDisk Corp today announced cost cutting measures. These include:- up to 10% reduction of headcount, a reduction in salaries for VPs and above and a freeze in salaries for all other employees. "Industry wide NAND component pricing has deteriorated by approximately 50% in the past two months due to excess supply... coupled with first quarter seasonally weak demand. This is impacting pricing for our retail and OEM products at a steeper rate than we had been anticipating and in order to maintain market share we now expect to lower Q1 prices for many of our products to 30%-40% below fourth quarter levels" said Chairman and CEO Eli Harari. ...SanDisk profile LSI Acquires More SAS RAID Glue MILPITAS, Calif - February 16, 2007 - LSI Logic Corp today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SiliconStor, Inc. The acquisition aligns with LSI's strategy to offer server and storage system customers complete solutions including IC controllers, ROC (RAID-on-Chip), expanders, RAID software, and HBAs for the fast growing SAS market. ...LSI Logic profile, ...SiliconStor profile, storage chips Solid Data Opens Up SSD Acceleration Articles Archive Editor:- February 16, 2007 - readers interested in viewing articles about SSDs but who (like me) regard signing up to read an online article as an unnecessary intrusion - may be interested to know that Solid Data Systems this week opened up its SSD archive. Solid Data's many articles span a period of about 10 years - and provide insights and tips into the type of applications and server environments which can benefit from SSD acceleration - also giving an indication of the speedup effects achieved in practise. ...Solid Data Systems profile Coraid Quadruples Revenue SAN CLEMENTE, CA – February 15, 2007 - Coraid, Inc. today announced it has ended its 2006 fiscal year with almost 4x the revenue over 2005. Coraid has experienced 6 consecutive quarters of profitability and growth. EtherDrive storage has been integrated into high performance, massively scalable networked storage solutions for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows-based environments. Coraid EtherDrive Storage products use standard Ethernet and the open AoE storage protocol to provide fast, low cost and scalable networked storage with none of the complexities, overhead or costs typically associated with iSCSI or Fibre Channel based systems. AoE eliminates the need for expensiveTCP/IP off-load Engine cards or Host Bus Adapters. Using AoE enables disks to be shared on a network, creating a highly scalable storage system at a low price. ...Coraid profile, Squeak! - the Fastest Growing Storage Companies | |||||||||||||||||
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