Time for a Data
Recovery ORG?
Editor:- August 14, 2008 - there are plenty of
Storage Industry Trade
Associations - but one subject which has not been adequately covered is
Data Recovery
The
need for a data recovery trade association was first mentioned on these pages
in 2004 when a
white paper from
ActionFront called for - "an independent data recovery trade
association to be formed to certify data recovery companies and for companies to
submit claims of recovery capabilities for independent review."
Nothing
came of that idea - and the following year (2005) ActionFront was acquired by
Seagate Recovery Services.
In
2007 Simon Steggles, Director of
Disklabs contacted me
to say he was thinking about setting up a data recovery ORG. It didn't make
these news pages - because it wasn't much more than an idea at the time.
But
a year later (August 2008) the International
Professional Data Recovery Association is inviting companies in the industry
to join together to "assist organisations and individuals that have lost
data by pointing them towards qualified, experienced and certified Data Recovery
companies."
SMART Launches New 1.8" and 2.5" SSDs
FREMONT, CA - August 11, 2008
- SMART Modular Technologies today announced 6 new SSDs in the Xceed
family of industrial-grade storage solutions.
These include faster
2.5" and
1.8" models. The SMART
2.5" XceedUltra2 SATA SSD delivers sustained read/write performance of
up to 135MB/s and 105MB/s, respectively, while requiring fewer than 2 watts in
active mode. The SMART 1.8" XceedLite SATA SSD (with upto 64GB capacity)
operates at 72MB/s read and 55MB/s sustained write speeds and uses under 1 watt
of power in active mode.
"These six new SSD offerings will
enable SMART to expand its already significant presence in the defense,
aerospace, industrial, and embedded application areas and address new, more
demanding storage markets," said Wade Campbell, SMART's Director of SSD
Marketing and Product Management. "Advancements in NAND flash technology
allowed us to make performance, capacity, and price improvements across the
entire Xceed SSD family. In addition to these product enhancements, our focus
on low power requirements and true industrial-grade solutions has allowed us to
create an extensive portfolio of industry-leading SSDs for OEMs."
Samples of the new SSD drives will be available in the 3rd calendar quarter.
SMART will showcase its SSDs this week at the
Flash Memory Summit in Santa
Clara, California.
...SMART profile
New VTL Emulates 256 Mainframe Tape Drives
Burlington,
MA - August 11, 2008- Today, Bus-Tech, Inc. announced the introduction
of the Mainframe Data Library model 6000.
The new model boasts of
throughput in excess of 1 gigabyte per second, 4Gbps FICON support, 1,536
emulated tape transports and enhanced availability features. The MDL-6000
features from three to 6 independent emulation nodes; each of which support two
FICON channel adapters and emulate up to 256 mainframe tape drives. In
conjunction with the new model Bus-Tech also announced the release of version
6.0 of its Virtuent software; the powerful engine common to all MDL models. The
MDL is a family of revolutionary virtual tape controllers for IBM and compatible
mainframes.
Achieving a 30% improvement in overall throughput, these products
provide enterprise data centers with lower tape processing costs, improved
end-user service levels, innovative disaster recovery alternatives and the
ability to include compliant storage in their mainframe environment.
...Bus-Tech profile,
Disk to disk backup,
Tape Libraries |
