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NetApp Acquires Onaro

Sunnyvale, Calif - January 3, 2008 -NetApp today announced a definitive merger agreement to acquire Onaro.

"80% of all IT operational issues such as application outages, performance problems, and downtime result from unwitting change" said Tom Georgens, executive VP at NetApp. "Customers tell us they are being asked to commit to almost impossible levels of service to avoid these problems, which drain precious resources... With the addition of Onaro, our ability to provide the underlying modular storage architecture as well as policy-based storage management software will help enterprises commit to escalating service levels..." ...Onaro profile, ...Network Appliance profile, Storage Services



Seanodes Gets Funding for Shared Internal Storage

Boston, Mass - November 6, 2007 - Seanodes today announced the closure of a $6.5 million funding round that will propel the company's expansion of its Shared Internal Storage concept to customers worldwide.

Seanodes software allows customers to reclaim unused internal disk space within existing application servers and make that capacity available as a high performance virtualized storage pool, eliminating the need for costly and complex conventional SAN and NAS products. ...Seanodes profile, Squeak! - Venture Capital Funds in Storage



Why Sun will Shine with a New Lustre

SANTA CLARA, Calif - September 12, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today said it will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System.

Sun intends to add support for Solaris OS on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. ...Sun Microsystems profile, Acquired storage companies

Editor's comments:-
I hadn't heard of this company before. A sure sign that they were heading straight for the gone away storage companies list without any deviations on route. Here's what I picked up from their web site present and past.

The Lustre product description (pdf) says - "the Lustre architecture was first developed at Carnegie Mellon University as a research project in 1999." The company's website started in about 2001 amd they released Lustre 1.0 in 2003. By 2004 had a product ready for a bigger market.

Strangely enough Solaris support isn't listed as a strong feature in their recent roadmap. So why does Sun want this technology? - Well - even if you're not in the supercomputer business - some technologies which start there eventually trickle down to the rest of us. "Zero single points of failure" - mentioned on their home page - is a good enough reason. As I wrote in my 7 year storage market predictions (2005) storage reliability is going to become a major headache in enterprise storage in the next 5 years.

See also:- Robin Harris's blog which explains the business background to CFS - "why aren't they rich?"



DataCore Storage Virtualization Gets Virtual

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - September 10, 2007 - DataCore Software, today announced support for implementing its storage virtualization and SAN management solutions as "virtual servers" – running on many different server virtualization platforms, such as those from VMware, Xensource, Microsoft and Virtual Iron.

DataCore storage virtualization software works with nearly all storage hardware and can serve that storage to Windows, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, Solaris, AIX, and Netware servers, whether physical or virtual.

"The release of DataCore's SANmelody, Traveller and SANsymphony as virtual servers... underscores what has been a dominant reality for over 6 years – that storage servers are today identical to all other servers in that they exist primarily as storage applications running on ever more standard hardware" said DataCore's CTO and Chairman Ziya Aral. ...DataCore profile, Storage Software



Secure Information Sharing Architecture for .GOVs

Washington - July 10, 2007 - Cisco, EMC and Microsoft today announced a new technology alliance targeting government users based around Secure Information Sharing Architecture.

Historically, information protection technologies have been enforced system-by-system, creating islands of protected data. Some government agencies are having trouble providing role-based access to sensitive content within their own organizations, and the problems become much more difficult when sharing sensitive content across different agencies.

By utilizing SISA, government agencies can more easily set up security-enhanced, virtual networks for different authorized users and communities to access sensitive files stored in different information protection systems. SISA will enable new scenarios for cross-government information sharing. ...Cisco profile, ...EMC profile, ...Microsoft profile, SAN, Storage Security



Aberdeen Reports on Storage Virtualization

BOSTON, MA – April 19, 2007 – more customers are turning to storage and server virtualization to ease data center headaches according to an end-user survey recently conducted by Aberdeen.

Among the benchmark report's key findings is that 50% of the overall respondents either are evaluating or plan to adopt server virtualization, while 47% either are evaluating or plan to adopt storage virtualization within 6 to 18 months. Furthermore, results concluded that 31% of the overall respondents have deployed server virtualization and 28% have installed storage virtualization. ...Aberdeen Group profile, Market research, article:- Storage Virtualization Means More Than One Media, article:- Virtual Tape: Can You Afford to Ignore It?



Survey Says Fibre Channel SANs are Underutilized

SAN MATEO, Calif - January 24, 2007 - SANRAD Inc. announced findings from new research conducted by Simon Management Group that highlight average SAN utilization among Fibre Channel users at only 75%.

The study reveals the prohibitive cost of Fibre Channel as a key reason many users are unable to justify connecting the remaining 25% of storage to their servers. The report confirms the interest in iSCSI for solving the problem of SAN under-utilization and validates SANRAD's solid position in addressing this opportunity.

Simon Management Group surveyed network and storage managers at enterprises with annual revenues of $500M and above, to assess the value proposition of using iSCSI with existing Fibre Channel SANs. SANRAD claims its architecture gives customers a cost-savings of more than 90% over standard FC connectivity because it utilizes iSCSI and standard Ethernet networks to connect servers to FC SANs. ...SANRAD profile, ...Simon Management Group, Market research
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Squeak! - SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
Does the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into flash solid state disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration applications - such as RAID systems?
It was certainly true as little as a few years ago.

What's the risk with today's devices?

This article looks at the current generation of products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried.
read the article - SSD Myths and Legends
RAM based SSDs have been used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 160G in 2.5", 512G in 3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to look interesting. ...read the article, storage reliability solid state disks
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NAS, DAS or SAN? - Choosing the Right Storage Technology for Your Organization - article by Xtore

It's 5 years since we published the Storage Architecture Guide a classic reference written by the world's first network storage company Auspex. The new overview article from Xtore places the main storage connection strategies in a current context. Here's an extract.

"Another important consideration for a medium sized business or large enterprise is heterogeneous data sharing. With DAS, each server is running its own operating platform, so there is no common storage in an environment that may include a mix of Windows, Mac and Linux workstations. NAS systems can integrate into any environment and serve files across all operating platforms. On the network, a NAS system appears like a native file server to each of its different clients. That means that files are saved on the NAS system, as well as retrieved from the NAS system, in their native file formats. NAS is also based on industry standard network protocols such as TCP/IP, FC and CIFS. " ... read the article, ...Xtore profile

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