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The most common type of "storage software" is that
which does backup or replication. But the reason this list below is nearly
twice as big as our backup
software directory is because there are a lot more different types of
storage software than that.
Drivers for making the hardware work with
the OS are a good example. But since they nearly always come from the same
IHV - there's no point
in listing such products here.
Software for
analyzing storage can
range from simple storage bus analyzers which help developers debug driver code,
and freeware which looks at bottlenecks in your database upto SAN wide
heavyweight packages which help you understand and manage an enterprise storage
network. And while on the subject of SANS - a few brave companies like
Nimbus,
Open-E and
Wasabi have developed
what are in effect NAS
operating systems.
As WAN storage networks have become more common the
concept of accelerating or deduping the communications payload has also received
a lot of developer attention. A leading pioneer in the IP acceleration software
market is NetEx, whereas
the list of storage
deduplication
ISVs mentioned on these pages already runs into double digits.
Security is a big subject
- which has had its own pages for many years. And the
Disk Sanitizer
market which started out as a software solutions market has expanded into
hardware - because it takes too long to erase hundreds or thousands of
discarded hard drives (or tapes) using software on a single PC. Many
Data Recovery
companies offer software downloads to help you with simper recovery tasks. But
when your hard drives have been charred to smoky plastic or immersed in the
sludge waters of a flood - a UPS or Fedex upload is a more realistic solution.
If
all of that sounds too complicated then there are plenty of independent
Storage Training
companies to help you do it yourself or (if you've got enough money)
Storage Services
companies who will take the problem of managing it all off your hands.
ISVs
like to talk about "lifecycles" - because it makes it sound like
they've actually thought about what will happen to their teenage hacker
developed code, or your data, for more than 5 minutes.
Virtualization
is another word which has been fashionable in recent years. Although every piece
of software that's not part of a hardware driver or OS kernel already includes
many levels of assumed virtualization.
One part of the lifecycle
which ISVs don't talk about so much - is that part when they are no longer in
business having gone bust
or been acquired. But despite the fact that the list of gone away ISVs is
already much bigger than the live list below - it doesn't stop new startup ISVs
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Tek-Tools Expands Profiler
Installations
DALLAS, Texas - May
7, 2008 - Tek-Tools Software today announced that its growth continues
with 40 new customers and several existing customers expanding installations of
Profiler Suite in the first quarter of 2008.
Ken Barth, President
and CEO of Tek-Tools said "The efficiency benefits of virtualization are
tremendous, but it does not render physical assets obsolete and without a clear
and comprehensive view of the virtual and physical IT infrastructure the
benefits are immediately outweighed by the loss of control. We will continue to
innovate to support our customers and help them to avoid this trap."
...Tek-Tools profile
Nirvanix Rains on Amazon's S3
SAN DIEGO - April 22, 2008 - Nirvanix
today announced a 30-day free trial promotion for users who want to test its
online storage service.
Nirvanix also announced the
availability of its 'Amazon
S3 Migration Tool' which enables the easy migration of files from an
Amazon Simple
Storage Service account while preserving folder structures.
"For
a company with just 50 terabytes of archived data, for instance, this fee
holiday can mean a setup savings of well over $9,000 to move to the world's
fastest, most reliable cloud storage platform in the world" said Jonathan
Buckley, Chief Marketing Officer with Nirvanix. ...Nirvanix profile
Sun's SPARC T2 Gets Carrier Grade Linux
SAN JOSE, CA - April
16, 2008 - Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced it will port its
Carrier Grade Linux and Workbench development suite to Sun's
UltraSPARC T2 processor.
This will be the first carrier grade
Linux for Sun's CMT processors. Sun's Netra Carrier Grade rack servers and ATCA
blades will be the first CMT systems to run Wind River Carrier Grade Linux.
...Wind River
profile,
Operating Systems
for SPARC servers
CAS Pioneers Reunited at Caringo
AUSTIN, Texas
- March 18, 2008 - Caringo Inc. today announced the hiring of Jan
Van Riel as its VP of Advanced Technology, reuniting him with fellow
co-founder of Content Addressable Storage, Paul Carpentier, Caringo's
CTO.
Van Riel and Carpentier together invented the technology
that created the CAS industry while they were partners at
FilePool,
a company they sold to EMC
(in April 2001).
EMC went on to incorporate the CAS concept into its multimillion-dollar Centera
and Van Riel served 8 years as EMC's Director of Technology.
"With
EMC scaling down the Centera unit and the future of Centera unclear, the chance
to join Caringo, which understands the potential of CAS, and partner once again
with Paul Carpentier was too good of an opportunity to pass up," said Van
Riel. "The need for CAS solutions is ever increasing and I am excited to
participate in the next chapter of the technology at Caringo." ..Caringo profile,
Storage People
Free Tool Unveils SSD Fast Lane for
Oracle DBAs
Houston,
Texas - February 27, 2008 - Texas Memory Systems today announced
availability of version 2.0 of StatspackAnalyzer.com.
This is a
freely available online tool that analyzes the data from a user's own
Oracle reports and
presents clear, customized
recommendations for
improving performance. In just 1 year, over 10,000 Oracle DBAs and consultants
have become registered users and hundreds have offered to help improve the
features. Version 2.0 has been updated to support Oracle from version 8 to 11.1
"StatspackAnalyzer.com is quickly emerging as the go-to resource
for Oracle DBAs who are trying to improve their database performance," said
Don Burleson, CEO of
Burleson Consulting, author of
numerous books on Oracle database performance tuning and a sponsor of the
StatspackAnalyzer.com initiative. "DBAs email us regularly to say how it is
helping them understand the issues that are affecting their database
performance, and providing helpful recommendations. We are also getting great
feedback that is helping us to keep evolving the tool, and improving its
usefulness to the Oracle community." ...sign up for free copy,
...Texas Memory Systems
profile
Editor's comments:- tools which help users see clear
opportunities for application speedup are a good thing. The sample report I saw
only refers to the sponsor's own SSD material (and they do make the fastest
storage in many form factors). But you can always come
back here to
compare other SSD price /
performance options too.
Drive Genius 2
Pleasanton, CA
February 12, 2008 Prosoft Engineering, Inc. announces the
availability of Drive Genius 2, the award-winning $99 hard drive maintenance
utility for the Mac.
Drive Genius 2 is a disk utility with a wide
array of features that allow you to maintain your
hard drives such as:-
disk defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly. ...Prosoft Engineering
eDiscovery Companies Find Mutual Interests
LegalTech, New York
- February 5, 2008 - Mimosa Systems and Index Engines today
announced a joint partnership.
"Organizations house terabytes of information retained in emails,
files and other forms of unstructured data scattered across the enterprise,"
said Tim Williams, founder and CEO, Index Engines. "Many companies are
facing extraordinary costs as they attempt to search these files for data in
support of litigation... Together, Index Engines and Mimosa significantly reduce
the cost and risk while speeding the discovery process."
...Index Engines
profile, ...Mimosa
Systems profile
Microsoft Buys Storage Search Company
REDMOND,
Wash - January 8, 2008 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will
make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA, a leading
provider of enterprise search solutions based in Norway.
The offer
values the fully diluted equity of FAST at approximately $1.2 billion. FAST's
board of directors has unanimously recommended that its shareholders accept the
offer which is expected to be completed in the 2nd quarter of 2008.
"Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to
businesses of all sizes, helping people find, use and share critical business
information quickly," said Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business
Division. "Until now organizations have been forced to choose between
powerful, high-end search technologies or more mainstream, infrastructure
solutions. The combination of Microsoft and FAST gives customers a new choice: a
single vendor with solutions that span the full range of customer needs."
...Microsoft profile,
Storage Software,
453 Acquired, renamed etc
storage companies
Editor's comments:- when you think of
searching the web - the #1 brand which comes to mind is
Google. But even though
Google has been marketing storage search appliances for over 5 years only
10,000 or so companies were actually using them as recently as last October.
Microsoft's acquisition in this market at 42% above the closing price of the
shares last Friday - signals that Microsoft regards this as a much bigger
potential market than it has been until now.
Or - if you are feeling
cynical - maybe it's just a move that will slow down and kill off the whole
segment for a couple of years. Especially if Microsoft embeds free search into
its OS.
Double-Take Acquires TimeSpring
Southborough,
Mass - December 26, 2007 - Double-Take Software today announced the
acquisition of TimeSpring.
The transaction was structured
as a purchase of 100% of the outstanding shares of TimeSpring, for a total cash
purchase price of approximately $8.3M plus transaction costs.
The
combination of Double-Take continuous replication with TimeSpring's
Any-Point-In-Time capabilities allows IT administrators the ability to "rewind"
and "fast-forward" the data on the server and recover to the moment
before an unwanted change. The granularity of operational recovery extends to
the application-level, which allows users to see application data in native
format so they can easily recover from any point in time. ...Double-Take profile,
...TimeSpring profile
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
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