Henry Baltazar

During the past year, several tape products have entered the market that increase performance and capacity of this already-mature backup medium. And with new competition looming on the horizon, these high-capacity products arrival is all the more timely. In addition to the tight competition among tape drive vendors, competitive pressure is building from disk-based backup […]

New hard-drive-based products are emerging that could challenge tapes supremacy as the medium of choice for backups and long-term archives. However, the hard-drive-based systems must overcome several major obstacles before they can topple tape. Current hard-drive-based solutions cannot be shipped off-site easily and are not designed to last dozens of years, as tape is. Hard-drive-based […]

The Object-based Storage Device specification, announced by the Storage Networking Industry Association earlier this month, could potentially bring about vast, fundamental changes in the way we use and manage storage over the next few years. /zimages/1/28571.gifThe Storage Networking Industry Association also made strides this month in addressing interoperability concerns within storage environments. Click here for […]

Riverbed Technology Inc.s Steelhead appliances use caching, compression and protocol optimization to speed application performance over WAN links. Click here to read the full review of Steelhead 500. 2 Riverbed Technology Inc.s Steelhead appliances use caching, compression and protocol optimization to speed application performance over WAN links. A caching-appliance-based approach can prevent some of the […]

Like many other companies, engineering company Wright-Pierce had to deal with growing pains as it expanded from a one-office outfit to a multisite organization. Wright-Pierce, based in Topsham, Maine, had problems ensuring that geographically dispersed engineers and office workers were able to collaborate on documents in an efficient manner. The solution? Deploy Riverbed Technology Inc.s […]

Dual-layer DVD burners from Sony Electronics, which effectively double the amount of data that can be stored on a single disk, will hit the market near the end of next month. Currently, consumer- and business-class DVD burners can store 4.7GB of data on a single disk, but the introduction of dual-layer technology will raise the […]

Companies with beleaguered e-mail servers will find that Accellion Inc.s interesting attachment caching appliance, Accellion Attachments 3.5, eases the burden. By stripping attachments out of e-mail and storing them on cache appliances, Accellion Attachments 3.5 can optimize transmission of attachments within an enterprise and among business partners. Click here to read the full review of […]

In the press and in marketing materials, the terms data life-cycle management and information life-cycle management are often used interchangeably. However, a few vendors are making a case for separating and solidifying the definitions. Vendors including EMC Corp. and Fujitsu Software Technology Corp. view ILM as a superset of DLM, with ILM offering additional intelligence […]

Managing data storage is more than making sure you have big-enough buckets for the bits. Several factors, including federal regulations and the continuing need to reduce costs, are forcing IT managers in a wide variety of industries to rethink their data storage and retention policies. Data life-cycle management, or DLM, is the newest technology being […]

The X-series InServ S400 and S800 storage servers from 3PARdata Inc. deliver impressive scalability and flexibility by harnessing the companys unique InSpire architecture and its InServ Storage Server software. The S800 is a bigger version of the S400; both products shipped this month. Both servers include X-Series controllers. The S800 has a larger backplane with […]

With his users generating data at incredible rates, Alan Powers, high-end-computing lead for NASAs Advanced Supercomputing Division, had to find a way to efficiently and inexpensively store data while keeping it accessible to users. About six years ago, Powers tested Silicon Graphics Inc.s DMF (Data Migration Facility) solution, which blends tape- and hard-drive-based storage using […]

Silicon Graphics is behind the worlds largest shared-memory Linux system, a 512-processor behemoth at NASAs Ames Research Center. Recently, I got to look at this giant system, which is built on available Altix 3000 technology. (The largest commercially available Altix 3000 has only 256 processors.) The supersize Altix 3000 system, deployed earlier this year, has […]