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Monday, January 25 Tweet This

Symantec enhances NetBackup, BackupExec 2.0, adds deduplication, replication

Symantec on Monday enhanced its NetBackup and BackupExec data protection products by adding client, media server and appliance-based deduplication and replication for disaster recovery. NetBackup 7 and BackupExec 2.0 now support deduplication closer to the data source by integration into the backup client and at the media server, thus increasing the speed of backups in remote offices, data centers and virtual environments. Through its OpenStorage Technology (OST), NetBackup and BackupExec now support Data Domain, Quantum, ExaGrid Systems and FalconStor deduplication appliances.

NetBackup 7 and BackupExec also add backup catalog replication for streamlining disaster recovery.

Symantec NetBackup 7 is expected to be available in February for $8,000 for an Enterprise Server and five client licenses.

Symantec Backup Exec 2010 is expected to be available in February for $1,174 for a media server license and Basic Maintenance. The two new Backup Exec 2010 Suites that include deduplication and archiving options are priced at $2,708 to $3,888 with Basic Maintenance.

Wednesday, January 20 Tweet This

Quantum updates StorNext, adds dedupe, replication

Quantum on Wednesday launched a new version of its StorNext data management software. The new release adds file level deduplication, replication and distributed data tiering, as well as timecode-based partial file retrieval. The product now provides deduplication for nearline data and for multi-site environments. The replication capability makes it possible to manage and protect data across distributed environments – data from a single site can be replicated to another remote location. Many to many replication is also available. With timecode-based partial file retrieval, organization can optimize workflow in media asset management applications so that only portions of large media file can be retrieved.

Tuesday, January 19 Tweet This

Bocada rolls out SLA-based data protection service management package

Bocada on Tuesday announced Bocada Prism, data protection service management software that allows customers to ensure protection of their data though a workflow-driven process. Prism uses agentless data collection to build a picture of the data protection environment. Instead of presenting error alerts and reports when a backup job fails, Prism determines is errors will affect the customer’s set service level agreements. Prism is a web-based, workflow driven application focused on internal IT departments and managed service providers. The product replaces Bocada Enterprise and includes a knowledgebase of known issues collected from a customer’s environment. Bocada Prism monitor backup jobs from NetBackup, Backup Exec, Symantec PureDisk, NetWorker, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, HP Data Protector, CA BrightStor among others.

Pillar Data launches new storage slammer

Pillar Data today announced a new Slammer Series 2 storage array that has twice the cache and twice the processing power. The Slammer Series 2 uses Pillar’s QoS capability to distribute workloads across LUNs or filesystems by Slammer and drive type. Each Slammer boosts performance by 50% as well as increasing the number of CIFS connections by 4X and including 2TB 7200 RPM SATA drive Brick Support. The Axiom 600 Slammer Series 2 is available now.

BakBone rolls out NetVault 4.0: FASTRecover backup product

BakBone Software today introduced version 4.0 of NetVault: FAST Recover, software that provides disk-based data protection for Windows file servers and Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. FASTRecover now offers the ability to protect remote offices across the WAN by failing over physical or virtual machines in a many to one configuration.

StorageCraft launches Exchange mailbox recovery

StorageCraft Technology today announced a new software package called StorageCraft ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange (GRE). GRE allows organizations to recover emails and mailboxes backed up with ShadowProtect Server or ShadowProtect Small Business Server. GRE also allows searching of Exchange message stores and migration form one version of Exchange to another.

EMC releases high-density CLARiiON and Celerra Gateways

EMC today rolled out new CLARiiON CX4 and Celerra Gateways that offer twice the capacity of previous systems in half the floor space. In addition, the new systems now support as many as 390TB 5,400 and 7,200 RPM SATA drives, which consume 60% less per per GB than 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA drives.

Monday, January 18 Tweet This

Nexsan bolsters dedupe appliances

Nexsan on Wednesday is expected to intorudce its Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 platform with appliances that integrate support Symantec’s OpenStorage (OST) protocol, increases in performance of as much as 200% and automatic application failover. The appliances now support redundancy and allow backup server connections of as much as 5.4TB/hour. They are expected to be available by the end of February.

Thursday, January 14 Tweet This

Cisco announces services-oriented SANs

Cisco today announced several products and services that allow IT organizations to build services in storage area networks. The Storage Services Node-16 is a 16-port line card that supports four services simultaneously. It has 16 1Gbit Ethernet ports and supports I/O acceleration, encryption to tape, LUN migration, LUN erasure and SAN extension over FCIP.

Cisco also announced an appliance that aids migration and a Secure Erase capability. The Data Mobility Manager allows migrations to occur while data is in use. Secure Erase lets organizations erase data from old arrays facing decommissioning.

Wednesday, January 13 Tweet This

Dell launches 6GB Serial Attached SCSI

Dell today rolled out new Dell RAID controllers and external SAS enclosures and drives. The PERC H200, PERC H700 and PERC H800 are entry level and high-performance RAID Controllers.

The PERC H800 provides redundant path with IO load balancing and supports large RAID volumes – up to 192 drives with 8 MD1220 enclosures. It is intended for use with traditional data center applications – those with random IOPs and with email, web and database servers. It can also be used in streaming and archival applications where sequential read/write throughput is necessary. The PERC H700 is a 6Gbit/sec. RAID controller with PCIe 2.0 support. Finally, the PERC H200 is also a 6Gbit/sec. RAID controller which supports as many as 16 drives.

Dell also introduced the PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220. The PowerVault MD1200 is a 2U, 12 drive 3.5” enclosure that supports 2.5” and 3.5” nearline, 10K and 15K hard disk drives and SAS solid state drives. It can be expanded to 96 drives and uses the PERC H800 RAID controller.

The MD1200 is a 2U 24-drive small form factor array that supports 2.5” 7.2K, 10K and 15K RPM hard disk drives and SAS SSDs. It can be expanded to 192 drives and uses the PERC H800 RAID controller.

The PowerVault MD1200 is $5,637; the PowerVault MD1200 is $5,145.

Tuesday, January 12 Tweet This

Compellent rolls out Storage Center 5

Compellent today announced that Storage Center 5 is available. The array now offers portable volume replication, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage, RAID 6 data protection, virtual IO ports, server mapping provisioning and consistency groups.

Portable volume replication allows customers to replicate data to portable external hard drives and protect them with 128-bit encryption for shipping to remote sites. As many as 384 SAS drives of different speeds and capacities can be mixed in the same enclosure and support Fibre Channel or iSCSI connectivity. Compellent has added RAID 6 capability to its storage array – data is first stored on fast storage configured with RAID 10 and when not actively used migrated automatically to RAID-6 enabled disk.

Virtual ports reduce the number of physical ports required in switches and Compellent enclosures and virtualize Fibre Channel and iSCSI connections. Server mapping automates deployment of virtual servers and clusters and finally, consistency groups allow recovery of databases and other applications.

An entry-level Compellent Storage Center starts at $21,000 for dual clustered controllers, 10TB of SAS storage and Storage Center 5 Core with Virtual Ports, Server Mapping, Consistency Groups, Dynamic Capacity thin provisioning, Fast Track data placement, Data Instant Replay snapshots, and Enterprise Manager storage resource management software.

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