Features

November 2006

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: STORAGE

Tape encryption suite

The new CryptoStor Tape software suite supports high-performance LTO-3-based tape systems, including EML E-Series tape libraries and the HP Ultrium 960 (LTO-3) drives. Users of LTO-3 tape now benefit from reduced backup and recovery windows as a result of CryptoStor Tape’s increased throughput capabilities. Also part of the new software suite is persistent binding of drives to applications, greatly simplifying usability by ensuring tape drives maintain a consistent presence to the backup server. Serviceability is improved, as well, providing users additional diagnostic capabilities, such as the new CryptoStor Trace Tool.

NeoScale Systems
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Storage array firmware

The PS Series Version 3.0 features include multiple pools of storage in a single SAN, data segmentation, automatic data placement and load balancing, along with transparent data migration, consistency groups and interoperability. PS Series SAN enables simple storage consolidation, which enables a virtual infrastructure to increase storage utilization, enrich corporate data protection methods, facilitate disaster recovery, and enhance virtualized server availability and workload migration.

Equallogic
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Scalable storage for SMBs

The StoreVault S500 combines enterprise-level storage technology with the scalability, simplicity, security and affordability needed for SMBs. The StoreVault S500 is a scalable all-in-one network storage appliance for the SMB market segment that supports NAS, iSCSI SAN and Fibre Channel SAN, providing flexibility compared to direct-attached storage. The StoreVault line of products is aimed at the IT generalist within SMBs, which typically need a half terabyte to three terabytes of data storage. The solution delivers SMBs the scalability needed as their business grows, simplicity of storage management and backup processes, and security for reliable data protection.

NetApp
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Archive appliance

Active Archive Appliance (A3) leaves a copy of frequently accessed data in primary cache for fast retrieval. By pooling the DVD subsystem storage, the A3 creates reliable volumes of storage up to 30.6 terabytes. Using a standard DVD underpinning, the system protects important archived information from accidental erasure, unauthorized modification, data corruption or viruses for up to 50 years or more. Power usage is 5% of that of a typical spinning disk.

PowerFile
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Data warehousing

Data Manager 2.0 offers a single graphical user interface for building business intelligence solutions, with a layer of abstraction from the technical details in the underlying data sources and data warehouse. This allows business users to build, maintain and document business intelligence solutions, with little or no need of IT experts. Features include data extraction, validation, and transformation, OLAP cube generation, SQL code generation, incremental and full data load, and reverse engineering of data warehouses and OLAP cube definitions. 2.0 is designed for multiple data warehouse servers, data sources, OLAP servers and data marts. The software includes active directory integration for user groups and databases.

TimeXtender
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Archiving solution

Global Content Management Solution integrates all enterprise content sources and provides content services to applications and users. Its secure, collaborative environment ensures information delivery independent of distribution method, facilitates rapid access with index mapping, and offers extensive search facilities to help organizations enhance efficiencies and revenue, and ensure regulatory compliance. GCMS provides the ability to archive content in a legally compliant manner, access to reports for business analysis and access to outgoing business documents.

RSD
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Continuous data protection

The Ibac 4.0 CDP offers the ability to recover and restore lost or corrupted data from any point in time, using the change logs to create unlimited point-in-time snapshots. The Ibac 4.0 allows users to continuously back up systems on a byte level and uses removable hard drives. The software is not only compatible with Idealstor backup solutions, but also with any other Windows server appliance.

Idealstor
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