Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Directing data freeways
- Phila.’s neighborhood ‘anchor’ man: Looking to build on…
- Hitachi Finally Unveils 2.5-in. Hard Disk Drives
- Rumor: Symantec and Huawei prep storage and security JV
- TeraCloud Storage Analytics Included in Report by Leading Analyst Firm

Directing data freeways
Australian IT – Apr 24, 2007
Technology vendors have tackled the challenge by developing a technique called virtualisation. By removing the direct link between software and the hardware on which it is running, a range of clever management techniques can be implemented. While it has already made inroads in the application space, virtualisation technology is now moving resolutely into storage. If vendor and analyst predictions are correct, it will transform the way data is retained and managed inside organisations. Like its server-based cousin, storage virtualisation removes the physical bond between data and the hardware supporting it. Rather than being stored and retrieved from a particular disk or array, requests are made to a storage "pool". This pool may comprise a range of physical boxes, potentially in a range of different locations, but they appear as a single device to the application or user…
"Customers like this because it makes it easier for them to migrate from one physical array to another," he says. "This is because they’re not talking to the physical hardware, they’re talking to the virtualised layer. " Riggsbee says that, for many companies, following a virtualised storage strategy will cease to be a choice and become something they simply have to do. "It becomes important because the windows of time companies have to take their systems off line for maintenance have pretty much gone away," he says. "They are operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "If you’re a bank, how can you tell your customers that they can’t access their accounts on a Saturday morning? Things don’t work that way. " As well as the ability to easily replace or upgrade hardware without disrupting critical business applications, storage virtualisation technology also can allow organisations to make more cost effective use of their existing infrastructure.

Phila.’s neighborhood ‘anchor’ man: Looking to build on…
Free with registration – Philadelphia Inquirer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 24, 2007
Without articulating the exact dynamic, Evans says he would create “synergy” between the “people and places” of those institutions, capitalizing on their nearness to Center City. Joe’s and Temple are not moving, he says: “It’s in their self-interest” to clean up Broad Street and vicinity. Gentle-mannered yet physically imposing, Evans jokes that his glaring charm — and single-mindedness — inspires people to say yes to him. In impoverished Southwest Philadelphia, where homicides compound the pain of high unemployment and economic distress, Evans notes the blight. “This is one of the biggest challenges in the city,” Evans says, tightening his grip on the wheel. But on Woodland Avenue, with grimy auto-repair shops, peeling billboards (“We.

Hitachi Finally Unveils 2.5-in. Hard Disk Drives
PC World – Apr 24, 2007
drive is built to satisfy changing data center requirements of less physical space, higher performance but lower power, and more-efficient cooling, noted Doug Pickford, director of market and product strategy at San Jose-based Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. Research firm IDC predicts that demand for smaller form-factor drives is on the verge of skyrocketing. It predicts that shipments of 2. drives will reach 9…
drives have become an appealing option to incorporate more power-friendly drives in a 1U-rack while reducing physical storage space. While vendors like Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM have begun to refashion their servers to reap the benefits of 2. drives, they and other vendors have been slow to add the smaller form-factor disks to storage devices, Ryding said.

Rumor: Symantec and Huawei prep storage and security JV
Register – Apr 24, 2007
The paper’s unnamed source “familiar with the negations” said under the JV the companies would produce data storage devices and internet security products. Symantec however, has nothing to say about the alleged deal, telling us, “We don’t comment on rumor and speculation. Representatives from Huawei were not available for comment as of this writing.

TeraCloud Storage Analytics Included in Report by Leading Analyst Firm
sys-con.com – Apr 24, 2007
“True storage analytics go beyond reports to provide insight and, ideally,to recommend the most appropriate next step toward action,” the reportstates. “A storage analytics solution that recommends actions based onanalysis of collected data can be valuable in moving from reactive toproactive management of storage resources,” according to the Report. The TeraCloud’s technology provides storage utilization analytics topin-point conditions and predictive events where storage utilization issub-optimized, and then recommends automated actions. TeraCloud turns rawdata into actionable information. With the TSA ability to extractactionable insights from data, IT executives can make informed technologypurchasing decisions that support their business objectives. “We believe Gartner’s formal research of storage analytics productsreinforces the critical and emerging storage analytics category,” saidTeraCloud President and CEO Gary Tidd…
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