Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Speed boost could cause more companies to embrace direct-attached …
- Data Robotics Unveils DroboPro The First SMB Data Storage
- 3PAR F-class jumps into Clariion competition
- U-Haul Moving Special for College Students
- The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench

Speed boost could cause more companies to embrace direct-attached …
Byteandswitch.com
“It will be good for environments that don’t need to scale across a campus. The key point is to offer IT departments more options and to ensure that SAS keeps pace with the speed increases that other storage technologies and protocols are achieving. Ethernet Fibre Channel and InfiniBand are all moving toward faster throughput speeds and SAS needs to keep up. “If I have a Fibre Channel network then I will continue to use that and may move up to FC over Ethernet. If I use NAS that I will probably continue with Ethernet and iSCSI. If I have InfiniBand I will continue to use InfiniBand.

Data Robotics Unveils DroboPro The First SMB Data Storage
Data Storage Connection (press release)
DroboPro delivers a radically simplified storage experience enhanced by advanced self-monitoring and self-healing functionality that enables small and medium businesses (SMBs) to maintain uptime in the face of constant data growth. Built on the company’s award-winning BeyondRAID virtualized storage platform DroboPro provides enterprise-level business continuity features?including protection against multiple concurrent drive failures and no-downtime capacity expansion with thin provisioning?while eliminating the lock-in of traditional RAID configurations. DroboPro with BeyondRAID offers IT managers the unprecedented flexibility to replace failed disks upsize the capacity of disks and with one click switch between single and dual disk redundancy without costly downtime. Providing the most straightforward user experience ever designed for business class storage DroboPro enables companies to devote more resources to business growth and significantly less time and money to managing their storage. With DroboPro IT managers no longer have to make difficult and confining choices upfront about how to provision capacity for the future. “At many businesses IT managers are responsible for much more than just storage let alone having to predict the future of their company’s business and dynamic storage needs” said David Reinsel group vice president storage and semiconductors at industry analyst firm IDC.
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3PAR F-class jumps into Clariion competition
Register
The machine can handle mixed storage workloads including online transaction processing better because of the ASIC’s features. Cummins says a single F-Class can replace four to five Clariions with a consequent reduction in data centre floor space and electricity usage. It simply outperforms and out-stores individual Clariion or EVA arrays because it of its four controllers with data moving and protection accelerated by the gen 3 ASIC. The F-Class comes as either the two-controller F200 or the much more upgradable F400 which can have four controllers. These controllers like 3PAR’s other arrays have what the company is now calling an active mesh backplane linking all LUNS to all controllers and to every disk drive. LUNs are distributed across as many as four controllers not owned by one as in some dual controller arrays.

U-Haul Moving Special for College Students
MarketWatch (press release)
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The Cisco bid: To branch out while others retrench
The Associated Press
5 billion in cash and investments a solid reputation a network of product resellers and thousands of sales employees — assets that the company hopes to exploit. ne challenge will be whether Cisco can maintain focus. By the company’s own count it has 28 overall priorities running the gamut from computer networks in space to “virtual health care. “Even if Cisco doesn’t stumble Cisco’s rivals will try to use the breadth of its goals against it. Mike Banic vice president of marketing for the switches business at Juniper Networks Inc. a Cisco competitor said it appears Cisco is focusing more on moving into adjacent markets and less on innovations in its core business. “Based on what customers are telling us we are seeing they’re becoming a bit distracted” Banic said.