Cobalt Iron Exits Stealth Mode With Unified Data Protection To The Cloud

Cobalt Iron on came out of stealth mode with the introduction of storage technology that it claims unifies a business data protection requirements into a single on-premises or cloud storage solution.

Cobalt Iron provides a consistent interface that offers businesses the right class of protection that combines file services, file-level backups, continuous data protection, database and email server protection, and virtualized environments across any operating environment via an appliance, said Richard Spurlock, CEO and founder of the Lawrence, Kan based company.

Cobalt Iron's Adaptive Data Protection technology combines enterprise backup and cloud data protection technologies into a single offering to unify the data protection process, Spurlock said.

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Xyratex Discusses HPC Data Storage technology at SC12

Xyratex Ltd a leading provider of data storage technology, today announced it will have a strong presence at SC12, the premier international conference for highperformance computing, networking, storage and analysis to be held this week in Salt Lake City. Xyratex will showcase its HPC data storage solutions and demonstrate the value it brings to the market through a number of speeches and presentations as well as in its booth exhibition.

Xyratex also today announced that its Xyratex ClusterStor family of integrated Lustre HPC data storage solutions are available through Dell. With Dell's significant footprint in the commercial sector, HPC customers will now be able to scale both storage performance and capacity while aggressively reducing space, power and administrative overhead.

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Big Data set for big growth

The Big Data technology and services market in the Asia-Pacific excluding Japan is expected to grow from US$258.5 million in 2011 to $1.76 billion in 2016 on the back of a 46.8 per cent five-year compound annual growth rate.

The Big Data market in Asia-Pacific is building the momentum that will deliver a strong acceleration in 2-3 years time. Organisations that start the process now may find themselves with a 12-18 month competitive advantage over those who wait, said Craig Stires research director of Asia Pacific Big Data and Analytics at IDC.

Big Data requires organisations to rethink their technology architectures, processes, and skill sets in order to attain the real value of this phenomenon. Organisations that have already developed an effective business analytics program are positioned to be the first adopters of Big Data technology and approaches.

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IU deploys massive data storage resource to support Big Red II supercomputer

Indiana University today announced the successor to its internationally recognized Data Capacitor research data storage platform. The new system, called Data Capacitor II (DCII), is a five petabyte storage resource engineered to provide scientific researchers with high performance access to a robust storage facility. DCII will be used for a range of applications, including management of massive research data sets, high-scale data analysis, genomic sequencing and computational visualization.

Using its GRIDScaler enterprise file storage technology, DDN will also provide a new service for long-term research data storage. This resource will also power IU's IUanyWare cloud-based service, which provides students, faculty and staff with on-demand access to hundreds of software applications.

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EMC opens EMC Labs developing data storage technologies

Data storage equipment maker EMC Corp. said it was opening an EMC Labs in Israel aimed at developing innovative technologies for  data storage, security and big data.EMC opened an EMC Labs in China last year.

EMC Labs in Israel will primarily be research oriented and will operate without any product, organizational or regional EMC constrictions, EMC said. Its research activities will focus on next generation technology that EMC says it must develop to address the challenges and opportunities in the world of information technology.The first project at EMC Labs in Israel will focus on learning storage behavior in order to foresee the storage needs of various systems and optimize storage performance. It will use machine learning methods and big data analytics and data mining tools.

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DDN Announces SFA7700 Hybrid Flash Storage

 

DataDirect Networks, the leader in massively scalable storage, today announced the availability of its next-generation scale-out storage platform: The SFA7700 hybrid Flash storage appliance with SFX acceleration. This innovative modular, scale-out appliance brings an industry-leading level of performance to data-intensive applications such as computational simulation, government intelligence, media, web and Big Data analytics that require multi-dimensional storage performance and smart storage tiering combined with leading data center density for both structured and unstructured data.
The SFA7700 is a fully redundant hybrid storage platform engineered for performance and capacity optimization of block- and file-based applications. The base system supports 60 Flash and/or spinning disk drives in only 4U of datacenter rack space, and is expandable to support up to 396 disks in just 20U of rack space. 

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Oracle Unveils StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 - Broadcast Newsroom

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 is the first and only mainframe virtual tape storage system to provide a single point of management for the entire system that leverages the security of the mainframe environment. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 efficiently manages data and storage resources with automated, policy-driven management that simplifies deployment and streamlines ongoing tape operations for data protection, disaster recovery and archive.

With 2x the performance and more than 1.8x the total disk capacity of the previous generation, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 system(1) scales on-demand to over 640 petabytes to meet the needs of high growth data storage environments in a dense, energy efficient data center footprint that helps lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences - DailyFinance

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services.

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Data storage: Going with the grain - Nanowerk LLC

(Nanowerk News) Despite the increasing competition from alternative technologies such as solid-state drives, magnetic disks remain an important data-storage technology. They are not only reliable and inexpensive, but their storage density has potential for even further improvement. One method under current investigation is storing each data bit in a single magnetic grain of the thin film of the recording medium, rather than in several grains as in conventional hard drives. Storage in single grains only would increase stability and reduce the magnetic fields required to write bits.

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Zetta Adds Smart Cloud, Lean Local Copy To DataProtect Cloud Storage Software - CRN

 

Zetta.net has expanded its DataProtect cloud storage technology with new integrated features that reduce local storage footprints while adding the ability to use local network storage to quickly recover or restore lost data.

Zetta.net, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of the DataProtect cloud storage technology for backup, disaster recovery and archiving, on Monday introduced Smart Cloud, a new Web-based file system that allows business users to mount cloud-based versions of their data in case their primary data center is lost.

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Panasas, Hortonworks Join in Technology Partnership - HPCwire

Panasas, the leader in high performance parallel storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, today announced a technology partnership with Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development, and support of Apache Hadoop. As part of the agreement, Panasas will become a member of the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program, which was formed to accelerate the growth of a vibrant Apache Hadoop ecosystem through technology collaboration, technical support, joint testing and evangelism.

Panasas is eager to work with Hortonworks, a premier company in the space, to develop technologies that will allow the rapid adoption of Apache Hadoop in technical computing markets," said Barbara Murphy, chief marketing officer at Panasas.

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Iomega releases two new StorCenter NAS drives to contain that ever-expanding ... - Engadget

The StorCenter px2 and ix4 are a pair of full bodied NAS systems that offer a secure and speedy haven for your most important data. Using EMC storage technology, the hardware offers a personal cloud and Time Machine support for Mac using backup-fans. The barebones px2 is $500, with the prices running to $1,200 for a 6TB model, and if you're in need of something heftier, the storage-free ix4 sets you back $600, but can take up to 12TB worth of drive if you splash out $1,300.

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IPR Extends Its ZoneIT Virtual Private Data Center Service with NetApp Storage - CIO

Technology is changing so rapidly that most midsize organizations can't keep pace with it. IPR offers a comprehensive suite of data center services, allowing its clients to focus on their core business operations while simplifying IT. IPR's data protection and private cloud offerings protect client data while enabling business continuity, saving the company the cost of building and managing storage infrastructures.

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HP unveils new fast storage technology - Inquirer.net

 

International technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) unveiled on Thursday its new Storage technology that has a “Ferrari-speed” minus the Ferrari price tag.Mike Prieto, vice president and general manager of HP Asia Pacific and Japan, said in a media roundtable discussion that HP 3PAR P10000 Storage has double the speed of their closest competitor because of its new solid-state drives (SSD).

The new SSD technology is better than the standard hard disk drives (HDD) because it does not have a spinning disk; less moving parts means better durability, faster storage retrieval, and smaller physical footprint. SSDs however are more expensive compared to HDD.The HP 3PAR P10000 Storage can hold a maximum of 512 SSDs in a single array which “reduces equipment costs, data-center footprint, and energy expenses.

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NetApp names new strategy, technology chiefs - MarketWatch

NetApp Inc. said it named Jay Kidd as its chief technology officer and Jonathan Kissane as its chief strategy officer, as the data-storage company said it hopes the new appointments will help position it for its next phase of growth.

Mr. Kidd will be tasked with shaping NetApp's technology plans and will report to Manish Goel, executive vice president of product operations. Prior to his latest appointment, Mr. Kidd led product strategy and development for NetApp's data management and management products. He previously worked as chief technology officer at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD), which makes switches and software used to connect corporate servers and data-storage systems.

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Hitachi targets 2015 for glass-based data storage that lasts 100 million years

 

Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015.

The company's main research lab has developed a way to etch digital patterns into robust quartz glass with a laser at a data density that is better than compact discs, then read it using an optical microscope. The data is etched at four different layers in the glass using different focal points of the laser.Hitachi said the new technology will be suitable for storing "historically important items such as cultural artifacts and public documents, as well as data that individuals want to leave for posterity."

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Data Storage: Cheaper And Easier With Photonics - RedOrbit

As technology grows and components shrink, data storage usually follows suit, with ever-increasing capacities being packed into the tiniest of spaces.Though their needs are drastically different, consumers, researchers and scientists alike ask for the same thing: More available space packed in a smaller package. The rapid advancement in this area has already given many pause to contemplate how a handful of megabytes was once considered precious real estate. These days, the same amount of data is instantly streamed and then forgotten on our smartphones.

Thanks to a new technology developed by Case Western Reserve University researchers, this kind of massive storage on a tiny optical disk could be possible in coming years. With this new technology, optical discs could be capable of bearing the weight of 1 to 2 TERABYTES of data, providing not only an easier and more flexible way of storing data, but a cheaper way as well.

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StorIT reveals strategic new partnership with Mellanox Technologies

 

StorIT, data storage specialist, value added distributor in the Middle East and North African 'MENA' region, has announced the signing of a strategic new distributor partnership agreement with Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems.Partnering with Mellanox Technologies strongly complements StorIT's continuing move to provide the region with complete end-to-end solutions that can help address the growing demand for systems that offer superior application performance, efficiency and scalability.

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Hitachi's New Quartz Storage Technology Lets You Keep Your Data Safe for a ... - ROCKETNEWS24

This new storage technology underwent an accelerated degradation test submitting it to two hours under 1000℃.  Afterwards the data embedded in quartz glass was retrievable with no corruption.  Translating these results under real world conditions we can expect this medium to survive into hundreds of millions of years. Conceivably, culture could never be lost again.If this was around in biblical times we could have had 100% intact records with some pristine digital photos of Jesus and his wife that we’re just getting around to hearing about now.

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Do Business Users Really Need SSDs, Or Will HDDs Work? - Technology Guide

HDD stands for hard disk drive and is the data storage technology that's been in primary use in computers for decades. In fact, hard disk drive technology has been around so long that it might be easier to measure its age in terms of centuries – as in, more than half a century. Originally developed by IBM in 1956, the very first HDD the world has ever known was about the size and weight of a piano and had a maximum capacity of just 5MB. For a fun diversion, check out IBM's original press release dated September 14, 1956. Naturally, they've come an awful long way since. Like we mentioned briefly above, hard disk drives are pretty much the opposite of solid state drives in that they contain moving parts: fast spinning platters and magnetic heads that write and read data.

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