Tandberg promises safer storage with fewer disks
Tandberg ASA's InoStor subsidiary has invented a new RAID system, which it claims uses fewer disks than RAID 5+1 but is just as effective at protecting data.
Tandberg ASA's InoStor subsidiary has invented a new RAID system, which it claims uses fewer disks than RAID 5+1 but is just as effective at protecting data.
Tape life should be simple, we might think. A physical tape drive is simple to drive: start it, rewind it; stop it; write to it. All a virtual tape drive needs to do is respond appropriately to a backup application when it gets these messages and so ‘fool’ the application into thinking it’s dealing with a real tape drive.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced that its MSA1500cs, more formally the HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1500, is the first storage array to support either SCSI or Serial ATA (SATA) disk enclosures behind a single controller shelf. It expects to offer both types behind the same controller shelf soon .
Here's what has been happening recently in the storage industry. In alphabetical order...
Printed images may soon contain hidden data that mobile phones can see and respond to. A telephone number embedded in a CD cover picture will be able to be dialled. And a poster image containing a URL invisible to the human eye will be seen by a PDA camera and the website displayed on its screen.
Adaptec announced last week it is buying a RAID storage business unit off IBM. The deal will see it license and acquire certain RAID intellectual property, RAID products and expertise from Big Blue and use it to expand and improve on its own RAID products.
New technology could soon overrun all the existing forms of memory used in computers, according to the company developing it.
Storage Technology (StorageTek) has produced a new 100TB tape library that slots into a standard rack size but provides twice as much capacity as competing products.
Seagate Technology is preparing a major revamp of its disk drives, and is expected to introduce smaller physical and larger capacity drives in keeping with the rest of the market.
Not content with telling hardware manufacturers what they must do, now Microsoft is informing disk makers that they have to make read and write speeds faster. It even tells them how to do it -- add flash memory cache.
Ethernet economics should overwhelm expensive and lower volume Fibre Channel SANs with iSCSI SANs. That's the received wisdom from commentators such as McData's Tom Clark. Linley Group agree and said that after 2007, Fibre Channel will get increasingly choked as Ethernet SANs overtake it.
God only knows what you'd do with it, but if monster storage clusters are your thing, you could do worse than check out Dynamic Solutions International Corp.'s new solid state disk systems.
A new network card by Intel Corp. will give a ten-fold increase data center bandwidth, the company claims.
Brocade Communications Systems has reduced the cost of SANs with two new low-end Dazzler SAN switches.
Cisco Systems is working on a new service that will enable changes to be made to a storage network without affecting the data being sent across it at the same time.