SAN (Storage Area Network)

Coraid Extends SAN Technology to VMware's Virtualization

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:22:00 EDT

Coraid announced the introduction of the AoE driver for VMware's ESX hypervisor. This kernel driver enables VMware ESX servers to access and share very low cost AoE-based SAN storage. Coraid's line of EtherDrive storage products use proven AoE technology to provide more affordable, reliable and massively scalable RAID storage systems.

Pillar Data Systems Extends Storage Capabilities for VMware Virtualization Environments

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:15:00 EDT

As a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program, Pillar Data Systems announced compatibility of its Application-Aware Axiom with virtualized VMware environments. The Pillar Axiom and Axiom MC are now listed on the VMware SAN compatibility guide for VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5.

Nexenta Announces Broadberry Data Systems Virtualization Partnership

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Nexenta Systems announced a partnership with Broadberry Data Systems. Broadberry and Nexenta are partnering to deliver complete enterprise class storage solutions. Based upon NexentaStor, these solutions leverage the revolutionary ZFS file system and offer many advantages versus alternatives including: no limits on file system sizes or on the number of snap shots; inherent virtualization including the use of storage pooling to improve performance and enable thin provisioning; integrated search to manage highly granular backup policies; and end to end data integrity that eliminates the risk of silent data corruption that impacts many SATA based solutions.

LeftHand Networks Partner Program Expands From Worldwide Demand for Virtualization Solutions

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:00 EDT

LeftHand Networks announced that the company's Advantage Partner Program is growing at an accelerated rate, adding 145 new VARs to its global program since November 2007. At more than 425 partners worldwide, the program's strong growth is attributed to the expanding iSCSI SAN market and LeftHand Networks' focus on its channel partner business model worldwide.

Alchemy Plus Uses DataCore's SANmelody to Achieve Simplified SAN Storage Virtualization Management

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EDT

DataCore announced that Alchemy Plus is using DataCore's SANmelody solution to provide a hosted server virtualization farm environment for small businesses under a 'Pay as You Use' utility computing framework. Alchemy Plus' data center is located in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands. David Massey, Chief Technology Officer at Alchemy Plus, noted, 'We wanted to bring the power and efficiencies of virtualization to smaller organizations that typically were only running a single server or a couple of servers at most. We knew in order to succeed that we would have to develop a model that was as cost effective as it was functionality rich, using the principles of utility computing ? a concept where the customer only pays for what is used.'

New ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager Provides Fast-Track to Virtualization

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:00 EDT

Setting up and managing Blade Servers in complex network environments is streamlined and simplified thanks to the introduction of ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager from Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Through the virtualization of physical network addresses within PRIMERGY Blade Servers, ServerView Virtual-I/O Manager (ServerView VIOM) removes an entire layer of complexity from current Blade Server switching architectures.

QLogic Achieves Near-Native Fibre Channel I/O Performance On Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:45:00 EDT

QLogic announced that QLogic and Microsoft achieved performance results that demonstrate near-native transaction performance for a virtualized computing environment. The companies tested storage area network (SAN)-attached, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines and achieved I/O performance that closely matches the 200,000 IOs per second performance native with QLogic 8Gb adapters and Windows Server 2008. By comparison, I/O performance on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008, was at least 90 percent and as much as 97 percent of the native I/O performance across a data range for enterprise applications.

Virtualization Helps Stoneridge Reduce Data Center Costs

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Stoneridge is saving money and data center space worldwide by simplifying its IT operations with Dell PowerEdge servers supported by Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs). Stoneridge is an independent designer and manufacturer of highly engineered electrical and electronic components, modules and systems principally for the automotive, medium- and heavy-duty truck, agricultural and off-highway vehicle markets. Stoneridge has IT presence in most of its locations in 15 countries. Dell helped the company standardize onto a centralized IT network, providing greater economy and global efficiency.

DataCore and Egenera Combination Delivers Next Generation Server and Storage Virtualization

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:15:00 EDT

DataCore announced that it will team with Egenera to jointly verify their solutions running in tandem on virtualization platforms such as Citrix XenServer. The companies have complementary solutions that together deliver the next generation of virtualization. The Egenera BladeFrame system and its Processing Area Network architecture enable enterprise datacenters to rapidly install, deploy and manage pools of network, storage and processing resources. DataCore SANmelody and SANsymphony virtual storage solutions are some of the first SAN solutions to be certified for XenServer in the Citrix Ready program and make it easy to provision, manage, optimize and protect storage resources infrastructure-wide.

RELDATA Virtualization iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage Solutions are ''Citrix Ready''

Wed, 28 May 2008 11:45:00 EDT

RELDATA announced its solutions powered by the RELDATA 9240 have been verified for Citrix XenServer. The verification supports RELDATA's ongoing effort to develop partnerships to support reliable iSCSI SAN and NAS solutions that function across all industry standards.

Storage Company Selects Silicom Server Adapters for Virtualization Appliances

Tue, 27 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Silicom announced that its quad-port Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters have been selected by a storage company as a standard component in its state-of-the-art new virtualization appliances. Silicom's robust adapters will be used to enhance the throughput of the appliance as required in high-traffic and mission critical environments, and to prevent I/O bottlenecks at the appliance level.

Emulex Expands Virtualization SAN Connectivity Offerings for HP Integrity Servers

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Emulex announced that its PCI Express I/O Controller (IOC) 3532 has been selected to support the new HP multi-protocol Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for HP Integrity servers. The Emulex IOC 3532 provides HP Integrity systems with a wide range of SAN connectivity solutions for HP-UX 11i and OpenVMS operating environments.

Emulex HBAs Selected for SAN Connectivity Solution in Virtualization Projects

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Emulex announced that its LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) were selected as the storage area network (SAN) connectivity solution of choice in two end users' server virtualization projects that utilize EMC networked storage systems. Home Interiors & Gifts and Molex Incorporated selected Emulex HBAs based on ease of administration, reliability and customer confidence in support for future evolution of the SAN architecture.

DataCore's Storage Virtualization Software Is Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:15:00 EDT

DataCore Software announced that its two storage virtualization solutions, SANsymphony and SANmelody, have been verified as Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1 as virtual SAN appliances running on XenServer virtual machines as well as in a standard physical storage server configuration. Rigorous testing verified that both implementations will support XenServer 4.1 virtual machines with virtual storage and advanced storage services critical to demanding virtual server environments, such as fail-safe data protection, high availability mirroring, disaster recovery replication, SANmotion data migration, thin provisioning storage pools and high speed caching for performance acceleration.

Emulex Announces Support for Microsoft's Data Center Virtualization Management Strategy

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Emulex announced that its LightPulse family of 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and its new Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature. PRO, coupled with Emulex's management pack for PRO, enables administrators to monitor and control the allocation of virtualized servers connected to a storage area network (SAN). This enables customers to manage the performance of their virtualized infrastructure. Emulex's management pack for PRO provides Virtual Machine Manager with the I/O connectivity information needed to improve the placement and migration of virtual machines based on storage requirements and available resources.

DDI Health Finds DataCore Storage Virtualization Is The Right Medicine for Data Storage Challenges

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EDT

DataCore Software announced that DDI Health in Australia has selected, deployed and is realizing notable benefits from DataCore's SANmelody virtual SAN software to manage its storage and support its software development servers and VMware systems. DDI Health produces a range of solutions across the diagnostic health services sector. The company was grappling with wasted disk space, 'out of disk space' warnings that force systems and applications to be shut down to add more disks and constant disk provisioning issues. Whereas one set of servers would be full, another set would have disk space to spare, thereby making the provisioning of disk space between systems an on-going and fairly labor-intensive undertaking. With SANmelody in place to allocate disk space to physical and virtual servers as well as workstations, the administration team's disk management headache has disappeared. Now there is very little wasted disk space. Not only had disk administration been labor-intensive, it was also fairly problematic and the resulting downtime was very disruptive to daily operations.

Mitigating Downtime Risk When Making SAN Changes

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:00:00 EDT

Making changes in a Storage Area Network (SAN) is a daily chore for many enterprise IT administrators, but so is the risk of prolonged downtime associated with configuration errors or incompatibilities in hardware or software. A popular refrain heard from industry analysts and IT consultants is that the number one cause of downtime in the data center is due to change management errors. The thinking is that undisciplined IT changes often cause problems that result in downtime. And with the size and complexity of SANs growing - especially as enterprises deploy heterogeneous environments - the downtime risks loom even larger.

Linux Vendor Red Hat Enters Storage Software Market

Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Linux vendor Red Hat has made its first move beyond its core OS business: it is now also entering the storage software market. The first product is a new storage solution called the Red Hat Global File System (GFS).

EMC's Networked Storage for SMBs: Customer-installable SAN and NAS

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Aimed at small-to-medium size businesses and based on a unique patent-pending design and technology, EMC has launched a customer-installable networked storage system capable of storing up to three terabytes of information with integrated functions for simple management and advanced protection.

Linux-Based SAN Helps Greenpeace UK Keep E-Mail Flowing

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

Since 1986, the environmental organization Greenpeace UK has relied on e-mail to support its campaigns, but its existing servers couldn't cope, so it has turned to a Linux-based SAN solution to guarantee that its environmental work can continue electronically and reliably.