http://issj.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Storage Virtualization Copyright 2008 VIRTUALIZATION JOURNAL Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:47:00 GMT VIRTUALIZATION JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://issj.sys-con.com/read/599328.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/599328.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Tek-Tools Software announced the latest version of its Profiler Suite with enhancements to continue to support customer requirements for managing virtualized and physical IT assets - servers, storage, backup and applications - from a single console. Virtualization provides almost immediate improvements in resource utilization and flexibility. However, it also impacts the way in which every component of the IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, backups, and applications, must be managed. Over time, organizations find that the derived benefits of virtualization are offset by the complexity of managing a virtualized environment. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/601920.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/601920.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT 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.' http://issj.sys-con.com/read/601955.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/601955.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:15:00 GMT Health care organizations -- faced with a staggering influx of information from patient medical records and billing and claims to data on medical discoveries -- are turning to Dell and virtualization to help cure their data storage and management challenges. According to a recent report by Forrester Research, current server utilization in many data centers is hovering around 10 percent to 20 percent1. By adopting virtualization, these IT environments can increase efficiency and reap the maximum benefits of an efficient IT infrastructure. This efficiency becomes even more critical as the influx of data continues to grow as the number of devices connected to the network, including PCs, RFID devices, and tablet and notebook computers expands. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/600130.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/600130.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:15:00 GMT Nirvanix announced the beta of a new set of products that attaches the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network to a local network as a Windows or Linux filer using standard industry networking protocols. Users can then work with the applications they are accustomed to, or simply drag and drop files from their desktops to Nirvanix's storage service. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/599181.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/599181.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT CDNetworks and Nirvanix announced a strategic partnership to deliver a unified cloud storage and content delivery service. Available immediately, CDNetworks' customers will be able to store unlimited amounts of protected and secure content online and move content instantly to and from any of CDNetworks' 63 nodes worldwide at previously unseen economies. The partnership with CDNetworks will provide Nirvanix customers with the ability to not only securely store massive amounts of media and content but also stage content for instant delivery anywhere in the world, utilizing one of CDNetworks' data centers for local delivery. By combining these services, companies will have better overall media delivery capability and also save 80 to 90 percent over building or growing storage infrastructures of their own. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/594124.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/594124.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:15:00 GMT Embotics announced the sponsorship of a new research benchmark report entitled 'Virtual Strategies: Managing Servers, Desktops and Storage for Infrastructure Efficiency' by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company. The research details how best-in-class companies manage virtual servers, desktops and storage for greater efficiency. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/594815.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/594815.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:15:00 GMT DataCore announced that Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) has purchased, deployed and benefited from the productivity and cost savings achieved from using DataCore's SANmelody storage virtualization software. SANmelody now forms the foundation for the IT department's consolidation and modernization approach. SANmelody virtualizes, safeguards, manages, and thin provisions storage for MCCS, while optimizing disk storage utilization, simplifying administration and boosting overall performance. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/590716.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/590716.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:30:00 GMT As part of IBM's 'Project Big Green' offerings, IBM announced new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/584416.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/584416.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:00 GMT Storage virtualization introduces a level of abstraction that sits between application servers and physical storage resources to provide centralized volume management and non-disruptive data mobility. These capabilities help storage managers improve productivity, capacity-utilization and service levels. Its unique position between application servers and storage resources demands the highest levels of availability, performance and data integrity. This session will review the benefits of virtualization and how it improves productivity, capacity utilization and service levels. It will also discuss how second generation, network based storage virtualization can be used to meet the demands imposed by its central position in the I/O stack. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/593953.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/593953.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:00 GMT As part of IBM's 'Project Big Green' offerings, IBM announced new storage virtualization software, its System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.3 software, to manage and consolidate volumes of business data. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/586197.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/586197.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:45:00 GMT As data growth rates continue to climb and business requirements further evolve, customers are feeling the pressure to realign their storage infrastructure to better meet the needs of their business. Mr. Yoshida will discuss how storage virtualization is the key enabler towards the storage-based services required to deliver substantial breakthroughs in efficiency and business agility across the entire enterprise. He will discuss how storage-based services such as thin provisioning, content and file management and dynamic data migration, enabled via controller-based Virtualization, are paving the way for the Dynamic Data Center of tomorrow. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/544193.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/544193.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:00 GMT From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/553296.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/553296.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT DataCore announced that it has accepted a $30 million equity investment from Insight Venture Partners and Updata Partners. Insight Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on the global software and Internet industries. Updata Partners is an information technology-focused venture capital firm whose general partners have been active as investors and operators in the IT industry for more than two decades. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/580405.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/580405.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT GlassHouse Technologies announced the acquisition of independent IT consulting firm TPP Group. The move is part of GlassHouse's continued drive to expand its storage management capabilities across the UK. The agreement was completed on May 22, 2008 for an undisclosed amount, and TPP employees have already joined the GlassHouse team at the company's EMEA headquarters in Weybridge. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/580101.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/580101.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:15:00 GMT Acuo Technologies announced the integration and certification of IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) as well as the addition of IBM to Acuo's Elite Partner Program. By adding the Acuo Technologies middleware software to the IBM GMAS solution, the medical imaging industry has the ability to procure a strategy that enables the customer to gain control of their data as well as manage it in a manner that provides flexibility and lower the total cost of ownership. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/580406.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/580406.htm Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:30:00 GMT StackSafe announced the external infrastructure connectivity upgrade to its staging and testing solution, StackSafe Test Center. The solution creates a virtual copy of the software infrastructure stack and enables IT Operations teams to better test the impact of changes before releasing them to the production environment, reducing the uncertainty and downtime related to IT changes. With this upgrade, the virtualized Test Center environment can be extended to interact with non-virtualized system components that reside outside of the Test Center environment - enabling test scenarios across the entire end-to-end IT service. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/574249.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/574249.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 08:15:00 GMT 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. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/578553.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/578553.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 08:15:00 GMT DataCore announced today that SoftBank Telecom has deployed DataCore SANmelody as the storage virtualization platform to build, verify and test its disaster recovery process over a wide-area virtual infrastructure. For the deployment and verification test, SoftBank Telecom established a connection between its data centers in Tokyo and Osaka (approximately 500 kilometers apart) via Infiniband, and configured wide-area virtual systems through the virtualization of servers, storage, and I/O. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/519763.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/519763.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/577047.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/577047.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT Building on its new solutions and services-led technology strategy announced in February, Unisys expanded its family of real-time infrastructure solutions. These new solutions and services embody Unisys 'less is more' approach to IT infrastructure, freeing IT organizations to deploy a simplified, more easily managed IT infrastructure that allows them to spend less time on routine management activities and more on strategic initiatives that advance the business. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/577164.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/577164.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT ONStor announced it has been awarded certification for interoperability with the VMware server virtualization software platform. Confirming the ability of VMware virtual machines (VMs) to operate on ONStor storage devices, this certification assures customers that both companies are committed to an ongoing partnership, including providing technical support and proactive qualification to support customers' deployments. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/575948.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/575948.htm Wed, 28 May 2008 11:45:00 GMT 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. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/576036.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/576036.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT NetApp announced that the Hillsborough County Library Services (HCLS), located in Tampa, Florida, has solidified its disaster recovery capabilities and streamlined its overall storage environment thanks to its recent installation of the NetApp S500 storage solution. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/570589.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/570589.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 14:45:00 GMT Building on its standing over competitors in storage virtualization implementations worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation introduced enhancements to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM. With this announcement, Hitachi is delivering an advanced, market-proven storage services platform that enables customers to gain reductions in capital and operational expenditures, improved storage utilization and efficiency, and lower environmental footprints across their entire storage infrastructure. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/565280.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/565280.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 09:15:00 GMT 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. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/565048.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/565048.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT F5 Networks announced that it has launched the File Virtualization For Dummies program with Wiley Publishing that offers the For Dummies guide along with a supporting webinar. Keeping in line with Wiley's For Dummies guides, this program offers a pragmatic approach to a pervasive issue. The guide and webinar outline the problems created by today's storage deployments, along with the information that IT staff needs to help manage and solve the associated problems. The overall goal of the program is to help enterprise IT staff get a grip on storage growth and reduce costs. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/565142.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/565142.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT Insight Integrated Systems (IIS) will showcase NetApp's server virtualization solutions. Virtualization is a technique for increasing server utilization by supporting multiple operating systems running on a single server. It provides an abstraction layer that decouples the server's physical hardware from the operating system, creating a uniform pool of computer resources that can be allocated to virtual servers in a controlled manner. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/564196.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/564196.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:00 GMT Seanodes released the results of a third-party survey of IT professionals that shows that the transition from direct attached storage to networked storage is dictated by needs that come with server virtualization, such as VM migration, elevating costs and complexity, while taxing performance and management. The survey, with respondents including network and systems administrators and other IT personnel from organizations of all sizes, sheds light on how virtualized infrastructures raise the levels of stress and demand on networked storage, creating a tenuous situation of economic sustainability against the high costs of improved storage performance. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/562262.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/562262.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 GMT DataCore announced that JMR Construction has become a DataCore SANmelody customer courtesy of DataCore partner Integral Networks. VMware and DataCore serve as a way forward for the DataCore partner and customer alike. The combination provides a cost effective alternative that made it practical for JMR to save by not having to invest in additional, physical servers. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/562326.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/562326.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 GMT 3PAR announced that a recently released report by the Taneja Group defines and analyzes a new category of next-generation Fibre Channel storage systems from vendors including 3PAR. The report forecasts revenue growth for next-generation Fibre Channel storage systems for the period between 2007 and 2011 and identifies shifts in the Fibre Channel storage market that Taneja believes are largely responsible for driving revenue growth for this new segment. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/548403.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/548403.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT Founded in 2006, SYS-CON Media's 'Virtualization Journal' is the world's first magazine devoted exclusively to what Gartner has earmarked as the single highest-impact IT trend through 2012: virtualization. And now it will be available on newsstands worldwide, as SYS-CON Media seeks to support the world-beating 'International Virtualization Conference & Expo' series produced by SYS-CON Events with top-quality print collateral, available at newsstands wherever fine-quality technical journals are sold. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/130117.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/130117.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT Existing storage management methods and tools can't keep pace with exploding storage requirements. Application expansion, digital media formats, and regulatory compliance have all contributed to the fast-growing demand. According to IDC, storage administrator productivity has to increase 60% a year just to keep up with the anticipated growth in storage capacity. To make matters worse, 24x7 data access requirements are closing the management windows available to administrators to do management tasks. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/559506.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/559506.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT Enterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and advanced virtualization technologies that let them allocate and shift SAN resources dynamically in response to the demands of their virtualized server environments. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/558918.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/558918.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 17:15:00 GMT NetApp announced that the Breckenridge Group (BGI) created a more efficient and effective storage environment with the recent implementation of the StoreVault S500 storage solution. BGI is a management firm specializing in the development, operations, and ongoing support of various restaurant and hotel locations throughout the western United States. BGI's IT environment consisted of 150 workstations and 250 PC-based point of sales (POS) terminals in the field along with 80 workstations, 14 physical servers, and 16 virtual servers that were located in the company's main office. With more than 4TB of direct-attached storage (DAS), the tasks of archiving, accessing, and backing up data were cumbersome. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/556193.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/556193.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:00 GMT DataCore Software announced that Woodgrain Millwork has purchased and deployed its flagship SANsymphony software from DataCore authorized partner Right! Systems (RSI). RSI is a solution provider of virtualization solutions. 'SANsymphony allowed us to add a new EMC array and make it work effectively with our existing HP EVA storage, improving and harnessing the combination to run in tandem and support our mix of database, ERP and VMware server systems,' said Chip Olsen, senior systems engineer, Woodgrain Millwork. 'With SANsymphony now in place, we have been able to significantly improve performance and address the uptime and availability issue for our SQL servers and ERP application - something mission-critical to our operations.' http://issj.sys-con.com/read/547847.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/547847.htm Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:45:00 GMT The Belgian Post Office collaborated with NetApp for its data backup and archival. To manage this data, the post office is switching to a virtual infrastructure developed by NetApp in combination with conventional physical tape. In doing this, the post office is keeping pace with the current trend of virtualization in the storage environment, minimizing risk, and maximizing its return on investment in IT spend. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/544516.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/544516.htm Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:45:00 GMT DataCore announced that St. Marien Amberg Hospital has implemented SANmelody as the storage foundation that supports its information systems and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) project running on a VMware environment. The virtual infrastructure not only offers high availability, better performance and lower management costs, but also halves the electricity and cooling costs by using less hardware to do more work. 'By using a combination of DataCore storage and VMware server virtualization, we have laid the foundation for an IT environment of the future,' said Dr Dietmar Braeuer, head of information technology at St. Marien Amberg Hospital. 'More flexibility, more functionality and performance, less hardware.' http://issj.sys-con.com/read/540720.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/540720.htm Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:30:00 GMT 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. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/463309.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/463309.htm Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:15:00 GMT Key opinion-formers in the field of infrastructure and pioneers of virtualization technologies of all types have already begun submitting speaking proposals to Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 East, being held in New York City, 23-24 June, 2008. Topics covered will range from Server Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Network Virtualization, I/O Virtualization and Storage Virtualization, to Virtual Machine Automation, Physical to Virtual (P2V) Migration, Management Applications, Tools and Utilities, and Virtualization Scripts and Procedures. http://issj.sys-con.com/read/380358.htmhttp://issj.sys-con.com/read/380358.htm Thu, 24 May 2007 07:30:00 GMT Microsoft has confirmed that the Vista-generation Longhorn Server is officially going to be called Windows Server 2008, a name indicative of when it will come out. The company already admitted last week that the Viridian virtualization widgetry meant to complement Longhorn has shucked some major features so it can get out within six months of Longhorn.