Nutanix offers scale-out storage options for its Complete Cluster
Orlando Florida -- Cloud Caboodle and Nutanix Inc. today released a new series of its scale-out storage and compute cluster products, and updated its Nutanix Operating System. The new NX-3000 series lets customers scale storage and compute separately with performance nodes, and software advances include compression and replication for disaster recovery.
Nutanix's converged data center products combine solid-state Fusion-io PCI Express (PCIe) flash cards, hard-disk drives (HDDs), Intel processors for computing, and a file system for a "software-defined data center" in a box. "This is your entire data center. You don't need to use a SAN [storage area network] or NAS [network-attached storage] from NetApp or EMC," Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey said.
Nutanix emerged from stealth in April 2011 with its NX-2000 Complete Cluster product, the first of what has become known as hyper-converged storage because it combines storage, networking and virtualization in one box. Scale Computing and SimpliVity followed with hyper-converged products this year.
Pandey said early Nutanix customers told him they wanted the ability to independently scale compute and capacity. The NX-2000 Nutanix Complete Cluster systems came in fixed node configurations with no options for the customer.
The 2U NX-3000 line features several node configuration choices to enable scale-out storage. Customers can independently scale compute and capacity nodes that will vary the number of CPU cores per socket, PCIe flash cards, SATA solid-state drives (SSDs) and SATA HDDs.
The Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 3.0 features dynamic cluster expansion, disaster recovery (DR) tools at the virtual machine (VM) level, and inline and post-process compression technologies. The new DR tools allow users to set VM-level policies for native asynchronous multi-way replication between Nutanix systems. Replication is an optional software feature requiring a separate license.
As data becomes less used, NOS 3.0 will compress it post-process for capacity optimization, while not affecting input/output (I/O) during busy time periods. Data subject to system writes is compressed inline. Both post-process and inline compression are also optional software features requiring a separate license.
"We need to go and put [in] all the bells and whistles to make sure that [converged technology] is enabled to cross over the hump, and is palatable to the great majority," Pandey said.
NOS 3.0 also added support for the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology. Nutanix originally supported only VMware's vSphere, but Pandey said it will add support for Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V hypervisor, as well as Amazon Web Services LLC's public Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) next year.
Dave Russell, Gartner's research vice president for storage technologies and strategies, said Nutanix is an emerging vendor that is getting the most attention from users interested in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and private clouds.
Pandey said Nutanix will never offer a product with a virtualized storage controller. "A lot of [these features] are not possible if you land your storage controllers on bare metal," Pandey said. "Architecturally we have made this promise that we'll never run a storage controller on bare metal. And that is the only way to build the next-generation software-defined data centers."
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Jacksonville Florida -- After shedding its stealth cocoon back in the spring when it announced it got a $13.2 million A round, two-year-old Nutanix finally launched its Google-like Complete Cluster on Tuesday.
It's supposed to make virtualization simple and cheap.
The thing is a modular plug-and-play building block appliance that puts storage and compute in the same box so virtualized data centers can be built without a SAN or NAS just like Google has been doing all these years.
The start-up says that aside from contributing pain-in-the-neck complexity and pricey overhead to whatever it touches, pre-Internet SANs, or for that matter NAS, are dated, monolithic, slow, inelastic, undistributed, frazzled by virtualization and a bitch to manage. They're also a habitual bottleneck and an impediment to private clouds.
Anyway, Google spent a decade building infrastructure that banished network storage. It used software to make the local storage in commodity x86 servers fast, scalable and bullet-proof. Yahoo followed suit, as did Facebook and eventually Windows Azure. The cloud era had arrived. Local storage, with enterprise-worthy software on top, became vogue in large data centers again. Nutanix means to commoditize it.
Its appliance, purpose-built for "enterprise-class" virtualization and promising a 40%-60% savings just on the equipment, is the first commercial widget to mimic Google's approach although Google's data centers run on its data-managing Google File System (GFS) so they can catalog web pages and Nutanix uses a block-based storage interface for normal people.
It's still a Google-like distributed system architecture that hugs data close to the virtual machine and delivers high performance in a simple Google-like scale-out architecture on which to build virtualized server and desktop environments.
As might be assumed from its name, the widgetry can also be clustered into thousands of machines. It's just a building block.
Nutanix envisions data centers that are much smaller and faster than those with SAN-based architectures, yet simpler and more cost-effective to set up, implement, scale and sustain.
Nutanix's key innovation is its patent-pending distributed system software layer that converges compute and storage into a single tier, is designed specifically for virtualization and is optimized from the ground up to make use of Flash SSDs in its core architecture.
Nutanix' approach anticipates storage becoming completely virtualized.
It says "The industry, which makes a lot of money by continuing to propagate existing monolithic technology, will be forced to adapt to these new realities or, like the old monolithic server vendors, perish."
The widgetry starts with a single 2U Nutanix Complete Block containing four x86 nodes. Each Complete Block contains eight Xeon processors and 192GB of RAM (upgradeable to 768GB) for running virtual machines along with 1.3TB of Fusion-io, 1.2TB of SATA SSD and 20TB of SATA drives for storing virtual machine data. Each node in a Nutanix Complete Block runs an industry-standard VMware ESXi hypervisor.
It says a single Flash drive worth $3k, with its vulgarly high IOs/sec, will exhaust the processing power of an entire SAN that goes for $500k. "The SAN architecture of a few controllers virtualizing access to hundreds of spindles by exposing a few virtual volumes is hopelessly flawed for this decade."
Setup should reportedly take less than 30 minutes and can be easily managed using an intuitive user interface said to provide new levels of virtual machine visibility across compute and storage resources.
The box supports key virtualization capabilities like VMware's vMotion, high availability (HA), and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS), along with data management features like fast VM cloning, capacity optimization and converged backup for instant backup and recovery of virtual machine data without requiring external backup appliances.
The money fueling Nutanix' beta release and now it launch comes from Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Blumberg Capital.
The company is targeting large virtual deployments and using channel partner like Cloud Caboodle to get there. It's thinking mainly regional offices, the mid-market, test & dev, virtual desktops and DR sites. It'll run anything that runs on VMware although it can support any hypervisor. It's partnering with Citrix for its XenSource. It's supposed to "Quick Clone" hundreds of desktops.
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Over the past decade the data center has been transformed by the emergence and mainstream adoption of virtualization. Today, the data center is a far different creature than any architect would have imagined prior to the year 2000.
Orlando, Florida -- Virtualization has changed the ability of IT to deploy and manage workloads, and lent tremendous power to the administrator for manipulating those workloads in clever ways. As a consequence, the transformation has not merely impacted the data center floor and the inner workings hidden from the business, but it has changed the very nature of computing for the business as well.
Now test and development processes have, by the power of virtualization, been injected with new speed, lending agility to the business. Workload availability has increased; more workloads are possible in a given amount of floor space; easier deployment of workloads has created better separation of application components, improved configuration management, and lowered disruptive “incidents” in the IT and application infrastructure.
All of these changes have infused the business with a new ability to depend on IT, and to do so at lower cost and with less risk of disruption, says Brian McCarthy CTO and Co-founder of Cloud Caboodle who has been provide hypervisor solutions since 2005.
A look at virtualization alone looks rosy indeed, but it is not real because it does not stretch far enough. The reality is there is much more to the infrastructure than just the computing workload touched by virtualization, and these other systems – storage, networks, data protection – have remained far outside the touch of virtualization.
As an illustration, just imagine today’s multi-tasking administrator, finally comfortable even with the most important apps, and ready to undertake a virtualization initiative for a new business application with multiple components, says McCarthy.
Such an exercise today involves more than simply firing up server hardware and installing hypervisors. Today, a minimal set of separately purchased storage, server, network and storage fabric equipment leaves the administrator facing enormous unknowns and considerable complexity.
How much performance can any one application expect across all of these systems? Are each of these layers configured right to achieve good performance? Is there enough bandwidth and IO available to allow backup? How should some VMs be segregated and isolated to work with a DMZ?
What is a suitable and cost effective HA and failover approach for an important application? What about DR? How can multiple VMs be grouped together to enable data protection and cloning operations with consistent, usable data?
Is easy data reuse for testing best enabled by vCloud? Should my network topology include vSwitches and VLANs distributed vSwitches, or VXLANs?
No doubt, the virtual infrastructure unleashes agility and power. Armed with a good virtual infrastructure, an administrator can protect and reuse applications and data with merely a few mouse clicks. But the virtual infrastructure has unleashed equal if not greater complexity than before.
The Power and complexity of Abstraction
Before virtualization, the data center was long dominated by physical systems that were each highly sophisticated and specialized. When virtualization entered the data center, it came as a solution to the hardware dependencies and consequent software complexity introduced by some of this highly sophisticated hardware – specifically, the server.
By abstracting hardware into a homogeneous layer that could pool physical systems and slice them up for higher utilization, the server administrator’s job was simultaneously simplified and empowered. The server administrator could deliver all sorts of new capability to the business – from provisioning easy test and development systems with real data on-demand, to faster deployment, to higher utilization and lower IT costs.
But long after its introduction, the virtual infrastructure running on top of server hardware has yet to tackle other physical, specialized hardware systems in the data center such as networks or storage. The virtual infrastructure has instead duplicated the functionality of many of these systems in order to better support virtual machines, but has done little to extend the power of virtualization and abstraction to these physical systems.
Today, the virtual infrastructure is effectively a second data center within the data center and this has impeded IT’s ability to tackle other challenges in the infrastructure. Physical, separate, scattered, and non-scalable resources cannot be efficiently pooled. Storage, networks, and other resources are often over-provisioned and under-utilized because they must be manually touched and are less able to adapt or flexibly share resources compared to the virtual infrastructure.
What is the consequence? Unique and powerful features like virtual networks and virtual infrastructure specific storage presentations come at a price: complexity. Efficiency improved in the server infrastructure and the business has new IT capabilities. If you company has more then 50 tera-bytes of data then a SAN is costing you too much money, says McCarthy.
But complexity from managing duplicate layers of functionality has increased human overhead to the point that the business may be less agile, and IT efficiency may be worse off. It is in fact this complexity that hobbles many virtualization initiatives. Especially as the virtual infrastructure scales, complexity may put an end to cost savings, unless businesses can find a better solution.
Infrastructure complexity can make virtualization costly. Virtualization typically starts by consolidating servers and reducing equipment, making management easier and saving dollars spent on servers, storage, and networking. But when the infrastructure grows, managing new layers of virtual infrastructure along with physical infrastructure can put an end to time and effort savings, and frequently require more time and effort.
The next wave of virtualization will be different, and it is starting now. Technology is entering the market that will integrate the functionality of many of these still physical and separate systems into one single infrastructure, with complete virtualization.
The Next Wave – Hyperconvergence
We call this transformational wave of technology "hyperconvergence.” For the first time, an approach has emerged that combines all of the functionality of a data center in an appliance-like form factor that can be connected together to build an entire infrastructure in building block fashion.
Hyperconvergence stands in stark contrast to the latest iterations of convergence. Convergence has too often packaged existing technologies simply to ease consumption and integration, while allowing the consumer to buy fewer individual parts. But converged solutions too often left IT managing the same separate units of functionality.
Hyperconvergence is a seamlessly integrated whole, built upon homogeneous building block appliances that deliver all infrastructure functionality – compute, storage, and networking. Moreover, it will glue all of these parts together so the solution is highly automated top to bottom.
The most significant alteration in the Hyperconvergence approach is that it starts with storage, and aims to make the most difficult to manage resource in the data center highly efficient, performant, and scalable. From that foundation, Hyperconvergence clusters together a practically unlimited set of homogeneous storage+compute+network appliances. After initial deployment the customer can easily scale any starting configuration by simply adding more homogeneous appliances.
With internal storage virtualized across the cluster, any building block can access any stored data, while the cluster’s network makes access to any network port or amount of bandwidth instantly possible. By way of management tools, virtual administrators will be able to impose restrictions, pools, or barriers to facilitate organization and separation of workloads and resources for multi-tenancy or security.
With the Hyperconvergence solutions now entering the market, the IT administrator will be able to focus entirely on the server or application, and trust that all of the integrated components transparently work together in the background. When more interaction is needed, the administrator will be able to see and centrally manage the entirety of all of those other systems, without leaving the Hyperconverged solution.
Then, when more storage, networking, or processing power is needed, a single building block addition will add to the total resource pool, without deployment or integration effort. If you have not since Nutanix you should.
This will radically simplify provisioning, scaling, and failure avoidance, and redefine utilization patterns in the data center. Much overprovisioning will vanish, and utilization will match what is actually consumed. Moreover, it will transform the speed and ease of IT infrastructure adaptation, and make the IT driven business vastly more agile.
A VENDOR SURVEY
Surveying the vendor marketplace for Hyperconvergence is straightforward. This marketplace is relatively new, and has only a few recently introduced pioneers: Nutanix, Scale Computing, and SimpliVity.
In common to all three products is a system architecture that starts with scale-out storage. On top of this storage foundation, the vendors layer various flavors of storage functionality and compute virtualization.
With an eye toward the SMB-market, Scale Computing has transformed their highly-affordable, scale-out, iSCSI/CIFS/NFS storage cluster into a Hyperconvergence solution by integrating a highly polished KVM hypervisor and comprehensive management layer.
Scale Computing’s approach has simplified deployment and management to such a degree that we identified an 8X improvement over typical vSphere infrastructures in a recent hands-on Technology Validation.
Nutanix was the earliest of these vendors to introduce Hyperconvergence in their Nutanix Complete Cluster, targeted at mid-sized enterprise customers. Nutanix has received high visibility for unleashing a tremendous amount of power per unit of rack space. They employ dynamic auto-tiering of stored data onto NAND Flash SSD that cranks up the total IO available from each Nutanix node.
SimpliVity more recently entered the market with a similar IO accelerating architecture, alongside global capacity optimizing deduplication. SimpliVity customers can globally distribute SimpliVity OmniCubes across sites and even into the Amazon EC2 cloud, while managing all of the OmniCubes in a single global resource pool as a federated OmniCube cluster. SimpliVity also uses their deduplication technology to optimize WAN data movement across distributed OmniCube nodes. Both Nutanix and SimpliVity use an ESXi hypervisor and VMware’s vSphere for virtual infrastructure management.
Hyperconvergence Matures the Convergence Vision
Hyperconvergence itself is not really so radical – it is simply a better-realized iteration of the vision that every major vendor is pursuing. Those major vendors hope to extend their management approach to control and automate everything in the data center. They operate under a banner of “software defined” IT, or in other cases under the banner of simple convergence.
Hyperconvergence turns this model on its head. It starts by building its foundation on scalable storage-layer glue integrated with compute, that in turn makes all of the physically imposed boundaries and complexity disappear. Convergence has never before started with storage and aimed to tackle higher-level problems. This is what stands to make Hyperconvergence uniquely disruptive.
This handful of pioneers has launched Hyperconvergence in a thunderous start. The promise is that this will fundamentally alter the complexity of the infrastructure. If our hands-on assessment of one of these vendors (Scale Computing) is any representation of the norm, Hyperconvergence will have a big impact. It will create fundamental alterations in the cost of compute, the agility of the business, and in the daily responsibilities of the IT administrator.
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Miami, Florida -- When modernizing your enterprise to enable better sensemaking over all your information stores one of the factors you will need to consider is your throughput during ingest. You need to know and design for the right ingest for your system. As you map out your requirements you should keep in mind the kind of benchmarks the best in industry are meeting. That’s why we wanted to share this interesting fact: Cleversafe has not only engineered systems that scale limitlessly in terms of amount of data that can be stored and accessed, but they have designed systems that can capture data at an incredibly fast ingest rate of 1 Terabyte per second. This is impressive.
Cleversafe Inc., the solution for limitless data storage, today announced a new series of storage appliances, based on Intel® Xeon® processors, to achieve performance level throughput for ingesting and storing data at Exabyte scale. Cleversafe’s new 3000 series of appliances can be configured in a system capable of capturing data at 1 Terabyte per second at Exabyte capacity, making the company’s Object-based Dispersed Storage® solution extremely effective for high levels of data throughput.
“The inherent problem that companies are struggling with is building the right infrastructure to enable the world’s data scientists to make accurate predictions. That means being able to store more data over longer periods of time.” said Russ Kennedy, Vice President of Product Strategy, Marketing and Customer Solutions for Cleversafe. “At Petabyte and Exabyte scale the ability to ingest and store those volumes of data requires a significant boost in performance throughput,” said Kennedy. “We can scale this system to achieve an ingest rate of 1 Terabyte/second – that’s 20,000,000-3MB photos per minute, 180,000,000-20MB digital x-rays per hour, and even 1,728,000-50 GB HD videos per day. To finally be able to achieve that scale – that’s a serious shift in business for any company.”
Cleversafe’s new 3000 series appliances allow thousands of simultaneous readers/writers to maintain continuous, aggregate performance at a data throughput rate of 1-TB/second in a 10-Exabyte system configuration. Cleversafe’s innovative Object-based Dispersed Storage® technology combined with the performance benefits of Intel® Xeon® processors delivers the most reliable, cost effective, and power efficient big data storage solution in the industry.
“Today’s business requirements for capturing, storing and analyzing data at massive scale require CIOs to optimize their infrastructure strategies. Intel® Xeon® processors help solve big data storage challenges by providing energy efficient performance, scalability and built-in data protection required for today’s storage systems, ” said David Tuhy, Intel Storage General Manager.
Cleversafe is eliminating limitations on the movement, management and storage of massive data stores for analytical purposes. This past year the company announced the capability to store data at the 10 Exabyte scale, and just recently the company announced it was combining computation with its dispersed storage solution to deliver high reliability and efficiency to users of Hadoop MapReduce. Today’s announcement continues to show how Cleversafe is shaping the new data storage and analytics landscape to solve the challenges of Big Data.
“Petabyte and Exabyte scale data sets simply exceed the boundaries of normal data processing capabilities. When you get to those levels of scale you need to take a non-traditional approach to storage for cost-effectively capturing, storing and analyzing data.” said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “With traditional storage systems there are too many potential performance bottlenecks to capture data flow at such volumes. Cleversafe’s new series of storage appliances is a non-traditional approach that sets an extremely high ground for performance. This should help enable its customers to realize the real benefits associated with leveraging long-term Exabyte-scale data stores for analytics to deliver real business value.”
Product Features:
The Accesser 3100 model is powered by dual 8 core Intel® Xeon® ProcessorE5-2650 CPUs. It features 10GbE saturation on multiple ports to provide maximum throughput per Accesser.
The Slicestor 3510 model features high-density drive enclosures for extreme efficiency – 252 TB to 336 TB respectively (84 3TB drive enclosures in 5U with 84 4TB drive enclosures in Q4).
The dsNet Manager 3100 model is capable of managing up to 100 PBs with a single appliance.
Cleversafe’s new 3000 appliance series models will be available this Fall.
Cleversafe’s dsNet system protects both data and metadata equally and is inherently more reliable than traditional storage systems. By applying the company’s unique Information Dispersal technology to slice and disperse data, single points of failure are eliminated. As data is distributed evenly across all Slicestor nodes metadata can scale linearly and infinitely as new nodes are added, thus reducing any scalability bottlenecks and increasing performance and reliability. Cleversafe’s unique approach delivers the powerful combination of analytics and storage in a geographically distributed single system allowing organizations to efficiently scale their Big Data environments to hundreds of petabytes and even exabytes today.
About Cleversafe Inc.
Cleversafe has created a breakthrough technology that solves petabyte and beyond big data storage problems. This solution drives up to 90 percent of the storage cost out of the business while enabling secure and reliable global access and collaboration. The world’s largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe.
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Tampa, Florida -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today announced it is now easier than ever for small businesses and enterprises to adopt Quantum vmPRO™ virtual machine backup software and scale it to meet their growth requirements. The new vmPRO Standard Edition software protects up to 1 TB of virtual data and is available as a full-featured free download, providing a risk-free way to explore its superior features and value and part of 2013 storage trend.
Gartner Magic Quadrant leader Quantum vmPRO Standard Edition is easy to download and deploy as a virtual appliance, and customers have free access to Quantum Forum V for online support. For additional capacity, vmPRO Standard Edition customers can upgrade to vmPRO Enterprise Edition. It provides unlimited capacity for $799/TB, including one year of silver Support service, and the option of an additional tier of support to meet any SLA.
Users can also now download a free, full-featured virtual deduplication appliance, Quantum's DXi V1000, to store up to 15 TB of deduplicated data. The DXi V1000 works with vmPRO software to offer a 100 percent virtual data protection solution and provide a path to the cloud.
"Customers are looking for a better way to protect their virtual environments, and until now their only option was a proprietary format to back up data," noted Robert Clark, senior vice president, Data Protection, Quantum. "vmPRO is unique because it backs up data in native VMware format, so users can instantly restore individual files or boot VMs without a backup application. By providing the ability to download a full-featured, free 1 TB version of vmPRO software, we've also made adoption risk-free."
vmPRO: A Different Kind of VM Backup Application
Backup in Native VMware Format: vmPRO software backs up VMs in native VMware (VMDK) format based on customer backup policies, without the restriction of proprietary formats associated with all other backup applications on the market. This capability eases the recovery of single files, objects or entire VMs with drag and drop simplicity using the vmPRO GUI or any standard file system browser. By backing up VMs in native state, users can also instantly boot VMs from any remote site, including the cloud, without requiring a backup application. Easy to Deploy and Use: vmPRO software is a light-weight application that is deployed as a virtual appliance, and restores are accomplished in a single step. Any browser can be used to search and restore files, objects and whole VMs from anywhere -- without the use of a backup application. 95 Percent Data Reduction: The combination of vmPRO software and DXi appliances -- including DXi V1000 -- provides the most effective deduplication rates and the fastest VM recovery available today. With patented Progressive Optimization, vmPRO eliminates extraneous data typically associated with virtual machines and, when combined with deduplication, can dramatically reduce host, network and storage resource requirements. Integrates with VMware API: Quantum vmPRO works seamlessly with VMware vCenter server to auto-discover new VMs that have been added to an environment so they can work directly with VMware API for data protection, ensuring that no VM goes unprotected. Certified VMware Ready: Quantum vmPRO has been designated VMware Ready, an indication of its integration with VMware's API. VMware Ready designates VMware's highest level of endorsement for products and solutions created by their established partners.
Industry Accolades for vmPRO
In February 2012, vmPRO won the "Backup Hardware Product of the Year" category in Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com's 2011 Products of the Year competition. In December 2011, the company's vmPRO 4000 virtual machine protection solution was named "Storage Virtualisation Product of the Year" at the 2011 Storage, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing (SVC) Awards. For even more information call (800) 557-6540 x118 or click www.CloudCaboodle.com
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Orlando Florida -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in the Gartner Magic Quadrant in data protection and big data management, today announced availability of LTO-6 technology* in its Scalar tape automation systems. Incorporating new LTO-6 tape drives that nearly double capacity and increase transfer rates by up to 43 percent over LTO-5 technology, Quantum's Scalar i6000 enterprise tape library can now scale to over 45 PB, and a Scalar i500 midrange system over 2.5 PB. The higher capacities and increased performance further enhance the role of tape in providing long-term data retention, archiving and disaster recovery as an integral component of a broader tiered storage strategy.
In addition to Scalar i6000 and i500 tape libraries with LTO-6 technology, a full range of LTO-6 autoloaders, drives and media are also now available from Quantum. An LTO-6 supported StorNext® AEL Archive will be available first of the year. Quantum's LTO Ultrium 6 media cartridges support up to 6.25 TB of capacity and transfer speeds up to 400 MB/second (based on a 2.5:1 compression rate), substantially reducing the number of tapes that must be managed and data transfer time. With native hardware encryption, Quantum's LTO Ultrium 6 tapes are also read/write compatible with LTO-5 cartridges and read compatible with LTO-4 tapes for investment protection.
Continued Industry Leadership and Recognition
Customers around the world have deployed Scalar® libraries for the unmatched benefits they provide, including built-in proactive diagnostics capabilities, policy-based data integrity checking, and other management and reporting tools to save administrative time. In addition, the industry has continued to recognize the strength of Quantum's tape automation portfolio over the past year, as evidenced by:
A sweep of the 2012 Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards, capturing the top spot overall and in all five rating categories -- Product Quality, Product Features, Product Reliability, Technical Support, and Sales Force Competency -- for both enterprise and midrange tape libraries. A sweep of 2012 IT Brand Pulse Awards, with a #1 finish in every category -- Market Leader, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service and Support, and Innovation -- for the second consecutive year. Teradata's selection of Quantum's Scalar tape libraries and Scalar Key Manager™ encryption software as standard elements in its enterprise data protection solution offerings for customers.
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Robert Clark, senior vice president, Data Protection, Quantum
"Quantum continues to bring to customers robust end-to-end solutions for data protection which include tape, disk, virtualization, and cloud services. The increased capacity and performance of LTO-6, along with other enhancements to Quantum's tape portfolio such as LTFS, policy-based data integrity checking, improved density and high availability features, is enabling companies, including cloud providers, to evolve their tape use in exciting new ways. Tape's low cost, power efficiency and extended reliability make it an ideal storage technology for archiving unstructured data and long-term retention of backup data." For more information call (800) 557-6540 x111 or click www.cloudcaboodle.com
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Orlando Florida -- Nirvanix, the leader in enterprise-class cloud storage services, today announced that Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) has selected the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network as a secure and cost-effective backup solution for its 31 member institutions. One of ICI’s functions is to provide economies of scale in purchasing services that can be shared across its members. As such, ICI fully tested the Nirvanix cloud storage solution and contracted with Nirvanix to provide cloud-based backup services. Consortium members will begin leveraging the Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network using their existing backup applications. ICI expects Nirvanix cloud storage usage to reach hundreds of terabytes within the next 12 months.
“As the cost of higher education continues to rise, it’s clear that these institutions need to cut costs in areas that are not directly related to serving students. IT infrastructure is one of those areas and the cloud model provides an ideal solution. ICI and its member institutions are on the leading edge among higher education institutions in the paradigm change to harnessing the power and economics of the cloud,” said Dru Borden, Chief Strategy Officer, Nirvanix. “This is a trend that we expect all higher education institutions to follow thanks to the multitude of business and technology benefits that it’s proven to deliver.”
“With the Nirvanix solution we can leverage our existing backup applications, policies and procedures, and encrypt data at our site before sending it to the cloud, minimizing our privacy and confidentiality concerns. In addition, the Nirvanix solution gives our member institutions the key cloud economics benefit: predictive budget control while the marketplace and industry change.”
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Orlando Florida -- The amount of data continues to increase - about all storage predictions begin with this one since many years - but what's new is that the price to store them increases since few months and this trend will continue during the beginning of the year. As about all storage subsystems contains hard disk drives, the vendors have no choice but to increase the price of their configuration. For how long? Apparently, following the flood, the situation in Thailand improved but it's difficult to know when the HDD makers will begin to lower their prices, probably not before June 2012. It's probably the first time in the storage industry to see such a trend, price per gigabyte going up, and it will affect all the users from home to enterprise. The need for more capacity is there and they will probably wait for lower pricing before investing in new systems. Consequently, in this period of economic crisis and recession in Western countries, the first quarter of 2012 could be one of the worst one in the industry.
Success of technologies to reduce data storage
To try to compensate the situation, the users will look more deeply to the data they never or rarely use and to all the technologies enabling to store less and then to buy less hard disk drives:
> data reduction (compression and de-dupe)
> automatic tiering to Cloud
> new way of data protection (Cloud based RAIN)
> Hybrid HDD - SSD to benefit of HDD shortage
> Of course, price/GB of SSDs will continue to be higher compared to HDDs. But the gap is narrowing and some users will accept to pay more - but less than before - to get the three main advantages of solid-state memories: access time, transfer rate and lower power consumption. The vendors are also making big efforts to provide longer writing cycles on flash chips. Here PCI is gaining momentum, being the best interface to sustain the speed of SSDs for high-end applications, SAS and SATA III being used to replace conventional HDDs. Some companies are already offering all-flash storage subsystems competing in performance with the fastest traditional monolithic SAN. SSDs will progressively be used as cache, in tiering configuration with HDDs and then for the complete storage memory with HDDs for backup only.
Cloud Storage
Cloud, big data and virtualization, these words are dominating the speeches of the vendors. It will be the same along all the year. Cloud storage, private, public or hybrid, will evolve to try to solve two main problems: bandwidth and security. When you think that some vendors offer to transport physically your HDD to make the first complete backup ... That's why hybrid cloud with local storage and cloud backup service is a smart solution. Some new gateways to access to the cloud also can help. Synchronization of data between different devices is going to be a functionality more and more added to cloud storage.
Big Data
Here come new analysis tools to order out of the chaos of petabytes of both structured and unstructured data. Apache Hadoop, already adopted by a lot storage vendors, is at the forefront of this market.
Virtualization
Virtualization of both server and storage is unstoppable and will continue to be a huge market for the vendors, more than anything.
NAS
NAS appliances continue to explode at all levels, from the home to the largest companies. Mid-range devices now get enterprise-class features, are scalable and can be clustered. In this field, we see a great future for the surveillance market. Another trend to follow: the possibility to access and manage a NAS through smartphones and tablets with app based on iOS and Android.
Connection
The battle between 10GbE and 16Gb FC will arrive in 2012 but the cost of 10GbE ports is dropping quickly as the demand is much higher. FC is abandoned by HDD manufacturers now concentrating on SAS for enterprise HDDs. 12Gb SAS is standardized and we are waiting to see in 2012 the first HDD or SSD with this interface.
Thunderbolt
The new Intel/Apple interface is a dream for applications needing fast transfer rates, like video. Apple is the only one to have implemented it on its computers and the offering of external storage systems with Thunderbolt is limited and pricey. If Intel decides to integrate it on its processors, it could be an explosion but its high price will not affect USB 3.0. The is no way for FireWire to compete against Thunderbolt and USB 3.0.
HPC
There are a lot of innovations in the architecture of HPCs with Lustre or GPFS and now even EMC begin to be interested by this growing market of huge configurations needing not only fast processors but also petabytes of data.
Data protection of notebooks in enterprises
A majority of employees now use their notebook to work when they travel or at home and they contain critical data for their company. Since two years some solutions appear to protect them automatically and securely though the cloud. They are also needed following the proliferation of tablets and smartphones.
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Jacksonville, Florida -- The Radicati Group, Inc. published a report entitled Information Archiving Market, 2012-2016, written by editor Sara Radicati, PhD, and principal analyst Todd Yamasaki. This study provides an analysis of the information archiving market in 2012 and its potential growth over the next four years.
This study looks at two segments of the market:
> On-premises Information Archiving Solutions - include information archiving solutions offered as on-premises products for enterprise deployment.
> Cloud-based Information Archiving Services - include cloud-based information archiving solutions delivered as services.
Summary
Information archiving products and solutions provide interactive, long-term storage of electronic business content, including email, instant messages, social media, files, SharePoint content and other structured and unstructured information. In addition to providing information archiving, these solutions provide fast, easy search and retrieval of information, allow organizations to set granular retention policies and provide the foundation for eDiscovery, legal hold, and Data Loss Prevention.
The Information Archiving market has continued its rapid expansion over the last year as it tries to keep pace with the massive amounts of information generated by businesses today. More organizations are recognizing the value of archiving most or all of their information content in a centrally managed repository as a way to abide by regulatory and industry compliance requirements, as well as reduce and streamline their storage consumption.
More businesses are recognizing the value of archiving content beyond simply email. Aside from regulatory and compliance adherence archiving solutions provide, the reduction in overall storage requirements is a huge benefit as the growth of electronic content within the enterprise continues to explode. The ability to store and make available nearly all forms of electronic business content, in addition to compressing storage needs, from a centrally managed repository continues to keep interest in archiving solutions strong among today’s businesses.
On-premises information archiving solutions still account for a majority of end users. On-premises solutions account for 69% of information archiving users, while 31% of users are relying on a cloud information archiving service.
Interest in cloud-based services among businesses has continued to grow over the last year. Cloud-based information archiving services have not been an exception and although this market still trails the on-premises information archiving market in total users and revenues, cloud information archiving services are rapidly outpacing on-premises deployments.
The primary target that information archiving vendors continue to focus on are larger sized organizations with at least 1,000 employees. Due to compliance and regulatory requirements, the financial services industry is still the vertical market that the majority of information archiving vendors sell to. Strong growth is also occurring in the following vertical markets: government, education, and healthcare.
A growing number of businesses in less heavily regulated industries are beginning to deploy information archiving solutions for several different reasons. While not required by law to store and preserve electronic content, many businesses find great value in information archiving solutions that can improve storage management, provide support during litigation, and facilitate better back up and restore capabilities.
The worldwide information archiving market, including both on-premises and cloud (i.e. hosted) solutions, is expected to be over $3 billion in revenues by year-end 2012, and will grow to $6.3 billion in 2016.
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Miami, Florida -- To be available November 9 for TS3500 library
The System Storage TS1060 from IBM Corp. is an LTO Ultrium 6 tape drive that combines IBM tape reliability and performance at open systems prices.
TS1060 (machine type 3588, model F6A) is designed to be installed in an IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library (machine type 3584) to offer capacity and performance for the midrange open systems environment. This model incorporates the new IBM Ultrium 6 tape drive with enhanced maximum tape drive throughput over the LTO generation 5 tape drive (Ultrium5). It has a native data transfer of up to 160 MB/sec.
The TS1060 tape drive supports the LTO Generation 6 media specification of an over double compressed capacity of up to 6.25TB with 2.5 to 1 compression (up to 2.5TB native capacity) compared to previous LTO-5 compressed capacity of up to 3.0TB with 2:1 compression (up to 1.5 TB native capacity) per tape cartridge. Ultrium 6 tape drives can read and write LTO Ultrium 5 cartridges and read LTO Ultrium 4 cartridges.
The TS1060 has an 8 Gbps FC dual-ported interface for connection to open system servers.
It supports data encryption with Ultrium 6 or Ultrium 5 media.
Ultrium 6 enhancements that help improve performance
and reliability include:
Native data transfer rate up to 160 MB/sec
LTO Generation 6 media specification tape cartridge compressed capacity of up to 6.25TB (up to 2.5TB native)
8 Gbps FC dual-ported drive attachment
A larger 512 MB internal buffer
Support for media partitioning and self describing tape with LTFS Library Edition and LTFS Storage Manager software
LTO Ultrium 6 encryption support
The TS1060 can be installed in new or installed TS3500 Tape Library Models L53 and D53, and in 3584 Tape Library Models L52, L32, D52, and D32.
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