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  • New SATA-II 2.5 SSD Introduced

    Accelerated Memory Production today announced the introduction of its exclusive new Sandforce Driven SATA-II 2.5” SSD,. A new generation of Solid State Drives that offers high capacity with faster transfer speeds and smaller form factors. The new flash-based drive delivers the benefits of a small form factor combined with lower power consumption compared to traditional drives with greater speed capability.

    The SATAsfaction Series can eliminate the performance bottlenecks associated with traditional rotating disk drives offering up to 30,000 random write IOPS.

    “Because there are no moving parts with this drive,” amp inc. engineering specialists explained, “the new SATA-II takes up much less valuable real estate.” Reaction to the new product from manufactures and developers, they continued, “has been overwhelming.” The drives offer SATA 3.0 interface support, as well as faster read and write speeds, and high reliability. They also feature zero acoustic noise, and are far less prone to mechanical failure than traditional SATA solutions.

    New SATAsfaction Series drives are available in a variety of capacities, standard 2.5” and embedded specially designed for applications where compact size and robust performance are required in the Enterprise Market.

    According to Ms. Linda Deming, amp inc. development specialist, “data protection makes the SATA-II SSD an ideal storage solution for the server, embedded defense and mobile environment. “Due to its non-mechanical nature it has higher shock resistance and lower access time than a traditional rotating hard disk.” She continued, “Built-in ECC and EDC ensure error-free transaction for the most demanding applications.

    amp incs’ SSD also incorporates some unique features tailored especially for the enterprise market. These features such as data protection and low power standby make amp inc’s SSD a reliable and environmentally friendly source for storage.

    SATAsfaction Series SATA-II Features:

    • Supports SATA 3.0
    • ATA-7 Compliant
    • Supports native Command Queing (NCQ)
    • Supports PIO and UDMA-6
    • Advance power management
    • Built-in ECC function – 12 bytes/sector
    • Supports Trim
    • 22 pin SATA Plug Interface (7 data, 15 power)
    • S.M.A.R.T. Capable

  • TwinStrata Unveils Cloud Storage Enablement Strategy

    TwinStrata debuts today with its vision for intelligent storage cloudsolutions.

    Taking an innovative approach, the company is bringing to market cloud storage enablement software solutions to help mid-sized companies in a variety of industries address challenges related to protecting and managing the growth of business application data.

    Operational Challenges of Data Management
    Today’s IT data management teams are tasked with selecting solutions that maintain the integrity and availability of data, especially higher value data related to business critical applications. Storage-related solutions need to easily and quickly scale to accommodate future data growth and not require capital intensive upgrades when capacity limits are reached. They must support multiple data formats for all types of business applications. In addition, companies should understand the impact an application outage will have on each line-of-business or on the company as a whole in order to implement appropriate data recovery operations.

    Cloud Technology Ecosystems
    To help companies achieve business agility and efficiency, IT alignment and cost management, several ecosystems started by industry-leading vendors have emerged. EMC with its EMC Atmos Velocity Program and Amazon with its Amazon Web Services are each an example of an ecosystem of solution providers developing cloud enablement solutions that leverage their respective cloud services. These ecosystems will have a significant impact on storage cloud adoption.

    Corporations using solutions from these ecosystems benefit from the cloud. They can now instantly respond to changing business requirements by taking advantage of an adaptable infrastructure and adding resources as needed. Storage cloud infrastructures eliminate lengthy change management cycles when bringing new storage infrastructure online and optimize IT administrative processes to drive efficiency and improve staff productivity.

    "Cloud enablement solutions, like the one TwinStrata offers, will help accelerate corporate cloud storage adoption," said Terri McClure, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Companies can realize the availability, security and performance characteristics of local storage, without the capital investment and overhead of housing and managing storage themselves."

    "TwinStrata is working with customers around the world and with industry-leading global technology companies to define and develop intelligent storage cloud architectures and solutions," said TwinStrata CEO & Co-Founder Nicos Vekiarides.

    "The EMC Velocity2 Atmos Partner Program demonstrates our commitment to deliver innovative storage solutions that address the growing needs of our partners seeking to leverage cloud infrastructure. We believe there is an opportunity and approach to cloud storage that delivers financial and functional benefits to both our Partners and the Customers they serve," said Mike Feinberg, Senior Vice President of EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group.

    "By making our cloud infrastructure accessible and allowing easy API integration, we enable our partners to develop cloud enablement solutions to help customers realize business agility, drive IT operational efficiency, and improve cost controls. We are pleased to work with TwinStrata to embrace and deliver real-world business value to our joint customers, globally."

    Intelligent Storage Cloud, Cloud Enablement Solutions
    Intelligent storage clouds consist of storage-as-a-service offerings combined with intelligent cloud storage enablement solutions. Cloud storage enablement solutions address the primary concerns that users have expressed regarding enterprise IT adoption of cloud storage solutions and deliver the following features:

    * Compute Anywhere™ application accessibility: on/off-premise, in the cloud
    * Non-disruptive integration with business applications
    * Support for all industry file systems and block-level access
    * Intelligent caching architecture that delivers local performance
    * Support for virtual and physical IT environments
    * Ease of deployment, ability to manage in self-service manner via UI, CLI and API
    * Local and cloud data copies, zero-footprint snapshots
    * Encryption for security
    * Bandwidth savings via caching, compression, deduplication
    * Support for multiple cloud providers, with data mobility across providers
    * Support for providers that offer SLAs for regulatory & compliance requirements

    About TwinStrata
    TwinStrata is a pioneer in the Cloud Storage Enablement (CSE) market with the industry’s first purpose-built architecture and software solution to enable Intelligent Storage Clouds (ISC). ISC deliver simple, affordable and secure storage solutions to enterprise environments. TwinStrata’s solutions address the business need for on-demand IT services, providing new levels of business agility, efficiency, IT alignment and cost management for protecting and managing the growth of business application data. For more information about TwinStrata, please visit www.twinstrata.com

  • Texas Memory Systems’ New RamSan-630 Achieves 1 Million IOPS in 6U Flash Storage

    Texas Memory Systems, Inc., maker of the World’s Fastest Storage, today announced the availability of the 10-TeraByte SLC Flash based RamSan-630 with 500,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in a 3U enclosure.

    Currently, 10 Fibre Channel links (4-Gb) allow 4-GB/s of aggregated bandwidth for the RamSan-630. In a few months, new InfiniBand and 8-Gb Fibre Channel adapters will allow 8-GB/s of aggregated bandwidth. With these extreme performance numbers, the 10-TB RamSan-630 sets the standard for immediate (microseconds NOT milliseconds) high volume database storage access.

    Applications are constantly expanding capacity needs and performance requirements. As user loads continue to increase, the IT community is challenged to optimize limited data center resources, such as space, power and cooling. Traditional, mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD) based storage is inherently slow, bulky, and power-intensive when compared to Flash storage. However, simply incorporating Flash into HDD form factor systems delivers limited improvement in performance and power usage. Even Flash systems using PCIe interfaces do not allow multiple servers to access all of the capacity at this bandwidth level, a core requirement of the Enterprise.

    In contrast, the RamSan-630 has been engineered to optimize Flash capabilities to meet the full spectrum of Enterprise needs for performance, reliability, and efficiency. It is unique in its ability to scale horizontally and offer shared access to multiple servers. It is the 16th generation SSD from Texas Memory Systems, the supplier with the largest, most demanding SSD production installations worldwide.

    “Flash SSD is one of the most transformative technologies available in the data center,” said George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland. “With the RamSan-630, Texas Memory Systems is again demonstrating its innovation leadership. It has engineered a Flash system backplane that enables applications to leverage the full bandwidth in a networked environment without any changes to the application. Enterprise IT can expect to reap the performance and efficiency of Flash without any upheaval since applications are already architected to maximize bandwidth utilization in traditional HDD infrastructures.”

    The RamSan-630 delivers up to 500,000 sustained I/Os per second and 10 terabytes of storage with 8GB/second bandwidth in a single 3U chassis. Latency is less than 80 microseconds. Power utilization is just 450 watts. In order to deliver a similar bandwidth using HDD, it would require a full data center rack and consume 14 times as much power while still falling short of the RamSan-630 performance and latency.

    “The RamSan-630 is the smart choice for today’s demanding enterprise data centers,” said Levi Norman, Director of Marketing and OEM for Texas Memory Systems. “We developed it in response to observing how customers were struggling to boost performance without adding to their data center footprint. The explosive growth in IT and storage over the years is resulting in many data centers reaching their limits for space and power draw. High performance computing and data warehouses in particular need high performance, high efficiency storage for batch processes and simultaneous system access. The time is right for RamSan.”

    The RamSan-630 is available now from Texas Memory Systems and its partner network. Find more information about the RamSan-630, including price quotes, online at https://www.ramsan.com/products/ramsan-630.htm.

  • Winner of the Biz-News.com "Product of the Year Award 2009” Announced

    Our polls for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009” closed on the 15th of February. The winner is a result of the amount of votes they were awarded by readers, all readers where invited to vote for their favourite products or service in the Smartphone, HDTV, Storage and VoIP categories.

    This is the second year that Biz-News.com runs this Award, prized with a company profile and interview with our Editor.

    In 2008 the winners were MyGlobalTalk by i2Telecom and IPsmarx in the VoIP category, Restore Point by Tadasoft in the Storage category and AmAze in the Smartphone category.

    This year the participation has been amazing and we want to thank readers for their support and interest in this Award. Without your participation it would not have been possible to announce this year’s reader’s choice awards.

    Without further delay we will below list the absolute winners for 2009.

    Winners for the Biz-News.com “Product of the Year Award 2009”

    Smartphone Category
    Privus Mobile

    HDTV Category
    HD-PVR by Hauppauge Computer Works

    VoIP Category
    IPsmarx SIP Based Calling Card Platform by IPsmarx Technology

    Storage Category
    Compellent Storage Center by Compellent

    It is also worth mentioning other strong candidates like Fonolo and Free Switch for the VoIP Category, and Data Robotics, Pivot3, Starwind Software and Xiotech for the Storage Category.

    We congratulate our winners and thank our readers for expressing their opinion and voting for their favourites.

  • Tight Competition for Biz-News.com Product of the Year Awards

    Contenders for the Biz-News.com Product of the Year Award are on a tight struggle to obtain the leading amount of votes for the 2009 Awards.

    The awards are people’s choice; users are being called upon to express their consumer experiences during 2009.

    What Storage service worked for you best? Which service would you recommend to your friends and colleagues?

    Let us know and award them a vote by filling this form.

    Currently top contenders stand as follows:

    • Storage Center by Compellent
    • Drobo by Data Robotics
    • Pivot3 Serverless Computing by Pivot3
    • 3X Remote Backup Appliance by 3X Systems
    • NexetaStor by Nexeta
    • StarWind Enterprise by StarWind Software

    You can vote for them or nominate your personal favourite.

    If you have more than one nomination for "Best Product" you can make multiple submissions – but you can only vote once for any product.

    Voting closes on the 15th of February!

    May the best be rewarded.

  • CloudBerry Backup Lets Users Back up Windows Home Server to Amazon S3

    CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Backup version 1.3 – an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.

    CloudBerry Backup is also available as a Windows Home Server add-on. It integrates with the WHS console and offers scheduled backup to cloud storage, hosted on Amazon S3.

    According to the company’s announcement, newer version features full support for Windows Home Server Drive Extender that lets users seamlessly increase disk storage by adding new drives. These do not appear as new drive letters, but simply increase the available space.

    Backup Window is a new feature of the scheduler that help specify for how long backup job should run so that it for example only runs during the night time while not impacting users computer performance and network bandwidth in the day time.

    Besides, there is an improved support for the operations involving Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service.

    CloudBerry Backup works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. Command line interface allows partners and advanced computer users integrate backup and restore plans with other routines.

    A single-user license for CloudBerry S3 Backup 1.3 for Windows costs $29.99. It will be offered without charge to students, educational institutions and non-profit organizations.

    CloudBerry Lab was established in 2008 by a group of IT professionals with the mission to help organizations in adopting Cloud computing technologies “by closing the gap between Cloud vendor propositions and consumer needs through development of innovative low-costs solutions.”

  • Biz-News.com: A Retrospective of 2009

    Dear Storage.Biz-News.com Reader,

    Yet another year of hard work with great rewards has gone by.

    This year Biz-News.com has brought new features that we hope have enhanced your reading experience.

    We have realized 85 exclusive interviews with C-Level executives who have introduced their companies to us and have explained how their innovative ideas are changing the Tech sector.

    We have partnered with 70 sector events worldwide and have covered major events like GSMA Barcelona, IFA held in Berlin, The Canalys Mobility Forum in London and the European Tech Tour Web & Mobility Summit held in Switzerland. Our video footage on the events and video interviews with companies showing their newest product launches have been a great success amongst our readers.

    We have also been chatting to followers through our biz_news Twitter account and have generated interesting discussion topics across various LinkedIn groups.

    This year we will, for second year running, award the “Biz-New.com Product of the Year 2009” for the VoIP, Smartphone, HDTV and Storage categories. Voting is open to the public, you choose your winner, voting closes on February 15th 2010.

    During 2010 Biz-News.com plans to keep our readers on top of the news, maintaining journalistic standards and bringing you the latest updates on the industry. Keep reading us for sector updates, interviews with expert analysts, one to one interviews with industry leaders and exclusive video coverage at mayor events.

    We wish you a wonderful holiday season and a successful start of 2010!

    Best wishes,
    The Biz-News.com Team

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  • Toshiba Launches Highest Density Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules

    Toshiba announced the launch of a 64 GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry.

    The new device combines sixteen 32Gbit (equal to 4GB) NAND chips fabricated with Toshiba’s 32nm process technology, and also integrates a dedicated controller.

    The chip is the flagship device in a new line-up of six embedded NAND flash memory modules that offer full compliance with the latest e•MMC standard.

    Toshiba is the first company to succeed in combining sixteen 32Gbit NAND chips. The company has applied advanced chip thinning and layering technologies to realize individual chips that are only 30 micrometers thick.

    Full compliance with the JEDEC/MMCA Version 4.4(V4.4) standard for embedded MultiMediaCards supports standard interfacing and simplified embedding in products, reducing development burdens on product manufacturers.

    “Demand continues to grow for embedded memories with a controller function that minimizes development requirements and eases integration into system designs. Toshiba has established itself as an innovator in this key area. The company was first to announce a 32GB e•MMCT compliant device, and is now reinforcing its leadership by being first to market with a 64GB generation module,” says Toshiba.

    The company informed that samples of the 64GB module are available from today, and mass production will start in the first quarter of 2010.

  • IDC: EMC Led The Overall Storage Software Market in Q3

    According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced another decline in year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2009 with revenues of $2.87 billion, representing –7.9% growth over the same quarter one year ago, but a 1.2% growth from the previous quarter.

    IDC report shows EMC led the overall market with 23.4% revenue share in the third quarter of 2009. Symantec held onto the second position with 17.8% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.2% revenue share.

    NetApp finished in the fourth position with 7.6% revenue share while CA rounded out the top 5 with 3.9 revenue share.

    For the second quarter in a row, only two of the top 5 vendors displayed a positive growth over the previous quarter. EMC and IBM displayed positive growth rates of 5.7%, and 6.9% respectively, while Symantec, NetApp, and CA each had negative growth rates from the previous quarter of –2.1%, –8.9%, and –3% respectively.

    “Two out of the top three vendors in the data protection and recovery market grew sequentially (IBM and EMC) while the leader Symantec declined at 1.2%,” said Michael Margossian, research analyst, Storage Software at IDC.

    Symantec is still the market leader with 31.1% market share, and IBM and EMC having 14.1% and 12.8% market share respectively.

    EMC regain the top spot in the replication market, with 10.7% growth over 2Q09, while NetApp declined 10.1%.

    “The storage software market was barely able to maintain a positive sequential growth rate in the third quarter of 2009,” concluded Margossian.

  • Seagate Introduces Its First Enterprise SSD: Pulsar

    Seagate introduced the Seagate Pulsar drive, the first product in its new enterprise SSD family.

    Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar uses SLC (single-level cell) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch form factor with a SATA interface. It leverages non-volatile flash memory rather than spinning magnetic media to store data.

    According to Seagate, its new SSD achieves a peak performance of up to 30,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, 240MB/s sequential read and 200 MB/s sequential write.

    “Its SLC-based design optimizes reliability and endurance and helps provide a .44% AFR rating with a 5-year limited warranty. As an additional safeguard, the Pulsar drive leverages Seagate’s enterprise storage expertise to protect against data loss in the event of power failure,” the company says.

    The drives are available in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB capacities.

    “Our strategy is to provide our customers with the exact storage device they need for any application, regardless of the component technology used. We are delivering on that strategy with the Pulsar drive, and you can expect additional products in the future from Seagate using a variety of solid state and rotating media components,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president.

    Joseph Unsworth, research director at Gartner said, “The enterprise SSD market is now primed and well-positioned for growth from both a revenue and unit perspective, with Gartner estimating unit growth to double and sales to reach $1 billion for calendar year 2010.”

    “Superior enterprise SSDs provide transformational capabilities when optimized in storage and server environments,” he added.