Tech Talk: W. Curtis Preston on endpoint backup

In part three of this three-part interview with SearchDataBackup, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, founder of Truth in IT and backupcentral.com, discusses endpoint backup.

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Tech Talk: W. Curtis Preston on tape use, virtual server backups

In part two of this three-part interview with SearchDataBackup, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, founder of Truth in IT and backupcentral.com, discusses how tape is being used today and virtual server backups.

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TechTalk Video: Curtis Preston on data growth and cloud backup

As the amount of data generated by organizations grows, so too does the need for procedures and infrastructure robust enough to back it up. In this interview with SearchDataBackup news and features writer Todd Erickson, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, founder of Truth in IT and backupcentral.com, discusses data growth, whether cloud backups are enterprise-ready, due-diligence steps you can take to be sure a cloud backup service is right for your organization, and more.

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Dell boosts Foglight's virtual storage management support

Dell Inc. updated its Foglight virtualization management platform this week, adding support for more SAN arrays and improved monitoring tools to Foglight for Storage Management.

Along with Foglight for Storage Management, Dell's Foglight platform includes Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition and Foglight for Virtualization Standard Edition. Dell acquired the Foglight platform when it purchased Quest Software for $2.4 billion in June 2012. Dell changed the entire platform's name to Foglight in February.

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Skyera plans to pack 500 TB into 1U flash array

Skyera Inc. this week said it would expand its all-solid-state storage array portfolio next year with skyEagle, which will hold 500 terabytes (TB) of raw flash storage in a 1U array.

Skyera claims skyEagle can deliver 20 Gbps throughput and 5 million IOPS, and the product is priced at $1.99 per gigabyte for read-intensive applications.

SkyEagle will be startup Skyera's second all-flash array. The company released the skyHawk array with a mix of 19 nm and 20 nm NAND flash in April 2012. The skyHawk array was priced at $2.99 per gigabyte. Like the skyEagle system, the skyHawk utilizes consumer-grade multi-level cell technology and manages it with its proprietary flash optimization software the company claims can extend the life of flash by 100 times.

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Violin pumps up capacity for all-flash array

Violin Memory Inc. this week launched its largest capacity all-flash array and a new Symphony storage management application.

The Violin 6264 Flash Memory array scales to 64 TB -- twice as much as the vendor's previous highest capacity array -- in a 3U box. Violin claimed the 6264 can deliver 750,000 IOPS. The system uses 19-nanometer, multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash from Toshiba.

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Smart Storage goes DIMM with memory channel storage

Smart Storage Systems this week released a server-side memory channel storage card using technology from Diablo Technologies Inc.

Smart's ULLtraDIMM flash storage boards sit in the motherboard's dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slots and use memory channel lanes for system connections. The vendor claims its cards have much lower and more consistent latency than traditional PCI Express (PCIe) flash cards or SATA and SAS solid-state drive (SSD) connections.

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PernixData virtualizes server-side flash caching

PernixData Inc. this week launched its server-side Flash Virtualization Platform, which allows organizations to share flash caching across clustered servers running VMware.

The Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) lets any server running the software to access flash resources installed on another host in the cluster. FVP installs into the VMware vSphere kernel, uses the same resources as the vSphere hypervisor, and can piggyback on the vMotion virtual network. The software is managed as a tab in vCenter.

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