Sepaton adds storage pooling and prepares to move beyond pure virtual tape library

Sepaton Inc. today added storage pooling and improved monitoring and reporting features for its S2100-ES2 virtual tape libraries (VTLs) while preparing to extend the platform from beyond solely a VTL to support Ethernet and file-based interfaces.

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Double-Take Flex for HPC brings iSCSI SAN boot to HPC Server

Double-Take Software Inc. this week launched Double-Take Flex for High Performance Computing (HPC), a diskless iSCSI SAN boot solution for Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

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Zmanda adds cloud disaster recovery to Zmanda Cloud Backup

Zmanda Inc. this week released the third generation of its Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB), adding cloud disaster recovery, support for Microsoft Server 2010 and bandwidth throttling to the online data backup service for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

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Law school council IT disaster recovery plan aces its examinations

While Hurricane Katrina forced many organizations in the New Orleans area to implement IT disaster recovery plans after the fact, the devastating 2005 storm also prompted the Newtown, PA-based Law School Admission Council (LSAC) to plan for a disaster as a preventive measure.

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Verizon Cloud Storage service lets customers choose data location

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications Inc., this week launched its Verizon Cloud Storage service that gives customers on-demand storage capacity; the ability to isolate their data in one or more of Verizon's five storage locations; and an application programming interface (API) to embed the service in third-party applications, such as backup and Web solutions.

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Sepaton adds data erasure technology for virtual tape libraries with Secure Erasure

Virtual tape library (VTL) vendor Sepaton Inc. today moved to beef up security for long-term data retention and regulatory compliance by adding secure data erasure technology.

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RainStor 4 data archiving adds record-level management and legal hold capabilities

RainStor today launched RainStor 4, the latest version of its data archiving software, adding record-level management, legal hold and deletion capabilities for compliance, as well as increasing its ingestion rate and retrieval performance.

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NFS alternative meets Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance computing needs

The high-performance computing (HPC) team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is looking for a NFS alternative to benefit its supercomputing processing.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory is home to the federal government's weapons research facility, which uses Panasas Inc. network-attached storage (NAS) for its research data.

However, the laboratory can't use NFS for weapons research because it doesn't scale high enough, said Gary Grider, deputy division leader for high-performance computing. So the lab uses Panasas' proprietary DirectFlow parallel client technology, as well as IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) and Oracle Corp.'s Lustre parallel file system.

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NFS Version 4.1 update: pNFS spec approved

NFS Version 4.1 (NFSv4.1) is on the horizon -- again. It has been years of predictions and promises for data storage managers, but NFS Version 4.1, which supports parallel NFS, is getting closer to shipping in NAS systems now that the pNFS spec has been approved.

What's next for NFSv4.1? How can pNFS benefit data storage administrators? Will pNFS be worth the wait? Find answers to these and other questions in this SearchStorage.com three-part tutorial on NFS Version 4.1.

pNFS spec for faster file service arrives, but NAS systems lack capable clients

pNFS and NFSv4.1 adoption still on hold with most storage array vendors

NFS alternative meets Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance computing needs

Version 10 of Asigra cloud backup app gains mobile support, better tiering

Asigra Inc. rolled out a new version of its cloud backup software today, adding support for mobile devices while expanding its tiering options and server virtualization platform support.

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