Bocada offers backup reporting software for virtual, physical reports

Bocada Inc. this week launched vpConnect, an agentless data protection software monitoring and backup reporting software product that integrates capabilities from its products for physical servers and virtual machines. Bocada’s vpConnect queries log files and uses backup target APIs to determine backup and replication success, capacity usage, file age and other metrics. It allows administrators to set event alerts for data protection failures such as unsuccessful backup attempts. Read more

VDI storage system options include flash appliances, bundled stacks

Virtualization has clearly changed the way storage interacts with the rest of the IT environment. First, the rise of virtual machines (VMs) had a big impact on storage. Now virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) adoption is changing the way storage systems are architected and managed.

Read more

Symantec aims Data Insight 3.0 at unstructured data management

Symantec Corp. took another step toward integrating its storage management and security technologies this week when it released Data Insight 3.0 for unstructured data management items such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails.

Read more

Iomega upgrades SMB NAS with server-class drives, management features

Iomega Corp., today ships its StorCenter PX Server Class Series of SMB NAS devices that support 3 TB SATA drives, solid-state drives (SSDs), as well as software enhancements for management and data protection that the company says is better suited for business use than its SOHO and prosumer systems.

Read more

Scale-out network-attached storage: Options in today’s market

In storage, scale-out systems are becoming a popular option to deal with rapid data growth. File data is growing the fastest, making network-attached storage (NAS) the most popular type of scale-out storage. Clustered NAS systems that fit the “scale-out” tag are targeted at processing heavy applications such as “big data” analytics and large file environments.

Storage vendors differ over the best way to architect a scale-out network-attached storage system, but the largest vendors and many smaller ones have pushed into the market. Most scale-out NAS systems use individual device nodes, which can be commodity servers or proprietary devices. As interest in scale-out systems has increased, well-known storage vendors such as Dell Corp., EMC Corp., Hewlett Packard (HP) Co., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and NetApp Inc. have acquired technology to offer their own scale-out NAS products. IBM OEMs NetApp’s technology while it develops its own.

Read more