CommVault, known for its Galaxy backup and recovery software, linked with Permabit, a supplier of content storage software, to offer an integrated solution that will combine products from the two companies -- and add CommVault's QiNetix DataArchiver product -- on industry-standard servers. The new offering will target companies that need to capture, monitor, track, archive, and retrieve a wide variety of content, including documents and e-mail messages, to comply with government regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A number of storage vendors that decided not to make the trip to Florida also unveiled new wares Tuesday, hoping to take advantage of the buzz about storage to get their products in front of IT administrators.
Quantum, for instance, shipped its second-generation backup system, the DX100, on Tuesday. The disk-based system can be scaled to a 64-terabyte capacity, said Quantum, backs up data at speeds of up to 2 terabytes per hour, and offers both RAID 5 support and hot-swap disk options. With configurations beginning at 8 terabytes, with prices beginning at $105,000, the DX100 can be beefed up to as many as 16 arrays, all managed by the backup software as a single disk-based tape library.
StorageTek, also missing from the Orlando show, rolled out a two-gigabit blade array module Tuesday, and said it would launch a serial ATA-based blade storage system -- designated the B200 -- in the first quarter of 2004. The BladeStore/B200 will scale up to 56 terabytes, said StorageTek, although it sees the blade fitting in best as an entry-level disk array for customers with relatively modest storage needs.
Also on Tuesday, StorageTek introduced a new data replication appliance, the MirrorStore. The appliance, which can mirror both local and remote data, takes the traditional SAN-style disk-to-disk mirroring tactic but adds volume level roll-back, which allows administrators to revert a logical or physical storage volume to a previous state. A Java-based administration console lets administrators consolidate storage into virtual pools and serves as the central management source for a device.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
