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Storage news summary February 4 2010
By Fran Sales | Feb 4, 2010
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PrintSeagate, LSI team for PCI Express solid-state storage
LSI Corp. and Seagate Technology LLC are teaming up to deliver PCI Express-based solid-state storage for data center and cloud computing environments. The partnership includes board-level products that integrate LSI's SAS and PCIe technology with Seagate solid-state drive (SSD) technology.
Seagate claims that the new products will speed up enterprise application processing and help reduce I/O latency by using standards-based interfaces and protocols to minimize the impact to existing end-user infrastructures. Product samples are expected to be available to OEM customers next quarter.
Neverfail rolls out Continuous Availability Director
Neverfail Ltd. has introduced Continuous Availability Director, a new centralized management console for high availability applications. Neverfail claims the Continuous Availability Director console will eliminate downtime for end users and business-critical systems by providing full protection of key application servers through a single point of management.
Voltaire adds 40 Gbps InfiniBand switch
Voltaire Ltd. launched the Grid Director 4036E, a 40 Gbps InfiniBand switch with an Ethernet gateway for bridging traffic between InfiniBand and Ethernet networks. The Grid Director includes 34 40 Gbps InfiniBand ports, two 1 Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, an InfiniBand switch, and a built-in hardware-based low-latency Ethernet gateway.
Hitachi Data Systems guarantees capacity savings
Hitachi Data Systems Corp. instituted a Storage Capacity Reclamation Guarantee program for customers using its storage and Dynamic Provisioning software and Storage Reclamation Service. HDS promises rebates to customers who do not reduce storage capacity by 50% when migrating to HDS Universal Storage Platform (USP) V or VM systems from other vendors' RAID 1 storage or 20% when migrating from a RAID 5 set up. The rebate includes the price of the difference between the storage reduction guarantee and actual storage used.
Stratify acquires LIT to enhance its electronic discovery capabilities
Iron Mountain Inc. subsidiary and electronic discovery provider Stratify Inc. has acquired Legal Imaging Technologies Inc. (LIT) to augment its eDiscovery capabilities. LIT provides enhanced electronic document conversion and imaging. No acquisition price was disclosed.
