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Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:25:52 -0600

For a few months now Storage Switzerland has been putting the Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive through its paces. First off this is not a WiFi attached hard drive or NAS. It is an external USB hard drive that instead of attaching via a USB cable attaches wirelessly. Its a product that fits well not only for the home user wanting to reduce the cables scattered across the desk but also the office worker wanting to do the same.

Brocade and Oracle Partnership builds an Environment

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:32:48 -0600

Oracle is an evolutionary work. What started as a database program evolved into a complete application and now is moving into a comprehensive environment that combines Sun servers, storage and Oracle’s own virtualization capabilities based on Oracle VM. Environments need infrastructure, something that Brocade can provide. Storage Switzerland was briefed recently on a partnering announcement by Brocade which brings greater formality to what Brocade, Foundry (now owned by Brocade), Oracle and Sun (now owned by Oracle) have been working on together for the last 5+ years. This collaboration has produced technology solutions that resolve infrastructure issues including network QoS in a VM environment.

IOCELL NetDisk NDAS

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:32:23 -0600

Storage Switzerland labs recently finished testing one of the more interesting products of the year, the IOCELL NDAS. The NDAS is a direct attached disk similar to a USB or eSATA drive but it connects via a standard 1GB Ethernet cable. Its important to note that this is NOT a NAS, it is direct attached storage that happens to use an ethernet connection.

Spotlight Article: F5 ARX2000 File Virtualization Appliance

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:04:02 -0600

As discussed in our article “What is File Virtualization?” this technology replaces the static mapping of files between clients and storage resources. It abstracts the physical location of data from the user, eliminating the need for the user to know where it’s actually stored. This enables a number of benefits for IT in their day-in and day-out job of making needed information available, keeping it protected, expanding the capacity as needed and maintaining the health of the infrastructure - all while reducing disruption to their end users.

Enterprise Vault enhances Exchange 2010

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:25:18 -0600

Exchange and SharePoint are growing at >30% per year. Overall storage growth is estimated at 50% annually, with email as the primary driver and average users sending and receiving ~20MB per day. With this much data increase, it’s not surprising that archive numbers are also skyrocketing. One estimate puts the amount of data that corporations are expected to archive over the next four years at 200,000 petabytes.