Hp Bundles Eva With Clustering
Hewlett-Packard today announced a new virtual storage system comprised of an Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 topped with scalable NAS file serving software developed via HP's acquisition of PolyServe.The new StorageWorks 4400 Scalable NAS File Services system integrates the EVA 4400 array, file servers, management software, and Windows or Linux support to virtualize the connection between ...

Sun To Develop Virtual Nas
Sun Microsystems is set to introduce a storage appliance based on its FISHworks software package.FISHworks is a set of software components for building specialised appliances on industry-standard x86 hardware. Though it runs best on Sun equipment and the company's OpenSolaris open-source operating system, the software theoretically could work on other platforms, according to ...

Storage Survey Finds 38 Of Organizations Have Already Gone Virtual
Double-Take Software recently announced the results of a survey that it ran in collaboration with the organisers of Storage Expo 2008, the UK's definitive event for data storage, information and content management, which takes place in London on 15th and 16th October. Key findings include overwhelming interest in virtualisation, with 38% of respondents having already virtualised their production infrastructure and ...

Red Hat Hauls In Qumranet For 100m
Open source software giant RedHat has bought Israeli startup Qumranet for $100 million in an attempt to boost its virtualization story and challenge Microsoft's Hyper-V offering.Qumranet touts its Solid ICE software as a way for users to virtualize their desktops thanks to the vendor's Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) technology, which turns the Linux kernel into a bare-metal hypervisor. Solid ICE lets users host ...

3par Soups Up Thin
3PAR (NYSE: PAR) has upped the performance of its storage servers while boosting capacity utilization.Craig Nunes, 3PAR's vice president of marketing, said that by building thin provisioning into its third-generation ASICs, the company was able to boost performance while maintaining high capacity utilization."You don't have to trade off performance for good capacity utilization," said Nunes. "You can have both."The ...

Expand Networks To Acquire Netpriva
ROSELAND, N.J. -- Expand Networks, www.expand.com, a leading provider of WAN Optimization Controllers (WOCs), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held NetPriva Pty Ltd, a specialist developer of software-only WAN Optimization solutions. NetPriva's unique socket-level classification technology introduces a new dimension of traffic visibility ...

Datacore Software Joins Microsoft Get Virtual Now Launch And Virtualization Roadshow Events
DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, joins Microsoft's "Get Virtual Now" launch event kicking off Microsoft Hyper-V server virtualization technology alongside several other major virtualization initiatives.Following the Microsoft virtualization launch event at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington on September 8th, DataCore will accompany the Microsoft virtualization ...

Cios Lack The Green To Go Green Survey Says
CIOs and senior IT executives lack the "green" to go green even though they overwhelmingly believe that a more energy efficient data center will become mission-critical, according to a recent survey.Seventy-six percent of executives queried do not have a committed budget for a greening policy, even though 90% believe that greening their data centers will be crucial to meeting their companies' business objectives in 2009, according to the ...

First Time Buyers Could Have Affordable Property Snatched
Those that were relying most on the government's plans to kickstart the housing market have not been served efficiently, it has been argued.First time buyers have long been in need of low property prices, and so the government's attempts to bounce the market back into a spiralling system of high prices will simply snatch affordable homes from within the grasp of the first time buyer.The housing market, which for 12 ...

Adaptec Intelligent Power Management Reduces Storage Power Consumption Up To 70 Per Cent
To significantly increase the energy efficiency of disk-based storage, Adaptec Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, today kicked off its Green Power initiative with the introduction of Adaptec Intelligent Power Management, a new capability that allows system OEMs, integrators and IT managers to easily custom-configure storage systems to reduce power consumption by up to ...