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Storage news summary: October 27, 2009
By Rachel Kossman | Oct 27, 2009
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PrintPanasas delivers clustered NAS with SSD
Panasas Inc. rolled out its ActiveStor Series 9 high performance computing parallel NAS system with solid state drive (SSD) support.
The Series 9 supports NFS and CIFS protocols, and Panasas claims it can deliver 80,000 NFS operations per second and 6 Gbps throughput. The clustered system supports three tiers -- cache, SSD and SATA -- on each blade. It uses Intel X25 E Extreme SATA SSD for meta-data operations and smaller user files, and SATA disk drives for larger files. It also supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet and InfiniBand and scales to 160 TB of raw capacity.
Emulex and IBM combine for encryption
Emulex Corp. and IBM are collaborating on host-based encryption involving the Emulex Secure Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technology and IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager. Emulex will off-load encryption onto the HBA to encrypt data in flight and at rest on disk arrays. Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager can be used to manage the encryption keys. Emulex previewed the encryption this week at the RSA Conference Europe.
Dot Hill launches AssuredSAN backup boxes
Dot Hill Systems introduced the AssuredSAN family of disk-to-disk data protection products, including its AssuredSnap and AssuredCopy disaster recovery software. The backup appliances are 2U 12-drive SATA or SAS devices that support 4 Gbps Fibre Channel or iSCSI host connections, and can be expanded to 96 drives for 192 TB. Pricing begins at $25,600 for a 12 TB iSCSI system. Dot Hill will sell the systems through VARs.
Apple blesses Promise's SmartStor RAID box
Promise Technology Inc. said Apple will recommend Promise's SmartStor DS4600 as external storage for the Mac mini and the storage expansion for Mac mini with Snow Leopard server 5. The SmartStor DS4600 is a four-bay Firewire/USB RAID system with four 1 TB SATA drives. The DS4600 joins the Promise VTrak, for use with Mac OS X and Xsan 2, as Apple- recommended external storage devices.
This article originally appeared on SearchStorage.com
