 New Products
Seagate Introduces Maxtor Shared Storage II
Seagate Technology introduced a new network storage
solution that lets users access, share, and protect all their digital
content from a centralized location on a small office or home network.
According to the company, the Maxtor Shared Storage II product family from
Seagate automatically backs up business files, accounting records, videos,
photos, music, and other digital files stored on multiple networked
computers without swapping out tapes, CDs, or DVDs. It provides data
management and security for up to 20 PC or Mac users.
The 1TB Maxtor Shared Storage II solution comes with
an EasyManage CD that automatically gives users a desktop icon for access
to a shared public folder and a set of personal password-protected private
network folders. A new high-speed Gigabit Ethernet connection ensures fast
data transfers and file sharing between computers on wired and wireless
networks. A SimpleView feature acts like a built-in IT administrator,
providing detailed backup and storage status at a glance of all users on
the network.
The manufacturer's suggested retail price for
the new terabyte (1,000GB), dual-drive solution is $899.95. For more information, visit: http://www.maxtorsolutions.com.
Exanet Unveils ExaStore CDP
Exanet, a provider of clustered NAS software,
announced a continuous data protection product that fully integrates with
high-end, high-performance, clustered NAS platforms. According to the
company, ExaStore CDP enhances an organization's ability to quickly
and easily recover critical data by giving administrators access to a
virtually infinite set of data recovery points. ExaStore CDP encapsulates
and integrates replication with the ability to capture block-level changes
on a continuous basis, reducing capacity requirements by capturing only the
portion of the files that has changed. ExaStore CDP enables a simple
transfer to a secondary disaster recovery system, as well as a simple
roll-back to any known good recovery point before the event. In both cases,
the system enables a full reconstruction of the data from the CDP image, in
combination with a previously replicated copy of primary data.
For more information, visit: http://www.exanet.com.
SXP Releases HampusDB
SXP announced HampusDB, an open source hybrid
database. According to the company, after several years as a proprietary
database, HampusDB is now released as an open source product, free
and available for download at http://www.hampusdb.org.
HampusDB is a flexible and efficient hybrid database,
a mixture of a filesystem and a database. The aim is to fill the gap
when storing data in a relational database is too rigid and storing data in
textfiles is too cumbersome. A typical example would be XML, configuration,
or hierarchical data.
HampusDB comes with a wide range of command-line
utilities for manipulating and extracting data. It's designed for
both embedded, desktop and server systems. It currently runs on Linux and
has interfaces to C, C++, Java, and Perl.
For more information, visit: http://www.sxp.se.
VMware Delivers Free VMware Server
VMware, Inc. the announced the general availability
of VMware Server after a five-month beta program with more than 700,000
downloads. According to the announcement, customers deploying the free
hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers can now
purchase enterprise-class support from VMware. Additionally, they can now
use VMware VirtualCenter to centrally provision, monitor, and manage VMware
Server deployments.
With VMware Server, users can quickly create and
provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into
multiple virtual machines, bringing the benefits of virtualization to every
server. VMware Server is available at no charge for immediate download at: http://www.vmware.com/products/server/.
Enterprise-class support list price is $350 for a one-year subscription per
two processors for Gold level, and $450 for Platinum level. VMware
VirtualCenter for VMware Server list price is $600 per two processors.
Support and VMware VirtualCenter for VMware Server are available for
purchase through VMware resellers.
Sun Microsystems Unveils Three Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced three x64 (x86,
64-bit) products: a 16-way x64 server in a single 4U chassis; a hybrid data
server; and a no-compromise blade platform. According to the announcement,
the new Sun Fire X4600 server, Sun Fire X4500 data server, and Sun Blade
8000 modular system, in conjunction with the Solaris 10 operating system
offer increased performance, improved energy efficiency, greater
manageability, and increased data center longevity over comparable
solutions.
No other systems company can provide a total solution
of x64 hardware with the Solaris 10 OS, the most advanced operating system
on the planet. Similar to the flexibility of Sun's existing x64
servers, these systems also offer customers the option of running standard
distributions of Linux and Windows.
For more information, visit: http://www.sun.com.
Nagios Ready for Splunking
Splunk announced the availability of Splunk 2 Nagios,
an integrated module that provides seamless workflow between the Nagios
project and Splunk. According to the announcment, Splunk 2 Nagios is a
result of a partnership with the Nagios project announced in February of
this year.
Splunk indexes and links together all the IT data
generated by any system, application, or device, making it possible to
search and navigate production IT infrastructures. Nagios utilizes a
monitoring process that runs intermittent checks on hosts and services and
returns status information to Nagios. When issues are identified, Nagios
notifies the appropriate parties via email, instant message, SMS, etc.
Splunk-2-Nagios provides administrators with the
combined power and performance of Nagios monitoring with Splunk's
troubleshooting approach to enable customers to diagnose and resolve issues
faster, decrease mean time to repair (MTTR), improve service quality, and
reduce the cost of incident response.
For more information, visit: http://www.splunk.com.
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