Virtual Array from HP for SMB

HP brings enterprise level virtual array to SMB market. Few days back HP announced its new Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product EVA4400. EVA4400 will be replacement for EVA4100.

EVA4400 offers high-end virtualization features like a dual-redundant hardware architecture that supports local and remote replication software. Storage provisioning is available with HP StorageWorks EVA Dynamic Capacity Management (DCM) software.

The HP StorageWorks 8Gb Simple SAN Connection portfolio offers 8-gig Fibre Channel technology for the EVA4400 for the same price as 4-gig. It includes management software, a 20-port capable 8Gb switch and a PCI Express host bus adapter (HBAs).

 EVA4400 can manage 8 enclosures(96 drives) to the maximum and has HSV300 / HSV300-S controllers. It can support upto 96TB of total capacity. EVA4400 supports the EVA iSCSI Connectivity Gateway, EVA File Services, and the VLS EVA Gateway. HP states that support for the IP Distance Gateway will follow shortly.

IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI08)

The tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance has become a critical factor for computing systems, generally, from enterprise systems to computational science and everything in between. As a result, disk I/O and data storage on which data reside have clearly become “first class citizens” in the modern information world. In addition, parallelism is now ubiquitous in computing, from multi-core processors within a single enclosure to massively parallel I/O systems that span many racks of equipment. SNAPI08 brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on parallel and distributed data storage technologies, storage interconnects, and storage management.

Some of the topics of interest are:  

1. Networked storage manageability, reliability, and availability
2. Networked storage performance and scalability
3. File systems, object-based storage, block-level storage
4. NAS and SAN architectures
5. Storage networking: e.g. Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, IP Storage, iSCSI
6. Parallel I/O architectures
7. Caching and consistency
8. Evaluation of networked storage architectures
9. Storage management system
10. Distributed metadata management
11. Integration of storage and computation

Follow the links for more information,

http://www.snapi08.wustl.edu

http://storageconference.org

Data Center management tools from NetApp

Server virtualization is masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. Server Virtualization paves the way for cost reduction at data centers but brings up a set of new challenges on Data management.

When it comes to backing up the data, virtual servers can easily throttle up the server. A data center administrator will certainly need a solution to manage backups, recovery and replication.

NetApp’s SnapManager for ESX environment can solve these issues. SnapManager is a data management solution which can ease the backup, restore and replication. SnapManager integrates NetApp’s Snapshot, SnapRestore and SnapMirror technologies and can provide granular recovery of virtual machines.

NetApp has came up another tool for automatic provisioning. This can erode human errors, improve capacity utilization and policy driven. Provision Manager can provide dashboards of view of data usage, capacity utilization, space management events, SnapShot usage, etc.

To learn more visit, SnapManager & Provision Manager.

Storage Conference

MSST2008 25th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies

Massive storage systems require storage technologies, scalable data systems, and operations concepts capable of managing hundreds of petabytes of data. MSST2008, scheduled for September 22 – 25, 2008 at the Sheraton Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, Maryland, will take a detailed look at the technologies and deployments capable of managing such volumes of data.

MSST2008 will be organized around the following themes.

• Scalable Storage Meets Petaflops.
• Massive Digital Archiving Systems.
• Massive Data Ingest and Analysis.

Additional information on MSST2008 and related workshops will be posted on the conference web site: http://storageconference.org, as it becomes available.

2008 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage

This conference intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting edge research on networking (wireline and wireless), high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies.

Some of the topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Network applications and services

    * Network architectures and management

    * Optical networks

    * Peer-to-peer communications and networks

    * Routing protocols

    * Security, trust, and privacy

    * Self-organizing networks

    * Sensor nets and embedded systems

    * Virtual and overlay networks

    * Wireless networks and protocols

    * High-performance I/O systems

    * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs

    * Storage Manageability, Reliability, Availability, and Security

    * Storage Performance and Scalability

    * File systems, Object-based storage, block-level storage

    * Parallel I/O architectures

    * Evaluation of storage architectures

    * Storage management software

Visit the following link for more information

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~taoxie/nas/