- Arc Compute, a emerging player in GPU-as-a-Service,
- DDN, the obvious leader in HPC and AI storage,
- Hammerspace, a reference in global file services,
- Index Engines, promoting a comprehensive cyber security approach,
- Juicedata, a young company developing a universal file storage,
- MaxLinear, the giant connectivity company,
- Oxide Computer, a emerging datacenter computer vendor,
- Tobiko Data, a recent actor in analytics and data pipeline
- and Viking Enterprise Solutions, a product division of Sanmina, providing leading storage foundation systems.
Thursday, June 06, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
DataCore unveils single node Swarm
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Fujifilm has created Archive Services
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Multiple data formats are supported and the firm provides a web portal to control actions and interact with the facility.
So how are tapes added or imported into the vault? They are sent physically to the data center, Kangaroo can also be shipped as a ready to use unit. For the retrieve process, as said the web portal can be used to make a recall request and then a ESFTP server can be instantiated or tapes can be shipped. This is fully secured. The site is ISO27001 and tapes are not copied, they're the original ones from users but of course other copies can be made as well.
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Monday, April 22, 2024
BMC accelerates on Observability and AIOps
Netreo plays in APM with its OpenTelemetry-based model, network monitoring and IT infrastructure management. With Netreo, BMC will face Cisco with is pending Splink acquisition with its Full Stack Observability approach and therefore CloduFabrix who develops an interesting complementary solution as well.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Cohesity received millions from IBM and Nvidia
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Fujifilm Recording Media promotes Kangaroo
It still is the case that cold data, typically backup and archived data, normally stored on secondary storage, are not systematically maintained on cold storage. This situation has a significant impact on the TCO of this protection environment. At the same time, volumes are accumulated especially when you consider archiving data with long retention period. And it appears obviously that one of the best media for that is tape being a passive media by nature. At the same time, the LTO roadmap was disappointed with capacity delivered not aligned with what was presented and expected. A LTO9 offers today 18TB raw and 45TB compressed with a optimistic 2.5:1 ratio. But he capacity advantage the tape had in the past disappeared, recent HDDs reach 28TB and even SSDs pass the 60TB barrier, of course cost is not aligned but it is worth mentioning that point.
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Let's focus and detail Kangaroo. It starts with the idea that data archiving requires a cold storage approach able to deliver a very low TCO but also resiliency, scalability, efficiency and easy integration. And don't forget the ransomware protection with a natural air gap. Fujifilm team designs a very integrated solution coupling in-house software with partners hardware like servers, disk storage, IBM tape drives and BDT tape library or autoloader. The minimum capacity is 1PB so clearly it targets enterprises or SME who generate lots of data with the requirement to archive a significant volume. But it goes fast in that domain.
The software is Object Archive, a data management layer developed by Fujifilm, that connects data sources to secondary storage targets instantiated with tape libraries, remote sites and cloud instances via the S3 API. The service is exposed via multiple access methods - NFS, SMB and S3 - and could be controlled by any archiving, potentially backup, software in front of the Kangaroo device itself. This flexibility in terms of access methods both for ingest and offline writes offer a wide variety to use cases. Also the team has insisted of the Open Tape Format based on POSIX TAR that helps to read tapes without the software and be independent when tape are transferred across sites but also in the future.
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Wishing to penetrate the market faster and as the solution could be a good fit for smaller companies, Fujifilm plans to introduce a Kangaroo lite model with capacity starting at 100TB.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Know & Decide for a comprehensive IT asset management approach
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Friday, April 12, 2024
CTERA unveils Vault 2
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Thursday, April 11, 2024
QStar, a confidential leader with Archive Manager
QStar CEO, Riccardo Finotti, CTO, Max Finotti, and SVP Sales and Marketing, Dave Thomson, joined yesterday The IT Press Tour in Rome for a company and product update. They even launched a product I'll cover in a few days.
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The team has developed a comprehensive product line with Archive Manager, the heart of the solutions set, Network Migrator, Archive Replicator and Object Storage Manager.
Archive Manager (AM) operates as a the archiver controller for data managing storage units dedicated to this behavior and the lifecycle of submitted files. Exposing multiple access methods like NFS, SMB or S3, the product could be seen as a gateway in front of tape libraries or cloud. Implementing a S3-to-Tape model, AM supports also any backup tool via S3 or file sharing protocols such as Cohesity, HYCU or Rubrik. AM introduced the notion of disk cache with a special file system designed by the company and also a special format on tapes. The AM server must have 32GB of RAM minimum for each volume "attached" with the destination storage units. A minimum of 1TB of space is needed for that cache and it appears to be pretty small especially today with 24TB HDD or even larger. Same remark as this size must also consider the largest file size submitted to AM and of course disk array with RAID, erasure coding with today NVMe could be the right choice. As the performance of the cache is key for the global quality of service, considering flash for the cache makes really sense.
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Archive Replicator is in fact the same product with the capability to remote copy data sets synchronously to 4 other storage units. Network Migrator is a HSM working with agent, API or pull mode and replacing migrated files by stubs.
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But it appears that for larger configurations, a single node for archive is not enough inviting users to multiple this single node configuration. We also anticipate some cluster mode for Archive Manager able to aggregate all nodes performance and deliver this needed performance boost to address large deployments with high volumes of data and huge number of files. More news soon.
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
In a few days, the 55th edition of The IT Press Tour will take place in Rome
The countdown is set, The IT Press Tour will land soon in Roma, Italy, for its 55th edition. This tour will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage with 6 hot and innovative companies coming from various horizons:
- CTERA, the obvious leader in global file services,
- Fujifilm, the reference in tape manufacturing with new data management solutions,
- Know and Decide, a recent player in IT asset management,
- Leil Storage, a young company dedicated to new generation of MAID solutions,
- QStar Technologies, a pioneer in data management and archiving software,
- and Quickwit, a fast growing actor in log management with a powerful indexing technology.
I invite you to follow us on Twitter with #ITPT and @ITPressTour, my twitter handle and @CDP_FST and journalists' respective handle.