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Vision Solutions EchoStream™ for AIX®

Tuesday, 30 December 2008 10:36

EchoStream™ for AIX® from Vision Solutions is a true continuous data protection solution that delivers nearly instantaneous recovery of your applications and data at the push of a button. Unlike traditional backup solutions, EchoStream enables you to recover data from any point in time, easily and immediately, with continuous data protection (CDP) capabilities. Should your business encounters accidental or malicious data corruption you can reverse the damage and continue onward. Use it to make your data more secure, and as a cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.

EchoStream for AIX:

* Provides the definitive solution for recovery from data corruption issues, with the widest range of available recovery points.
* Ensures faster recovery with excellent recovery point granularity—to any point in time. Choose a recovery point based on where a failure occurred.
* Flexible technology allows rapid data or server recovery for any database, file system or application environment.
* Supports heterogeneous storage and addresses both logical and physical

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Product Review: RASILIENT's RASTOR Storage Solution

Wednesday, 03 September 2008 10:16 Editor

RASILIENT Systems designs and manufacturers the RASTOR line of standards-based, open architecture, storage solutions that integrate custom-tuned Linux software. While embedded hardware solutions can often be a generation behind in memory and bus technologies, the RASTOR 7500 utilizes easily extensible software for tasks that range from RAID level processing to iSCSI traffic aggregation.

RASILIENT’s RASTOR storage arrays rely on software to provide RAID redundancy, provision virtual disk volumes, and manage iSCSI connectivity. For enterprise-class networking, the RASILIENT software balances iSCSI traffic load and failover using multiple NICs, while simplifying client management by presenting a single IP address.

RASILIENT's load balancing software works at the iSCSI network layer using an iSCSI protocol redirect feature, which was created to handle target devices that were busy or undergoing maintenance. This technique is compatible with Microsoft's MPIO implementation on client initiators, for which RASILIENT also provides support so that clients can establish multiple connections for failover redundancy.

VMware and Seagate Post Top Customer Satisfaction Scores for Storage Vendors on VendorRate.com

Monday, 21 July 2008 14:37 Editor

IT and Technology Pros Give “Exceptional” Ratings to Storage Industry in General

VMware and Seagate are the two highest rated storage vendors for overall customer satisfaction on VendorRate (www.vendorrate.com), according to the site’s second quarter report. VendorRate is a Web-based service that offers performance ratings and comparisons of IT and telecom vendors.

VMware and Seagate were among only eight companies in VendorRate’s database of 11,000 vendors across some 60 industries that received “exceptional” composite scores from IT and telecom professionals for the quarter.

“VendorRate scores help IT departments make better vendor selections based on feedback from existing customers,” said Richard Schaefer, CEO of VendorRate. “The playing field between large and small vendors is leveled because the experiences of many customers provide a more reliable source of information than vendor brand positioning.”