InternetWeek Storage Article
Wednesday, April 28, 1999, 4:11 PM ET.
Storage Picks Up Speed, Availability
By MITCH WAGNER
Beefing up the speed, flexibility and
availability of networked storage is the
reason for being of several new products.
Network Appliance is shipping data-mirroring
software for its file servers; Dell Computer
plans to ship new file servers; IBM plans
new storage hardware and software for
Unix, NT and mainframes; Hitachi Data
Systems announced alliances and services
for storage management; and start-up
StorageNetworks plans an outsourcing
service that would let administrators
eliminate on-site storage devices entirely.
Network Appliance's SnapMirror and
SnapRestore software add-ons provide
remote mirroring for Network Appliance's file
server hardware.
SnapMirror, priced starting at $10,000, lets
administrators capture up to 20 images of
their data set on multiple Network Appliance
servers. SnapRestore, priced starting at
$2,500, quickly reverts a file system to its
state in a previously captured image, such
as before a data corruption occurred.
Aberdeen Group analyst David Hill said
Network Appliance's software can provide a
less expensive alternative to mirroring
technology from companies like EMC,
Hitachi and IBM.
“It's important for companies in the
network-attached storage business to
provide this technology for their customer,”
Hill said.
Dell plans in June to ship the PowerVault
700N line of file servers using operating
system software and chassis from Network
Appliance combined with Dell's Fibre
Channel disk drives. The file servers will
provide 36 GB to 1.5 terabytes of disk
storage and are priced starting at $27,000.
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