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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: ANNE SKAMAROCK
on STORAGE 11/19/01 - Today's focus: StoreAge gets on TV Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * StoreAge is used by Guangdong TV * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by McDATA Corporation 7x24 access to your data is crucial. So is determining the effects of a highly available infrastructure on your bottom line. McDATA can help you with both. We have the experience and solutions embraced by 80 of the Fortune 100 companies and an ROI indicator to demonstrate that your SAN makes sense - in dollars and cents. Visit http://nww1.com/go/3599776a.html and prove it for yourself. _______________________________________________________________ TAKE IT OFF-LINE The high-tech industry has always run at breakneck pace. Even a wheezing economy will hardly slow it. In the past year, business theory surrounding technology has been reinvented and redefined multiple times. Check out the latest "must-read" books for technology-related business theories. http://nww1.com/go/ad204.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: StoreAge gets on TV By Anne Skamarock Another type of storage virtualization was in the news last week. StoreAge Networking Technologies announced the use of its Storage Virtualization Manager product by Guangdong TV, the official operator and broadcaster of the ninth Chinese Sports Games. So what makes this announcement so interesting? Guangdong TV, with its partner Sobey Digital Technology, are responsible for deploying a video broadcast and storage system that could take multiple, real-time, video input streams and immediately make the video data available to multiple sites for editing. StoreAge's Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) is implemented in, what the vendor calls, an asynchronous manner. That is, SVM sits in an appliance on the storage-area network (SAN), but not in the data path like many SAN virtualization products. SVM uses the SAN to communicate configuration and mapping information to the hosts' host bus adapters, where a thin driver sits. Once the information is loaded, the host addresses the storage directly, with no intervention. This approach provides high-performance data access. For the Chinese Sports Games, the storage was configured to its highest performance capability. Then, the storage was aggregated into a virtual pool by SVM and the data was striped across the multiple redundant array of independent disks subsystems. This configuration provided the highest possible performance to keep up with the real-time operations support for more than 90 clustered servers accessing over 11T-bytes of storage. Along with this StoreAge announcement, Raidtec announced its SNAZ SAN Virtualization Appliance (SVA). Looking at this announcement, it is not difficult to realize that the SNAZ SVA is "powered by" StoreAge technology. _______________________________________________________________ To contact Anne Skamarock: Anne Skamarock is an analyst with Enterprise Management Associates (http://www.enterprisemanagement.com). She has worked with networked storage for the last 15 years and is currently focused on the storage practice within EMA. She can be reached at mailto:askamarock@enterprisemanagement.com _______________________________________________________________ NW Fusion's BuyIT has the IT resources you need! Our directory hosts thousands of qualified service providers. 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