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- EMC Drags Its Feet on Storage Virtualization
2. From the Community
- Windows Storage Server 2003 VDS Memory Leak
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==== 1. Commentary: EMC Drags Its Feet on Storage Virtualization ====
by David Chernicoff, [email protected]
No one in the storage market disputes EMC's position as the 800-
pound gorilla in the industry. By offering a broad product line and
partnering with all types of companies from the big-iron world to
the commodity PC space, EMC has done an excellent job of getting its
message--and products--out to the IT community. Although EMC has
made a few missteps along the way (the most glaring being its
declaration that tape backup was dead, an opinion that the vendor
completely reversed when it acquired longtime tape backup developer
ADIC), it's managed to hold onto its leadership position in the
storage industry.
However, EMC has a serious chink in its armor: None of its
products support storage virtualization. In mid-2004, EMC announced
it would create storage router products that would include a
storage-virtualization capability, but as I write this we still
haven't seen a shipping, end-user product from EMC that includes
virtualization.
The storage-virtualization model lets a storage administrator
manage all the storage within a network, so that you can create
storage pools, assign storage where needed, and obtain a single-
console view of the available enterprise storage capabilities.
Although storage virtualization might seem little more than a
management technique, it's one of the best ways to maximize
utilization and improve ROI on the large investment in network
storage that most large corporate enterprises have.
Naturally, the absence of storage virtualization in EMC's product
line is a boon to other big storage players. IBM has already
capitalized on this opportunity by adding support for EMC hardware
systems to IBM TotalStorage SAN File System and IBM TotalStorage SAN
Volume Controller. This new support lets IBM customers seamlessly
integrate EMC storage devices into an IBM hardware-controlled
environment.
The news gets worse for EMC: Last month, Hitachi Data Systems
announced that it was incorporating immediate support for the EMC
Symmetrix and EMC Symmetrix DMX product lines and pending support
for the CLARiiON DX products in the latest version of Hitachi
TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform. The Hitachi platform is very
broad because in addition to supporting all the Hitachi and
previously mentioned EMC products, TagmaStore supports other big-
name storage products, including the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise
Storage Server, HP StorageWorks XP disk arrays, and Sun
Microsystems' Sun StorEdge system. Hitachi intends to continue
adding support for more third-party storage systems and plans an
additional announcement in that regard this year. The Sun support
isn't surprising: Sun OEMs its StoreEdge 9900 system directly from
Hitachi (it's the HDS Lightning 9900). The StorEdge 9900 uses
the\TagmaStore virtualization technologies and offers the same
third-party support as the Hitachi-branded products.
Given how heavily EMC markets to Sun and IBM customers, it's
unlikely that those customers will be unaware of the storage
offerings from the vendors that provide their server hardware. This
likelihood increases the challenge that EMC will face in pushing its
particular take on Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) on its
customers. Because ILM is the industry's choice for the storage
model of the future, EMC's current lack of virtualization
technologies could place the vendor in an unfamiliar position:
chasing the cutting-edge adopters, instead of leading them.
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==== 2. From the Community ====
Windows Storage Server 2003 VDS Memory Leak
A memory leak can occur in the Virtual Disk Service (VDS) on a
computer running Windows Storage Server 2003. When this problem
occurs, VDS consumes the computer's available virtual memory,
thereby decreasing the computer's performance. To learn more about
the problem and obtain a hotfix, go to
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886805 .
==== 3. New and Improved ====
by Anne Grubb, [email protected]
Rayslab Offers Secure Storage Pro 1.1
Rayslab has released Secure Storage Pro 1.1, a solution that lets
you store confidential data on a secured virtual disk. The product,
which runs on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000,
encrypts data on the fly, storing all disk contents inside a single
encrypted file that can be easily copied or transferred to another
computer. The product essentially hides files that you want to keep
confidential from other users, even when you connect to the
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StorageTek recently kicked off a North American seminar tour that
it's offering free to IT professionals to educate them about
regulatory compliance issues and challenges and discuss solutions
for compliant archiving and data protection. The tour, called
"Compliance 2005: A Guideline to Renew Your Compliance Strategy,"
will visit 15 cities in the first quarter of this year. "These
seminars will provide IT professionals with much-needed guidance on
how to apply an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy that
supports regulatory compliance requirements while enhancing overall
data-management agility," says Gary Zasman, director for
StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management Solutions. To
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