Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced two new additions to its DXi6700 family of disk backup systems, offering a unique combination of industry-leading performance and value and the ability to extend deduplication beyond appliances. With future-proof features and scalability spanning midrange and enterprise environments, the DXi6701 and DXi6702 appliances provide multi-protocol interfaces and the highest performance in their class. Encompassing new DXi Accent(TM) software that distributes deduplication to backup servers, the new additions to the DXi(R)-Series provide unmatched flexibility for where deduplication takes place on the network. With all necessary software licenses included in the price and an easy-to-deploy design, the DXi6700 family delivers best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO).

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that a new SGI high performance computing (HPC) system has been selected by CSC (NYSE: CSC) to meet National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requirements for weather and climate forecast modeling. This system will be installed in NOAA's Environmental Security Computing Center in Fairmont, West Virginia.

NOAA is the federal agency focused on examining the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. From climate monitoring to providing daily weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, NOAA's products and services support the country's economic vitality and affects more than one-third of America's gross domestic product. Their dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to respond to the demands of citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision-makers asking for timely and reliable information about our changing environment.

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced record results for its second quarter, ending June 30, 2011 (Q2’11). Scale Computing’s Q2’11 revenue in the SME market grew 102 percent over Q1’10. In addition, Scale Computing launched a new partner program that resulted in a 192 percent increase in new partners quarter–over–quarter.

The need to better manage data growth, optimize infrastructure costs, and improve availability of mission-critical messaging systems data continues to intensify as organizations adopt and upgrade to Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010. According to Sheila Childs, research vice president at Gartner, "Many companies rolling out this latest release of Exchange are considering an overhaul of their legacy backup products based on a single, unified strategy that aligns data protection, archive and discovery." As the pioneer in modern data protection, CommVault is introducing a new bundle to its channel partners designed to simplify the management, lower the cost and increase the productivity of applications running in mid-range and smaller IT environments. The new bundle combines award-winning Simpana® software backup and content archiving with a broad range of protection capabilities including application-aware snapshot management, source-side deduplication, global reporting, and leading hardware and service recommendations that simplify protection and recovery for growing Exchange environments.

Coraid Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,400 customers worldwide, today announced the formation of its Customer Advisory Council. Members of the council represent top executives from industry-leading companies in a wide variety of markets including Shutterstock, Legg Mason Capital Management, Exegy, Inc., Pac-West Telecomm, Thought Equity Motion, Smartronix, and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The Customer Advisory Council will work closely with Coraid's executive team to forecast future data center requirements; identify emerging trends in the cloud, virtualization, and storage markets; and develop and refine product roadmaps.

Charter members of the Customer Advisory Council represent leaders in the security, government, equity management, automobile manufacturing, video licensing services and other fields.

• Chris Fischer, director of web operations and IT, Shutterstock Images, the world's largest subscription-based stock photo agency.
• James Hancock, director of infrastructure technology, Legg Mason Capital Management, a leading equity manager.
• Bill Hildebrandt, director of IT and operations, Exegy Inc., a provider of hardware-accelerated market data systems for financial organizations.
• Matt Krokosz, CTO, Pac-West Telecomm, a provider of wholesale advanced telecommunications services.
• Mark Lemmons, CTO, Thought Equity Motion, a leading provider of video platform and footage licensing services.
• David Streed, senior program manager, Smartronix, a global professional solutions provider.

"Coraid is deeply committed to customer success, and our Customer Advisory Council provides an ideal vehicle for executive-level networking, idea sharing and innovation," said Kevin Brown, CEO, Coraid. "Members bring a unique forward-thinking perspective to the council and extensive, high-level experience with the storage demands of some of the world's leading organizations. Their insight into the industry will help Coraid in building a world-class storage platform."

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it has been recognized at the 2011 Storage Awards (‘The Storries’) where its T-Finity product triumphed as the Tape-Based Product of the Year.

Now in its eighth year, the Storage Awards is where the readers of Storage Magazine reward the outstanding products, services and people in the storage industry. Over 25,000 votes were cast in the build-up to the awards ceremony at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on June 23^rd. Spectra Logic secured the prestigious award by outpacing drive and library product competition from Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Overland Storage, Qualstar, Quantum and Tandberg in the Tape-Based Product of the Year category.

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it has appointed Steve Mackey to the role of vice president of sales for Europe and Africa.

With more than 15 years experience in the storage industry, Mackey brings to Spectra Logic a strong track record of success in achieving aggressive revenue growth through effective go-to market strategies, developing outstanding sales teams, directing focused field execution and delivering strong customer satisfaction. Most recently Mackey was the senior area director for Quantum in Northern Europe where he was responsible for the company’s systems business in the UK, Ireland, Nordics, Middle East and Africa. An engineering and marketing graduate, Mackey has held a number of marketing and sales leadership positions during his tenures at DEC, Grau, ADIC and Quantum.

QStar Technologies, Inc., a global leader in enterprise-class archive and data management software, today unveiled QStar Retention Manager for Disk, a software that enables organizations to create simple, low-cost archives using RAID or Disk, that will help to meet internal corporate file retention governance.

Retention Manager for Disk is exceptionally flexible and cost effective, as underutilized capacities or portions of any direct attached or network shared, disk or RAID can be used to create an archive. It is ideal for low capacity archives (up to 16TB), which retain healthcare images, email (PST) files, company documents, quotations, or any set of files that have a pre-determined useful life.

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the latest generation of SGI® Altix® ICE, a highly flexible, tightly integrated blade architecture based on the latest Intel® Xeon® (codenamed "Sandy Bridge EP") processor series. This newest Altix ICE solution represents the fifth generation of the award-winning high performance computing (HPC) solution, offering numerous advancements in performance and density while addressing the ongoing need to consolidate computing "cluster sprawl."

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Pleiades supercomputer system, built with SGI® Altix® ICE technology, has achieved more than one petaflop/second in sustained compute performance based on the LINPACK performance benchmark, and has now moved into the #7 spot on the June 2011 Top500 list of supercomputer sites in the world. The Pleiades system is run by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, and represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling scientists and engineers across the nation to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA missions.

A survey into attitudes of attendees at Europe’s first OpenStorage user conference, hosted by Nexenta Systems in Amsterdam on May 20, found that the widespread use of legacy storage solutions is likely to be replaced or surpassed by the deployment of OpenStorage.

Key survey findings:

• Over 85% of the 56 medium and large enterprise users and storage integrators who responded to the survey expect to use or deploy OpenStorage in their IT environments within the next 18 months.
• The respondents spanned a wide range of storage users, averaging between 20-200TB of storage. Over 11% of the respondents claimed to be responsible for managing half a petabyte or more of data.
• Over two thirds (70%) of respondents believe OpenStorage usage will eventually replace or overtake the proprietary storage solutions they use today.

According to Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, senior IT decision-makers are rapidly waking up to the fact that OpenStorage solutions can offer the same feature-set as legacy storage systems, but at a fraction of the cost.

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, announced today that it is a joint sponsor of theUK Storage Awards, “The Storries”. The data storage industry’s most outstanding products, services and people, as selected by Storage magazine readers’ votes, will be recognised at the event in London on June 23.

The Spectra® T-Finity library was named a finalist in “The Storries” Tape-based Product of the Year category. Spectra’s T-Finity is the data storage industry’s highest capacity tape library, scaling to more than 30,000 slots without requiring a pass-through mechanism. When joining multiple libraries into a library complex, T-Finity scales up to 740PB capacity. T-Finity offers the greatest slot density, strongest data integrity verification feature set and most comprehensive, easy-to-operate multiple-library management interface of any enterprise-class tape library on the market today.

“The Spectra T-Finity tape library delivers the most efficient and densely packed archive and backup solution available today, and our T-Series libraries’ strong adoption across Europe is evident based on this award nomination,” said Molly Rector, Spectra Logic's vice president of worldwide marketing and product management. “The European market can expect to see a burst of activity from Spectra Logic in the next 12 to 18 months, including product enhancements, corporate program launches, and staffing increases including new company positions.”

The eighth annual UK Storage Awards ceremony will be held on 23 June 2011, at The Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden in London

The RamSan-710 provides 5 GB/s bandwidth with 5 TB of SLC Flash storage in a small 1U footprint that minimizes power and cooling costs.

Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS) is proud to introduce its second RamSan Series-7 system: the 1U rackmount RamSan-710. Powered by the new Series-7 Flash Controller with 32nm SLC Flash from Toshiba, the RamSan-710 is the fastest (5 GB/s) 1U shared storage system. It is easy to install, with four 8-Gb Fibre Channel or QDR InfiniBand ports. The RamSan-710 turbocharges datacenters with minimal impact on power and space.

TMS announces its patented Variable Stripe RAID (VSR) reliability technology that allows continued operation when Flash fails providing longer Mean-Time-Between-Failures (MTBF).

Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS) today sets a new standard for Flash reliability with the introduction of its patented Variable Stripe RAID (VSR) error mitigation technology on the RamSan-70 PCIe Flash card. Failure of a plane (small subsection of a Flash chip) is the second most common kind of Flash failure after Flash block failures. TMS VSR technology (U.S. Patent #7,856,528) addresses plane and chip failures by dynamically bypassing failed Flash, reducing maintenance requirements and extending operating lifecycles. VSR technology is available exclusively from TMS, the leader in enterprise solid state reliability.

SpectraLogic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it is offering the IBM TS1140 Tape Drive with its enterprise class T-Finity tape library.

The addition of TS1140 drives extends Spectra Logic’s enterprise tape library offering, which includes the TS1140 drives for high capacity, high duty cycle environments, as well as high value, cost-effective IBM LTO tape drives for all-purpose, open storage environments. Spectra Logic is currently the only tape library vendor aside from IBM offering the high performance, energy-efficient TS1140 Tape Drive.

Arista today announced the expansion of Arista EOS – the world’s most advanced network operating system. Building upon the open, widely deployed, and resilient foundation of Arista EOS this adds an open development platform, a developer support site, multi-system management capabilities, and new operational features for cloud networking.

Arista EOS is the first network OS to enable native third party development. This is possible because it is built upon a stable, open source, Linux core with a central state database that makes EOS inherently self-healing, in-service upgradeable, and extremely robust.

Alliance Storage Technologies Inc., (ASTI), the global leader in professional archive storage solutions, today announced they will be exhibiting at CommunicAsia2011, to be held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, June 21-24.

ASTI plans to extend their relationships with current and prospective customers and partners within APAC. “CommunicAsia represents an exciting opportunity for us to demonstrate our archival technologies and illustrate how our solutions can help organizations within the Asia Pacific region meet their compliance and long-term storage requirements,” stated Chris Carr, CEO of ASTI.

“Our long-term archive storage technologies enable users to secure their critical data on 50-plus year media. We provide green solutions that consume up to 20 times less energy than other all-disk archive products. Not only can you save tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of your archive, but you can rest assured knowing that your company is being environmentally responsible,” Carr said.

QStar Technologies, Inc., a global leader in enterprise-class archive and data management software, today unveiled QStar HSM Synchronous Archive Replicator, a software offering that allows end users and resellers to build “hybrid archives” that can utilize various multiple storage technologies, including RAID, tape, optical, CAS, object storage, cloud or removable hard disk, to deliver flexible and affordable data retrieval. QStar HSM Synchronous Archive Replicator enables organizations to benefit from scalable long-term data storage and robust disaster prevention without the constraints associated with conventional archiving solutions.

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized Scale in its 2011 Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions report*. Scale is positioned in the Niche Players quadrant.

Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, today announced a closer partnership with Supermicro, to offer value-added resellers worldwide an improved process to bring NexentaStor-powered devices to their customers. Additionally, the company launched Platinum Support which includes several levels of direct support required by the world’s most demanding storage users. With these strategic developments, value-added resellers will benefit from improved hardware that is more closely integrated with NexentaStor, as well as an additional tier of end user support services. With these improvements and existing channel momentum, Nexenta projects that NexentaStor-based sales by value-added resellers will increase from $70-$100 million in 2010, to approximately $350-$400 million in 2011.

Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing solutions, and Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that provides Service Providers with an end-to-end cloud services and storage solution that is simply unattainable by Amazon and other legacy cloud providers. The solution includes the most efficient cloud software in the world, which requires lower infrastructure investment thanks to higher hardware utilization rates, faster performance, and cloud analytics that give visibility into the software stack and stored data, and the most efficient cloud storage in the world, which runs on industry standard commodity hardware and drastically reduces storage costs.

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced that Liberte, an international dairy manufacturer, has deployed Scale’s intelligent storage to complete the company’s virtualization project, ultimately saving the company thousands of dollars.

Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that KT, the largest fixed-line operator and second largest mobile carrier in Korea, is using NexentaStor to power the largest public cloud in Asia. KT officially launched its commercial public cloud service earlier this month. KT’s selection of NexentaStor as the storage standard for its public cloud is a clear signal to the market that OpenStorage solutions provide the price/performance ratio, scalability and interoperability that is impossible to achieve with legacy storage solutions.

The promise of cloud computing is that it can deliver the economies of scale and flexibility required to support a wide range of enterprise applications on demand. To achieve this goal, the building blocks in a cloud – servers, storage, networking gear – must be available in commodity markets in which there is real vendor choice and must be able to be deployed, configured and managed in a fully automated manner. Such open, flexible solutions have not been available for data storage, which has meant that the leading cloud companies have had to write their own software-based OpenStorage solutions since the hardware-based solutions from legacy vendors are too inflexible, expensive and difficult to manage, until now.

Arista Networks today introduced the Arista 7050 Series, a 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switching system that delivers 1.28 Terabits of switching performance at under 2 watts per 10GbE interface – making this the most efficient Ethernet switching system ever. The Arista 7050 Series also offers double the scale and faster performance than competing platforms while complementing the existing Arista 7100 Series of ultra-low latency switches with new switches purpose-built for broad data center deployments.

Spectra Logic, celebrating more than 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced it is now offering data integrity verification across its complete line of T-Series tape libraries from SME to Enterprise—free of charge. Spectra’s BlueScale® Data Integrity Verification for tape libraries is an industry first and an important long-term data reliability feature that ensures data written to tape is retrievable now and for years into the future. With Data Integrity Verification, Spectra’s tape libraries are the only tape storage systems on the market today that actively, automatically check the media and the data on tape throughout the storage life of the data. Integrated data integrity verification is increasingly becoming a data center requirement for highly-valued data solutions. Data integrity verification is being addressed through data scrubbing techniques from memory to high-end RAID storage and is now available in all Spectra T-Series tape libraries.