电脑网络科技公司(CNT)7月20日宣布推出新款导向器级交换机产品,新款UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD)系列是该公司2003年4月份花费1900万美元收到Inrange科技公司后的产品。UMD系列的第一款型号为Model 16,它预计将于今年八月份开始供货,具有256个非模块化FC端口,同时它能通过增加额外模块来支持FICON技术。该公司表示,到2005年时,CNT将可以提供4-和10-Gbit/s通道的产品,它同时可以连接千兆以太网、SAN扩展和高质量服务控制。与此同时,CNT还计划在下一年推出这个系列的低端交换机。
本期存储串串秀,告诉大家最后一条有价值的消息是VERITAS公司日前宣布以总价为3,500万美元的现金收购Invio软件公司。Invio是位于加州洛斯阿尔托斯市的一家私有的IT流程自动化技术供应商。Invio的高度可客户化的流程自动化引擎已经成为VERITAS CommandCentral Service 4.0不可或缺的组件,扩展了VERITAS软件产品的功能,为客户提供一种工具,使他们在进行存储资源分配、服务器资源分配和数据保护时能够实现IT服务提供的标准化和自动化,从而实现效用计算。
《CentricStor -- 虚拟的磁带,真实的业务价值》(By PeakData) 白皮书简介: Learn how a heterogeneous virtual tape solution can dramatically increase tape performance and reduce cost by enabling the decoupling of individual servers and their applications from physical tape drives and automation. CentricStor permits Unix, Windows, AS/400 and mainframe systems to employ virtual tape drives to provide a multitude of high-performance and permanently available backup and archiving resources over a storage network. This universal connectivity enables different servers and applications to access the virtual archive simultaneously, without the need for a real tape drive for each individual system. CentricStor integrates transparently into existing IT environments, making it unnecessary to modify existing application and backup scenarios.
《iSCSI白皮书 - 蓝色巨人教您认识存储网络》(By IBM) 白皮书简介: Though this paper is not specific to iSCSI, it is such a good introduction to storage networking that we had to include it here. Some of the references to storage architecture are IBM-specific, such as SANergy. A very clear and easy-to-read paper. 《iSCSI白皮书 - iSCSI协议摘要》(By Cisco) 白皮书简介: This is an overview of how iSCSI is structured, including naming, network entities, and portals. The details of the protocol is a little dated, but the principles are the same. 《iSCSI白皮书 - iSCSI CRC32C摘要文档》(By Agilent) 白皮书简介: This is the definitive algebraic description of the CRC used in iSCSI. Recommended for those with a strong mathematics background.