SAN to IP Servers: Join the Party

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Don't let your server's lack of Fibre Channel connectivity keep it from tapping your SAN resources.

That's the mantra from Brocade this week, who unveiled their Brocade iSCSI Gateway allowing you to connect your existing IP-based servers to your SAN resources (FC switches and/or directly to disk arrays) via iSCSI. The Gateway sports both dual FC (for the SAN/arrays) and 10/100/1000 ports (for the IP servers), can accommodate up to 100 simultaneous iSCSI sessions, and delivers data at a clip of up to 135 MB/sec. The box can sit on a desktop or be loaded into the rack; its 1U half-width design allows you to pack two of 'em side-by-side in a single rack mount, where they can be configured as an active/active pair complete with failover and failback.

And if you run a GroupWise shop and you're tired of having to jump through hoops just to restore a single message or mailbox for your users, be sure to take a look at GWAVA's new offering, Reload. Reload runs on a separate Linux server but can backup GroupWise Post Offices from any other platform (without requiring an agent to be loaded on the Post Office platform) and provides its own Post Office agent (i.e., a user can connect to the Post Office exposed by the Reload server) for simplified message retrievals. The amount of information readily available on the Reload server depends entirely on the size of its disk or accessible storage; GWAVA says about 5 times the size of your existing Post Offices in storage will get you a couple weeks worth of disk-based restores (and if you attach a tape backup to the Reload server, Reload can rotate the older data off to tape, too).

Other highlighted entries from this week's collection of Enterprise IT Planet Product Guide briefings include new Celerra offerings from EMC; extended agent support for the Elemental Security Platform; and a PCI Express flavored PathScale InfiniPath for interconnecting clustered, Intel-based Linux boxes via InfiniBand.

Jump to:

Security

Elemental Security Platform
Anti-Executable

Networking:

InfiniPath
RemotelyAnywhere
FibeAir

Storage

Brocade iSCSI Gateway
Reload
EMC Celerra
KnowledgeTree
Tools for SQL Server

Featured Security Products:

Elemental Security Platform
Elemental Security, Inc.
Agent-based platform allows for the creation, deployment, monitoring, and enforcement of security policies on workstations and servers across the network. Now with extended agent support.

Anti-Executable
Faronics Corp.
Application loads on Windows machines and blocks unrecognized applications from being launched on that machine. Now includes violation logging.

Featured Networking Products:

InfiniPath
PathScale, Inc.
MPI application interconnect for InfiniBand (4X)-based Linux clusters. Available in ASIC, HTX for AMD, and soon in PCI Express form factors for Intel platforms.

RemotelyAnywhere
3am Labs, Inc.
Applicaton allows you to access a remote Windows machine using a Java or ActiveX enabled Web browser. New features include a remote system activities dashboard view and a Guest Invite feature for desktop collaboration.

FibeAir
Ceragon Networks Ltd.
Wireless bridges--targeted to campus and service provider uses--supporting multiple frequency bands and bandwidth configurations. New Fast Ethernet modules support bandwidth of from 50 to 200 Mb/sec per carrier.

Featured Storage Products:

Brocade iSCSI Gateway
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Provides a bridge from entry-level IP servers to FC arrays or SANs vi iSCSI communications. Supports up to 100 simultaneous iSCSI sessions.

Reload
GWAVA.
Automated backup platform designed specifically for GroupWise features single message/mailbox restore. Runs on SLES but backs up GroupWise Post Offices from any platform.

EMC Celerra
EMC Corp.
IP storage platforms offered in both integrated (with storage arrays) and gateway configurations supporting NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI access. New NS350 scales to 10 TB.

KnowledgeTree
The Jam Warehouse Software (Pty) Ltd.
Open source, Web-based document management platform includes workflow, version management, searching, more. New commercial version to include integration server for document access via MS Office, Windows Explorer, Mac Finder.

Tools for SQL Server
Idera.
Multiple tools for SQL Server management including monitoring, remote administration, diagnostics, etc. New SQLsafe release features SQL Server 2005 and Itanium 2/x64 support.

More Security, Networking, and Storage products and downloads at http://products.enterpriseitplanet.com.

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