DataDirect reaches rack milestone

DataDirect Networks has doubled the capacity and power efficiency and lowered the footprint of its signature S2A storage systems to handle petabyte-level storage for heavy-duty enterprise workloads, states eWeek.

With its flagship S2A9900 array, the company will support 2TB enterprise and low-power SATA hard drives from companies such as Seagate, Samsung, Western Digital and others that are beginning to move into production use.

The new arrays are enabled by cooler-running quad-core processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

The Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Cache is designed to help data centre managers run high-performance hybrid arrays, storage arrays that use both solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disc drives (HDDs), reports ComputerWeekly.

Adaptec said MaxIQ is able to deliver up to five times the I/O performance, up to 50% savings in capital and operating expenses, and a dramatic reduction in power consumption over HDD-only arrays.

The product integrates a 32GB Intel X25-E Extreme SATA SSD, used as high-performance cache, with Adaptec's MaxIQ SSD caching software to provide I/O-intensive data centres with high-performance storage that can run alongside existing infrastructure.

Specialist distributor Zycko has partnered with networked storage specialist Infortrend to help grow its European footprint, says Computing.co.uk.

Zycko will target its integrator base to push the vendor's enterprise scalable virtualised architecture suite to verticals that are suffering from financial pressures, such as media and education.

David Galton-Fenzi, group sales director at Zycko, said: “Infortrend has managed to bundle a high level of functionality into a cost-effective package that will appeal to firms that need the same level of storage as an enterprise, but which do not have an enterprise-size budget.