EMC caters to SMEs

EMC has released the CLARiiON AX4 system that can scale up to 60 terabytes of capacity, and supports either iSCSI or Fibre Channel SAN connectivity, according to M-net.net.

The system, EMC says, can be deployed, expanded and reconfigured in VMware Infrastructure and traditional IT environments with no application downtime.

According to EMC IP solutions marketing director Clive Gold, feedback from SME clients had revealed a few gaps in existing storage networks, and, as a result, the AX4 sports greater capacity and can scale up to 60 terabytes.

FalconStor Software and Virtual Iron Software have formed an alliance to offer integrated storage and server virtualisation, says Reuters.

The combined solutions improve data centre resource management by increasing utilisation of existing physical resources, optimising virtual infrastructure performance through real-time data migration.

"The combined FalconStor and Virtual Iron virtualisation capabilities fully optimise user business continuity goals by streamlining live migration of virtual machine disks from one data storage system to another," said Bernie Wu, VP of business development at FalconStor.

Secured Digital Storage Corporation has hired Jeff Pfeiffer as the director of Product Development, says Fox Business.

Pfeiffer comes to SDS with extensive storage services experience in the areas of partner management, product management and operations. Most recently, he managed the Verizon channel partnership for storage services provider Arsenal Digital Solutions.

Pfeiffer stated: "Today's IT organisation is being asked to do more than simply protect data against disaster. Backup alone does not suffice anymore. Now data must be constantly accessible, searchable, and retained long-term, as well as economical. SDS understands these requirements and is moving to push the limits of secure offsite data archival."