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It's once again time for your enterprise storage salmagundi of the week

Bits and bytes from across the industry rounded up in one handy spot

Quantum

Quantum says StorNext v6.0 is generally available. This is its scale-out file system product. It's shipping with the company's Xcellis workflow storage appliances.

We're told v6.0 provides more efficient and cost-effective ways to share and access files across geographically distributed teams, to manage and protect archived data, and to audit changes to data throughout its lifecycle.

There are new FlexSync and FlexSpace features:

  • FlexSync provides a way to synchronize data between multiple StorNext-based systems in a manageable and automated fashion. It supports one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one file replication scenarios and can be configured to operate at almost any level: specific files, specific folders or entire file systems.
  • FlexSpace allows multiple instances of StorNext – and geographically distributed teams – to share a single storage repository and access the same data set. To reduce costs, the shared repository avoids maintaining duplicate copies of data at each site, while providing access to all users, in any location, at any time.

It supports both public and private cloud storage that uses the S3 protocol – including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as well as Quantum's Lattus object storage – and third-party object storage such as NetApp StorageGRID, IBM Cleversafe and Scality Ring.

StorNext v6.0 includes a new quality of service (QoS) facility for optimizing performance across all client workstations, and on a machine-by-machine basis, using bandwidth limits and adjustments.

This v6.0 version also has client platforms able to browse archive directories that contain offline files – which can number in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions – without having to retrieve the entire directory. So does the archive retrieval process, enabling users to get the files they need more quickly.

Lastly v6.0 StorNext 6 adds:

  • Copy expiration, enabling automated removal of file copies from more expensive storage tiers, thereby freeing up space and increasing the overall return on investment.
  • Ability to track changes in files across the data lifecycle and report who changed a file, when the changes were made, what was changed and whether and to where a file was moved – giving administrators greater file management granularity and insight into usage patterns and supporting compliance requirements.

WhereScape

The oddly named WhereScape – Wher escape? – is a data warehouse/business intelligence precursor company. It simplifies and automates the design, build and population of data warehouse tables.

When you need to populate a data warehouse again and again and from multiple sources, then automating the process with WhereScape's RED product makes a lot of sense.

The company says its product extracts data from virtually any source, including OLTP systems, flat files, and big data platforms such as Hadoop. It builds native database objects optimized for a number of target platforms and analytic appliances, including:

  • Platforms
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • Teradata
    • Oracle
    • IBM DB2
  • Appliances
    • Greenplum
    • Netezza
    • Microsoft Analytics Platform System

We understand support for Snowflake is coming.

Druva

Druva says WorkForce Software, a provider of enterprise workforce management products, is using Druva to protect its business data, which includes Office 365 and G Suite.

Peter Webber, director of IT operations at WorkForce, said old manual backup procedures ran out of usefulness: "WorkForce has grown rapidly, with dozens of offices opening across the globe. Additionally, we made an acquisition that brought a flood of new international users."

They needed something better and alighted on Druva, which centralizes all essential data in the cloud.

People

The company that just merged with Axcient, eFolder, has hired Adam Slutskin as chief revenue officer. He comes from a two-year stint as CRO at ConnectWise and will have direct worldwide responsibility for all revenue-generating and customer-facing eFolder teams.

His LinkedIn profile says his "strengths are building teams and enabling them for success. I empower the right people for the task at hand. I strongly believe in transparency, collaboration, innovation as well as challenging the norm." ®

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