Storage
- Marine Research School Implements Virtual Storage Solution
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3/3/2008
The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami said it has implemented an ONStor network attached storage (NAS) solution in its two data centers. The school, comprising 100 faculty members, 190 graduate students, and 250 research support staff, is using the ONStor Bobcat NAS gateway to gain a single view into storage resources.
- Xsan 2 Adds Multi-SAN Support
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2/20/2008
Apple this week released an update to Xsan, the company's 64-bit storage-area network solution designed to allow workstations and Xserve systems to share RAID storage over Fibre Channel networks. The new version adds workflow enhancements across the board and also introduces a new feature called MultiSAN.
- Joyent's Hosted Apps Back Up, Going Open Source
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1/31/2008
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages--and taking both applications open source.
- Making the Switch to iSCSI Storage
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1/31/2008
Client by client, iSCSI is claiming ground against fibre channel in the external storage wars. For Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY, that day of reckoning came a week or so before Thanksgiving 2006 when the school's fibre channel storage system went down.
- Strongspace's 10-Day Crash Highlights Web Storage Risks
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1/21/2008
For the last 10 days, Sausalito, CA-based online document and storage hosting company Joyent struggled to get its online secure document collaboration service, Strongspace, back online.
- Macworld Expo: Apple Launches MacBook Air, Time Capsule
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1/15/2008
At the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage Tuesday to introduce the company's latest technologies. As rumored, Apple launched a new, super-slim version of the MacBook laptop computer, known as the MacBook Air. Jobs also introduced a new version of the AirPort Extreme Base Station known as Time Capsule, which combines an 802.11n router with a wireless backup storage solution.
- Macworld Expo: 3ware Sidecar SATA II RAID Adds Leopard Support
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1/15/2008
At the Macworld Conference & Expo this week in San Francisco, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) announced that its SATA II hardware RAID solution, the 3ware Sidecar, now offers support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The units have also undergone a price reduction, and the company is offering a $100 Macworld show discount.
- Macworld Expo: SATABeast Xi Delivers 42 TB Storage for Xserve
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1/14/2008
At the Macworld Conference & Expo being held this week in San Francisco, Nexsan is debuting a new high-density storage solution for Apple's Xserve and Mac Pro systems. Dubbed the SATABeast Xi, the 4U rackmount system, which is expected to ship in mid-March, will offer up to 42 TB of storage and features that allow it to improve energy efficiency.
- Data Backup 3 Update Brings Support for Leopard
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12/13/2007
Prosoft Engineering has brought full support for Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") to its backup and recovery system, Data Backup 3. The software remains unchanged otherwise.
- Service-Oriented Disc Duplication at Penn State
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11/29/2007
Customer service in higher education comes in a multitude of offerings, from grand and glorious, such as student lifecycle initiatives involving complex six-figure CRM software, to small, narrow and--well--round, such as providing disc duplication services where a dime will buy a student all the data that can fit on a blank CD. Pennsylvania State University's Entrepreneurial Services addresses the latter category.
- Sun Microsystems Storage Launch Raises Bar for Digital Repositories
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11/14/2007
With this week's launch of the StorageTek 5800, Sun is making its "Honeycomb" technology generally available to all customers.
- ShareLoader Appliance Automates Remote Backups
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10/22/2007
Crossroads Systems has started shipping a new appliance designed to automate backups of both on site and remote systems--SurePath ShareLoader. The appliance allows for backups of saved files on user machines (Windows-based) and also allows those users to retrieve lost data themselves, with the aim of reducing "IT overhead."
- UCSD Research Center Deploys ReadVerify Appliance
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10/18/2007
The San Diego Supercomputer Center, an NSF-funded research unit out of the University of California, San Diego, is deploying a stand-alone appliance to monitor the integrity of tape-based storage media. Crossroad Systems' SurePath ReadVerify Appliance will be used as part of the center's protection plan for its more than 5 petabytes of irreplaceable scientific data.
- Digital Repositories: A Global Work Effort
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10/10/2007
Stanford University librarian Michael Keller will join other leading digital archiving experts November 14-16 in Paris for the inaugural meeting of the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, a group dedicated to working on the unique problems of storage and data management, workflow, and architecture for very large digital repositories. The Sun PASIG brings together a large group of organizations for an ongoing global discussion of their research and sharing of best practices for preservation and archiving. Here, CT asks Keller for his perspectives on the effort and the goals of the Sun PASIG.
- Sun PASIG Unites Education and Industry for Digital Archiving
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10/8/2007
Sun Microsystems has formed a new collaborative group focused on developing and sharing best practices for digital archiving: Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (Sun PASIG). The group brings together representatives from industry, education, government, and library services in an effort to preserve and archive research and cultural materials.
- A Foundation for Digital Repositories
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9/26/2007
The new DSpace Foundation is fostering open access to scholarly works with the open source DSpace platform for storing, managing, and distributing digital collections. Here, Campus Technology interviews Michele Kimpton, executive director of the nascent nonprofit created this past July by MIT and HP as a successor to their joint DSpace project begun in 2002.
- Loyola Discards Hard Drive with 5,800 Student SSNs
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9/14/2007
A Loyola University Chicago computer containing the Social Security numbers of 5,800 students was discarded before its hard drive was erased, according to a letter from the school's chief information officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
- Higher Ed Wrestles with Risks of Removable Storage
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9/13/2007
Like IT managers across corporate America, campus IT managers are trying to solve the problem of securing removable storage devices in an open environment like a university.
- USC Prof: Internet Will Soon be Overwhelmed by Video
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9/4/2007
A University of California, San Diego professor has warned that a massive expansion of Internet capacity is required in the United States to keep the economy from slowing down and possibly stalling.
- How Dartmouth Produces Video Podcasts
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8/22/2007
With an $8,000 investment, Dartmouth's Department of Physics and Astronomy has set up the capability to provide video podcasts for courses that enable students to watch lectures they may have missed or that warrant review.
- Document Management to Save Technical College $3.5MM
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8/1/2007
The largest of Wisconsin's technical schools, Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) will overhaul its document management systems using technology and services from Xerox (Stamford, CT) in a move that could save it roughly $3.5 million over the next five years.
- Kingston Intros College-Themed Mobile Phone Cards
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7/25/2007
Clear a little more shelf space at the college bookstore checkout stand: Memory product company Kingston Technology (Fountain Valley, CA) has kicked off a new line of 1 GB and 2 GB microSD "Collegiate" cards to let students, family, alumni, and faculty add fight songs, school logo wallpapers and other school content to their mobile phones.
- Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Cyber Heart?
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7/13/2007
Universities don't become headlines because a $2,000 computer is hacked or lost. They become headlines when sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and medical information is stolen. In terms of liability, the asset is not equipment; it is information.
- Indiana U To Back Up State Government Data Center
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7/10/2007
Indiana University has signed an agreement to provide its home state government with back-up data center services. Representatives from the Indiana Office of Technology and IU said the deal will give the state a hot site that will enable IOT to continue operations for critical IT services should its primary center in Indianapolis become unavailable.
- Cambridge Shears Data Back-up Time by Two-Thirds
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6/19/2007
A Cambridge University research lab has cut the time it took to back up more than 23 terabytes of data from seven days to two, as part of an overhaul of its storage area network.
