DoSTOR analysis of the store on October 9: In the article published yesterday DoSTOR, intelligent switches, said users of its storage virtualization to achieve the best locations, Fujitsu can now give these users an alternative.
Fujitsu today announced that Brocade Communications intelligent SilkWorm switches running on EternusVS900 virtualization software will be available in North America in December, after the product from the beginning of June in Japan, limited to regional sales.
EternusVS900 facing rival, including EMC's Invista, as well as start-up companies MaXXan Systems and Troika Networks intelligent switches.
In addition, other means of virtualization include IBM's SAN Volume Controller and Hitachi's TagmaStore controller-based virtualization. FalconStor Software Inc. and start-up companies StoreAge Network Technologies, Inc., Cloverleaf Communications Inc. has sales of virtual equipment, they will allow users to different devices as a common storage pool to manage storage.
but in all of these products, only the most similar to EternusVS900 with Invista. Both have data migration, local replication, and synchronous mirroring functions. Invista support for Brocade and Cisco intelligent switches, the beginning of next year is also expected to support McData's intelligent switches. Fujitsu EternusVS900 the support of the McData and Cisco switches, may be on December 1 will also support another vendor's product.
Fujitsu senior vice president of product RichardMcCormack said Invista and EternusVS900 the biggest difference is that the Fujitsu software and server storage virtualization. EMC's VMware server virtualization can be achieved, but VMware and Invista is not one.
McCormack said: This is not just storage management and server management. from the application point of view, from a central console to virtual computing power and storage space.
Although the EMC and Fujitsu are competitors, but in storage virtualization Where the implementation of the issue, the two share identical views, they are intelligent switch settings in the data path, and IBM's SVC installed in the network data path, the Hitachi TagmaStore in a virtual disk array Data. Naturally, all manufacturers will insist that he is in the best position to achieve virtualization, but also the user does not agree.
Fujitsu EternusVS900 from the price of 200,000 U.S. dollars.