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January 31, 2000

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Storage Management's Future Is Here Now
Companies unveil software to process more data with greater efficiency

By Martin J. Garvey

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    Information systems managers contemplating next-generation storage architectures must decide how best to control, manage, and secure the data that can fuel competitive advantage. Three storage-management software vendors last week unveiled products aimed at reaching these goals.

    Sterling Software Inc. revealed plans to deliver its E3 Storage Management suite, which will ultimately bring together under a single console view its existing backup-and-recovery and hierarchical storage-management products for mainframes, with new versions of client-server storage-management software the company gained through recent acquisitions. The package will also include new modules for managing virtual tape and other resources across a storage area network.

    The complete suite isn't due until 2001, but the first modules to interoperate--SAMS: Vantage for Resource and Availability Management, Enterprise Data Protection, and Virtual Tape Management--are available now. The Vantage products begin at $16,110.

    CommVault Systems Inc. introduced Galaxy, a data and storage-management suite it says provides straightforward and rapid indexing of high volumes of data. Mark Antley, manager of data systems for BellSouth Corp. in Atlanta, says Galaxy's efficient, menu-driven indexing leads to tight application integration, flexible deployments, and easy migration of data to new architectures. Galaxy, available next month for NT systems, will be priced at $5,000 for five servers.

    Solution-Soft Systems Inc. debuted e-Space Online Archiving Solution. It compresses data by 70%, making it easier to keep older information online longer. Shipping now for HP-UX, e-Space is priced at $299 for a single-processor workstation and $999 for a single-processor server.


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