Infortrend Opens Office in Nashua, NH

With its North American headquarters housed in the Silicon Valley, Infortrend Technology Inc.'s new office will enable to provide real-time support and increased customer coverage in the Eastern region of the United States.

Additionally, Infortrend's physical presence on the East Coast will make it possible for customers to see live product demos, receive hands-on product training and obtain pre-sales/post-sales support in person.

 

Infortrend adds 10GbE iSCSI storage systems to its EonStor DS line

Infortrend announced initial models in its EonStor DS storage family featuring 10GbE iSCSI host connectivity. The hardware capabilities of these models, combined with the advanced data services of the EonStor DS family, including local and remote replication and thin provisioning, enable SMBs (small and medium businesses) to meet high-performance data storage demand.

 

Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization and reduces costs

While provisioning all the capacity of an external disk to a given application, known as full provisioning, ensures the app has plenty of growth potential, it results in poor utilization rates, a costly problem that can be addressed with thin provisioning technology.

Research shows that storage utilization rates achieved by most companies is 40% or lower. That means buyers are acquiring more capacity than they really need and the very existence of that extra capacity requires more space and cooling.

 

Green IT goes mainstream: What about data storage environments?

I recently did an interview with the folks over at Infortrend (a RAID storage company) discussing various industry trends and perspectives including RAID, data footprint reduction (DFR) as well as Green IT including how the Green Gap.

The Green Gap is the disconnect between common messaging around carbon and environment vs. IT and business productivity sustainment challenges that continues to result in confusion along with missed opportunities.