Data Center Briefs: October 3, 2008

By Systems Management News Team

October 3, 2008 —  New Products
Chatsworth Products introduced new accessories for its Evolution Cable Management line, including a patent-pending cable divider kit and a spool spacer for use with vertical cable managers. Panels and floor brackets rounded out the additions. The company also introduced an updated passive cooling accessory for the F-Series TeraFrame cabinets, the Vertical Exhaust Duct. The two-piece duct is available in short and tall versions, and it replaces the original model.

Red Hat has delivered a Linux-based HPC platform that it claims can be deployed in under an hour. The Red Hat HPC Solution is priced from US$249 per node and is built around the company’s own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 as well as Platform Open Cluster Stack 5, from Platform Computing. The package also includes cluster management tools, interconnect support and the Platform Lava job scheduler.

Software Workshop announced a new distribution based on the MySQL open-source database server from Sun Microsystems, meant to provide usage accounting features absent in the mainstream release. ExtSQL adds commands to the SQL language that allow the monitoring by connection, database or user. One such command is "Show Statistics," which with the proper variables can provide a list of statements issued by users by time period. ExtSQL is available under the GPL, and a company spokesperson expressed hopes that the source for the extensions might someday be adopted as part of the common MySQL distribution.

Updates
DSS3 Data Vaulting released Asigra 8.0, an online data management platform with support for Exchange, SharePoint and VMware products in particular. The new version allows users to archive stagnant data; provides message-level restore for Exchange 2000 and later; creates host-side backups of VMware ESX virtual machines; and allows backup and restore of an entire SharePoint installation, including the underlying SQL Server setup and individual SharePoint items. The company says release 8 adds support for a range of Linux versions as well as Windows Vista. It claims the ability to perform online backups of locked files (such as PSTs open in Outlook) without the need for third-party tools.


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