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| Products, Presentations & Awards to Highlight Hifn’s Presence at SNW 2008 Hifn says it will showcase its Swarm secure iSCSI storage appliances and feature presentations from two company vice presidents at Storage Networking World 2008, April 7-10, 2008 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida, Booth 1200. Hifn's Swarm appliances, which will be shown at the company's booth, are the only iSCSI unified storage appliances available with integrated AES256 data encryption, providing a simple-to-deploy and easy-to-use secure network storage solution for small and medium businesses. Hifn's IP SAN storage appliances enable customers to leverage their existing Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure and IP knowledge base to deploy a secure IP Storage Area Network without the cost and complexity penalties of typical Fibre Channel SANs. The Swarm product line ranges from the entry-level Swarm 1000 with 1 terabyte of secure storage capacity to the Swarm 3000 HA, a high-availability model with active-active failover support for the most critical zero downtime environments. Every Swarm appliance features iSCSI and NAS protocols, centralized management with an easy to use, web-based user interface to administer multiple appliances, dual path I/O for active/active access to storage, on-the-fly volume and capacity expansion. Additionally, Hifn includes a complete suite of storage services, including point-in-time snapshots, volume-based asynchronous replication for remote storage and disaster recovery, and integrated backup directly on the SAN, eliminating backup traffic from the network and reducing the backup window. In addition to demonstrating its line of Swarm appliances, Hifn executives will be presenting at SNW. Russell Dietz, Hifn Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, will be the first to present on Thursday April 10 at 9:25am. Dietz's presentation "Security Considerations Bring Software-Plus-Service to the Enterprise" will address the business advantages and security implications of Software-as-a-Service and Software+Service processes moving beyond CRM and web portals and into more traditional business critical applications. Dietz will examine the security gaps and data leakage points of SaaS and S+S and lay out new methods of data protection and replication to fix those security issues. Dietz will be followed by John Matze, Hifn Vice President of Business Development, at 11:15am addressing "Consolidating Primary and Secondary Data Storage." Matze will offer a vision for the next phase in storage consolidation of deploying a single storage array with the cost and performance characteristics to handle both primary and secondary storage on a "tierless" iSCSI array and identify the required enabling technologies. Matze will conclude by focusing on the business benefits of deploying tierless consolidated storage along with consolidated servers deployed as virtual machines. Additionally, on Wednesday night at Storage Networking World, Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) will present its Best Practices in Storage Awards. Hifn customer Rockford Construction Company of Grand Rapids, MI, is a finalist for the award in the "Selecting and Deploying Storage Networks" category. Rockford Construction was selected as one of five finalists for the award after implementing a server and storage consolidation project, moving from seven servers with direct-attached storage to an IP SAN with two virtual servers and a Hifn Swarm 3200 iSCSI storage appliance, producing dramatically reduced storage management costs and greatly improved data availability. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |