An interesting article from eWeek on Microsoft's new Data Protection Server (DPS). DPS is supposed to help reduce backup and recovery times, reduce risk, and improve TCO. I'm not convinced since the major bottlenecks in performing backups, particularly tape backups, are the network and the media. I did a search on Microsoft.com for Data Protection Server and found nothing. I'll wait and see on this one.
Powering HP's StorageWorks Grid is the code from the Lustre project, with some HP specific modifications. This type of approach to clustering storage is becoming more and more popular. Vendors such as LeftHand Networks use a similar approach, though their approaches are not marketed as grid solutions. HP seems to be glomming onto the Grid hype with this announcement. Let’s call this what it is – a distributed filesystem.
