Products & innovations
Cohesity Improves
Efficiency
and Extends
Hyperconverged
Secondary
Storage Platform
Cohesity has announced Cohesity
4.0, which further advances the
company’s vision to eliminate
costly and hard to manage point
solutions by consolidating all
secondary data workloads on a
single, web-scale infrastructure.
The new offerings, Cohesity
DataPlatform 4.0 and Cohesity
DataProtect 4.0, expand Cohesity’s
capabilities far beyond back up
to bring together even more data
formats and infrastructures,
including object storage and
network attached storage (NAS),
onto its hyperconverged platform.
With new features that make
secondary storage management
easier and more efficient, the fourth
generation platform enables more
enterprises to realise the benefits
of hyperconvergence for an even
greater array of secondary data
use cases. Cohesity DataProtect
4.0 now includes NAS back ups
and more features for virtual and
physical server back ups.
Furthermore, this release
provides greater infrastructure
efficiency with the introduction
of erasure coding, which provides
up to 43 per cent improvement in
usable capacity over replication.
Cohesity simultaneously
announced that it raised over $90
million in a Series C funding round
to meet surging customer demand.
This release pushes Cohesity’s
capabilities beyond data protection,
converging different infrastructures
to support enterprises that are
moving towards a multi-cloud future.
For further information visit: www.
cohesity.com/not-just-backup/
46 | May 2017
Rittal’s DX Enclosure Based Cooling
Solutions Support Growing IT Needs
With ever expanding IT environments the
issue of cooling the equipment becomes
acute. The Rittal LCU DX and LCP DX solutions
deliver enclosure based cooling via direct
expansion units. The units are easy to install
simply by mounting them on the side panels
inside IT racks.
Rittal’s LCU DX (Liquid Cooling Unit) offers
enclosure based cooling with DX units mounted
inside 800-wide IT racks. They are available
with up to 6.5kW output in both single and dual
redunacy variants.
The LCU system features horizontal air circulati on, supporting the conventional
method of front-to-back airflow to the 19in racks. Cold air is blown directly in front of the
components. After being warmed by the servers, the air is drawn into the cooling unit at
the rear of the enclosure and passes through the heat exchanger, which cools it down. This
method requires IT enclosures that are sufficiently airtight, such as Rittal’s TS IT series.
Otherwise cold air will escape, impacting overall efficiency. LCU DX units are installable in
800mm server enclosures.
The Rittal LCP DX (Liquid Cooling Package) is another example of a rack cooling unit.
Suitable for 12kW power dissipation, it can be mounted on the side of an IT enclosure,
enabling a single device to cool two enclosures.
For further information visit: www.rittal.co.uk
Excel Enhances its Fibre Offering
Excel Networking Solutions has significantly enhanced its fibre offering with the
addition of new high density products and has also introduced the brand name
‘Enbeam’ to denote the complete fibre solution.
The latest additions to the range include the new Enbeam fibre panel – 1U 19in
12-cassette high density panel that provides an expandable and innovative cassette
based patching solution. The panel offers a capacity of 12 cassettes, each containing
12 fibres offering up to 144 fibres per 1U, with either LC or MTP presentation. All
cassettes can be mixed and matched as required and include the LC-MTP HD 6-port
cassette, the LC HD 6-port cassette and the MTP HD 4-port through-coupler.
The Enbeam 1U 144 fibre LC angled panel provides high density LC patching
offering 72 ports/144 fibres in 1U. The angled design negates the need for additional
patch cord management, further increasing the potential density of this system.
Designed as a pass-through patching panel it features a large rear cable manager for
location of the rear cables/patch leads.
Finally, the Enbeam LC Uniboot patch cords provide excellent performance in a
compact design, using 2mm round cable containing 2x600 micron diameter fibres,
which are ideal in high density applications. These patch cords
are available in two versions – standard uniboot
and a pull-tab version. Both versions allow for
easy polarity changing.
For further information visit:
www.excel-networking.com