At EMC World 2012, EMC announced new EMC Data Domain and EMC Avamar deduplication systems and software that the vendor says will transform the backup and recovery landscape. The new products are high performance, scalable, purpose-built backup appliances that tightly integrate with each other, with backup software and with enterprise applications. These new capabilities further differentiate the EMC backup and recovery portfolio from competitors with point products, and chart the EMC vision for the future of backup and recovery.

For years, the most common and daunting challenges backup administrators faced were backup window times and dealing with slow and unreliable tape-based recoveries. Data deduplication technology enabled high-performance purpose-built backup appliances to address these issues. Today, cloud and big data are transforming IT environments, but legacy backup systems can stall or cripple these valuable IT transformation projects. By delivering a capability-rich, next generation backup and recovery platform that builds in unprecedented levels of performance, integration and management, EMC frees customers from the complexities of protecting IT environments that are changing and expanding. This gives customers flexibility and choice in how they attack their most pressing data protection challenges.

EMC says the new Data Domain offering is over 6x faster and has 3x more capacity than its nearest competitor, in terms of market share. New software also broadens the Data Domain archiving capabilities for extended retention and regulatory compliance, expands the Data Domain Boost” ecosystem and enhances the Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture

EMC says the new EMC Avamar 6.1 deduplication software and system delivers 3x the backup performance and 30x the recovery performance of its nearest competitor in VMware environments, again, in terms of market share. Avamar 6.1 also simplifies backup management for business critical applications and expands Microsoft Hyper-V support to deliver complete protection for virtual server environments.

“EMC is delivering high performance scalable appliances that integrate with each other, with backup software and with enterprise applications,” said William “BJ” Jenkins, President, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division. “Customers embarking upon transformation of IT have asked us for these capabilities because it is essential that backup infrastructures align to these new IT infrastructures. Over time, traditional backup products that do not take this end-to-end view, in effect, paint users into a corner. Our mission is to give our customers the flexibility to architect their backup infrastructures strategically, leveraging the broad product choices and integration capabilities that only EMC can deliver, and then enable them to continually evolve their backup and recovery to help drive their IT transformation efforts.”

Source:http://www.echannelline.com/usa/brief.cfm?item=19066

Toolmakers can create dimensioned engineering drawings of machine tools automatically, using a new function offered in NUM’s Numroto grinding software. By producing cross-sectional views of a tool – at any position along its length – the new Numroto Draw function can effectively automate production verification. The drawings also incorporate images obtained directly from 3D simulations, so complex grinding details can be portrayed graphically and “unequivocally,” according to NUM.

is a developer of CNC machining software for machining, including platforms for rotary transfer and multispindle machining, high-speed multi-axis machining, gear grinding, and other tasks. Numroto is a platform for tool grinding applications.
The Numroto Draw function allows users to simulate precise details of tools prior to production, or to confirm the ground geometry of a tool as part of the delivery process. The developer also indicated the software will be popular with tool resharpening companies, who can use it to provide customers with documentation of their work, before or after it is complete.

“Our software is extremely popular with tool manufacturers and resharpening companies,” offered NUM Numroto group R&D head Patrick Schmid, who described more than 3,000 installations for more than 50 different machine types. “Numroto Draw is the latest technological milestone in the evolution of tool grinding software. By effectively automating product documentation, it will help users accelerate production verification, aid quality control, and lead to faster order delivery.”

Most currently available product documentation software for multi-axis tool grinding are relatively simple drawing generators, generally limited to a single type of tool, such as a drill, and present information as parameterized drawings. While these are adequate for documenting the outer geometry of a tool, they do not show the precise cross-sectional details of a complex, ground geometry.

Numroto Draw works by integrating the drawing functions with the multiple data sources in the core Numroto software. A drawing is derived directly from the same data source as the CNC program, ensuring there is no ambiguity in the process. Using data that defines the spatial course of the tool’s cutting edge, the software automatically calculates all dimensions that require presentation and then generates the appropriate drawing. If any of the dimensions do not meet a customer’s requirement, they can be amended very easily.

In addition, if the Numroto program also includes the grinding wheel data, Numroto Draw can process this information to create 3D details and integrate them with the drawing. 3D details can be represented as color images or as wire frame models, and provide an extremely accurate portrayal of the tool’s profile or cross-sectional geometry between or at any position(s) along its length.

Drawings created in Numroto Draw are fully editable. Users can structure header information to suit a customer’s requirements, and the tool designation can be taken directly from the Numroto database. A separate table showing a tool’s main parameters can be created either by the user or adapted from one of the program templates, and populated using values from the Numroto database. The documentation (which can be structured to occupy several pages if desired) also may include a graphical representation of the grinding wheel pack, together with a table containing information about each wheel, such as its diameter, width and grinding angle.

The CNC software developer stated that Numroto Draw function helps to shorten the sampling process. Customers of tool-grinding companies often describe their requirement for a new tool vocally, with the help of hand-drawn sketches. After creating a CNC program for the tool-grinding machine, the company then grinds a sample tool. At that point any necessary revisions to the design become apparent, and the process is often highly iterative.

Using Numroto Draw, companies can now present customers with a drawing showing the precise grindable geometry of the tool very early in the development cycle. A 3D model can be created, so the customer can view the proposed tool from various perspectives. Any design changes can be implemented immediately, prior to grinding a sample tool, accelerating the process and minimizing costs and scrap.

NUM also reported enhancements to other Numroto capabilities. The number and type of measurements that can be performed during grinding operations has been extended significantly. Typically, operators can maintain tolerances to within ±3 microns, even when producing a wide range of tools that may involve as many as 15 different measurements. Also, the software now features an XML data interface, so tool geometry parameters such as length, diameter, rake angle, relief information and many others can be exported for use in other programs, or imported from a customer’s database to shorten the design-to-production path.

Source:http://www.americanmachinist.com/Classes/Article/ArticleDraw.aspx?HBC=Issue&NIL=False&CID=88589&OASKEY=Issue