Symantec NetBackup 5000 scalable deduplication appliance
25 November, 2010
NetBackup 5000, a scalable deduplication appliance, provides fast backup with effective utilisation of bandwidth and storage.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online backup and recovery
25 November, 2010
The Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online backup and recovery solution provides secondary redundant data storage and can be used to recover files, folders or complete systems.
Disaster recovery planning: key to business continuity
12 October, 2010 by Simon Howe*
According to a recent study conducted by Acronis and research house Vanson Bourne, 63% of SMBs would take a day or more to recover from system failure. Imagine how your business would get through a day without access to systems and data.
Best practices for data recovery
10 August, 2010 by Scott Caulfield*
Data is a vital business asset for most organisations. Although high-availability technologies significantly reduce the probability of data loss, events such as technical failure, virus attacks, deliberate sabotage or employee error can still destroy data. Therefore, organisations must plan for data recovery and implement mechanisms for managing the data recovery process, says CA’s Scott Caulfield.
Storage tiering lowers overall IT costs
10 August, 2010 by Simon Sharwood
Hardware, storage management software and document management software all stake a claim for tiering duties claims Simon Sharwood. Storage tiering is a hot theme, and rightly so, because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage.
Infinite data retention leads to costly mistakes
06 August, 2010
High storage costs, long backup windows, litigation risk and inefficient e-discovery plague companies, survey finds.
Tandberg Data 1 TB RDX cartridge
03 August, 2010
Tandberg Data’s 1 TB RDX cartridge, for use with the company’s RDX QuikStor disk-based removable storage system, is claimed to be a first for this capacity. Other RDX cartridge capacities include 160, 320, 500 and 640 GB.
NetApp supports Intel Ethernet X520 SFP+ 10GbE server adapters
02 August, 2010
NetApp has announced it will support the Intel Ethernet X520 family of SFP+10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE) server adapters, assisting users to transition from a fibre channel infrastructure (FCoE) to a high-performance FCoE infrastructure.
Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks D2D backup systems
07 July, 2010
All StorageWorks D2D backup systems contain StoreOnce software. The D2D4312 delivers disk-based backup and restore capabilities and scales up to 48 TB, enabling clients to consolidate backup of multiple servers in a single process. Optional multisite replication functionality automates backups to a centralised location in the data centre.
Hewlett-Packard StoreOnce data deduplication software
07 July, 2010
StoreOnce data deduplication software can be deployed at multiple points in a converged infrastructure, reducing the number of times data has to be deduplicated and enabling clients to more efficiently manage and control data growth.
Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem SAN and EVA Cluster
07 July, 2010
Creating a virtual pool of shared storage resources is a key technology in the evolution to a converged infrastructure. StorageWorks P4800 BladeSystem storage area network (SAN) and the StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) Cluster enable clients to consolidate servers, storage and desktops by creating virtual resource pools of capacity. This enables clients to easily shift resources as the organisation requires.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product line enhancements
07 July, 2010
The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product line enhancements include built-in inline data deduplication that can be combined with inline data compression, 4 and 8 Gbps fibre channel protocol support, multiple storage pools, and 1 and 2 TB SAS disk drives.
Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering
07 July, 2010
The Hitachi Cloud Service for Private File Tiering will enable enterprise users to move legacy or lower value file data to a private cloud located within the user’s firewall. In partnership with Digi-Data, the company also has a public online cloud storage solution that provides a complete services menu for telecommunications, service providers and systems integrators to deliver public cloud storage-as-a-service offerings to consumers and SMBs.
Enabling corporate cloud storage
07 July, 2010 by Brad Newton*
Innovations in cloud storage services are causing a growing number of enterprises to take notice. After all, keeping up with data growth using the traditional storage model is fast becoming a challenge. Compounding this issue are the challenges of supporting a growing number of critical applications as well as rich media types while also meeting demanding service level requirements within strict budget constraints.
Compellent Storage Centre SAN with zNAS
02 July, 2010
The Compellent Storage Centre SAN with zNAS consolidates file and block storage on a single, intelligent platform, integrating next-generation ZFS software, high-performance hardware and architecture to provide a responsive, granular and automated storage system.
