Adaptable modular storage series
17 July, 2009
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series is a mid-range platform that delivers improved performance, connectivity, scalability, reliability and ease-of-use to customers. The 2000 family is one of only a few mid-range storage products with symmetric active-active controllers that provide integrated, automated hardware-based front-to-back-end I/O load balancing.
Disaster recovery services
17 July, 2009
An integrated deduplication and backup and recovery solution has been released by Acronis. Called the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, it is the next generation of the True Image systems. It offers data deduplication, which can cut storage requirements by up to 90% by eliminating backup copies of redundant data.
Backup platform
17 July, 2009
Symantec has announced its latest releases to its NetBackup platform to help organisations improve operational and storage efficiencies across physical and virtual environments. NetBackup provides recovery of information and reduces overall complexity by uniting next-generation information management technologies for disk backup, data deduplication, virtual machine protection, continuous data protection (CDP) and replication in the heterogeneous enterprise data centre.
Managed storage services
17 July, 2009
Global Storage has launched three services: EnvironmentReady — Enterprise Managed Disaster Recovery, DataReady — Enterprise Managed Backup and DataReady — Enterprise Managed Backup.
Southern Rural Water outsources disaster recovery
17 July, 2009
With the threat of a natural disaster impacting its operations, Southern Rural Water (SRW) looked to a fully managed disaster recovery service to minimise risk to its business, and protect the organisation’s ability to operate in the face of several disasters.
SNIA expands membership and appoints new board member
01 July, 2009Ingram Micro Australia and New Zealand to join as a member of SNIA ANZ.
Web security and WAN optimisation
18 June, 2009
Riverbed Technology has combined with Websense to offer enterprise customers web security on the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP). The Websense Web Security can be deployed on the RSP, a virtualised, extensible data services platform integrated with the Steelhead appliance hardware that allows customers to deploy multiple best-of-breed edge services that formerly required dedicated servers.
Hard drives
22 April, 2009
Seagate has added two drives to its Cheetah enterprise-class hard drive family: the 15K.7 and the NS.2.
Database restore
22 April, 2009
Kroll Ontrack’s PowerControls 5.1 allows IT administrators to search and restore items from a SharePoint database.
Disaster recovery platform
16 April, 2009
Veritas Cluster Server One is a high availability (HA) disaster recovery (DR) platform for data centres.
Remote IT automation
16 April, 2009
Kaseya has announced new versions of its Endpoint Security and Backup and Disaster Recovery modules. The releases offer automation capabilities for fast deployment and efficient utilisation of IT resources.
Serverless backup
16 April, 2009
Datastor’s NAS/iSCSI solution combines iSCSI and virtualisation technologies to allow serverless backups to hard drive and tape.
Disk libraries
02 April, 2009
The Disk Library 3D 1500 and 3000 are backup-to-disk libraries with data deduplication facilities, suitable for mid-size LAN-based environments.
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
02 April, 2009
has enhanced its Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM.
Virtual disaster recovery
02 April, 2009
Site Recovery Manager, a product for disaster recovery management and automation, is available from VMware. It uses virtualisation to simplify business continuity planning and testing and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.