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Users Give Dedupe High Marks By Paul Shread - Published September 25, 2008 Anyone looking for an unhappy data de-duplication user at this week's Storage Decisions conference would have been hard-pressed to find one. [more Business Continuity News ]
VMware Data Protection Is Big Business for Storage Vendors By Paul Shread - Published September 15, 2008 As VMware adds new APIs and features, storage vendors roll out new offerings to protect data in virtual server environments. [more Business Continuity News ]
E-Discovery Vendor Refines Legal Searches By Paul Shread - Published August 29, 2008 Clearwell Systems claims its new 'Transparent Search' feature can make legal searches easier — and more defensible in court. [more Business Continuity News ]
The Trouble With Virtual Disaster Recovery By Richard Adhikari - Published August 27, 2008 Embracing virtualization helps cut costs, but will it lead to trouble when there's a massive systems failure? [more Business Continuity News ]
IBM Gets Proactive About E-Discovery By Richard Adhikari - Published August 12, 2008 Why wait until you face a lawsuit, then pay through the nose for an e-discovery solution you'll only use once or twice? [more Business Continuity News ]
IBM Rolls Out Data Protection for Small Businesses By Judy Mottl - Published July 31, 2008 Big Blue takes another whack at CDP for small offices by turning FilesX around as a Tivoli Storage Manager offering. [more Business Continuity News ]
BakBone Gets Into Recovery By Paul Shread - Published July 24, 2008 The backup specialist promises 30 second application data recovery with NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector. [more Business Continuity News ]
Tape Gets Respect from IT Giants By Judy Mottl - Published July 15, 2008 Often-derided tape storage gets a vote of confidence, as HP and Sony team on a new DAT format and IBM and Sun break the terabyte tape barrier. [more Business Continuity News ]
HP Moves Into De-Dupe Market By Paul Shread - Published June 18, 2008 HP will soon unveil data de-duplication products aimed at both enterprises and SMBs.
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Atempo Archives It All By Paul Shread - Published June 16, 2008 The vendor is one of a very few to combine file and e-mail backup and archiving.
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Storage Vendors Get Psyched for Hyper-V By Richard Adhikari - Published June 13, 2008 Double-Take and NetApp are the first of many storage vendors likely to support Microsoft's new virtualization offering.
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Sepaton Turns Virtual Tape Up a Notch By Paul Shread - Published June 9, 2008 The VTL vendor claims its new appliances beat the competition on capacity and de-duplication performance.
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IBM, Iron Mountain Unite on Records Management By Judy Mottl - Published June 3, 2008 The storage titans promise easier handling of any kind of document.
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A Remedy for Health Care Archival Ills By Judy Mottl - Published May 28, 2008 BridgeHead Software's tool aims to make 'c-discovery' as easy as possible in a space where a handful of tech giants are already entrenched.
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Tape's Changing Role in Data Protection By Greg Schulz - Published October 6, 2008 Far from being moribund, data tape technology is finding new uses even as disk and solid state storage technologies gain ground. [more Business Continuity ]
Disaster Recovery and Continuity for the Database Administrator By Kevin Medlin - Published October 3, 2008 In the first of a two-part series, we look at one of the most critical issues facing any organization: making sure database applications can be back up and running quickly in case of a disaster. [more Business Continuity ]
University Gives EMC an A for Storage By Jennifer Schiff - Published September 29, 2008 The storage vendor helped East Carolina University solve everything from rapidly growing backup windows to strained power capacity. [more Business Continuity ]
Storage That Really Lasts By Jennifer Schiff - Published September 11, 2008 If you want to preserve data for the really long term, as in thousands of years, Norsam Technologies' analog HD-Rosetta disk may be your best bet. [more Business Continuity ]
Making Sure Disaster Recovery Works By Lynn Haber - Published September 5, 2008 The problem with disaster recovery plans is you never know if they'll work until you need them. How one company solved the problem. [more Business Continuity ]
A Disaster Recovery Plan for Small Business By Drew Robb - Published August 22, 2008 Faced with overwhelming IT demands on a very small staff, one small business turned to a managed service provider. [more Business Continuity ]
Court Bids Paper Adieu By Drew Robb - Published August 11, 2008 In an ambitious effort, Seattle's King County District Court has gone paperless, with the help of EMC and other vendors. [more Business Continuity ]
Sepaton Makes Virtual Backup a Reality By Lynn Haber - Published August 1, 2008 Employment services firm Sterling Infosystems turned to Sepaton for help backing up its virtualized server environment.
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Data Corruption: Dedupe's Achilles Heel By Henry Newman - Published July 16, 2008 If you're thinking about purchasing a data de-duplication solution, you need to take a hard look at the issue of data corruption. [more Business Continuity ]
Finding a Disaster Recovery Solution That Won't Break the Bank By Drew Robb - Published July 8, 2008 As another hurricane season arrives, it's a good time to remember that an imperfect disaster recovery solution is better than none. [more Business Continuity ]
Counting Your Storage Blessings By Drew Robb - Published June 26, 2008 Blessing Hospital of Quincy, Illinois, is using CommVault Simpana to complete patient data backups on time. [more Business Continuity ]
Making Sure Your Data is Safe with SaaS By Drew Robb - Published April 30, 2008 Software as a Service is all the rage, but you need to know a few things before turning your data over to a third-party service provider.
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Storage Security Standards Heat Up By Drew Robb - Published April 24, 2008 As storage vendors struggle with security and encryption key management, standards groups hope to speed up the process.
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Consumer Devices Give Storage Admins Security Headaches By Paul Rubens - Published April 17, 2008 From iPods to USB memory sticks, consumer storage devices present potential security threats, and companies have sprung up to fill the need.
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Progress Catches Up With Storage Security Vendors By Drew Robb - Published March 25, 2008 Standalone storage security vendors have been disappearing as storage security becomes standard and the market they created gets taken over by the biggest storage vendors.
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Lawyers, Storage Vendors and Money By Drew Robb - Published March 13, 2008 Thanks to e-discovery, e-mail archiving is one of the fastest growing markets around — and vendors are taking notice.
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Overland Helps CEO Group With Backup By Lynn Haber - Published February 29, 2008 Vistage International got on top of a mountain of data with help from Overland's de-duplication and virtual tape appliances.
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Data Protection Spurs New Technologies By Leslie Wood - Published February 14, 2008 Disk-based backup and the convergence of data center networking technologies are very much on the minds of storage vendors and users this year. [more Business Continuity ]
There's a New Storage Sheriff in Town By Lynn Haber - Published February 7, 2008 The Orange County Sheriff's Department turns to Data Domain to capture more data on disk and run tape out of town.
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Caringo Gives Structure to Unstructured Data By Jennifer Schiff - Published January 28, 2008 Archiving, active storage and compliance are all found in a single USB key.
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Blimey! Data Disaster Left Half of England Exposed By Paul Rubens - Published January 24, 2008 As data losses go, the British government's 2007 fiasco will be hard to top.
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All We Are Saying Is Give Tape a Chance By Henry Newman - Published January 16, 2008 Online backup vendors have got it all wrong by using disk instead of tape.
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Online Backup Providers Opt For Disk Over Tape By Drew Robb - Published January 10, 2008 In what could be a sign of things to come for the storage market, online backup providers overwhelmingly favor disk over tape.
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Crutchfield Leans on CommVault for Support By Lynn Haber - Published January 7, 2008 The electronics retailer shrinks its backup window with help from CommVault.
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The Pitfalls of Virtual Tape Library Sprawl By Drew Robb - Published December 28, 2007 Gresham claims its Clareti VTL overcomes many of the complexity, performance and scalability limitations of other virtual tape offerings.
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Enterprises Rule in Favor of e-Discovery, Thanks to FRCP By Jennifer Schiff - Published December 20, 2007 The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are forcing companies to adopt e-discovery solutions and processes, and storage vendors are all too happy to help.
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When Bits Go Bad By Henry Newman - Published December 14, 2007 Silent data corruption, or "bit rot," can wreak a lot of havoc, yet little has been done about it.
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Optical Storage Makes Enterprise Inroads By Leslie Wood - Published December 4, 2007 High-capacity optical storage is making inroads into enterprise storage in ways that commodity CDs and DVDs could not.
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Preparing for Exascale Archives By Henry Newman - Published November 29, 2007 As data archives get bigger and bigger, storage users will need help from standards groups in the form of better commands and interfaces.
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Library of Congress Readies New Digital Archive By Jennifer Schiff - Published October 10, 2007 After several years of planning and testing, the Library of Congress is about to put its new petascale archive into production.
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Watch as HP simulates a gas leak using real explosives to blow up a data center at a high-tech ballistics center. Every system failed-over after the explosion in less than two minutes including data on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array, which failed over flawlessly to an HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array. You don't want to miss this.