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EMC Goes 'Wild' with Cloud and Big Data Strategy

The company unveiled a host of new products--including many with animal names--at EMC World.
Tags : cloud computing, EMC, data protection, NAS, Isilon, big data, Documentum, Storage, Pivotal

Imation Assembles a Storage 'Portfolio' for SMBs

The storage vendor bundles several existing and new products into a solution portfolio that aims to address the special needs of SMBs.
Tags : data protection, data archive, Imation, Storage

Sepaton Extends Enterprise Data Protection Platform

New Sepaton S2100-DS3 series released.
Tags : data protection, Sepaton, Storage

Quest to Buy BakBone Software for Data Protection

Quest is shelling out $55 million for the heterogeneous data protection software maker as it pushes into the data protection market for both physical and virtual environments.
Tags : data protection, Quest Software, BakBone Software, NetVault

5 Questions With FalconStor CEO James McNiel

In the wake of ReiJane Huai’s resignation, FalconStor Software’s interim CEO is attempting to reshape the company’s image, strategy and product line.
Tags : Cloud, data protection, FalconStor, Bluestone, FalconStor Software

6 Storage and Data Protection Tips for SMBs

Small business with a data storage problem? Here are six tips for buying storage and maintaining and protecting your data.
Tags : data storage, SMB, data protection, disaster recovery, small business

Pivot3 Moves Into Scale-Out Data Protection

The new failover-protected data protection platform scales to 288TB with performance of 20TB per hour and features data deduplication and compression.
Tags : deduplication, data protection, replication, compression, Pivot3

Actifio Decouples Data Management from Storage

Storage software startup Actifio is trying to do for data management what virtualization did for servers.
Tags : virtualization, data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity

Elma Secure PMCDisk Offers Write Protection, Secure Erasing

The new mass data storage mezzanine supports 10 major defense agency secure erasure procedures.
Tags : data storage, data storage management, data protection

Sepaton Offers Cloud Providers Data Protection Software

A new version of the company's data protection software turns its appliances into back-end storage for cloud service providers.
Tags : Cloud, software, data protection

EMC Sells Retrospect Backup Software Unit

EMC has sold its Retrospect small business backup software to Roxio owner Sonic Solutions.
Tags : EMC, data protection, backup software, backup and recovery

Fujitsu Simplifies Disk-Based Data Backup

The Fujitsu CS800 data protection appliance with deduplication can be fully managed by Symantec NetBackup.
Tags : data storage, data protection, data backup

Sepaton offers Secure Erasure Data Protection Appliances

The technology guarantees the erasure of information on virtual tape library (VTL) cartridges.
Tags : data protection, VTL, virtual tape library

CTERA Adds Data Protection to Linux File Systems

The data storage startup says its Next3 file system goes well beyond Linux's snapshot capabilities.
Tags : Linux, file systems, data protection, snapshots, CTERA

Guide to Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is something of a moving target. What is it exactly? For practical consideration, cloud needs to be addressed by CIOs in the context of immediate issues and future opportunities for enterprise IT.
Tags : cloud computing, storage networking, data protection, CIO

The VDI Storage Challenge

Fine tuning your storage environment is not so easy in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Tags : storage virtualization, data protection, VDI

Storage Security Best Practices

Storage must become an integral part of the corporate security strategy.
Tags : security, storage networking, data protection, disaster recovery

Iron Mountain Offers Enterprise Cloud-Based Data Protection

The company claims LiveVault 7.0 meets the application and server backup needs of mid-sized companies.
Tags : Cloud Storage, data protection, Enterprise, Cloud Data protection

Information Lifecycle Management

This is a good general briefing on Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) at a high level.
Tags : data protection, storage management, ILM

Symantec Weds Backup and Security for Small Businesses

Symantec has combined its data backup and security products for small businesses.
Tags : security, Symantec, data protection, backup software, backup and recovery

CA Rebrands Data Protection Software

The company has revamped its data protection software based around its ARCserve offering.
Tags : data protection, data backup, ARCserve

Iron Mountain: Not your Father's Information Management Company

Iron Mountain stores 600 million boxes with an average of 1,200 files each. But Iron Mountain has completely transformed its service offerings through a mind-boggling series of acquisitions including technology firms such as LiveVault, Connected, Stratify and most recently Mimosa.
Tags : data storage, data protection, backup, Iron Mountain

A hybrid approach to cloud computing

This paper takes a fresh look at the best ways to implement cloud computing.
Tags : cloud computing, storage networking, data protection

Can Declustering Save RAID Storage Technology?

Panasas and IBM are just two of the storage vendors turning to an old idea to improve RAID rebuild times.
Tags : IBM, data protection, RAID, RAID storage, Panasas

The Storage Management Lifecycle

A Framework for Continuous Reduction of Storage TCO Unit Cost
Tags : storage networking, data protection, storage management

Adaptec Storage Controllers Offer SSD Caching

The new MaxIQ Storage Controllers offer wider support for solid-state drives (SSDs) and enhanced management and analytics tools.
Tags : SSD, data protection, Adaptec, storage controller

Uncovering Best Practices for Storage Management

Prof. Paul P. Tallon discusses: Developing and Implementing a Storage Strategy
Tags : data storage, storage networking, data protection

Tiered Storage Management: An Evolving Technology

The challenge that has plagued the reality of tiered storage management has been its management complexity. This is the Achilles heel of this innovative technology and has in many cases has compromised the effective integration of SSD resulting in the self defensive reaction of over provisioning.
Tags : SSD, storage networking, data protection, storage management, solid state drive

RecoverNow V5.1 Offers Data Recovery for IBM i Systems

The recent upgrade includes a recovery assistant to automate and simplify recovery operations.
Tags : IBM, data protection, storage management, data recovery

When It Comes to eDiscovery Technologies and Services

The appliance-based eDiscovery applications that are being introduced pack more punch than earlier generations, including enhanced functionalities, better scalability, and more processing capacity.
Tags : data storage, data protection, IDC, eDiscovery

Symantec Wants to Protect Data at Rest, in Use and in Motion

Symantec Corp. plans to acquire PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies to help customers secure and manage their most critical data.
Tags : Symantec, data protection, endpoint security, data loss prevention, data encryption

Drobo Upgrades the SOHO Data Center

Since the launch of their first Drobo array in June 2007, Data Robotics has addressed the storage needs of the creative technology professional and SOHO with self-managing and self-healing storage solutions for the desktop and single server host environments.
Tags : SMB, storage networking, data protection

Optimize without Compromise; Here Comes Storwize

In a recent survey from the InfoPro, data reduction technology and specifically compression was cited as one of the top initiatives for 2010. Surprising but sensible. Storwize is at the center of this trend.
Tags : data storage, storage networking, data protection, Storwize

Microsoft Adds Email Archiving, eDiscovery Features to Exchange 2010

The software giant continues to add data storage, protection and compliance features to Exchange 2010.
Tags : data protection, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, backup and recovery, eDiscovery, email archiving

CloudRecovery Enhanced with Data Protection Manager

Iron Mountain has enhanced its CloudRecovery product with support for Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010.
Tags : Cloud, data protection, storage management, recovery

Should Storage Services Reside in Arrays or Application Stacks?

With Oracle's acquisition of Sun this becomes a much more interesting question for storage practitioners. We surveyed seventeen IT professionals to get their thinking and in this research note present an economic model to compare the alternative approaches.
Tags : data storage, storage networking, SAN, data protection, DAS

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS): Building Up, Moving Out

The key to scaling out lie in the SAS expanders, inexpensive switching devices interposed between the SAS controller and the endpoint devices that multiply the number of ports that may be connected to each controller.
Tags : storage networking, data protection, iSCSI, SAS

IBM, Verizon Move Data Backup and Recovery to the Cloud

The two tech giants are partnering on a cloud-based data backup offering that uses Verizon's private network for performance and security.
Tags : IBM, Cloud Storage, data protection, data backup, backup and recovery

Sanbolic Offers Improvements for Citrix Environments

A new version of its Melio 2010 Data Center suite offers improvements for Citrix virtual server environments.
Tags : Citrix, data protection, data management, provisioning, PVS

EMC, NetApp Strike Online Backup and Recovery Deals

Data storage vendors continue to tailor their offerings for the cloud.
Tags : data storage, EMC, data protection, NetApp, backup and recovery

Symantec and Fujitsu Ink Data Storage Deal

A new deal between Fujitsu and Symantec will offer secure data storage and server systems.
Tags : data storage, Fujitsu, data protection, secure storage

Continuity Software Ensures Disaster Recovery Preparedness

Continuity Software says its disaster recovery monitoring software is the next best thing to extensive DR testing.
Tags : data storage, data protection, disaster recovery, data recovery, Continuity Software

Symantec: Security and Data Protection Lead, But Clouds Lag

Security and data protection are top enterprise needs, according to the software vendor, while clouds are the lowest priority.
Tags : security, Symantec, data protection, disaster recovery, backup

RAID Storage Levels Explained

The author explains common RAID levels — and makes a case for why you should consider RAID 10.
Tags : data protection, RAID, data recovery, RAID controllers, RAID levels

AMD Does RAID On a Chip

AMD is using Dot Hill's software RAID technology to save server users the cost of hardware RAID adapters.
Tags : AMD, data protection, RAID, Dot Hill, software RAID

The Future of RAID Storage Technology

RAID is laboring to keep up with explosive data growth, but experts see ways to make the technology go further.
Tags : data storage, data protection, RAID, RAID controllers, RAID levels

Microsoft Recovers Sidekick Data, Improves Backup

Microsoft recovers most T-Mobile Sidekick data, but the service's reputation may take longer to recover.
Tags : data storage, Microsoft, Cloud Storage, data protection, T-Mobile

HP Offers Data Storage for the Smallest Businesses

HP's new sub-$1,000 storage offerings compete with the likes of Buffalo and Iomega.
Tags : data storage, EMC, HP, data protection, small business

Data Storage Startups Focus on Cost

MaxiScale and Symform serve different markets with the same message: saving on storage costs.
Tags : data storage, data protection, data security, storage services, online backup

WAN Optimization Grows Up

The market for WAN optimization is maturing, but companies like Riverbed and Blue Coat are still going strong.
Tags : data migration, data protection, disaster recovery, replication, WAN optimization

NetEx HyperIP Boosts Data Storage Recovery

NetEx says its HyperIP protocol can restore data quickly from remote replication sites.
Tags : data protection, disaster recovery, replication, WAN optimization

GE Brings Holographic Storage to Life

GE thinks it's the company to finally make holographic storage technology realize its promise.
Tags : data storage, data protection, archiving