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SAN FRANCISCO -- Emphasizing its commitment to mainframe storage, Sun Microsystems Inc. today revealed performance enhancements and promised more improvements to its StorageTek Virtual Storage... More...
Dec 4, 2007
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Sony survives explosion
Sony's AIT (advanced intelligent tape) cartridges were inside a ShiftWatch video surveillance product from A4S Security Inc. when it underwent... More...
Feb 2, 2006
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CDP and virtualization
CDP and network-based virtualization technologies provide specific benefits that array- and host-based options don't. EMC's RecoverPoint CDP product is... More...
Apr 19, 2006

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May 4, 2006
On the heels of its initial public offering (IPO), Double-Take Software Inc. has announced a new standalone product that will provide automatic failover for Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server (SBS... More...
Jan 9, 2007
Sony Electronics Inc. hasn't made it easy in recent years for its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, resellers and users to adopt its Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) tape technology. But with the... More...
Nov 14, 2006
IBM has announced that users can take "test drives" of its new database management system (DBMS), known as DB2. The newest release of DB2, code-named "Viper," claims to deliver new storage benefits, as well as... More...
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Dell releases LTO-4 drive
Dell announced that it will begin shipping the PowerVault LTO-4-120, the first tape drives built on the new LTO-4 standard. LTO-4's claim to fame is... More...

Apr 20, 2007
Symantec Corp. has announced Veritas Backup Reporter, aimed at providing backup reporting for its NetBackup and Backup Exec products, as well as IBM's TSM, EMC Corp.'s Legato and CommVault Inc.'s Galaxy backup... More...
Jan 30, 2007
According to an annual report released today by analyst firm Freeman Reports, tape library revenue and unit shipments took a tumble in 2006 following double-digit growth rates in the two previous years.

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May 2, 2007
Yosemite Technologies Inc. has acquired privately held FileKeeper Inc. for an undisclosed sum. FileKeeper makes near-continuous data protection (CDP) software for laptop and remote-office backup.

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Feb 13, 2007
Storage administrators usually don't have trouble getting data onto disk or tape. The real challenge is keeping that valuable corporate data safe in the face of daily operations. Whether you're dealing... More...
Jun 8, 2007
An industry report filed in the wake of a merger between midrange tape players Quantum Corp. and Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) could spell trouble for the two suppliers, particularly when it... More...
May 4, 2006
Double-Take Software Inc. has announced its replication software will now replicate virtual machines at the ESX level, a move users said could be more cost effective and shrink restore times for virtual... More...
Feb 20, 2007
The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program announced Wednesday that licenses for LTO-4 are now available to storage manufacturers. The biggest boon for users will be the ability to write encrypted data to an LTO... More...
Jan 10, 2007
As the northwest division of Macy's department store chain experienced data growth over the last two years thanks to digitizing its catalog photographs, it found its Apple XRaid SAN was keeping up -- but its ... More...
Mar 6, 2006
As many users know, there's a fine line between a helpful tool and just another thing to manage. And so it may seem to some that a third-party tool to report on backups is redundant at best -- but for users with large... More...
Jul 10, 2006

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May 4, 2006
Double-Take Software, formerly NSI Software Inc. and maker of the Double-Take replication and failover application, announced new support yesterday for VMware servers.

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Apr 13, 2006
BakBone Software Inc. introduced Version 3 of its Report Manager software this week, adding support for more operating system (OS) platforms, disk space utilization reporting, forecasting and a data... More...
Jul 13, 2006
Data Domain Inc. announced it's shipping a new model of its data deduplication array, dubbed the DD580, which boasts new dual-core Intel Inc. processors and support for more capacity, slotting it into Data... More...
May 8, 2007
IBM has made an incremental update to its Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) data backup software that keeps it competitive with rivals but fails to put IBM in a leadership position in any area.

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Nov 13, 2007
BakBone is adding continuous data protection (CDP) to version 8.0 of its NetVault backup software released today, although users may find the new restartable backup feature even more useful.

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Oct 1, 2007
Gone are the days of pencils and books as the primary tools of the trade on college campuses; today's college students tote their lives around in bits on hard drives instead. The University of Miami, Fla., took a... More...
Dec 18, 2006
CommVault Systems Inc. has announced a major new release for its data backup software, including improvements in performance, single-instancing, Web-based index and search, end-user restore, and new... More...
Jul 9, 2007
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Tools and Techniques for Reducing Your Enterprise Data Storage Footprint by Dell, Inc.
deduplication.

Even though many enterprise data storage environments are coping with tightened budgets and reduced spending, overall net storage capacity is...

Podcast: Dell Compellent for Microsoft Exchange Server 2012 by Dell, Inc.
storage strategy that can manage email data storage growth and performance demands, protect vital communications for compliance, and control complexity and costs.

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Intelligent Data Management: Transform Your IT from the Client to the Cloud by Dell, Inc.
Dell fluid data solutions help automate, optimize, scale, protect and integrate your storage to help easily, cost-effectively, and...
UK Storage Webcasts
Video: Fluid Data Overview by Dell, Inc.
place at the right time. With Fluid Data storage, your data center or cloud will be efficient, agile and resilient, easily adapting to...

Dell Compellent for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

by Dell, Inc.
strategy that can manage email data storage growth and performance demands, protect vital communications for compliance, and...
Clinical Archiving Made Simple - Compliance, Protection, And Unified Availability That Scales by Dell, Inc.
in patient care comes at a cost - a data explosion and resulting silos of clinical information that threaten to...