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  • Bradford Grammar School deploys enterprise-grade disaster recovery system

    Bradford Grammar School has deployed the FalconStor Continuous Data Protector system to ensure business continuity.

  • HP helps users back-up laptop data

    Hewlett-Packard has released a tool designed to simplify the back-up and recovery of data from laptop PCs. With a growing volume of information stored locally on notebook and desktop PCs, business ...

  • Specifications for backup software-based encryption

    Software-based encryption is becoming a popular feature in backup software, allowing users to encrypt any portion of a backup job and deliver the data to virtually any disk or tape storage system, ...

  • Purchasing backup software-based encryption

    Although there are compelling advantages to encrypting data "at the tape," the impact on your existing backup process can be substantial. You will need to upgrade the tape drives themselves, update...

  • Backup software product specifications

    Backup software and replication software are powerful tools used to protect data against loss due to hardware failure, natural disasters, and other problems. Features like encryption, key managemen...

  • Winners and losers in storage market reports IDC

    The storage software and disk storage markets are plugging along at a healthy pace, according to the latest World Software Tracker and World Disk Tracker reports from analyst firm IDC. The same can...

  • HP targets SMBs for storage

    HP has announced new and enhanced storage offerings for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).   The portfolio is part of what will be called the HP Simply StorageWorks programme, which includes...

  • HP fills in gaps with product updates

    Hewlett-Packard has announced a package of product updates that include a new preassembled bundle of its EVA arrays and PolyServe Inc.'s clustered filesystem gateway, a rebranding of Cisco Systems ...

  • Backup software: BakBone upsets in Quality Awards, page 2

    Continued from Page 1. Product features You can consider product features to be the category where EMC Retrospect stumbled and lost the award among SMB backup software products. In a significant ch...

  • BakBone NetVault upsets in Quality Awards, page 5

    Continued from Page 4. Products in our survey The following vendors and products were included in the 2006 Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards survey for backup and recovery software: Ent...

  • Overland boosts storage performance of low-end VTL

    Overland Storage has announced the REO 1500, the first refresh of its low-end virtual tape library (VTL) product line in two years. The product will replace the REO 1000 iSCSI VTL for small busines...

  • Virtual tape library specifications

    Virtual tape library (VTL) systems use disk storage to improve backup and restore processes, allowing many organizations to move from tape to disk backups without disrupting current practices. High...

  • HP announces iSCSI VTL for SMBs

    In a webcast Monday morning, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced two new data protection devices for small and midsized businesses (SMB) based on its ProLiant servers. The D2D110 and D2D120 virtual ...

  • Backup reporting market to consolidate, experts say

    The companies themselves are keeping mum, but to industry insiders the writing is on the wall. Backup reporting is becoming a checklist feature for the major backup software players, and backup rep...

  • Laptop backup spurs software consolidation

    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. ...

  • Enterprise-class tape library specifications

    Tape libraries are available to fit a wide range of budgets and storage requirements, and many models are expandable to support thousands of tape cartridges with transfer rates exceeding 25 TB/h. T...

  • Backup software: BakBone upsets in Quality Awards, page 4

    Continued from Page 3. Technical support The range of scores narrowed for technical support. BakBone's NetVault was again the leader among enterprise backup software products, but its 5.79 rating i...

  • Backup software: BakBone upsets in Quality Awards, page 3

    Continued from Page 2. Product reliability "The main thing you want in your backup system is reliability," said Yoho. "They [CA and HP] don't go down, and they don't have to have a lot of patches."...

  • Backup software: BakBone upsets in Quality Awards

    BakBone NetVault placed first in the enterprise category, besting better known backup software applications such as Symantec Veritas NetBackup, EMC NetWorker and IBM TSM in the latest Diogenes Labs...

  • Backup software purchase considerations

    Storage media is not 100% reliable. Natural disasters, disks failures, computer viruses and even simple user errors can destroy months and years of important work. Backups guard against data loss b...