News

Data protection, backup and archiving

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

  The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.

• August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11

  Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust

  Storage roundup: Hospital cuts restoration times to minutes using Veeam Backup & Recovery; Buffalo launches Windows NAS family; Coraid partners with The Blueprint IT; Dot Hill appointments; and more.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft

  The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.

• April 22, 2010 22 Apr'10

  HDS and EMC's unified plans ridiculed by 3Par, Pillar, NetApp labelled "NotApp"

  The storage blogosphere has adopted some wonderfully plain speech to describe the current mania for "unified storage" as EMC, HDS, NetApp, Pillar and 3Par sound off.

• July 27, 2009 27 Jul'09

  Managing enterprise data storage more efficiently: Part 1

  Storage managers must learn to improve storage efficiency though smarter spending, while taking steps to reduce operating expenditures during budget crunches.

• February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09

  Incremental vs. differential backup: A comparison

  In this Storage Basics on incremental vs differential backup, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of each of these backup strategies

• July 30, 2008 30 Jul'08

  NetApp dedupes data on rivals' primary storage

  NetApp extends its free data deduplication to its V-Series gateways, making it possible for its customers to dedupe their primary storage. But users say what's missing is a GUI and data dedupe for VTLs.

• April 08, 2008 08 Apr'08

  SNW Roundup: Sun adds data deduplication to VTL

  Sun comes out with VTL Prime, a virtual tape library with FalconStor's data deduplication; Attune gets into file archiving; and SGI, Fujitsu and Dot Hill launch storage systems.

• February 18, 2007 18 Feb'07

  CDP platform purchase considerations

  Busy IT organizations are employing continuous data protection (CDP) technologies to guard data on the fly, essentially eliminating the backup window and allowing granular file and system restoration -- sometimes down to the individual disk write ...

• November 30, 2006 30 Nov'06

  Gartner: Existing business continuity plans will fail in a pandemic

  Existing business continuity plans will not protect a company during an avian flu pandemic, says a Gartner analyst. Business continuity plans assume a geographically specific disaster, while a pandemic will strike everywhere nearly simultaneously.

• June 07, 2006 07 Jun'06

  CDP overview

  Storage volumes are growing at an alarming pace, and tape-based backups are not always possible within an available backup window. Today's businesses are increasingly focused on tighter RTO and RPO. Faster restorations and more recent recovery ...

• March 17, 2005 17 Mar'05

  Pros and cons of remote mirroring for DR

  Remote mirroring takes place over MAN or WAN distances. It's usually between storage arrays or storage appliances, and can be synchronous or asynchronous.