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• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  We need European datacentres to 'be successful' says Box CEO

  Computer Weekly speaks to founder and CEO of cloud storage firm Box about why enterprises are embracing this type of technology and what his firm has to do to keep them happy

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  HMRC becomes first major department to use G-Cloud

  HMRC is the first major government department to procure through the G-Cloud in a deal with Skyscape for centralised data storage.

• September 25, 2012 25 Sep'12

  Hitachi Unified Storage VM brings multiprotocol storage virtualisation

  HDS Hitachi Unified Storage VM brings multiprotocol storage with object storage and storage virtualisation that scales to 64 PB with an all-flash array variant planned for November

• August 09, 2012 09 Aug'12

  London’s authority gets Olympic class disaster recovery systems

  In time for the Olympics, the Greater London Authority has ditched tape and deployed disk-based disaster recovery systems to reduce restores from three days to four hours.

• August 02, 2012 02 Aug'12

  University deploys Violin flash storage array

  Storage roundup: Anglia Ruskin University gets Violin's 3000 Series flash storage array; media firm dumps Veeam for Acronis; health firm deploys Coraid flash array; and more news.

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Academic supercomputer gets 27 PB of HPC storage

  Storage roundup: The University of Edinburgh's HECToR supercomputer has been given an HPC storage upgrade with 8 PB on an array and 19.5 PB on tape; Aptare storage analytics upgrade; and more news.

• July 03, 2012 03 Jul'12

  Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays

  Storage roundup: Cloud provider RTW Hosting opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays; Buffalo’s new iSCSI and NAS arrays; Coraid appointment; OnApp to bundle storage virtualisation software; and more news.

• May 29, 2012 29 May'12

  School cuts unstructured data by 90% with Balesio

  Storage roundup: School cuts unstructured data by 90% with Balesio; Belgian bank gets VirtualSharp DR tool; Bocada teams with Veeam; new Infortrend unified storage arrays; and more news.

• May 10, 2012 10 May'12

  Government lab installs 8.5 PB of Panasas HPC storage

  Storage roundup: Government lab installs 8.5 PB of Panasas HPC storage; college cuts files by 75% with Balesio; StorMagic E.ON storage virtualisation win; and more news.

• May 02, 2012 02 May'12

  Data deduplication technology boosts Shoppers Stop’s backup strategy

  Data deduplication technology helps Indian retail major Shoppers Stop battle the inefficiencies of data backup. Our case study has all the juicy details.

• April 16, 2012 16 Apr'12

  Charity cuts costs with Xsigo network virtualisation

  Storage roundup: Charity cuts costs with Xsigo network virtualisation; prison group gets cloud backup; Danish city deploys Fusion-io software; Amplidata software upgrade; and more news.

• March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12

  Bank of India’s BS 25999 certification journey nears completion

  This is the story of how Bank of India turned around its business continuity strategy from a state of chaos as it geared up for BS 25999 certification.

• March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12

  Research company gets Acronis virtual machine backup

  Storage roundup: Research company gets Acronis virtual machine backup; cloud provider opts for Nexsan; Arkivum appoints Scallon; Coraid appoints Virmani; and Qsan is VMware-ready.

• March 05, 2012 05 Mar'12

  Events company gets VirtualSharp disaster recovery testing

  Storage roundup: Events firm chooses VirtualSharp for application-aware DR testing; Virtual Instruments CEO joins Microsoft board; Qsan launches SMB iSCSI SAN; and more news.

• February 16, 2012 16 Feb'12

  German hosting group deploys Fusion-io server flash

  Storage roundup: German hosting group deploys Fusion-io server flash; Open University opts for Dot Hill; Jaguar Land Rover deploys Isilon; war museum gets Spectra Logic tape library; and more news.

• January 24, 2012 24 Jan'12

  Virtual machine backup and disaster recovery top European storage priorities

  Virtual machine backup and disaster recovery top the storage priorities of European IT departments as recession bites and legal and industry compliance requirements must be met.

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  NHS service opts for Dot Hill SAN for VMware project

  Storage roundup: NHS service opts for Dot Hill SAN for VMware; Acronis adds Red Hat integration; Atlantis releases ILIO monitoring module; ExaGrid gains Symantec synthetics certification; and more.

• January 15, 2012 15 Jan'12

  Five questions on solid-state drive technology

  Before you strap in, make sure your data center network can handle the performance gains provided by solid-state drive devices.

• December 15, 2011 15 Dec'11

  Amplidata object-based cloud for social networking company

  Storage roundup: Social networking company opts for Amplidata object-based cloud; Front-safe chooses Fusion-io; Balesio now supports PDFs; architect selects Dot Hill iSCSI arrays; and more news.

• December 02, 2011 02 Dec'11

  Agile design process takes business to the doghouse and the cloud

  When faced with the challenge of designing and deploying a new system, 99designs turned to their won rapid development methodology and the cloud

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Union Solutions adopts Caringo’s object-based storage for cloud storage

  Storage roundup: Union adopts Caringo’s object-based storage; Crossroads ships LTFS box; Infortrend adds tiering and QLogic hardware; NetApp customer win; NovaStor’s NAS backup; and more news.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  NetApp announces Big Data solutions as market grows

  In the quest to manage Big Data, NetApp has announced new solutions to manage the growth in unstructured data in a dynamic market

• November 15, 2011 15 Nov'11

  Storage supplies constrained by Thai floods

  Storage prices are on the way up with the recent floods in Thailand resulting in supply chain constraints.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  DDN HPC storage calculates risk

  Storage roundup: DDN HPC storage calculates risk; BBC Wales gets Object Matrix NAS; Arkivium to use IBM tape; CommVault expands global support from Reading; and more news.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Coraid expands ANZ presence

  Ethernet SAN solutions developer has invested $50M towards international expansion and increasing its ANZ presence.

• November 02, 2011 02 Nov'11

  SNW Europe 2011: Conference coverage

  Find out what took place at SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, this year. See pictures and read tips and blogs from sessions.

• 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.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  I spy web servers which don’t lie

  The storage blogosphere is reporting an interesting incident involving Symantec and Permabit, plus a stoush between Oracle and NetApp.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Recruitment firm gets cloud backup

  Storage roundup: Jobs firm gets cloud backup; Eden Project grows for NetApp; Law firm’s WAN optimisation; German space centre gets Atempo, and more news.

• October 18, 2011 18 Oct'11

  Disaster Recovery Not Keeping Up With Cloud

  A recent survey by Acronis reveals that companies aren't updating their DR plans as they move to cloud solutions.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Flybe flies with Veeam Backup & Replication virtual server backup

  Storage roundup: Airline Flybe has implemented Veeam virtual server backup in a move to virtual servers; Durham upgrades star computer to 1.1 PB; Cornwall hospitals get Simpana; and more news.

• October 03, 2011 03 Oct'11

  Incriptus heads for the enterprise

  Adelaide “community cloud” backup company Incriptus has developed an enterprise version of its product and is seeking funding to help take it to the world.

• September 30, 2011 30 Sep'11

  IBM’s racetrack memory: 1,250x increase in storage density promised

  IBM promises 1,250 times the storage density at the same cost per gigabyte as disk with its racetrack memory. But difficult choices lie ahead for IBM if it works.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Australian Bureau of Statistics counts on no storage team, HP, for census

  Australia’s recent agricultural and population censuses will be stored on and tabulated using HP SANs, but a dedicated storage team won’t help the count.

• September 25, 2011 25 Sep'11

  Bad Sectors: the latest storage news

  Our regular roundup of storage news sees EMC notch a Canberra win, a couple of agencies announce their plans to buy SANs, Ninefold's sneakernet, a nasty rumour about HP and a new entrant to the local SAN market.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  Richard Gere loves EMC, so it probably isn’t worried about NetApp haters

  Our monthly wade through the slime of the storage blogosphere has found an EMC Symmetrix making Richard Gere look animated, and some rather odd Spam in NetApp’s back yard

• September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11

  Disaster Recovery focus at Intel Developer Forum

  For many CIOs, disaster recovery or business continuity planning starts and stops with backups, hot recovery sites and well documented plans. At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel is showcasing the roles played by diverse types of computing in the ...

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Transport police get Dell Compellent SAN storage tiering

  Storage roundup: The British Transport Police has implemented Compellent SANs with storage tiering as part of a VMware virtualisation project; university boots Buffalo for Overland NAS; and more news.

• September 12, 2011 12 Sep'11

  Four hot storage startups from the floor at VMworld 2011

  VMworld 2011’s Solutions Exchange saw a bright new crop of storage companies step onto the industry’s stage. We were there to watch them debut.

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Extreme data recovery

  When Orly Productions had a LTO tape immersed in mud following the Christchurch earthquake, they turned to Kroll Ontrack to recover the critical data

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Royal College prescribes NetApp for VMware storage

  Storage roundup: Royal College prescribes NetApp for VMware storage; university goes solid-state for VDI; waste firm gets Dot Hill SANs; Coraid’s VMware integration; and more news.

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Server appliances simplify deployment

  There was a time when deploying a new server required a team of engineers but server appliances are simplifying the task.

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  A sneak peek at Avamar vCloud Protector

  EMC has used VMware2011 to show off a new backup tool, Avamar vCloud Protector, which offers new and advanced ways to backup virtual machines.

• August 29, 2011 29 Aug'11

  VMware CEO Paul Maritz on the role of storage in the virtual world

  VMware has recently released some products that threaten traditional storage models. What’s the company up to? CEO Paul Maritz explains the company’s attitude to storage in this brief podcast from VMworld 2011.

• August 29, 2011 29 Aug'11

  How ASIC stops I/O storms hurting its SANs

  The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has deployed virtual desktop infrastructure, creating 3000 desktop images for its 2300 staff. At VMworld it explained how it runs that fleet without boot storms hurting its SANs.

• August 26, 2011 26 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors – Dell, HP refresh storage ranges

  Dell has announced new EqualLogic products, HP has announced a ‘storage federation’ and the VCE alliance has received a boost from a global partner.

• August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors - Amazon warns on S3 security, UXC and CommVault cuddle

  This week’s roundup of storage news touches on cloud security and a stronger alliance between UXC and CommVault

• 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

  VMware, Intel, EMC, NetApp and IBM battle in the blogs

  The storage blogosphere is ablaze with many battles over VMware, XIV, VMAXe and more.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors - Maritime Safety Authority loves Gartner, Blu-Ray for servers

  The Australian Maritime Safety Authority will only consider companies appearing in a Gartner magic quadrant for up to $10million of storage.

• 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.

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board

  Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Storage roundup: Company cuts backup window from five days to 12 hours

  Storage roundup: Finance co. cuts backup window from five days to 12 hours; NetApp goes to the zoo; Balesio launches new version; tape storage still key, says survey; and more.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  NetApp trials University alliance to tackle skills shortage

  NetApp will try to introduce certifications in its products to the curricula of nine Australian universities, to address a shortage of people skilled in operating its products.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  Bad sectors – Storage gossip from EMC, Dell, NetApp and Fujitsu

  A NetApp employee claimed the company had poached all of the VCE alliance’s local staff, but quickly deleted the evidence.

• July 17, 2011 17 Jul'11

  New Zealand Bank banking on SAN virtualisation strategy

  Kiwibank has acquired new HDS SANs to assist with its virtualisation strategy, but has not consolidated SANS, instead buying single-purpose arrays.

• July 17, 2011 17 Jul'11

  EMC plans VMAXe vBlocks

  EMC plans create vBlocks around its new VMAXe storage array, says Brian E Gallagher, President of the company’s Enterprise Storage Division.

• July 13, 2011 13 Jul'11

  VSphere Storage Appliance to replace mid-range arrays: analyst

  An analyst says VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance, launched today, will eventually cause the demise of products like EMC’s Clariion and NetApp’s low-end FAS.

• July 12, 2011 12 Jul'11

  Disaster recovery management: Kale Consultants’ ten-year journey

  Kale Consultants’ disaster recovery management and business continuity planning journey makes for interesting reading in this comprehensive case study.

• July 11, 2011 11 Jul'11

  EMC’s caveman creed, HP says FAST is its idea, Pillar crumbles

  The storage blogosphere has thrown up a fascinating EMC video explaining how cave painting is like social media. Seriously. Also HP says EMC’s FAST is its idea.

• July 11, 2011 11 Jul'11

  Essex college deploys ATA over Ethernet; and more news

  Storage roundup: Essex college deploys ATA over Ethernet; the Eden Project goes NetApp; British Airways gets its SANs tested; Council cloud uses Xsigo virtual I/O; and more news.

• July 01, 2011 01 Jul'11

  News in Brief: EMC’s digital universe, Synology’s latest, Insentra surges

  EMC has released its latest digital universe study, and gee we’re all making a lot of data. Plus news from Synology and Insentra.

• June 26, 2011 26 Jun'11

  XSI brand disappears as UXC Connects with data centre optimisation

  One Australia’s most storage-centric IT consultancies, XSI, will disappear as its parent company UXC creates a new data centre optimisation practice.

• June 21, 2011 21 Jun'11

  Chemical firm opts for Acronis for XenServer backup

  Storage roundup: Chemical firm gets Acronis for XenServer backup; print firm installs ATA-over-Ethernet; Dot Hill supports 3 TB drives; Enhance’s EU HQ; and more news.

• June 20, 2011 20 Jun'11

  Apple’s weird storage decision

  Apple has adopted a non-standard SATA interface in new iMacs. We’re trying to figure out why.

• June 20, 2011 20 Jun'11

  Data management at Teachers Credit Union

  How does 132TB go into 8TB? Colin Thomas, CIO of the Teachers Credit Union, has changed his data management strategy to achieve the impossible

• June 13, 2011 13 Jun'11

  Dell and EMC "Still get together when the kids are around"

  EMC and Dell have reached an "amicable separation rather than a nasty divorce" and still get together when it's important, says EMC's marketing CTO Chuck Hollis.

• June 07, 2011 07 Jun'11

  United Biscuits uses NetApp storage virtualisation with IBM storage

  Storage roundup: Biscuit firm dunks IBM in NetApp storage virtualisation; law firm gets virtual I/O; Acronis launches channel programme; and more news.

• June 07, 2011 07 Jun'11

  Tata AIG General Insurance’s business continuity planning strategies

  With13,00,000 active policies, non-stop ops are a must for Tata AIG general insurance. A detailed look at its business continuity planning (BCP) strategy.

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  What should we ask Chuck Hollis?

  EMC's Chuck Hollis is coming to Australia and SearchStorage ANZ has half an hour in his presence. What should we ask?

• May 29, 2011 29 May'11

  Amazon Web Services testing the waters for Australian data centre?

  Amazon Web Services has asked its global customers for feedback on it services, and the questions asked of users suggest the company is considering the introduction of a local data centre.

• May 29, 2011 29 May'11

  All change for Aussie storage bloggers

  Storage bloggers dissect big data, FCoE and more as we wrap up the storage blogs from May.

• May 24, 2011 24 May'11

  Angel Broking outsources DR system to cloud service providers

  Cloud-based DR system at Angel Broking to avert dangers arising from a single point of failure, following consolidation of its multiple data centers.

• May 17, 2011 17 May'11

  NHS trust gets Veeam virtual machine backup; and more news

  Storage roundup: NHS trust opts for Veeam virtual machine backup; Acronis upgrades Backup & Recovery; Autonomy acquires Iron Mountain products; and more

• May 16, 2011 16 May'11

  Storage industry cautiously welcomes budget’s medical imaging boost

  Australia’s budget included a funding boost for medical imaging and the storage industry is cautiously optimistic it could mean a chance for some sales wins.

• May 09, 2011 09 May'11

  Acronis wins where skills are thin

  Acronis latest upgrade is winning friends where storage administrators fear to tread, often in places where the resources industry likes to operate.

• May 04, 2011 04 May'11

  REVEALED: HP's 5th generation EVA arrays

  HP will soon launch two new additions to its EVA range. The new range is dubbed the P6000 and HP will offer two models, the P6300 and P6500. The company has also lashed rivals EMC and NetApp, saying its new products are simpler and more reliable.

• April 30, 2011 30 Apr'11

  Rackspace’s cloud storage outage

  Rackspace has experienced a disruption to one of its cloud storage products.

• April 28, 2011 28 Apr'11

  Oil group gets 80-to-1 data deduplication with ExaGrid; and more news

  News roundup: Oil group gets 80-to-1 data deduplication with ExaGrid; IBM helps with ancient landscape; ITN deploys EMC Isilon clustered NAS; West Brom deploys NetVault; and more.

• April 24, 2011 24 Apr'11

  How Google runs its storage and more from the storage blogs

  Google has posted a paper that outlines its storage architecture, and that’s the choicest morsel in a month when the usual blogosphere protagonists have gone easy on each other.

• April 19, 2011 19 Apr'11

  Seagate, Samsung combine forces for magnetic and solid state disk

  Samsung and Seagate have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Samsung leave the magnetic disk market, but form a tight supply alliance for flash memory with Seagate.

• April 15, 2011 15 Apr'11

  Why storage administrators have become bandwidth day traders

  Virtualisation has “removed the natural constraints for server deployment” and the result is fierce competition for storage area networks’ resources and a new role for storage administrators.

• April 15, 2011 15 Apr'11

  Storage News roundup: Australia’s Moonwalk signs with Dell, Quantum’s new people and products

  Australian tiering vendor Moonwalk has had a big win with Dell.

• April 11, 2011 11 Apr'11

  SearchStorage ANZ wins journalism prize

  It’s rude to boast, but SearchStorage ANZ Editor Simon Sharwood has won a journalism prize for articles on this very website!

• April 06, 2011 06 Apr'11

  Startup devises distributed SAN built on DAS for fast clouds

  An Australian cloud computing startup, OrionVM, has designed its own cloud storage systems that it says are a fraction of the cost of arrays, yet perform faster and make cloud computing a better proposition for large-scale web applications.

• April 05, 2011 05 Apr'11

  Builder cuts backup times with Acronis data deduplication; and more news

  Storage roundup: Builder cuts backup times with Acronis data deduplication; Atempo results show growth; Väth moves up at HDS; iStorage signs new distribution deals; and more news.

• April 05, 2011 05 Apr'11

  Seagate says MLC flash now reliable enough for enterprise use

  Seagate has released a new range of multi-level cell (MLC) solid state disk drives and says the technology is now sufficiently robust for use in the enterprise. The company has also dropped the Barracuda brand from its enterprise offerings and added...

• March 27, 2011 27 Mar'11

  HDS, NetApp and EMC all agree on big data

  HDS, EMC and NetApp have all picked up on the same ‘Big Data” theme in recent blogs, but is NetApp struggling to ship enough FAS 3200 units to meet demand?

• March 21, 2011 21 Mar'11

  Isilon strengthens EMC’s hand vs. NetApp: Gartner

  Gartner analyst Roger Cox says that 2011 will see fierce competition for the file storage market and predicts the EMC/Dell relationship will continue to deteriorate.

• March 21, 2011 21 Mar'11

  Automated tiering swings it for Compellent at Manpower; and more news

  Storage roundup: Automated tiering swings it for Compellent; Balesio launches unstructured data minimiser; Buffalo refreshes TeraStation; Hotel group gets Claranet cloud; and more.

• March 14, 2011 14 Mar'11

  Isilon mining for local CTO

  EMC’s new scale-out NAS Division has plans to target Australia’s resources sector

• March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11

  Western Digital undisputed King of disks, vanquishing Seagate, after Hitachi GST buy

  Western Digital is now the undisputed disk drive champion of the world, after acquiring Hitachi GST and reaching nearly 50% market share.

• March 03, 2011 03 Mar'11

  EMC dumps on NetApp, HP, IBM in VNX sales primer

  EMC admits 3Par led the storage industry three years ago in a document that primes its sales team to counter HP, NetApp and IBM and dismisses Oracle, HDS, Fujitsu and Dell as competitors for its new unified storage range.

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  News in Brief: Acronis’ new MD, Isilon’s scientific win and more

  Acronis has a new local boss, Isilon a new local customer, while Seagate has a milestone to share and Quantum is hugging Macs.

• February 16, 2011 16 Feb'11

  Toyota GB gets EMC Clariions to support VDI project; and more news

  Storage roundup: Toyota GB gets EMC Clariions to support VDI project; Arsenal win with Buffalo; manufacturer opts for SecurStore cloud backup; and more.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Is cloud computing bad for your networking career?

  Many network managers may have an emotional resistance to cloud computing, but experts explain the economic benefits and positive career impact outsourcing data centre resources can have.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  EMC preparing SnapImage upgrade for Solaris

  EMC has invited Solaris users to alpha test an upgrade of its block-level snapshot tool, SnapImage. PLUS: what EMCers see on their first day at work.

• February 04, 2011 04 Feb'11

  Information rights management secures Asian Paints’ critical data

  The story of how information rights management rollout helps Asian Paints protect its critical legal documents, R&D whitepapers, and intellectual property.

• January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11

  College deploys Isilon scale-out NAS system

  Storage roundup: College deploys Isilon scale-out NAS system; UK users lack off-site backup; Infortrend, Overland get VMware certification; Redstor offers cloud storage services; and more.

• January 18, 2011 18 Jan'11

  EMC won’t sell one VNX product in Australia

  EMC has officially launched its new VNX and VNXe products, but will leave one of the new products out of its local range and sell a Clariion system instead.