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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.
January 18, 2011 18 Jan'11
VNX marketing adopts acid tone

EMC seems to have used guerilla marketing to mark its product launch.
January 17, 2011 17 Jan'11
Sectors – Storage news from Seagate, Isilon and StorageCraft

Seagate has debuted 1TB enterprise 2.5” drives, while StorageCraft has launched a flood relief effort
January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11
Disaster recovery planning takes collocated route at CIBIL

As part of its disaster recovery planning phase, credit information bureau CIBIL opted for a co-located DR facility to ensure greater protection of info.
January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11
Dell, Oracle at risk as Eastern Health replaces PACS system

Storage hardware from Dell and Sun/Oracle could be on the way out as Victoria’s Eastern Health upgrades its PACS system, but an EMC array seems safe.
January 06, 2011 06 Jan'11
EMC sets the date to unify Clariion, Celerra, with new VNX

Speculation is mounting that EMC will launch a new unified storage device on January 19th, with “VNX” the favoured name.
December 24, 2010 24 Dec'10
Gartner lists iSCSI technology optimization options

iSCSI technology has always been a debatable topic in terms of its adoption in India Inc . Here’s Gartner’s take on how you can boost iSCSI performance.
December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10
IDFC puts DLP software on 2011 priority list

Data loss prevention (DLP) software identified by Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IDFC) as critical to control information flow.
December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10
Film, Television and Radio School seeks 200TB

The Australian Film, Television and Radio School is looking for 200 TB of storage to help its students create digital media, improve backup and create an archive.
December 20, 2010 20 Dec'10
Charity opts for cloud disaster recovery; and more storage news

Storage roundup: Save the Children opts for cloud disaster recovery; Frontline Club moves to disk photo archive; West Mids voice communications company gets 15-minute restores; and more.
December 10, 2010 10 Dec'10
Data loss prevention tool high on Madras Cements' 2011 to-do list

Data loss prevention tools are being used by diverse industries to protect sensitive information. Madras Cements Limited elucidates its need for the tool.
November 24, 2010 24 Nov'10
NetApp asks rival to cease and desist FUD, while EMC and IBM fight

The storage blogosphere is fighting as usual, but more interesting fights may be happening in the real world as NetApp asks - via lawyers - a rival to stop spreading FUD about its role in an infamous crash. EMC, meanwhile, has a deck of anti-XIV FUD...
November 24, 2010 24 Nov'10
Council saves with Acronis disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) and data deduplication

Storage roundup: Council saves with Acronis disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) and data deduplication; BlueArc sees further revenue growth; Buffalo debuts new NAS devices; and more.
November 23, 2010 23 Nov'10
Complexity drives storage virtualization uptake

Storage virtualization is being driven by data growth and the increased complexity of storage infrastructures. Attendees at a London Storage Decisions event heard how to overcome such challenges.
November 21, 2010 21 Nov'10
EMC SAN leads server upgrade at Statewide Super

Trouble finding disks for an old SAN saw Statewide Super look for a new array, provided by EMC. The key element of the decision? Cheap vendor finance.
November 18, 2010 18 Nov'10
SNIA ANZ goes local with Canberra chapter

The Storage Networking Industry Association of Australia and New Zealand is opening local chapters of the organisation, starting with Canberra
November 15, 2010 15 Nov'10
VCE alliance wins NBN Co

NBNCo will use Cisco Unified Computing, plus EMC's Symmetrix VMAX, Avamar, and Data products alongside VMware vSphere and BMC software in its data centre.
November 11, 2010 11 Nov'10
Zerowait third party NetApp support comes to Australia

US company Zerowait will open an Australian office to formalise its cut-price NetApp support offering, to meet demands from current local customers and to explore other opportunities.
November 08, 2010 08 Nov'10
NetApp FlexPod takes on EMC's Vblock bundles

NetApp trails EMC by a year in its pre-configured stack with partners Cisco and VMware but claims its FlexPod bundles scale better and are more interoperable than EMC's Vblocks.
November 05, 2010 05 Nov'10
Small form factor SSDs coming to change the data centre

Apple’s recent release of a new MacBook Air with solid state memory outside a disk casing and a new alliance to promote smaller flash disks are changing conversations about the role of solid state disk.