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• 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.

• November 03, 2010 03 Nov'10

  SNIA ANZ's day for storage bloggers

  The Storage Networking Industry Association's Australia/New Zealand (SNIA ANZ) chapter is today conducting a "blogfest," with prominent storage and data centre infrastructure bloggers. Read about the day through the bloggers' twitter streams and ...

• November 01, 2010 01 Nov'10

  File archiving more pressing than email archiving, says survey

  Storage roundup: File archiving more pressing than email archiving; Altaro launches Backup FS; Buffalo launches wireless products; recertified tapes from eMediaplus; and more.

• October 31, 2010 31 Oct'10

  Mitchell Communication Group adopts Compellent SAN

  Australia’s largest media marketing and communications company, the Mitchell Communication Group, has adopted a SAN from Compellent after previous purchases from top-tier vendors proved disappointingly complex.

• October 28, 2010 28 Oct'10

  ISCSI replacing Fibre Channel as dominant storage network technology

  ISCSI is well on its way to replacing Fibre Channel as the de facto technology for SANs.

• October 21, 2010 21 Oct'10

  SNW Europe 2010 coverage: Power metrics, encryption, dedupe, object storage and more

  Follow the news from SNW Europe, happening in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 26-27, 2010. Read up on SNIA's power metrics plan, Emulex encryption, byte-level dedupe from Exagrid and more.

• October 21, 2010 21 Oct'10

  Vblock infrastructure can endure threats, says Europe's first customer

  IT chief at Europe's first VCE Vblock infrastructure customer believes bundled hardware concept will beat threats from undercutting suppliers because of the value in the pre-configured approach.

• October 21, 2010 21 Oct'10

  Architects add Asigra cloud backup, and other storage news

  Storage roundup: Architects add Asigra cloud backup, NetApp UK customer wins, Acronis expands in UK, Buffalo TeraStation gets VMware certification, Drobo adds DroboPro FS, and more.

• October 21, 2010 21 Oct'10

  SAN consolidation the answer for Messages On Hold

  Phone marketing company Messages On Hold found that it was more cost-effective to buy a new SAN than fill an old one with new disks, and has added data deduplication and tiering as part of a SAN consolidation project.

• October 19, 2010 19 Oct'10

  Vendors can’t just talk storage any more

  HDS’ CTO for Storage Architectures says storage vendors need the products to discuss more than just storage with clients and prospects.

• October 18, 2010 18 Oct'10

  ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

  Vendors, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.

• October 12, 2010 12 Oct'10

  NetApp wins big at DECCW

  NetApp has had a big win at the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.

• October 10, 2010 10 Oct'10

  REVIEW: Cisco NSS 324 Smart Storage

  Cisco’s NAS for small business is a tidy unit, but seems to lack any paticular value add from Cisco.

• October 04, 2010 04 Oct'10

  Concrete firm set for cloud disaster recovery; and other storage news

  Storage roundup: Concrete firm set for cloud disaster recovery, Fortuna to sell Proware, cloud host opts for object-based storage, Infortrend small-form-factor drives and more.

• September 28, 2010 28 Sep'10

  NetApp denies role in Virgin Blue crash

  NetApp says Navitatire remains a valued customer, but that its products have had no role in outages at Virgin Blue.

• September 27, 2010 27 Sep'10

  ANALYSIS: Is Virgin Blue’s outage a storage problem?

  Budget airline Virgin Blue says failure in a “solid state disk server” is behind the outage in its booking systems. We’d believe it, except there’s no such thing as a “solid state disk server.” Is a SAN instead the problem? We speculate about the ...

• September 23, 2010 23 Sep'10

  For storage jobs you'll need more than storage skills

  The storage jobs you know today won't exist in the future as storage infrastructures merge with the LAN, virtualized server environments and integrated system stacks.

• September 23, 2010 23 Sep'10

  Centrelink to create private storage cloud in ILM push

  Centrelink has announced plans to establish “a panel for the provision of Enterprise Storage” as it aims to move “towards delivery of storage as a service,” extend its information lifecycle management strategy and develop an archive that can ...

• September 22, 2010 22 Sep'10

  Storage blog roundup returns, with IBM vs. EMC, NetApp and Oracle

  It's back! Our regular storage blog roundup returns, with a look at how storage and infrastructure bloggers have reacted to the 3Par acquisition, VMworld 2010 and other recent events.

• September 16, 2010 16 Sep'10

  News Briefs: News from Compellent, HDS, Quantum and CommVault

  Catch up with the week's news as we run our eye over recent events at Compellent, HDS, Quantum and CommVault.

• September 13, 2010 13 Sep'10

  Blackpool college majors on NetApp FAS with primary data deduplication

  Blackpool and the Fylde College chooses NetApp FAS storage with primary data deduplication after rejecting EMC, EqualLogic and HP on cost and usability concerns.

• September 13, 2010 13 Sep'10

  Storage roundup: Heineken dumps HP EVA for Compellent SAN

  Storage roundup: Heineken dumps HP EVA for Compellent SAN; BakBone to sell Waterford email archiving; clustered NAs vendor BlueArc offers new VMware tools; and more data storage news.

• September 09, 2010 09 Sep'10

  Five secret data storage and data management vendors

  Companies like EMC and NetApp hog the storage headlines. Here’s a list of five vendors you hardly ever hear about, but which may add value to your business.

• September 07, 2010 07 Sep'10

  HDS responds to EMC's competitive assessment

  HDS has written to SearchStorage ANZ with a rebuttal of EMC's competitive assessment that suggests the Japanese vendor sells for no profit.

• September 01, 2010 01 Sep'10

  BIAL’s disaster recovery implementation streamlines airport ops

  The need to quickly bounce back in action has made Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) opt for its disaster recovery (DR) implementation.

• August 30, 2010 30 Aug'10

  The future of HDD technology will rest on cooperation among the five HDD manufacturers

  The transition to next-gen HDD technology will be expensive, with four divergent technologies that threaten to fragment development efforts.

• August 27, 2010 27 Aug'10

  Trimax’s SAN storage system paves way for business growth

  With a hosted platform for messaging and collaboration services on its business roadmap, service provider Trimax felt the need for a SAN storage system.

• August 25, 2010 25 Aug'10

  REVIEW: NetGear ReadyNAS NVX

  NetGear’s ReadyNAS NVX is a solid unit that will only be enhanced b the company’s recent appointment of a pre-sales champion to develop solutions for its channel.

• August 23, 2010 23 Aug'10

  Prepare for bags of fun at VMworld

  Australian attendees at VMworld have the chance to use the trip to assist underprivileged kids.

• August 23, 2010 23 Aug'10

  Riverbed testing iSCSI optimisation for cloud computing

  Riverbed working to optimise iSCSI performance over wide area networks, to boost storage systems’ performance in cloud computing rigs.

• August 22, 2010 22 Aug'10

  What the NBN would mean for storage

  The future of the National Broadband Network is in the balance, but just in case the Independents need some food for thought, we asked some leading Australian storage experts what fast broadband could mean for data storage.

• August 20, 2010 20 Aug'10

  iSCSI, the cloud, and the accelerator start to converge

  As iSCSI gains traction in the market, it’s bringing about an interesting shift: the idea of storage networking, even if it’s not described in such terms, is becoming attractive to smaller businesses.

• August 20, 2010 20 Aug'10

  DSCI framework implementation methodology: An up-close look

  There’s much FUD about DSCI’s data security and privacy frameworks. We attempt to demystify DSCI frameworks’ implementation methodology.

• August 18, 2010 18 Aug'10

  ABC considers cloud storage, says 3PB+ of disk needed by 2015

  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has outlined its storage strategy in a tender for new suppliers that puts HDS' and NetApp's incumbency at risk, calls for the introduction of policy-based tiering and says the broadcaster wants to explore ...

• August 18, 2010 18 Aug'10

  Hitachi AMS wins out over EMC Clariion as ISP upgrades data storage

  Zen Internet selects Hitachi AMS SAN over EMC Clariion as SAS interconnect beats FC-AL. SAN products from Dell EqualLogic, NetApp and Oracle-Sun also rejected by ISP.

• August 15, 2010 15 Aug'10

  Perth Radiological Clinic upgrades HDS SANs

  Perth Radiological Clinic (PRC) has selected twin storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and will use the hardware to create a nearline archive containing seven years of medical images.

• August 09, 2010 09 Aug'10

  Acronis Backup & Recovery chosen by British Gypsum for disaster recovery; and other storage news

  Storage roundup: British Gypsum opts for Acronis backup software; new BakBone FASTRecover offers Exchange 2010 support; Crossroads' tape library analytics; Double-Take's UK partner initiative; iStorage signs European reseller deals.

• August 09, 2010 09 Aug'10

  FalconStor storage virtualisation replicates for rapid disaster recovery restore

  Northern Rail uses FalconStor storage virtualisation to replicate SAP data between sites and cut disaster recovery restores from three days down to two hours.

• August 09, 2010 09 Aug'10

  BCM certification roadmap for the data center pro

  Today there's much demand for business continuity management (BCM) skillsets. So a BCM certification will help if you are interested in making an entry.

• August 08, 2010 08 Aug'10

  EMC says HDS sells for no profit to beat CLARiiON

  EMC’s competitive assessment of Hitachi Data Systems Adaptive Modular Storage product suggests it is being sold at cost price, and says Hitachi’s USP V lacks robust VMware support

• August 03, 2010 03 Aug'10

  iiNet to launch cloud backup for business

  Internet Service Provider iiNet has launched a cloud backup service for consumers, and plans to scale it up for business users.

• August 03, 2010 03 Aug'10

  Consolidation of data center aids data management at ACG Worldwide

  Faced with management of data generated by a large workforce across different locations, pharma firm ACG opts for consolidation of data center infra.

• July 30, 2010 30 Jul'10

  3Par responds to EMC's competitive intelligence

  Yesterday SearchStorage ANZ published excerpts from a document we are almost certain is an EMC competitive intelligence assessment of 3Par and its products. Today, 3Par responds with its analysis of EMC's assessment.

• July 29, 2010 29 Jul'10

  NetApp storage guarantee slammed in anonymous video at Notapp.com

  A new and anonymous website contains a video that is highly critical of NetApp's storage guarantee, but points out that EMC's own guarantee is far simpler.

• July 29, 2010 29 Jul'10

  Anti NetApp site, "NotApp.com", pulled down, traffic redirected to EMC

  NotApp.com, which earlier today hosted a video making unflattering comparisons between EMC and NetApp, has been pulled down and redirected to EMC's own web page.

• July 29, 2010 29 Jul'10

  EMC says most of its customers “unaware of ... ease of use improvements to” CLARiiON, Symmetrix

  In a competitive intelligence document analyzing its strengths and weaknesses compared to 3Par, EMC dismisses its rival’s thin provisioning and scalability, but also admits to poor communication with customers