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• 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

• July 27, 2010 27 Jul'10

  Virtualization of storage boosts Bengaluru International Airport ops

  Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) opts for virtualization of storage and attains the thin-provisioning advantage as a bonus.

• July 26, 2010 26 Jul'10

  How the Vblock message could rebound on EMC

  EMC's VCE Vblock pushes the message of the integrated hardware stack, but this can help EMC's rivals that truly are integrated.

• July 22, 2010 22 Jul'10

  NetApp to clone Melbourne virtualization Centre of Excellence in Germany, USA

  NetApp’s new virtualization Centre of Excellence in Melbourne has a mission to productise its work at CenITex, and will soon be joined by sister centres in the USA and Germany

• July 22, 2010 22 Jul'10

  EMC cancels Social Media Outreach program as blogger points finger of FAIL

  The storage blogosphere is digesting a ham-fisted and hastily-cancelled social media splurge by EMC

• July 14, 2010 14 Jul'10

  NetApp wins 200 petabyte deal with CenITex, establishes virtualisation centre of excellence

  NetApp and Dimension Data have teamed to win storage, backup and recovery services for Victoria's shared services agency CenITex. NetApp will also create a new "Global Centre for Virtualization Excellence" in Australia.

• July 12, 2010 12 Jul'10

  Corporation Bank's disaster recovery setup goes beyond standard DR

  When the leading Indian bank felt that its standard disaster recovery site was not enough, it went in for a 3-way disaster recovery setup.

• July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10

  FalconStor virtual storage supports server virtualization project at construction company

  FalconStor virtual storage implemented at construction company; Buffalo partners with NovaStor; Cloud provider uses DataCore storage virtualization; Infortrend expands array range; Portable solid-state storage; UK SMEs slack at backup; Sepaton new ...

• July 07, 2010 07 Jul'10

  VMware vSphere shared storage guide

  Learn about shared storage devices that let you unlock the power of VMware vSphere.

• July 06, 2010 06 Jul'10

  EXCLUSIVE: NetApp fights claims of low storage utilisation with new configuration guide

  NetApp has issued a new best practice guide for configuring its products that outlines how much capacity it can access on disks, and says the new guide is needed in part to head off FUD from competitors.

• July 05, 2010 05 Jul'10

  Seagate releases details of 3TB drive

  Seagate has released a 3TB drive, but has not made a major areal density breakthrough as it uses five double-sided platters with 300GB per side.

• June 30, 2010 30 Jun'10

  Overland NAS storage gets cue at media firm, which dumps LaCie drives

  Media monitoring company DMS UK installs 60 TB of Overland SnapServer NAS storage to replace fault-prone LaCie drives. HP NAS 'too costly,' says IT manager.

• June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10

  Disk-based backup and data deduplication key to efficient backup

  Issues with disk-based backup and data deduplication attract UK users to W. Curtis Preston seminar; attendees cite tape, growing data volumes and sprawling backup windows.

• June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10

  DataDirect Networks storage helps movie firm with HPC; and other data storage news

  Movie firm opts for DataDirect Networks storage for HPC; zero-loss disaster recovery too costly for most; new cloud storage service from Iron Mountain; and other data storage news.

• June 25, 2010 25 Jun'10

  Outsourcing disaster recovery does the trick for Lakshmi Vilas Bank

  Lakshmi Vilas Bank's focus on outsourcing disaster recovery requirements has resulted in an increase of cost benefits and customer satisfaction.

• June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10

  Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet are in balance for Brocade

  For Brocade, Fibre Channel and FCoE form complementary pillars of its storage networking roadmap. That puts it in a good position compared with its rivals.

• June 21, 2010 21 Jun'10

  Compellent to make "major investment" in Australia

  Compellent plans to expand its Australian operations.

• June 16, 2010 16 Jun'10

  Nasuni Filer and cloud storage help school with offsite DR; and other data storage news

  Nasuni Filer, cloud storage help with offsite DR; Double-Take's new Microsoft integration; FalconStor SMB CDP; Mozy offers new cloud storage services; failover vendor SteelEye adds UK resellers.

• June 14, 2010 14 Jun'10

  ExaGrid data deduplication helps UK law firm slash data backup and restore

  Data deduplication devices from ExaGrid chosen over Data Domain and three other vendors as law firm tackles lengthy data backups and restores, and cuts data deduplication ratios.

• June 09, 2010 09 Jun'10

  Clustered NAS from BlueArc supplants Isilon at film effects firm

  BlueArc Mercury 100 clustered NAS replaces Isilon at Cinesite as visual effects company boosts storage capacity threefold to cope with random access demands.

• June 02, 2010 02 Jun'10

  Tiered storage tops for smaller budgets, says City IT chief

  Ryan Sclanders of CMA talks about why tiered storage helps him get high-performance storage on a budget, and the pain of backup and capacity management.

• May 26, 2010 26 May'10

  Clustered NAS from Sun supports solar imaging project; and other data storage news

  UCLan uses Sun Thumper NAs to store NASA images; Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 compatible with Citrix XenServer server virtualization; Atempo offers Novell deduplication; BakBone and BlueArc boost the channel.

• May 24, 2010 24 May'10

  Compellent SAN helps dairy save on disaster recovery services

  A Compellent SAN helped Lakeland Dairies support a server virtualization project, slash its disaster recovery services bill and gain energy savings.

• May 19, 2010 19 May'10

  Is EMC's VMware virtualization juggernaut unstoppable?

  VMware virtualization sidelines operating systems and supplants storage subsystem intelligence. Is EMC's VMware virtualization giant set to crush all in its path?

• May 12, 2010 12 May'10

  BlueArc clustered NAS brings savings to hosting company; other data storage news

  Claranet saves money with BlueArc clustered NAS; Core Consultancy launches DataSafe backup and recovery service; DataFort debuts offsite backup service; cloud backup from MTI; and more.

• May 12, 2010 12 May'10

  NetApp replies to EMC's VPlex announcement at EMC World

  NetApp has issued a statement saying it can ddo everything EMC's new VPlex products can achieve, and customers are cool on the new product too.

• May 12, 2010 12 May'10

  Storage Decisions Australia - LIVE!

  Can't make it to Storage Decisions Australia? Then check in here next Wednesday for a full day of live coverage from the event.

• May 06, 2010 06 May'10

  HDS, NetApp, IBM and bloggers line up to kick EMC

  Coincidence or Google Bomb: Why is the whole storage blogosphere lining up to kick EMC the week before EMC World?

• May 05, 2010 05 May'10

  Tiered storage tames data storage growth, says construction IT chief

  Steve Shepherd of BAM Nuttall talks about how tiered storage tames data storage growth, the move to shared storage, why he's opting for cloud storage and his approach to working with vendors.

• May 05, 2010 05 May'10

  Geoscience Australia selects IBM 3592 cartridges as its tape migration

  Geoscience Australia is tendering for companies to move its old data onto IBM3592 cartridges, and expects it will require such services for up to five years.

• April 30, 2010 30 Apr'10

  Logical Units: Unisys storage assessment service; EMC’s new Avamar certification

  Our occasional roundup of new storage products includes a new certification for EMC pros, Unisys bringing its storage assessment service to Australia and a half-height LTO-5 drive.

• April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

  Working with virtual disk formats and VMware Fault Tolerance

  Our expert shares quick tips on VMware vSphere's virtual disk formats, including zeroedthick, thin and eagerzeroedthick.

• April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

  Backblaze says the dog ate its data centre; IBM XIV debate rages

  Unified tiering stacks anyone? If only we could invent such a thing, storage bloggers may have a lot less to write about! Also, the best excuse for a data center disaster ever?

• April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

  Australian immigration tribunals to replace Dell/EMC SANs

  Australia's Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal wishes to replace its Dell/EMC CX500 SANs, which it says have reached the end of their product lifespan and now cost too much to maintain.

• April 29, 2010 29 Apr'10

  Amazon Web Services opens Asia Pacific region

  Amazon Web Services S3 and other cloud computing services will now be served from a Singapore data center, but AWS is also considering an Australian presence.

• April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10

  IT services firm adds IBM XIV storage for midrange customers and other data storage news

  IT services firm adds IBM XIV storage capacity; Comet offers consumer online data backup; FalconStor Software launches HyperFS file system; and more data storage news.

• April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10

  IP Australia consolidates storage with NetApp private cloud

  Australia’s intellectual property protection agency has consolidated its multi-vendor storage systems, making NetApp its new supplier of choice and creating a private storage cloud.

• April 28, 2010 28 Apr'10

  3Par's new Australia office plans to bed in global customers

  3Par’s Australian office will try to ensure its global customers don’t make Australia and New Zealand an exception to their global 3Par roll-outs, as some have done before teh company opened a local presence.

• April 23, 2010 23 Apr'10

  Small storage devices a hit at big hotel

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

• 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.

• April 22, 2010 22 Apr'10

  HDS and EMC's unified plans ridiculed by 3Par

  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.

• April 21, 2010 21 Apr'10

  3Par opens Aussie office

  Up-and-coming storage vendor 3Par has opened an Australian office and seems to be looking for both channel partners and customers, and may also be servicing existing local users.

• April 20, 2010 20 Apr'10

  Data backup and data archiving are not interchangeable

  Data backups and data archiving are very different processes. Backups copy data to save against corruption or loss, while archiving moves data to save the cost of storage.

• April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10

  Hitachi Data Systems teams with Microsoft for unified computing platform

  HDS has become the latest vendor to offer a stack of storage and servers, after the company decided to bring its previously Japan-only Blade Symphony product to the rest of the world.

• April 12, 2010 12 Apr'10

  Animal Logic changes two storage platforms: Isilon and DataDirect Networks in, NetApp's role reduced

  Australian film studio Animal Logic has changed two of its storage platforms, with the combination of performance and support leading it to adopt DataDirect Networks for applications previously performed by Bright and replace its primary production ...

• April 12, 2010 12 Apr'10

  Storage roundup: IBM powers Iridis III HPC environment; Drobo NAS targets SOHO market; and more

  IBM powers university's Iridis III HPC environment; Drobo FS NAS devices targets SOHO market; LTO-5 Ultrium tape capability available in HP StorageWorks MSL; and more.

• April 08, 2010 08 Apr'10

  EMC vs. NetApp argument erupts over Bycast buy, UCS implementations

  EMC and NetApp are going at it harder than ever this week, as NetApp's Bycast acquisition draws fire. Over in the Twittersphere, meanwhile, there's more animosity,plus IBM possibly taking down a tweet that proclaimed a win over EMC.