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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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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
All change for Aussie storage bloggers

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