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• February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10

  IBM releases SONAS: Scale-out NAS based on GPFS

  IBM has quietly released what appears to be a new product line it dubs "SONAS," short for scale-out NAS. The product seems to be a rebadging of its previous "Scale-out file system" that productises bundles of hardware optimised to use IBM's General ...

• February 09, 2010 09 Feb'10

  SAN specialists not required for Exadata implementations

  Would-be buyers of Oracle’s Exadata database appliance will be able to operate the machines without storage specialists on staff

• February 09, 2010 09 Feb'10

  Should you buy second-hand storage? EMC, IBM, HP, Dell and HDS say yes, but analyst says no

  Would you buy a second-hand array from this industry? Top-tier vendors other than NetApp are happy to sell you refurbished products, but IBRS analyst Kevin McIsaac warns against buying old arrays.

• February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

  Carbonite Pro coming to Australia

  Cloud storage provider Carbonite will launch a local version of its new small business cloud backup service.

• February 08, 2010 08 Feb'10

  Storage roundup: College uses clustered NAS; new Secure Multi-tenancy Design Architecture; and more

  College uses Isilon IQ clustered NAS; new Secure Multi-tenancy Design Architecture; Atempo enhances data deduplication and virtualisation; 3PAR thin provisioning; and more.

• February 05, 2010 05 Feb'10

  IBM beats Sun, HP and EMC for SAN at plant research facility

  The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility has chosen IBM’s DS4700 to collect data in its new research facility, albeit with a touch of buyer’s remorse about its decision to adopt fibre channel over iSCSI.

• February 04, 2010 04 Feb'10

  3Par, HDS, NetApp and EMC conflict over storage guarantees

  Storage bloggers have found a new topic to argue about: storage guarantees. HDS and 3Par have one, EMC sees no reason to and bloggers take sides.

• February 02, 2010 02 Feb'10

  CommVault connects Simpana to the cloud

  CommVault’s Simpana can now dump your data into cloud storage services from Amazon, EMC, Iron Mountain, Microsoft and Nirvanix. Updated with analyst reaction from Gartner and ESG.

• February 02, 2010 02 Feb'10

  RAID 6: A comparison with RAID 5

  RAID 6 is the new kid on the storage block. With storage needs growing exponentially and becoming more complex, where does RAID 6 fit in?

• February 01, 2010 01 Feb'10

  Macquarie Telecom buys $1million worth of EMC CLARiiON to power cloud services

  Macquarie Telecom has splashed more than $AUD 1million on EMC CLARiiON and Ionix products.

• January 28, 2010 28 Jan'10

  EMC, NetApp resume battle, 3Par brawls with the big boys, IBM/FujiFilm’s tape unravelled

  Storage bloggers have returned to bickering and competitive sniping, as EMC responds to NetApp’s first big announcement of the year with rancour, while bloggers tear into IBM’s new superbig tapes

• January 27, 2010 27 Jan'10

  Training and education key to IT compliance, says Hillingdon's Bearpark

  Roger Bearpark at the London Borough of Hillingdon talks about ways to cut down on data sprawl, and how training and education can help your firm meet its compliance goals.

• January 27, 2010 27 Jan'10

  Storage roundup: Fujifilm warns UK users about grey market tapes and more

  Fujifilm warns of grey market tapes; NetApp customer saves power with virtualised servers; 3PAR adds cloud storage partners; BakBone updates disk-based data protection product; and more.

• January 27, 2010 27 Jan'10

  NAS Review: LaCie Network Space 2

  Richard Chirgwin puts LaCie's nano-NAS through its paces and emerges impressed and happier than has been the case when experimenting with competing devices.

• January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10

  Storage virtualization approaches: Selecting the right fit

  Confused about the right storage virtualization approach for your business? These storage virtualization tips will help you zero in on the right option.

• January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10

  Backup software and VMware: Six products compared

  This tip explains how the major data backup software packages integrate with VMware Infrastructure 3.

• January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10

  Will RainStor data deduplication change the database game?

  RainStor says its technology deduplicates relational databases with space savings ranging from 20:1 to 60:1. Is it a game-changing technology?

• January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10

  Storage roundup: Compellent Portable Volume helps RHS slash backup times and more

  RHS picks up Compellent Portable Volume; LinkShare deploys 3PAR tiered SAN to cut costs, power consumption; DataCore boosts virtual disk capacity; and more.

• January 20, 2010 20 Jan'10

  EMC refreshes Clariion, Celerra

  EMC has announced it supports 2TB drives in its midrange arrays, increasing their density.

• January 18, 2010 18 Jan'10

  SURVEY WATCH: EMC says you've lost it

  EMC research asserts that lost documents are taking ages to find.

• January 18, 2010 18 Jan'10

  Performance monitoring: Measuring data storage performance and troubleshooting tips

  What are the causes of poor storage performance? Find out the metrics that allow you to measure data storage efficiency, as well as some troubleshooting tips.

• January 12, 2010 12 Jan'10

  Leveraging DLP to gain customer confidence: The Cognizant way

  Cognizant, the leading Indian IT-BPO player deploys a data loss prevention tool to protect confidential data and improve client confidence.

• January 11, 2010 11 Jan'10

  Virtual machine (VM) backup has RLAM investing in Veeam Backup & Replication

  Following a search for a virtual machine backup tool to work with VCB, Royal London Asset Management opts for Veeam Backup & Replication over vRanger Pro and esXpress.

• January 08, 2010 08 Jan'10

  vSphere and storage: The ultimate guide

  VMware's vSphere offers myriad storage functions ... and more than a few complications for storage administrators. In this story, we analyse vSphere's impact on storage and advise how to get the most from the software.

• January 07, 2010 07 Jan'10

  Christmas peace as EMC, NetApp, IBM all leave each other alone

  The storage blogosphere has decided to respect Christmas as a time of peace and goodwill, with the usual bickering between EMC, HDS, NetApp and IBM giving way to kinder, gentler and more thoughtful posts.

• January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10

  Evolving cloud storage market has users weighing their enterprise data storage options

  This series takes an in-depth look at the evolving concepts of cloud storage and all of its subtypes, such as internal, external, private and public clouds.

• January 04, 2010 04 Jan'10

  The SAN sweetener deal for Perfetti

  Discover how Indian confectionary maker Perfetti India spruced up its IT infrastructure to support high performance and future growth with a SAN.

• December 23, 2009 23 Dec'09

  National Museum of Australia to build digital asset management system on Dell/EMC SANs

  The National Museum of Australia will build a digital asset management system to meet increased demand for access to its collection of "450,000 digital images, video, audio and interactive assets." Two Dell/EMC SANs and CommVault software in the ...

• December 21, 2009 21 Dec'09

  Predictions 2010: The future of Linux

  2010 will see Linux mature and offer CIOs more in the data centre and on the desktop.

• December 18, 2009 18 Dec'09

  HDS Australia CTO moves to Cisco

  Hitachi Data Systems' chief technology officer Simon Elisha is leaving the company to take up a position at Cisco.

• December 17, 2009 17 Dec'09

  NSW Health admits "high incidence of 'lost' images," plans enterprise archive

  NSW Health plans to build an archive of medical images capable of storing 20 million records and delivering 100 megabyte files over a WAN in ten seconds. A new SAN with RAID6 protection and SATA disks is at the heart of the solution.

• December 17, 2009 17 Dec'09

  No peace in the blogosphere as EMC, HDS fire up, Quantum carols, NetApp and Oracle hit the mistletoe

  A week out from Christmas, peace and love are yet to break out in the storage blogosphere as HDS and EMC fight again, Oracle and NetApp get lovey and bloggers decide if FAST is up to speed.

• December 16, 2009 16 Dec'09

  Storage roundup: Holiday firm gets remote disaster recovery service and more

  Holiday firm chooses Plan B DR; 3PAR adds auto tiers; Atempo supports Mac OS X; NetApp and Microsoft team up; Seagate launches solid-state drives (SSDs); and more.

• December 16, 2009 16 Dec'09

  Server virtualisation and data growth changing storage-area network, network-attached storage

  Will the demands of server virtualisation and data growth lead to a breakdown of existing storage categories such as SAN and NAS?

• December 14, 2009 14 Dec'09

  Symantec CEO Enrique Salem hints at unstructured data management tools

  Symantec's CEO has hinted at new tools to ease management of unstructured data. Thin provisioning management tools may also be on the company's agenda.

• December 10, 2009 10 Dec'09

  Another internal NetApp document comes to light, HDS rounds on EMC’s FAST

  The storage blogosphere has lit up with comment, criticism and crankiness about EMC’s FAST technology, with HDS and 3Par leading the charge. NetApp is silent, for now, but is still leaking internal documents, while Seagate announces a solid state ...

• December 09, 2009 09 Dec'09

  Information lifecycle management project helps Network Rail control data sprawl

  Network Rail's information lifecycle management (ILM) project utilises EMC Documentum; gives users browser-based access to files with search engine, version control and audit trail functions.

• December 08, 2009 08 Dec'09

  Drobo S and Drobo Elite pricing revealed as Data Robotics takes on Iomega, NetApp and Dell

  Data Robotics' two new Drobo models will shortly go on sale in Australia. We reveal the prices in this piece, plus Drobo's plans to take on EMC, NetApp and Dell for low-end storage.

• December 07, 2009 07 Dec'09

  Storage roundup: Livedrive launches online data storage and file-sharing service

  Livedrive online backup; university deploys BlockMaster SafeStick; Compellent's new man; backup survey; Drobo goes iSCSI; StorMagic enables VMware HA; TMS teams with NextIO.

• December 02, 2009 02 Dec'09

  FalconStor NSS 6.0 helps RBKC automate VMware disaster recovery

  The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea upgrades to FalconStor NSS v6 and gets VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager DR functionality plus a vendor-independent SAN upgrade path.

• December 01, 2009 01 Dec'09

  Leveraging SAN for healthcare growth at Metropolis

  This is the story of how Metropolis Healthcare dealt with unprecedented business growth using a scalable storage area network (SAN) solution.

• November 30, 2009 30 Nov'09

  RCUK's Rawlins: Vendors need to up their game, iSCSI is over-rated

  Storage Pro-File: RCUK's Andy Rawlins talks about how vendors need to up their game, why iSCSI is over-rated and why he needs chargeback to offer a proper service to users.

• November 26, 2009 26 Nov'09

  NetApp triumphant, EMC under fire from HDS, IBM kicked again, HP defends its HDS relationship

  SearchStorage ANZ’s weekly descent into the storage blogosphere finds arguments involving NetApp, HP, HDS, IBM, EMC and a blogger split over the new Drobo range.

• November 25, 2009 25 Nov'09

  Storage encryption technology options for UK storage managers

  Due to a series of high-profile data loss scandals, storage encryption technologies and practices are gaining a lot of attention from UK storage managers.

• November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09

  Book extract: Prioritizing security spending

  In this excerpt from "The Shortcut Guide to Prioritizing Security Spending," you'll learn how to spend on cloud security and identify data flows that deserve protection.

• November 23, 2009 23 Nov'09

  FIRST LOOK: Chrome OS. Why lack of storage could be its downfall

  SearchStorage ANZ has a quick look at Chrome OS and finds it makes us yearn for a C: drive while offering no notable enhancements to the online experience.

• November 20, 2009 20 Nov'09

  Therapeutic Goods Administration seeks two SANs

  The Therapeutic Goods Administration has tendered for two SANs, as the direct-attach storage in its servers is nearing end-of-life. The origination plans to migrate applications including Domino and TRIM to the SANs, which will be backed up by ...

• November 19, 2009 19 Nov'09

  HP, EMC in podcast brawl, Sun/Oracle trouble rumour, bloggers love Xsigo and Pillar swipes at IBM

  Our weekly trip into the storage blogosphere finds IBM, Pillar, HDS, EMC and HP annoyed with one another, a rumour about Sun and news of what happens if you shout at a disk drive.

• November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09

  Virtual Computing Environment, other alliances could mean data storage industry conflict

  Virtual Computing Environment coalition formed by EMC, Cisco and VMware aims to sell storage as part of a complete IT stack. Will moves like this leave some vendors in the cold?

• November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09

  Storage roundup: Disk-based/remote backup fits shoe firm and more

  Storage roundup: Hybrid disk-based and remote backup fits shoe firm; financial services firm implements Double-Take failover; 3PAR adds features to InServ platform; and more.

• November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09

  EXCLUSIVE: Four new Sun Open Storage models revealed

  SearchStorage ANZ can reveal the specs of four new open storage devices from Sun, codenamed “Anago”, “Witte”, “Riverwalk 2” and “Iwashi+”.

• November 18, 2009 18 Nov'09

  Data protection strategies: Unraveling the data leakage riddle

  Here's a look at how Indian organizations are dealing with insider threats and data leaks using data protection strategies that enhance data privacy.

• November 17, 2009 17 Nov'09

  Gartner: Storage management software immature

  Gartner's annual Symposium in Sydney, Australia, has been told that storage management software lacks the sophistication users need to effectively manage storage sprawl.

• November 16, 2009 16 Nov'09

  Amazon reveals roadmap for S3 datacenters in Singapore, "other" areas in Asia

  Amazon Web Services says its cloud computing services will soon be delivered from data centers in Singapore and "other" parts of the Asia Pacific. Could Australia or New Zealand be next?

• November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

  Aussie Clive Gold to head SNIA's International Steering Committee

  The Deputy Chair of SNIA ANZ will head the organisation's International Steering Committee.

• November 13, 2009 13 Nov'09

  SAN vs. NAS for virtual storage

  SAN or NAS: which deserves to be virtualized? The answer for the majority of organisations is the SAN, for reasons we explain in this story.

• November 12, 2009 12 Nov'09

  HDS vs. IBM (again), NetApp’s potty problems, more VCE reaction and Emulex love

  This week’s excursion into the storage blogosphere uncovers the funniest quote we’ve found all year, as an EMC employee unloads on NetApp while HDS and IBM keep going at each other.

• November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09

  Verizon launches data discovery and identification services for India

  Verizon Business makes an enterprise data protection bid with its data discovery, identification and security classification (DDISC) services.

• November 11, 2009 11 Nov'09

  Data asset inventory key to disaster recovery planning and design

  A disaster recovery plan should include a data asset inventory and business impact analysis, define the company's DR levels and explore DR site options (hot, warm or cold site).

• November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09

  NetApp beats rivals to win BT global deal

  BT selects NetApp for a 38-site virtual data centre product. HDS, HP, EMC and Sun lose out in the final round for the multi-million pound project.

• November 05, 2009 05 Nov'09

  Did NetApp lose it’s customer database? They get lashed by HDS, HP anyway

  Our weekly visit to the storage blogosphere finds HDS lashing NetApp over its customer analysis data, which we suspect could have caused a data loss. Plus, HP gets ignored, EMC gets criticised and bloggers go mild for Acadia.

• November 04, 2009 04 Nov'09

  NAS power for optimal business operations at Seventymm

  A look at how Indian movie rental service Seventymm leverages network-attached storage (NAS) and direct attached-storage (DAS) for its booming business.

• November 04, 2009 04 Nov'09

  No Acadia for Australia until customers demand it

  Acadia, The new joint venture between EMC, VMware, Intel and Cisco will, perhaps appropriately, be a virtual entity in its early stages as the four companies figure out where customers need its services.

• November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09

  Storage area network (SAN) boost for Eveready's FMCG drive

  We take a look at how Eveready Industries' FMCG expansion has been driven by addition of a storage area network (SAN) to its existing SAN architecture.

• November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09

  Cisco, EMC and VMware Tipped to announce joint venture

  The web is abuzz with rumours that Cisco, EMC and VMware are set to launch an Avande-style joint venture called "vBlock" to provide virtualized products and services to data centers.

• November 03, 2009 03 Nov'09

  UK storage roundup: Brocade, 3PAR, Bakbone product news

  Storage roundup: Law firm deploys Brocade DCX Backbone switches; Equity trader uses Plan B DR; Service provider opts for 3PAR SAN; Bakbone launches Netvault: Archive -- and more

• October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09

  Secret NetApp customer research says HP arrays are “not robust enough," HDS hard to beat on price

  SearchStorage ANZ has found a NetApp presentation that analyses the reasons the company wins accounts among the Global 5000. The presentation includes data on the NSW Department of Education and Coles Myer, which NetApp says bought HDS products ...

• October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09

  IBM/EMC brawl continues, Pillar pilloried, 3Par swipes at EMC and bloggers vent about FCoE and data

  Our weekly delve into the storage blogosphere finds fewer fights than usual, but some action as bloggers burst hype bubbles and EMC cops it from IBM and 3Par

• October 28, 2009 28 Oct'09

  Department of Defence deepens NetApp relationship with $3 million "server" buy

  NetApp has made a very large sale to the Department of Defence

• October 28, 2009 28 Oct'09

  HDFC Bank's disaster recovery management journey

  India's leading private sector bank has evolved its disaster recovery management strategy considerably over the years. We present the HDFC Bank DR story.

• October 27, 2009 27 Oct'09

  Data loss prevention addition to CIBIL's security arsenal

  Indian credit bureau CIBIL fights data leakage challenges with the addition of a data loss prevention module to its existing UTM implementation.

• October 27, 2009 27 Oct'09

  What you should know about flash memory in storage

  A tiered storage array with flash at its apex would deliver a much better balance of capacity, performance and value than flash sledgehammer systems devised to exert brute storage performance force on all IOs. But neither SPEC or TPC benchmarks have...

• October 27, 2009 27 Oct'09

  Cloud storage saves download costs for software developer

  Australian software developer QSR International has turned to cloud storage from Amazon’s S3 to contain the costs of offering software and documentation downloads for its clients

• October 26, 2009 26 Oct'09

  Goldilocks and the disaster recovery site

  How do you like your disaster recovery site? Hot? Warm? Or is cold just right for your data? Learn the differences between the three in this story.

• October 22, 2009 22 Oct'09

  Cloud provider Savvis chooses Compellent's automated storage tiering for Project Spirit

  Compellent's automated storage tiers beat out incumbent 3PAR as cloud services provider Savvis readies for its Project Spirit virtual data centre service.

• October 22, 2009 22 Oct'09

  Storage roundup: BiP settles on NetApp filers in disaster recovery move; IBM SVC to support SSDs

  Storage roundup: BiP Solutions settles on NetApp filers in disaster recovery move; IBM SVC to support solid-state drives; Sun adds Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array; and more.

• October 22, 2009 22 Oct'09

  Video: Windows 7 - What's in it for business?

  Today's Windows 7 launch emphasised the consumer benefits of the product, so we caught up with Sarah Vaughan, Commercial Group Lead for Windows, to recap the business benefits of the new OS.

• October 21, 2009 21 Oct'09

  IBM and EMC slanging match, Clouds queried, Pillar pounces

  Our weekly peek into the storage blogosphere finds bloggers lining up to slam IBM’s new D8700, as the community digests the Sidekick outage and gets excited about clouds and automation.

• October 20, 2009 20 Oct'09

  Unilever cuts fabric problems by 50% with NetWisdom

  Multinational Unilever has cut fabric errors in half and now manages annual data growth of 50% on its 5 PB SAN Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom product.

• October 20, 2009 20 Oct'09

  Users shun VMware backup technologies, stick to older products

  The vStorage APIs are powerful, but users and analysts prefer conventional backup tools ... for now.

• October 19, 2009 19 Oct'09

  Data storage users beat budget blues with tiered data storage, data deduplication

  Ballooning data volumes and flat storage budgets have users in the UK turning to tiered storage, iSCSI and data deduplication to cut costs and make the most of their IT budgets.

• October 19, 2009 19 Oct'09

  ASIC sticks with Sun for storage, servers

  The Australian Security and Investments Commission has decided to stick with its Sun storage and servers, but has dropped the company's backup software.

• October 15, 2009 15 Oct'09

  Azure seems safe as HDS, Microsoft, avoid Sidekick backlash as bloggers rescue your reading

  The storage blogosphere has finally become civil, as most large vendors (think HDS, IBM, EMC and NetApp) go into product release mode and start saying nice things about themselves, instead of nasty things about one another!

• October 12, 2009 12 Oct'09

  Storage roundup: Unilever monitors SAN with NetWisdom; BT chooses NetApp for new hosting service

  Unilever chooses NetWisdom to optimize its SAN traffic; BT to use NetApp storage products in its new Virtual Data Centre; Civica UK tiers storage using Compellent SANs; and more.

• October 08, 2009 08 Oct'09

  NetApp calls Oracle “Crazy Ivan,” digs at HP’s blogfest

  If it’s Thursday, then it must be time for us to delve into the murky waters of the storage blogosphere to figure out who’s trying to shout at whom, a pursuit which this week finds NetApp, HDS, Brocade, Emulex, EMC, 3Par and assorted others fighting...

• October 07, 2009 07 Oct'09

  Ad agency uses 3PAR InServ to support server virtualisation project and reduce capacity purchases

  Internet advertising agency TrafficBroker chooses a 3PAR InServ SAN with tiered storage and thin provisioning over 'bells and whistles' of rival Compellent.

• October 07, 2009 07 Oct'09

  Data backup vs archiving: What's the difference?

  Learn the difference between data backups and data archiving in terms of file format, data retention and searchability, as well as the pros and cons of disk and tape for archive.

• October 05, 2009 05 Oct'09

  Storage roundup: Ambulance staff gets secure USB sticks; Acronis signs Bell Micro deal and more

  Ambulance staff gets secure USB sticks; Acronis signs Bell Micro deal; Macro4 offers SAP archiving; backup for failing drives; and the world's most secure data centre?

• October 02, 2009 02 Oct'09

  HDS, EMC out as Suncorp cuts storage costs by 40% with NetApp cloud play

  Suncorp has created an internal cloud based on vSphere and NetApp products and says it is approaching 65% storage utilisation, has trimmed storage costs by 40% and will likely not need data centre space it built for future use.

• October 01, 2009 01 Oct'09

  HP and EMC gang up on NetApp over FAS benchmarks, Emulex bashes Brocade and EMC vs. HDS continues

  SearchStorage ANZ’s weekly dive into the storage blogosphere has found four fights, between HP, HDS, EMC, Emulex and Brocade, as corporate-speak explodes and brawling moves to Twitter

• September 30, 2009 30 Sep'09

  Storage roundup: Mimecast helps Salvation Army, StorMagic boosts channel network and more

  Mimecast helps Salvation Army with email; StorMagic boosts channel; SaaS supplier gets 3PAR; NetApp SnapMirror compression; 3PAR and Exanet partner; BakBone embraces disk.

• September 30, 2009 30 Sep'09

  Oxford Archaeology CIO not buying dedupe hype; finds open storage more valuable technology

  Oxford Archaeology CIO Chris Puttick talks about why he believes data deduplication is an over-hyped technology, and why open storage is the most valuable technology in storage.

• September 28, 2009 28 Sep'09

  Continuous data protection (CDP) fits the bill for unstructured data protection needs

  Continuous data protection offers roll back to any point in time, and is a valuable tool in the backup and recovery toolkit, but is it right for your business?

• September 24, 2009 24 Sep'09

  EMC kicks Oracle, V-Max destroyed by spinning disk, HDS in FCoE mess, NetApp clams up

  Another week in the storage blogosphere sees an abeyance in brawling as NetApp clams up, EMC attacks Oracle, IBM gets dense and bloggers battle HDS.

• September 24, 2009 24 Sep'09

  Data security requires more priority than network security

  Network security is proving insufficient, which is paving the way for data security strategies. Captain Felix Mohan, the senior vice president and chief information security officer of Bharti Airtel answers questioned posed by SearchSecurity.in, and...

• September 23, 2009 23 Sep'09

  The SAN and NAS combo for data backup efficiency at Lavasa

  Lavasa Corp. Ltd. replaces tape-based backup with a combination of storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) for data backup.

• September 23, 2009 23 Sep'09

  EU probe of Oracle takeover leads to uncertainty for Sun customers

  The European Union Competition Commission's investigation into Oracle's proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems has led to uncertainty among Sun's data storage customers.

• September 23, 2009 23 Sep'09

  NSW Police Force seeks solid state disks for in-car video recording

  The NSW Police Force wants to equip its Highway Patrol cars with solid state disks capable of recording 12 hours of audio and video at up to 80 degrees Celsius.

• September 21, 2009 21 Sep'09

  Are you ready for a move to director switches?

  Director switches offer greater port density, high availability and enhanced services. If your SAN fabric is becoming unwieldy, it might be time to upgrade to a director.

• September 21, 2009 21 Sep'09

  Storage roundup: Marketing agency goes from DAS to 3PAR SAN, SAP users worried about backup

  TrafficBroker purchases 3PAR InServ Storage Server; survey finds SAP users worry about backup; Irish hospital implements data archiving; SSD maker acquires Incipient IP; and more.