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April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08
3Com's SAN push stalls

3Com's plan to push into storage has stalled, with localisation of its SAN on the back burner.
April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08
Optimising iSCSI SANs with the right Ethernet switch

iSCI SANS are now within the reach of many small businesses. Here's how to make sure the SAN works best, by optimising the supporting network.
April 18, 2008 18 Apr'08
FalconStor CDR thrashes IBM at fee-paying school

Bradford Grammar School implements real-time protection of vital data, choosing FalconStor continuous data replication over competing products from IBM and Neverfail.
April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08
Backup window traps

Backup windows are getting longer and longer as companies generate more data to be backed up. Add in maintenance work and there's a good chance your environment will not be ready by start of business.

April 16, 2008 16 Apr'08
Second EqualLogic SAN for London publisher

Ink Publishing set to deploy disaster recovery site with second EqualLogic SAN bought at £18,000 off list price. Also plans VMWare project and SANs at overseas offices
April 15, 2008 15 Apr'08
Melbourne Health consolidates 1000 DAT tapes into a single database

Melbourne Health has created new infrastructure to manage medical images
April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08
Fire service replaces Windows backup with more reliable tool

South Yorkshire fire service replaced its WIndows backup environment with a more reliable product from Yosemite, but it's missing support for Oracle.
April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
Tape has soul

In the cupboard under the stairs is my VHS machine. It chewed up the last two cassettes I attempted to play on it (about 6 years ago). So with an odd assortment of tapes it remains there gathering dust. But for some nostalgic reason I haven't thrown...
April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
IBM: roadmap for data dedupe, thin prov, SSDs and MAID

IBM's storage general manager and chief technical strategist provide clues to IBM's storage roadmap in data deduplication, thin provisioning, solid-state disks and MAID.
April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
CommVault boosts Simpana e-discovery and data reduction

CommVault's first service pack for Simpana 7.0 includes e-discovery updates and new integration between replication and file-level single instancing.

April 11, 2008 11 Apr'08
Xiotech and Atrato forge self-healing storage market

New disk array designs use sealed components, resulting in storage systems that may not need servicing for five years or more.
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
EMC to buy Iomega

Capping weeks of rumours, EMC has announced it is acquiring Iomega.
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
The AA saves £34 million a year with NetApp iSCSI SAN

Car breakdown service, The AA swaps out EMC and HP/Compaq Fibre Channel SAN for NetApp iSCSI storage, halving IT costs and slashing storage staff from 16 to one.
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
Cisco buys Nuova and launches FCoE-compliant switch

Cisco buys subsidiary Nuova Systems and pushes out its first Fibre Channel over Etherent (FCoE) switch; QLogic, Emulex and Intel also launch FCoE products.
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
Xiotech unveils self-healing storage systems at SNW

Xiotech's Emprise storage systems use a proprietary technology to reduce heat and vibration. Xiotech claims that an Emprise system will incur zero service events over five years.
April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08
EMC pockets Iomega to create consumer storage division

After chasing its consumer storage partner for two weeks EMC has finally acquired Iomega and its strong consumer channels for about $213 million (£106.5m).
April 08, 2008 08 Apr'08
Storage power in the data centre

The energy and power consumed by storage systems, especially backups is starting to raise some eyebrows in the data centre.
April 08, 2008 08 Apr'08
SNW Roundup: Sun adds data deduplication to VTL

Sun comes out with VTL Prime, a virtual tape library with FalconStor's data deduplication; Attune gets into file archiving; and SGI, Fujitsu and Dot Hill launch storage systems.
April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08
Law firm set to climb email compliance mountain

Michelmores plans to implement email compliance, document management and inter-site replication following successful Hitachi SAN deployment.
April 07, 2008 07 Apr'08
Isilon reveals turnaround plan

Clustered storage vendor vows to continue to spend on product development, sales and marketing, despite losing nearly $27 million (£13.5m) in its first year as public company.
April 03, 2008 03 Apr'08
UK debut for storage compression appliance

Ocarina claims a tenfold reduction of file data on primary storage. Alpha-testing UK photo sharing site set to put appliance into production
April 03, 2008 03 Apr'08
Nimbus adds solid state to 10 GigE iSCSI NAS systems

Nimbus Data expands 10 Gigabit Ethernet capability and adds solid-state drives to IP storage systems that support iSCSI, NFS and CIFS.
April 03, 2008 03 Apr'08
IBM-Novus SERP tool aimed at storage resource management customers

The first refresh of Novus' SERP broadens its support for heterogeneous SRM tools, but it keeps customers waiting for better backup reporting support from IBM.
April 02, 2008 02 Apr'08
EMC to buy IT services firm Conchango for £42m

EMC to acquire UK IT service and e-commerce specialist Conchango for £42m in move that will provide access to blue chip customers and boost its European services presence
March 31, 2008 31 Mar'08
Lefthand SAN knocks out NetApp SAN for Anite's implementation

IT services supplier Anite selects software-and-server SAN from Lefthand on cost and hardware flexibility for networked storage to support VMWare virtualisation project
March 26, 2008 26 Mar'08
Users face buy-in challenge with disaster recovery

Attendees at Storage Decisions disaster recovery event in London this week face challenges of funding and planning because of difficulties gaining business buy-in.
March 26, 2008 26 Mar'08
No-maintenance array aims to eliminate hard drive swaps

SAID - a Self-managing Array of Identical Disks - will self heal and are aimed at giving three to five years of maintenance free performance
March 26, 2008 26 Mar'08
Security provider picks Pillar over EMC on cost

Dell shop chooses tiered SATA drives in Pillar Axiom mid-range array over Clariion SAN as storage for rapidly expanding Oracle 10g databases.
March 26, 2008 26 Mar'08
Selling BC/DR to management

When it comes to disaster recovery IT gets it. Business execs don't. This article provides a detailed list of what to include in a business case to sell BC/DR to management.
March 19, 2008 19 Mar'08
Archiving can complicate backups if you're not careful

Adding an archiving system to your storage environment helps reduce costs long term, but if you're not careful it can throw a wrench into the backup environment.
March 17, 2008 17 Mar'08
Smaller pizzas should mean leaner, smarter storage

Storage professionals need to prioritise projects that squeeze more data into fewer storage assets using less staff as economic uncertainty threatens to cut IT budgets
March 14, 2008 14 Mar'08
EMC gives Centera a software refresh

EMC has tweaked the software for its Centera archiving system with an emphasis on handling more pieces of data rather than sheer bulk of information stored.
March 13, 2008 13 Mar'08
Is your data too fat for your backup window?

Glasshouse Technologies (UK) consultant David Boyd looks at how to fit ever-increasing data volumes into acceptable backup windows.
March 13, 2008 13 Mar'08
NetApp says flagging economy could boost its sales

The current economic downturn may actually help boost NetApp's appeal to storage users, according to company officials at its US Analyst Day
March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08
Almost a third of businesses unprepared for disaster

IDC survey shows large number of businesses without business continuity plans. Concrete assessment of likely threats and best possible response is the key say analysts.
March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08
Cancer Research picks Bakbone for Mac backup

Medical research organisation chooses Apple-native software over buggy and hard-to-use rivals in a meagre Mac backup marketplace
March 11, 2008 11 Mar'08
Resellers beat EMC to local Mozy launch

EMC may not be willing to disclose the ANZ launch date for its storage-as-a-service business, but resellers are already bringing the Mozy service to Australia.
March 10, 2008 10 Mar'08
Dell storage VP: We are no longer just a reseller

With its $1.4 billion acquisition of iSCSI SAN vendor EqualLogic complete, Dell storage VP Darren Thomas says Dell is now a storage developer rather than merely a reseller.
March 09, 2008 09 Mar'08
Hot Spots: A new level of backup reporting

A bumper crop of backup reporting tools can provide invaluable insight into backup operations for you and the boss.
March 07, 2008 07 Mar'08
S3 backup Firefox plugin a diamond in the rough

A plugin that turns a web browser into a rough and ready archiving tool has potential, but is probably too unstable for anything other than personal use.
March 07, 2008 07 Mar'08
Mergers happen quickly but backup fallout can last years

When organisations merge the question of what to do with back ups acquired needs a serious strategic approach to minimise management headaches
March 06, 2008 06 Mar'08
Green IT gripes from CeBIT

Europeans are said to be more concerned about green IT issues than Americans, but that's not the sentiment I discovered at CeBIT in Germany this week.
March 03, 2008 03 Mar'08
UK storage startup boosts US market presence

iSCSI SAN software specialists Stormagic adds US storage industry consultant to its team in a push to break into the SME market stateside.
February 28, 2008 28 Feb'08
Windows Server 2008: The wow stops now?

Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio have all got shiny new versions for the new year. So why does Microsoft say the wow stops> now?
February 28, 2008 28 Feb'08
NetApp ships new StoreVault iSCSI SAN

The S550 iS CSI SAN goes for just over $5,000 for 12 TB capacity; storage vendors rally around Windows Server 2008.
February 27, 2008 27 Feb'08
Animal charity opts for clustered NAS over iSCSI SAN

Animal charity The Blue Cross has deployed an 11-site clustered NAS product over an EMC Clariion iSCSI SAN in an £18,000 project, reflecting the appeal of NAS to SMEs.
February 25, 2008 25 Feb'08
Quantum's Riverbed suit dismissed

Quantum's suit against Riverbed for de-dupe patent infringement has been dismissed due to a rights assignment technicality - Quantum did not own the patent in question.
February 25, 2008 25 Feb'08
Publisher opts for EqualLogic iSCSI SAN system over Lefthand

Ink Publishing opts for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN in two-horse race with Lefthand Networks, winning out on redundancy.
February 20, 2008 20 Feb'08
The importance of backup training

Lack of knowledge about backup results in backups missing their window. Training, whether in-house or supplied by official programmes, can be beneficial.
February 19, 2008 19 Feb'08
City financial player guarded on deduplication

CMC markets is evaluating data deduplication but it's not just the technical characteristics of particular solutions it needs to look at but the spin-off effects on its processes.
February 19, 2008 19 Feb'08
School misses out on iSCSI by a few months

St Pauls School in London buys a Fibre Channel SAN through its partnership with Dell and EMC, narrowly missing out on an iSCSI SAN which it feels would have been a better fit.
February 18, 2008 18 Feb'08
Data Domain makes remote office data deduplication push

Data Domain launches its smallest data deduplication appliance specifically built to reduce and back up data at remote offices.
February 17, 2008 17 Feb'08
NAS product specifications

NAS is so easy to install and manage that NAS sprawl is a common problem. This is why NAS is often a prime candidate for consolidation initiatives. Learn how to purchase NAS appliances with an eye toward NAS storage consolidation.
February 17, 2008 17 Feb'08
VMware, LeftHand offer iSCSI SAN as virtual machine

Channel partners will bundle LeftHand's virtual SAN appliance with VMware licenses for an ESX infrastructure that can run on one piece of physical hardware.
February 14, 2008 14 Feb'08
Plasmon tries to raise fresh cash

Struggling optical archive supplier is looking to refinance to stay in the game.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
Effective backup performance tuning and moving bottlenecks in the backup path in the backup path

Tuning throughput is considered an important part of running a successful backup operation.
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
HP exec: Storage blades may replace disk arrays in data center

An HP storage executive predicts that storage blades -- storage devices using the form factor and plug-and-play philosophy of blade servers - may replace disk arrays in the next 18 months
February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08
Telco picks EMC Celerra over HP on "value for money"

HTK deploys an EMC Celerra for combined SAN/NAS access and affordability over its existing HP SAN.
February 12, 2008 12 Feb'08
HP pondering storage blades to cut arrays out of the data centre

Hewlett Packard has begun to contemplate blade storage architectures that the company feels could replace dedicated storage arrays.
February 11, 2008 11 Feb'08
8 steps to better data security

Here are eight steps to consider when building a data security strategy.
February 11, 2008 11 Feb'08
Rugby club puts backup in safe hands after data loss

Backup as a service is an option for all sizes of business and for different reasons but how do you decide whether your firm should outsource or not?
February 11, 2008 11 Feb'08
European distributor extends FalconStor's reach into UK

European IT distributor, Magirus has extended its distribution agreement with storage management software company FalconStor to cover the UK market in a move welcomed by resellers.
February 07, 2008 07 Feb'08
Continuity Software turns disaster recovery into a service

Continuity Software enters the services game by offering disaster recovery management software.
February 06, 2008 06 Feb'08
Law firm plans to ditch tape

Irwin Mitchell plans to do away with tape, implement information lifecycle management and achieve BS25999 business continuity certification this year.
February 04, 2008 04 Feb'08
Horticultural Society puts tiered storage into action

The Royal Horticultural Society uses tiered storage automation to keep its picture library updated with the most frequently accessed images while also reducing power consumption.
February 04, 2008 04 Feb'08
Dell/EqualLogic integration as easy as E, X, V

Dell has renamed EqualLogic's products, which now come in just three flavors, and updated its IP storage roadmap
February 03, 2008 03 Feb'08
Desire to virtualise drives Austcorp to its first iSCSI SAN

Complications arising from direct attach storage, a desire to virtualise and a network expenditure surprise all contributed to Austcorp's new SAN purchase.
February 01, 2008 01 Feb'08
NAB's man on SNIA board says he speaks for all storage users

The first ever user on the SNIA ANZ Board, Graham Rothwell, says the National Australia Bank has reduced its storage carbon footprint by 70% per terabyte.
January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
WAN/WAFS and remote offices

This overview of WAFS and remote offices looks into the role of cache and file limitations, and WAN optimisation.
January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
Workwear firm standardises on 3PAR

Sunlight Service Group adds another 3PAR array at DR site; looks for archiving tools and cheaper forms of storage, such as SATA arrays to create tiered storage architecture.
January 28, 2008 28 Jan'08
How recession-proof is your IT budget?

As uncertainty grips the economy IT departments need to budget for possible recession – with storage key to helping the business through hard times.
January 25, 2008 25 Jan'08
Ever increasing tape speeds are technical suicide

Managing the end of life of LTO2 and SDLT 600, to be succeeded by LTO3, LTO4, DLT-S4, the StorageTek T10000, or IBM TS1120, is a real pain in the brain!
January 24, 2008 24 Jan'08
Vista Service Pack One to boost new drive type

The forthcoming update to Windows Vista will give prominence to a new, hybrid, hard drive that mixes flash and electromagnetic recording in a single device.
January 24, 2008 24 Jan'08
Policy and technology: the belt and braces of data protection

The flurry of recent high-profile data security breaches highlights how easy it is to hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. But avoiding infamy is not that difficult.
January 23, 2008 23 Jan'08
HDS sales chief quits

Scott Genereux, executive vice president and general manager of worldwide sales, marketing, and support at HDS has quit after 15 years to join DataDirect Networks.
January 21, 2008 21 Jan'08
Email in the dock - would yours survive legal scrutiny?

Increasingly onerous compliance obligations and growing data volumes are driving companies to invest in email archiving systems. What approach is right for your business?
January 16, 2008 16 Jan'08
New Year – New Resolutions

Here are some ideas to consider for storage New Year's resolutions.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
UK mapping agency ducks tape in 08

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's mapping agency aims to avoid backing up to tape whenever possible in 2008 and has allocated more of its storage budget for data deduplication.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Storage requirements rocket for hosting provider

ADS Portal, a managed IT services provider, says its storage needs are going through the roof as customers are reluctant to get rid of data.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Copan's MAID takes games developer up a level

Constrictions on space, power and cooling led a video-hungry London-based operation to opt for a densely-packed Copan box for its online storage needs.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Disclosure becomes a fact of life in leaky Britain

There's still no law in Britain that forces companies to disclose a data security breach. But few organisations would now be reckless enough to try to hide the fact.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Data Protection Act compliance moves up security agenda

Companies ignoring Data Protection Act compliance will have to strengthen their security and auditing procedures after a recent spate of high-profile data breaches. New push for data privacy involves Sarbanes-Oxley Act and PCI DSS.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Why we love backup administration

First and foremost, a company is nothing without its data. This puts the people who protect that data at the top of the food chain.
January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Data deduplication: The real benefits

With the exploding volumes of data, technologies that offer better utilisation of resources are always attractive. Data deduplication is one such technology that enables better utilisation of both storage devices and network bandwidth.
January 09, 2008 09 Jan'08
Archiving software purchase considerations

Archiving software must be able to support a wide range of file types, as well as quickly search through vast quantities of data.
January 09, 2008 09 Jan'08
Comic Relief hopes for charity from Amazon S3

Charity organisation, Comic Relief is outsourcing parts of its storage to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) in Europe, but is hoping for a little more charity on the price.
January 09, 2008 09 Jan'08
Storage salaries on the rise say recruitment experts

Remuneration for storage roles is up to 15% higher than last year with businesses demanding storage specialists who can appreciate the big picture.
January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08
Archiving software product specifications

Archive software provides many of the features we take for granted in modern archive systems, including index and search, data classification and migration, retention and deletion, litigation hold and even data reduction technologies, such as data ...
January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08
New business continuity standard a hit

A newly-minted British Standard – BS25999 part two – which specifies business continuity best practices is proving a must-have for UK firms who want to demonstrate compliance.
January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08
University of East Anglia dumps DEC Alphas for IBM SAN

UEA migrates from direct-attached DEC Alphas to an IBM SAN – saving time, space and energy. More capacity and tiered architecture are next.
January 06, 2008 06 Jan'08
Forestry firm picks Riverbed WAFS over Cisco

Cisco shop picks Riverbed after head-to-head performance testing between Riverbed's Steelhead appliance and Cisco's wide area application services card.
December 09, 2007 09 Dec'07
Backup software tested: StorageCraft ShadowProtect

Over the coming weeks TechTarget ANZ checks out new backup technologies from CA, Symantec and Acronis. Ian Yates kicks off with StorageCraft's ShadowProtect.
December 05, 2007 05 Dec'07
Fibre in the storage diet's fine for Oztion

Online auctioneer Oztion has upgraded from direct-attach storage to a fibre channel SAN, defying vendor predictions that small businesses will favour IP storage.
December 05, 2007 05 Dec'07
Windows Server 2008 RC2 hits the streets

The second release candidate of Windows Server 2008 has been released.
November 28, 2007 28 Nov'07
Pros and cons of iSCSI for SMBs

The introduction of iSCSI has started a shift in SMB storage. This article discusses the benefits of iSCSI for SMBs and how to make it work.
November 12, 2007 12 Nov'07
How to integrate iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and make it work

Learn about eight best practices for integrating iSCSI into a Fibre Channel SAN, as well as best deployment practices for iSCSI.
November 07, 2007 07 Nov'07
Australians called to apply for heritage project

Storage provider EMC has called on Australians to apply for its Heritage Trust Project, founded to preserve information of historical or personal importance.
November 06, 2007 06 Nov'07
LeftHand adds hardware to iSCSI SANs

LeftHand makes its iSCSI SAN software available on two prepackaged appliances; sources indicate the hardware comes from Dell.
October 30, 2007 30 Oct'07
Isilon arrives in Australia

Clustered storage vendor Isilon has opened its doors in Australia, with a familiar name at the helm.
October 29, 2007 29 Oct'07
NetApp releases $3K iSCSI SAN

NetApp is continuing a push down-market with the release of the S300, the latest SMB iSCSI SAN in its StoreVault line.