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• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 storage stories of 2012

  Top storage stories from 2012 reflect the rapid pace of virtualisation, big data, the proliferation of mobile devices and new twists on storage technologies such as tape and RAID

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study

  IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it.

• November 28, 2012 28 Nov'12

  Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance

  All-flash array maker Whiptail has upgraded its Racerunner operating system so Invicta arrays can scale to four million IOPS and 360TB of capacity

• November 09, 2012 09 Nov'12

  DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700

  DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Cheshire Constabulary polices network with SolarWinds

  Police force in Cheshire uses SolarWinds’ infrastructure monitoring tools to keep its IT out of trouble

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  CERN turns on new NetApp ONTAP clustered NAS capability

  CERN turns on NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.1 clustered NAS functionality for easy scaling and maintenance on its 2PB LHC data storage cluster

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Lamborghini slashes web costs with Amazon Web Services

  Supercar maker Lamborghini has revamped and accelerated the performance of its website by running it on Amazon Web Services

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Storage briefs: Tape library just the ticket for car park firm

  Tape library for car park firm; IT departments fail on email compliance; Record HDD shipment after Thai floods; Veeam supports Hyper-V

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  We need European datacentres to 'be successful' says Box CEO

  Computer Weekly speaks to founder and CEO of cloud storage firm Box about why enterprises are embracing this type of technology and what his firm has to do to keep them happy

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  HMRC becomes first major department to use G-Cloud

  HMRC is the first major government department to procure through the G-Cloud in a deal with Skyscape for centralised data storage.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  DDN HPC storage calculates risk

  Storage roundup: DDN HPC storage calculates risk; BBC Wales gets Object Matrix NAS; Arkivium to use IBM tape; CommVault expands global support from Reading; and more news.

• October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11

  Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

  The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.

• October 18, 2011 18 Oct'11

  Disaster Recovery Not Keeping Up With Cloud

  A recent survey by Acronis reveals that companies aren't updating their DR plans as they move to cloud solutions.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  Richard Gere loves EMC, so it probably isn’t worried about NetApp haters

  Our monthly wade through the slime of the storage blogosphere has found an EMC Symmetrix making Richard Gere look animated, and some rather odd Spam in NetApp’s back yard

• August 26, 2011 26 Aug'11

  Bad Sectors – Dell, HP refresh storage ranges

  Dell has announced new EqualLogic products, HP has announced a ‘storage federation’ and the VCE alliance has received a boost from a global partner.

• August 15, 2011 15 Aug'11

  Veeam brings virtual server backup for NHS trust

  Storage roundup: Hospital cuts restoration times to minutes using Veeam Backup & Recovery; Buffalo launches Windows NAS family; Coraid partners with The Blueprint IT; Dot Hill appointments; and more.

• August 07, 2011 07 Aug'11

  Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft

  The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  Bad sectors – Storage news from Dell, Zerowait and Waikato District Health Board

  Dell plans to bring its vStart pre-packaged infrastructure stacks to Australia later this year, while ZeroWait has scored an Australian customer for its SimplStor product.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  NetApp trials University alliance to tackle skills shortage

  NetApp will try to introduce certifications in its products to the curricula of nine Australian universities, to address a shortage of people skilled in operating its products.

• 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

  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.

• 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

  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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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 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.

• 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 05, 2010 05 Apr'10

  Geoscience Australia selects IBM 3592 cartridges as its tape migration extends beyond ten years

  Geoscience Australia selects IBM 3592 cartridges as its tape migration extends beyond ten years

• 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.

• 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).

• August 17, 2009 17 Aug'09

  Hard disk drive specifications guide: What to look for when buying disk storage

  Seek times, latency, data transfer rates, error correction codes and cache are important hard disk drive specifications. Learn the key features of hard disks drives so you can specify the right one for your data centre.

• July 27, 2009 27 Jul'09

  Managing enterprise data storage more efficiently: Part 1

  Storage managers must learn to improve storage efficiency though smarter spending, while taking steps to reduce operating expenditures during budget crunches.

• July 13, 2009 13 Jul'09

  Which RAID level has the best price-to-performance comparison?

  Configuring disk in RAID arrays brings a variety of benefits, most notably data protection and I/O performance. But which RAID level wins in terms of price vs. performance?

• July 07, 2009 07 Jul'09

  BlueArc challenges NetApp in the enterprise with Mercury 50, Mercury 100 network-attached storage (N

  With NetApp distracted by Data Domain and late delivering Ontap with clustered NAS capabilities, BlueArc targets the enterprise NAS market with Mercury 50, Mercury 100 NAS systems.

• March 04, 2009 04 Mar'09

  LUN storage and its role in SAN management

  Explore logical unit number (LUN) storage and its role in SAN management. Learn how to create a LUN, how to share a LUN, and find out about LUN provisioning and LUN masking.

• March 03, 2009 03 Mar'09

  Make IT change management part of your disaster recovery plan

  All the disaster recovery technology in the world won't help without the right culture and process, writes Burton analyst Richard Jones.

• February 12, 2009 12 Feb'09

  Incremental vs. differential backup: A comparison

  In this Storage Basics on incremental vs differential backup, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of each of these backup strategies

• February 10, 2009 10 Feb'09

  Sectors - NetApp says EMC Centera loses data, gets slapped by blogosphere

  NetApp has tried to smear EMC, starting a blogosphere brawl which embroiled Symantec but may have left egg on its face.

• November 19, 2008 19 Nov'08

  How to evaluate and purchase a SAN

  The Royal Horticultural Society's network manager Martin Taylor guides users through the process of evaluating and purchasing a SAN.

• August 08, 2008 08 Aug'08

  Clariion array update blurs line between EMC platforms

  A bigger, faster Clariion with advanced features, which first appeared in the Symmetrix line, has industry observers wondering about the increasing overlap between EMC systems.

• August 08, 2008 08 Aug'08

  Pivot3 consolidates physical servers onto storage arrays

  Pivot3's IP SAN offers Serverless Computing, which eliminates the need for application servers by running them as guests on its storage arrays.

• July 30, 2008 30 Jul'08

  NetApp dedupes data on rivals' primary storage

  NetApp extends its free data deduplication to its V-Series gateways, making it possible for its customers to dedupe their primary storage. But users say what's missing is a GUI and data dedupe for VTLs.

• July 28, 2008 28 Jul'08

  3PAR shrinks virtual desktop storage

  3PAR's software package allows users of its high-end disk arrays to store a single "golden image" of virtual desktops and hold that image in cache for better boot performance.

• July 02, 2008 02 Jul'08

  Friction grows between storage vendors, VMware

  As the booming server virtualisation market spawns new competitors to VMware, how virtual machines connect with storage is becoming a matter of contention among vendors.

• 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 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

  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.