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Via builds low-power server based on laptop chips

Via Technologies on Tuesday announced a compact home server that will be powered by low-power processors, which are traditionally designed to run in laptops and netbooks.
Seagate's i365 offers SaaS option for EVault

Seagate's newly-formed i365 subsidiary has announced that its online backup and recovery software, is now being offered in Europe either as a SaaS product, or a managed service.
Symantec offers back-up in the cloud

Symantec has launched a hosted back-up service for small to mid-size businesses, the Symantec Protection Network.
Seagate buys backup services company

Seagate has said it will buy EVault for $185 million.
Microsoft edges into storage plus all the other news this week

WORM disks, 1TB optical disks, USB disk encryption, instant snapshots, bigger tapes in ADIC libraries - on and on it goes.
Don't sweat it with the storage market weekly rundown

A big Linux show in the States has prompted several Linux-related news releases. We also note a coming 2TB memory card.
Arkeia backup for Linux tape servers

Arkeia has introduced a new Linux server backup product for servers with single tape drives.
Dantz adds backup to disk

Dantz' Retrospect 6.5 will backup a single server to disk, CD or DVD as well as tape.

Latest Features

Apple plans to democratise servers with its Mac OS X strategy

Recently, Apple previewed more features that will be available in its upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.7, "Lion." We first got a glimpse of Lion at Apple's Back to the Mac event in October, when CEO Steve Jobs said that several technologies developed in Apple's iOS mobile operating system would be brought back into Mac OS X as part of Lion. Since iOS evolved from earlier versions of Mac OS X, the "back to the Mac" moniker made sense.
SNW - Not disks and SANs

Here are the announcements that didn't concern disk drives and SANs.
Is SAN schism coming?

Samsung and DataCore are allying to produce iSCSI drive arrays for Korea. Today Korea, tomorrow the world?
How network backup could learn from ILM

It's a marriage that needs planning if you want bliss rather than rows, warns Asigra's Eran Farajan.

How-tos

How to control multiple Macs in the home

How to get started with virtual machines

Case Study: Backup becomes a snap

Network backup - disk-to-disk or tape emulation?

Case Study: Blog: conquering the storage bottleneck

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HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.1

This white paper provides complementary information for how to configure HP OpenView Storage Data Protector in HP-UX Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) for Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) and Instant Recovery (IR) in HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP environments. It describes essential steps necessary for the installation and configuration in this type of an environment. The white paper starts with an overview about the architecture of the example environment, which is used throughout this paper.
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