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Quantum launches enterprise data deduplication

Quantum today announced a deduplication appliance for enterprise class data centres that it says is faster than EMC's Data Domain box for disk-to-disk backup.
Symantec reveals de-duplication appliance, cloud storage service

Symantec announced a new de-duplication appliance based on its existing software product. It also announced a cloud storage service for NetBackup and Backup Exec customers.
Cisco releases multi-function SAN network line card

Cisco has released a four-in-one line card.
Quantum uses Dell device for new appliance

Quantum has launched a new backup appliance for remote offices combining data deduplication, replication and system-wide monitoring software for centralised backup control.
Users set to ditch tape for online storage

Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in ten businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.
Companies fail to encrypt backup tapes

Enterprises are failing to encrypt tape backups of critical data even as they make plans to secure the primary data, a new survey has found.
Veeam offers VMware backup

Virtualisation systems management startup Veeam Software has released an enhanced version of its backup software for VMware servers.
Adaptec adds low-end SAS/SATA boards

Adaptec has introduced two entry-level Unified Serial RAID controllers based on the dual-core silicon that it debuted earlier this year in its high-end Series 5 controllers.
Google adds email archiving to GoogleApps

Google this week unveiled Google Message Discovery, a new hosted service for searching, protecting and archiving email for corporate users.
CentricStor combines disk and tape backup

Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has overhauled its CentricStor virtual tape appliance and now offers backup to either disk or tape with the product. It is the only product to combine automated tape and disk backup in one offering.

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Pairing disk with tape for enterprise backup

Enterprises today have many more backup choices than they used to have, and they?re taking advantage by pairing legacy technologies such as tape backups with newer disk-based data protection options.
Riverbed CEO talks WAN optimisation and cloud

In an interview, Kennelly discusses the future of Riverbed and how WAN optimisation is like building a private cloud.
Business needs new IT blood

If we keep going the way we are now, this year we will outsource one in four IT jobs to India, Russia and other countries that supply low-cost labor, according to the Hackett Group, a trend that sends a message to young people contemplating technology careers: IT work is unstable. You can't count on climbing any career ladder.
The future of tape

As Hamlet might have said "To tape or not to tape", but it's a question that's a no-brainer for most smaller businesses, fighting to contain costs.
Vendors look to tap into new storage trends

Companies are having to cope with an ever-increasing volume of data: a rate of growth that is playing havoc with storage plans. The leading vendors have been jostling for position as they look to snatch a lead in the technologies that are set to play a part in the future.
Enterprises warm to online backup

Large businesses are looking more closely at online backup options as a way to ease systems administration headaches and avoid security concerns linked to physical backup procedures - is this the way forward?
The Big Switch: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google

Nicholas Carr's provocative new book argues that the IT department as we know it is doomed as businesses rush to adopt utility computing as a model. It's persuasively argued - even if it does spell the end of all our jobs.
Acopia at Storage Expo

Acopia is ready to start better selling to enterprises using F5's existing access routes.
EMC takes exception to Sepaton's views

EMC says Sepaton's CTO mis-characterised its Avamar technology and corrects his comments here.
E-discovery is not just a series of case-by-case projects

Index Engines says eDiscovery is not a project but a continuously updated repository building effort. Because it can search tape backup as well as disk it's got great technology for this.

How-tos

How to back up your Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo webmail

Case Study: Servers go front and centre

Getting started with networking

Case Study: Backing up a property developer

Case Study: CitiStreet ends tape reliance, cuts backup by 20-plus hours

Case Study: A city in Kansas does tapeless backup

Patching an entire server farm

Case Study: Dating site marries 3PAR and ONStor

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Deploying HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Systems

WAA needed to replace the outdated backup facilities at two sites to safeguard mission-critical data and simplify the management of their backup process. They took the approach of reviewing the market for a modern tape backup system, decided that their current solution was not cost-effective and approach Softcat, an HP Gold Preferred Partner, for advice.
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Livewire - Full-Server Protection and Recovery in Real-Time

Simplify the restoration process and reduce the time and effort involved with server recovery.
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Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup and the Evolution of Branch Office Data Protection

This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup.
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Solving the Distributed Data Protection Problem

Hackers, disgruntled and careless employees, equipment failure, broken pipes, fires, and natural disasters all pose threats to your data. Savvy IT and business managers have recognised that in order to deal with these challenges, they need to deploy a company-wide data protection infrastructure.
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Six Secrets to SQL Server Availability

Microsoft SQL Server has become the data management tool of choice for a wide ange of business critical systems, from electronic commerce to online banking to just-in-time manufacturing to streaming media.
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