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Encryption key management is vital to securing enterprise data storage

Kim Hefner — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:46:54 EST

Encryption key management tools enable IT organizations to lock down data on storage media, but difficulties in managing third-party keys and interoperability concerns mean they're in use by only a small percent of UK companies.

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

Christopher Griffin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:12:49 EST

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.

EMC sees IT spending recovery, plans further cloud storage push in 2010

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:28:29 EST

EMC plans to invest heavily to further build products in what it considers billion-dollar market opportunities: cloud storage and services offerings, as well as storage and server virtualization and data backup.

Symantec injects data deduplication into NetBackup 7 and Backup Exec 2010

Christopher Griffin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:42:05 EST

Backup Exec 2010 and NetBackup 7 will offer data deduplication, data archiving and CDP data replication, as Symantec looks to take back market share in data backup.

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

Christopher Griffin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:47:28 EST

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

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

Antony Adshead — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:50:51 EST

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.

External cloud storage appeals to smaller firms, but large enterprises remain cautious

Francesca P. Sales — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:11:35 EST

External clouds hosted outside of an organization's enterprise data center provide storage resources for smaller businesses and Web companies without IT expertise.

Network-attached storage (NAS) basics for UK data storage managers

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Learn the basics of network-attached storage (NAS), the differences between NAS and storage-area network (SAN) products, and get an overview of today's NAS market.

Network-attached storage (NAS) features and product guide

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

This product guide takes enterprise data storage professionals through the NAS features offered by some vendors, including scalability, tiered storage and multiprotocol access.

Storage managers seek advanced network-attached storage (NAS) features

Christopher Griffin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

NAS device sales in the UK are rising as users are motivated by features such as replication, snapshots, Fibre Channel and iSCSI access.