SearchStorage.com.au Analysis & Commentary

Continuous data protection (CDP) grows up, finds friends

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:40:23 +0000

Continuous data protection (CDP) has matured and is now a viable complement to current backup regimes.

Plan your recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives (and how to stick to your plans)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:13:58 +0000

Discover how to set recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) and then manage your systems to ensure your goals are achievable.

How to chose storage systems for archiving

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:22:21 +0000

What should you look for when acquiring storage equipment to manage archives? Stephen Foskett has some answers.

UPDATE: Samsung removes links to business hard drives from its Australian website

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:49:20 +0000

Samsung Australia has removed links to information about its hard disks from its home page, but still cannot confirm which disk it officially sells and supports in Australia.

HDS hits EMC, HDS gets hit, NetApp hits HP, Dr Who spruiks Prime

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:26:54 +0000

Just another week in the storage blogosphere as all the main vendors get stuck into each other. We therefore lighten things up with video of vintage Tom Baker ads for Prime Computer.

Cisco, VMware working on disaster recovery over the WAN

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:10:18 +0000

Cisco and VMware are workin on instant migration of virtual machines between two data centres over long distances, making it a potential enabler of non-disruptive disaster recovery.

Podcast: Storage reporting tools

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:53:23 +0000

Storage reporting tools can improve the performance of your storage infrastrucutre. Read on - or tune into the embedded podcast - to learn how!

Book extract: "VMware V13 Implementation and Administration"

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:52:28 +0000

Eric Seibert's book "VMware V13 Implementation and Administration" offers tips-a-plenty on backing up virtual environments. This excerpt focuses on scripting to automate backup.

Ingram Micro joins SNIA ANZ board

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:55:22 +0000

The Storage Networking Industry Association's Australia/New Zealand chapter has its first New Zealand-based board member.

LTO 5: Fast, vast but still the past?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:45:17 +0000

The next generation of the Ultrium standard is so fast and has so much capacity that many users will ignore it.

Data deduplication to tape: good idea or a waste of time?

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:39:41 +0000

Deduplicating data bound for tape is possible, but may not be a good idea for reasons we explain this story.

How to green your storage

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:34:44 +0000

Storage uses a lot of electricity. This story surveys techniques like consolidation, smart provisioning and MAID to reduce your power consumption.

Use clustered NAS to tackle the ever-increasing mountain of unstructured data

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:35:02 +0000

Learn about the pros and cons of clustered NAS in this Q&A plus podcast.

NetApp fights HP, as EMC, IBM, 3Par fight HDS

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:34:20 +0000

Our weekly wade through storage blogs finds NetApp, EMC and IBM on the offensive and HP and HDS protesting their innocence.

OPINION: Samsung must explain its gray market

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:23:22 +0000

Samsung Australia says some Australian resellers are selling disk drives it does not support in Australia. But the company cannot state which disk drives it does actually support, leaving buyers in the dark about whether the products it sells are supported.

Use the VMware vStorage API for Data Protection to backup virtual machines

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:24:24 +0000

Learn how VMware's vStorage API for Data Protection enables backup of virtual machines.

Five best practices for your email archive

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:45:41 +0000

Australia's opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull might be having a better day if he'd read these five best practices about email archiving.

How to fine-tune Backup Exec

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:51:01 +0000

If Backup Exec isn't behaving, check out this list of simple troubleshooting tips to get your backups humming again.

Enterprise disk buying guide - Western Digital

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:26:40 +0000

We continue our reference guide to enterprise disk drives by looking at the world's number two disk vendor - Western Digital.

EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS: Traditional disk greener than SSD, on par for IOPS-per-dollar

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:11:59 +0000

Analyst IDEAS International's take on new data from the Storage Performance Council suggests magnetic disk delivers about the same IOPS per dollar compared to SSDs, but requires less energy to do so.