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Dexrex Gear offers cloud instant messaging and social media data archiving

Beth Pariseau — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:38:19 EST

Dexrex Gear is turning its consumer social media backup expertise into a cloud storage-based product for archiving instant messaging, social media, text, and other non-email data.

School district maintains uptime with Xiotech, DataCore

Dave Raffo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:56:38 EST

Worried about unscheduled maintenance disrupting his users, Barren County (Ky.) IT director turns to Xiotech Emprise 5000 and DataCore SANmelody for thin provisioning and remote mirroring.

SMB data storage briefs: Thecus Tech Corp. launches new NAS server, the N8800PRO

SearchSMBStorage Editorial Staff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:07:45 EST

This week's news in brief: Thecus Tech Corp. launches new NAS server; SugarSync launches SMB version of backup platform; MarketStor announces e-Archiver email archiving product.

Exploring Microsoft Windows clustering and high-availability tools in disaster recovery

Dave Raffo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:07:46 EST

Microsoft has beefed up high availability for Windows, Exchange and Hyper-V, but organizations still turn to third-party tools to reduce complexity and cost.

Brocade SAN gear certified for Oracle bundles

Dave Raffo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:26:44 EST

Brocade SAN gear certified for Oracle bundles; Dot Hill rolls out storage systems with solid state drives (SSDs); CommVault qualifies Permabit's archiving platform.

Data archiving reduces data backup workload prior to data deduplication

Beth Pariseau — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:25:13 EST

Data archiving has backup benefits, and reduces data backup data sets before they're ever sent to a data deduplication device. Many users insist that data archiving is the best for data storage environments, but others disagree, saying data deduplication is still an important element to have around.

Enterprise data storage industry looks to EMC, Cisco and VMware's alliance with caution

Beth Pariseau — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:29:13 EST

EMC, Cisco and VMware disclose alliance to provide private cloud bundles of storage, servers, software and infrastructure, but user are wary of lock-in and seven-figure prices.

Symantec releases Linux version of Backup Exec System Recovery

Beth Pariseau — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:39:33 EST

Customers can now centrally deploy and manage bare-metal restore on Linux and Windows servers, but have to wait for integration between Backup Exec System Recovery and Backup Exec.

Arkeia takes aim at EMC Avamar with Kadena Systems data deduplication IP buy

Beth Pariseau — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:39:33 EST

Arkeia prepares to challenge EMC's Avamar by acquiring IP and engineering from Kadena Systems to add source-based data deduplication to its Network Backup software.

Caltrol refreshes data storage infrastructure with Pillar Data Systems iSCSI SAN

Beth Pariseau — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:50:59 EST

Caltrol was set to order a new Hewlett-Packard/LeftHand iSCSI SAN but discovered Pillar's SATA-based ISCSI SAN would give more capacity at the same price and performance.