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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

NEC upgrades Hydrastor data backup/archiving system, expands deduplication support

SearchDataBackup.com
September 15, 2009

NEC Corp. of America is upgrading its Hydrastor grid-based data backup and data archiving system by bumping up performance, adding WORM capability, and expanding its application-aware data deduplication support. Full story

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization

SearchStorage.com
September 2, 2009

Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, most storage administrators need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses to survive the economic downturn. In general, before adding new capacity, you should focus on making better use of your already installed capacity. And while there's no simple checklist to accomplish this, you can improve the efficiency of your storage systems using tiered storage; storage resource management (SRM), data classification and data migration tools; and techniques such as thin provisioning and data reduction. Full Story