Nine Technology opens doors for cloud backup managed IT services

Nine Technology is getting into the crowded cloud backup service market with a platform for managed IT service providers that handles data deduplication and compression for PCs, and plans to expand to back up data on servers and eventually provide disaster recovery.

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Quantum Scalar i6000 enterprise-class tape library is aimed at data archiving

Quantum Corp. today launched a new high-end tape library aimed largely at enterprises with vast data archiving needs. The Scalar i6000 features an archive-tape integrity monitoring technology, higher-capacity LTO-5Scalar i2000 tape drives, and support for larger bulk exports than the model it replaces, the Scalar i2000.

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Storage resource management services offer visibility and optimization advice

While storage resource management (SRM) tools have yet to catch on in a big way, providers are starting to push them as managed services to improve storage utilization,capacity planning, monitoring, and reporting.


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NAS management improves with scale-out NAS, file virtualization and cloud storage services

Network-attached storage (NAS) has many benefits for storing and managing files, and is becoming increasingly important as unstructured data outgrows structured data across large and small organizations. But NAS management gets complicated as the number of devices increases, resulting in what has become known as "NAS sprawl." Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director, validation services at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group, discusses how NAS sprawl occurs and how it can be curbed through scale-out NAS, management tools, file virtualization and cloud storage services.

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