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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dexrex Gear expands instant messaging archiving capabilities for Blackberry

Dexrex Gear this week expanded its instant messaging archiving capabilities, along with archiving data for multimedia messages and social media for Blackberry users. Dexrex Gear's ChatSync Mobile Enterprise builds on the vendor's ChatSync platform for capturing and routing text-based messaging into a centralized storage repository for compliance and e-discovery management.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Nasuni adds Hyper-V and Azure support to primary cloud storage appliance

Nasuni Corp. today released an upgrade of the Nasuni Filer virtual appliance that serves as a gateway to cloud storage providers. Nasuni 2.0 includes support for the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, Windows Azure cloud-services platform, Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS), and Windows Previous Versions file restore technology.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

How RAID storage systems protect your application data

Redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is a technique for storing the same data on multiple hard disks to increase read performance and fault tolerance. In a properly configured RAID storage system, the loss of any single disk will not interfere with users' ability to access the data stored on the failed disk.

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Managing data storage in small businesses: A data storage strategy tutorial

While small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) might not have the resources larger enterprises enjoy, they still run into many of the same data storage problems such as capacity issues, shrinking data backup windows, data sharing and remote access. They still have similar problems managing data storage. Compounding the problem is the fact that many SMBs don't have a dedicated IT person. So it can be challenging to determine the ideal small business data storage strategy.

This tutorial can help you understand which architecture is right for your environment, whether it's direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), or a storage area network (SAN), and the key factors in choosing a VAR. Learn the best data storage strategy for your small business in this tutorial.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Scale Computing launches clustered multiprotocol storage system with iSCSI, NAS

Scale Computing today introduced a clustered multiprotocol storage system for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that provides thin provisioning, snapshots, and replication as well as iSCSI and network-attached storage (NAS) connectivity.

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