Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation V5.1 has solid-state drive auto-discovery, thin volume reclaim

Symantec Corp. is beefing up its storage resource management software by enhancing visibility for solid-state drives (SSDs), strengthening its thin provisioning capabilities, adding integration with Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V and improving application recovery in the Veritas Cluster File System.

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Data migration tools take SMBs to the next tier: Data migration and tiered storage tutorial

As small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) become more comfortable with data storage systems, they will look for ways to use that storage more efficiently. Storage tiering is one strategy that allows organizations to use lower performance and inexpensive storage equipment to hold less-frequently used data while high-performance equipment is used for frequently used information.

To organize existing storage into tiers, SMBs can use a myriad of available data migration tools and strategies. While these tools aren't nearly as numerous or sophisticated as enterprise-grade tools, they will move your data without draining your bank account.

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Email archiving strategies: A tutorial on email archiving for smaller businesses and SMBs

Ask any small- to medium-sized business (SMB) owner how they archive email and you are likely to get one of four answers:

* What's email archiving?
* I just keep the messages on the email server.
* That's what my data backup application is for.
* I have to use a special program and it's a royal pain.

In this tutorial on email archiving strategies for smaller businesses and SMBs, learn about in-house vs. outsourced email archiving, backup vs. archiving, email archiving strategies for smaller businesses and what to look for in an email archiving product.

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

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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

Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization

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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

IBM beefs up midrange storage arrays with 8 Gig FC, iSCSI, self-encrypting drives

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August 25, 2009

IBM has upgraded its midrange disk array storage systems, rolling out the IBM System Storage DS5020 Express with support for 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI and self-encrypting drives. Full Story

Vendors take steps to lock down cloud storage services

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August 24, 2009

Cloud storage services offer virtually unlimited capacity, no infrastructure installation or support, and flexible payment options for organizations large and small. But these positives are often overshadowed by cloud security issues, whether perceived or real. Before signing up with managed services, organizations therefore want to be sure they're as secure as in-house solutions. Full story

Virtual tape libraries: A tutorial on managing VTL technology

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August 7, 2009

If you are saturating your Fibre Channel (FC) network links to complete disk-to-tape data backup jobs in smaller and smaller timeframes, it may be time to consider installing a virtual tape library (VTL) to implement a disk-to-disk data backup and recovery environment. A VTL can complement your legacy tape archive system by introducing disk-to-disk backup time and speed advantages.

In this tutorial on virtual tape library technology, learn about buying and managing a VTL, VTLs and data deduplication, and virtual tape library vendors and products. Full story

Overland Snap Server NAS watches over Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC exhibits

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August 4, 2009

The IT staff that set up the tech infrastructure at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC consider their storage system a key piece of the building's security plan. While the Overland Storage Inc. Snap Server 620 network-attached storage (NAS) appliance doesn't actually handle any security, it does store data from the IP camera system the Annex relies on to keep its valuable exhibits safe. Full Story

Coraid Inc. EtherDrive gives North Canton, Ohio, school district a lesson in AoE storage

Coraid Inc.'s EtherDrive products provided the City of North Canton, Ohio, with a lesson in ATA over Ethernet (AoE) storage when it was trying to deal with the increased demands of a growing school district and capacity-sucking multimedia files.

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Blade storage adds virtualization and data services to overcome management limitations

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June 9, 2009

The latest generation of blade storage products offer data management features such as thin provisioning and data deduplication that previously have only been available in external storage systems. Also, the introduction of virtualization technologies to blade storage systems may increase its popularity among SMBs that seek easy installation, easy administration and advanced data services features. However, blade storage products come along with some inherent limitations. Full Story

Plan data protection strategy around business case: Storage Decisions speaker

CHICAGO -- Storage organizations need to plan their data protection strategy around a solid business case instead of buzzword technologies, Jon Toigo told Storage Decisions attendees during his keynote speech on the final day of the show.

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Stretching computer budgets remains high priority with storage administrators at Storage Decisions Chicago conference

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June 2, 2009

Surviving the economic downturn is at the top of storage administrators' priorities lists at the first Storage Decisions conference of 2009. Full Story

Iomega portable USB 2.0 eGo hard drives get more capacity and better data protection

Iomega, the consumer and small business products division of EMC Corp., introduced the newest version of the company's eGo portable hard drives. The consumer, home office, and SMB-targeted storage devices are now USB 2.0 compliant and include a data protection software suite.

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Tips for protecting data on VMware virtual machines

Backing up data is a lot more complex in VMware virtual machine environments. Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director, validation services at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group, discusses the challenges of protecting data in virtual environments and the best technologies available from VMware and third-party challengers. This podcast is also available below as an MP3 download.

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EPA begins long process to green storage specification

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to develop standards for making data storage devices more energy efficient, although it's probably years away from having an industry-standard green storage specification.

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i365 takes storage appliance route

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May 5, 2009

i365, Seagate Technology LLC's storage services subsidiary, today launched a disk appliance with storage, backup and other data protection features built in for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Full Story

ONStor embraces ZFS, goes multiprotocol

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April 24, 2009

ONStor Inc. introduced its first integrated storage system built on the open-source Zettabyte File System (ZFS) this week. The Pantera LS 2100 series supports iSCSI and network-attached storage (NAS), as well as solid-state drives (SSDs), and is targeted at small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) customers. Full Story

Iomega goes multiprotocol with StorCenter Pro ix4-200r for SMBs

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April 17, 2009

Iomega, the small business and consumer division of EMC Corp., introduced the StorCenter Pro ix4-200r four-drive rackmount data storage system this week with iSCSI support for block storage as well as network-attached storage (NAS). Full Story

SandForce seeks to improve SSD controllers

SandForce Inc., a silicon provider for solid-state drive (SSD) OEMs, emerged from stealth mode today with a line of processors for SSD controllers it claims will improve the reliability and endurance of NAND Flash-based drives.

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Tiered storage tutorial

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March 17, 2009

Storage administrators are increasingly revisiting tiered storage strategies to lower asset and operational costs, and to improve application performance. This is accomplished by establishing and assigning tiers according to drive cost and performance. In its simplest form, this means assigning non-critical data to higher-capacity and lower-cost drives. Full Story

LegalTech: Putting together e-discovery pieces

The LegalTech trade show is going on this week in New York City, and that means plenty of e-discovery and compliance-related product rollouts.

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Digital Reef adds support for FAST Enterprise Search Platform and Office SharePoint Server 2007

Data classification startup Digital Reef Inc. is adding support for Microsoft Corp.'s FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 through a new technology partnership with Microsoft.

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