SNIA develops standards for cloud storage March 12, 2010 -- The Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard promise to lift the concerns and confusion around cloud storage.
EMC beefs up e-mail compliance for SourceOne March 9, 2010 -- EMC has announced SourceOne Email Supervisor, a software tool for monitoring inbound and outbound communications for compliance purposes.
Guidelines for implementing cloud storage February 26, 2010 -- Whether you're considering an internal or external cloud, beware of the potential pitfalls and plan accordingly.
Cleversafe beefs up dsNet hardware for cloud deployments February 25, 2010 -- Cleversafe has refreshed its Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet) hardware to include bigger disk drives, additional connectivity options and an integrated rack system.
Iron Mountain buys Mimosa for on-premise archiving February 23, 2010 -- Iron Mountain has acquired archiving software maker Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash to round out its archiving portfolio.
Double-Take partners with Amazon on cloud DR February 22, 2010 -- Double-Take Software today announced a partnership with Amazon to deliver cloud-based backup and disaster recovery (DR) services.
Cloud Leverage offers cloud storage for a nickel per GB February 22, 2010 -- Cloud Leverage claims to offer "enterprise-grade" cloud storage at a cost of $.05 per gigabyte, per data center without data transfer or bandwidth charges.
EMC intros GeoProtect, new hardware for Atmos February 16, 2010 -- EMC today announced a round of hardware and software upgrades to its Atmos cloud storage platform with faster processors, higher-capacity disk drives, and more options for protecting data over distances.
Riverbed adds SSDs to WAN optimization appliances February 10, 2010 -- Riverbed Technology has announced availability of the Steelhead 7050 WAN optimization appliance with SSDs, 10GbE connectivity and better performance than previous models for disaster recovery environments.
Startup Nasuni puts primary NAS in the cloud February 9, 2010 -- Storage startup Nasuni today debuted a VMware-based virtual NAS file server that, according to the company, consolidates NAS clusters by putting primary storage data in the cloud.
Lab Review: Disk imaging for physical and virtual machines February 5, 2010 -- Paragon's Drive Backup 10 Server software leverages disk imaging tools to simplify storage management issues, from consolidation to disaster recovery protection, in both physical and virtual environments.
Survey: Users not very interested in cloud storage February 4, 2010 -- According to the results of a recent survey conducted by Forrester Research, end-user interest in hosted cloud storage is, at best, lukewarm and deployment is not on the horizon.
ProStor adds backup to InfiniVault appliances February 2, 2010 -- ProStor Systems' InfiniVault appliances, which are based on RDX removable disk drives, are typically used for archiving. But this week the company added the ability to use the appliance as a backup target in addition to an archive platform.
CommVault connects Simpana software to the cloud February 1, 2010 -- CommVault is now shipping a software option that allows its Simpana data management software to write backup and archive data directly to cloud storage platforms.
Continuity Software adds SLA management to DR software January 29, 2010 -- Continuity Software is set to release version 5.0 of its RecoverGuard software with enhancements including service level agreement (SLA) management, cluster support, and new signatures for validating disaster recovery configurations.
Lab Review: Data deduplication for real tape January 22, 2009 -- To provide the infrastructure and storage resource virtualization needed to integrate D2T and D2D technologies, Spectra Logic's nTier Deduplication appliances extend the data protection operations of VTLs to physical tape libraries, enabling backup and recovery that meets data retention or off-site storage requirements.
Bocada brings ITSM to data protection with Prism January 22, 2010 -- Bocada has completed its transition from a backup reporting software maker to a full-fledged Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) vendor with the debut of Bocada Prism, a workflow-driven application that goes beyond backup reporting.
i365 targets ISVs with cloud storage services January 12, 2010 -- i365 this week launched the EVault Cloud-Connected Services Platform and is looking to partner with independent software vendors (ISVs) that need a way to connect existing on-premise enterprise applications to cloud storage.
Lab Review: Single-solution data protection January 6, 2010 -- Using CommVault's Simpana, IT can deploy a single solution to integrate backup, archive, replication and SRM processes, leveraging data compression and deduplication across physical and virtual servers.
