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.
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.
Unitrends lowers DP costs with 'No Limits' licensing December 16, 2009 -- In a departure from capacity- and client-based licensing, Unitrends this week introduced a series of data protection appliances with a No Limits licensing model that is independent of the amount of capacity or systems being protected.
VTL primer and predictions November 13, 2009 -- Upcoming features include support for alternate media, clustered VTL engines, content search capabilities, and support for protocols such as NFS and CIFS.
Quantum offers NAS-based dedupe appliances October 21, 2009 -- Quantum is out to expand its presence in the disk-based backup market through a new line of NAS-based disk backup and data deduplication appliances for midrange customers.
EMC refreshes Data Domain dedupe systems October 19, 2009 -- EMC overhauled Data Domain's entry-level and midrange deduplication systems with a new batch of disk-based backup systems that offer more performance and capacity than previous generation models.
BakBone ships NetVault with disk-based backup, dedupe features October 14, 2009 -- BakBone Software is finally getting into the disk-based backup game with today's release of NetVault: Backup 8.5 and NetVault: SmartDisk for disk-based backup and data deduplication.
Lab Review: Automating D2D backup of virtual machines October 1, 2009 -- With NetBackup 6.5, IT is able to address the issues of data growth and storage resource utilization in a virtual operating environment via policy-driven data protection processes that reduce operator errors and promote automation.
Quantum brings deduplication to remote offices June 1, 2009 -- Quantum today added a remote office disk-based backup system to its DXi family and upgraded its management software in an attempt to extend its data deduplication and replication technologies for customers with remote locations.
Data Domain ships midrange disk-based backup system March 23, 2009 -- Data Domain expanded its line of de-duplicating disk-based backup products with the introduction of the DD660, a quad-core processor system that offers a 50% increase in both speed and capacity over its dual-core predecessor.
Data Domain OS boosts performance March 2, 2009 -- Data Domain today released a new version of the Data Domain operating system, which can increase the performance of the company's de-duplicating disk-based backup systems by as much as 100%.
Quantum beefs up disk-based backup January 30, 2009 -- Quantum has augmented the capacity and replication features of its DXi7500 disk-based backup system with its first significant round of upgrades for the de-duplicating storage platform.
Dell dives further into D2D backup October 7, 2008 -- On the heels of rolling out a high-end iSCSI SAN array, Dell is hoping to continue its storage momentum by turning its attention to the disk-to-disk (D2D) backup market.
Sense and sensibility about tape and disk The rise of disk-based backup-and-restore technologies, most notably virtual tape libraries (VTLs), has been well-documented.
User survey: Data-protection trends An end-user survey shows strong interest in disk-based backup/recovery technologies such as VTLs, data de-duplication, and CDP.
