Category: Backup and Recovery
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Delivering The Next Generation Active Video Archive
Digital video is growing in importance behind many types of different use cases today, yet nowhere is it more important than when it is captured, edited, and produced into a revenue-generating product for a video business. Within such organizations, video becomes the very embodiment of intellectual property – every piece of content may be viewed…
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Xiotech Debuts Continuous Availability For ISE
Xiotech, a company that provides high-performance storage blades based on its patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology, announced it will begin shipping its upcoming Continuous Availability offering in the third quarter — with early access for customers beginning in April. The solution, which will work across a metro area, aims to provide complete business continuity…
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HP Revamps Storage Line
HP has released some updates to its Converged Storage portfolio. This includes backup, dedupe, 3PAR arrays and storage services – all available in a single architecture. This is part of an overall convergence strategy that has been going on among the big storage vendors for a year or two – and HP is no exception.…
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ScaleIO Raises $12M For Software Defined Storage
ScaleIO, a Palo Alto Calif-based storage software startup, emerged from stealth today to announce that it had secured $12 million in funding. The company plans to use the money to boost its sales operations in support of its ScaleIO ECS software. The funding round was backed by Greylock Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and private investors,…
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10 Tips For Better Public Cloud Storage Security
Cloud security has always been one of the big issues deterring companies from using public cloud vendors. Fears remain that the public cloud may compromise data security and open the doors to a breach. While those fears are not unfounded, the fact is that more than two-thirds of IT teams have deployed applications and storage…
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Data Loss And Downtime Costing Enterprises $1.7 Trillion a Year: Survey
Enterprises are losing their grip on cloud and mobile data, according to a new study published today by Vanson Bourne and EMC. The most staggering statistic to come from the survey of 3,300 IT professionals across 24 countries is the monetary amount attributed to failed or non-existent data protection schemes. The estimated annual cost to…
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Nimble Eyes Enterprise-Grade Storage On AWS And Azure Clouds
Nimble Storage is taking aim at cloud applications with a new storage service that enables customers to extend their current storage setups and run critical workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The offering, dubbed Nimble Cloud Volumes, is the first multi-cloud block storage service to provide data management and services capabilities that…
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Data Archiving: Life Beyond Compliance
Welcome to the wide wide world of data archiving, life beyond compliance. With the wide wide world of archiving, life beyond compliance, the focus expands to general-purpose use across all applications – not just regulatory, healthcare or financial. For some, this may be a deja vu moment to the past when archiving was used as…
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OwnCloud Raises $2.5M For Open Source File Syncing
Lexington, Mass.-based ownCloud announced today that it had closed on a second round of seed financing worth $2.5 million. ownCloud is a storage startup whose open source platform allows organizations to offer secure, Drobox-like file sharing and synchronization capabilities to their workforces via IT systems that they control and manage. According to the company, over…
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Cloud-Savvy Backup Provider Datto Raises $75 Million
Datto, a Norwalk, Conn.-based provider of data backup software, services and appliances, announced this week that it raised $75 million in a Series B round of financing led by Technology Crossover Ventures. To date, the company has raised $100 million. Business is good at Datto, according to founder and CEO Austin McChord. Instead of keeping…
