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EMC ships primary data reduction, FAST for solid-state drives (SSDs), unified management

7 hours 23 min ago
EMC rolls out bevy of products previewed in May, including EMC FAST upgrade, Unisiphere and block compression for primary data reduction; promises native Fibre Channel over Ethernet by end of year.



Fibre Channel - Solid-state drive - EMC Corporation - Ethernet - Hardware

HP outbids Dell with $1.6 billion offer for 3PAR

Tue, 2010-08-24 06:14
Hewlett-Packard makes surprising $1.6 billion bid to wrest storage systems vendor 3PAR from its rival Dell; now industry watches to see if Dell will escalate bidding war with a counter offer.



Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Bid price - HP - 3PAR

Akorri adds predictive analysis to storage resource management software

Mon, 2010-08-23 23:40
Akorri gives BalancePoint 3.5 a Predictor for Storage module that detects disk utilization and disk contention issues that can lead to an application outage.



Resource management - Business - Akorri - Industry-Specific - Disk Management

FalconStor uses solid-state drives, data protection to tackle VDI bottlenecks

Mon, 2010-08-23 22:09
FalconStor turns its NSS SAN Accelerator SSD gateway into a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) device by adding continuous data protection and other backup and recovery technologies for VMware environments.



FalconStor - VMware - Solid-state drive - Hardware - Storage

Mobile device management requires strict storage, security policies

Fri, 2010-08-20 22:31
IT administrators must acknowledge the importance of mobile devices as business tools and develop mobile device management policies to support and restrict their use.



Mobile device - Security - Device Management - Mobile Computing - Wireless Data

STEC improves MLC SSD; and other data storage news

Thu, 2010-08-19 23:12
STEC implements CareCell, SAFE technologies to improve performance and reliability of MLC SSD line; Samsung partners with Anobit; and other data storage news.



STEC - Solid-state drive - Hardware - Samsung Group - Storage

Oracle sticks a fork in Illumos, OpenSolaris community

Tue, 2010-08-17 22:45
According to a leaked internal memo, Oracle won't cooperate with Illumos and OpenSolaris community; Nexenta CEO says this won't hinder ZFS storage development.



OpenSolaris - Oracle - Nexenta OS - Operating system - Oracle Corporation

Symantec, VMware team up for virtualization high availability

Tue, 2010-08-17 22:18
Working with VMware, Symantec launches ApplicationHA to protect critical applications such as Oracle and Exchange, and VirtualStore software-based NAS for quick storage provisioning.



Symantec - VMware - High availability - IPhone - ipad

Dell acquires thin provisioning pioneer 3PAR to expand data storage product lineup

Tue, 2010-08-17 04:06
Dell's acquisition of 3PAR strengthens its Fibre Channel SAN platform; vendor has acquired thin provisioning, iSCSI, NAS, and primary data deduplication technologies over the past three years.



Fibre Channel - ISCSI - Hardware - Storage area network - Storage

New 6 Gbps flash SSD boosts Micron solid-state offerings

Mon, 2010-08-16 22:21
Micron Technology Inc.'s new flash SSD, the RealSSD P300, is built on a 6 Gbps SATA interface and boasts higher capacities and better performance than its predecessor. Keywords



Solid-state drive - Micron Technology - Serial ATA - Multimedia - Development Frameworks

New Continuity Software RecoverGuard disaster recovery test app for virtual servers is released

Mon, 2010-08-16 22:11
Continuity Software's new release of its RecoverGuard 5.2 disaster recovery test software offers better visibility into virtualized environments.



Disaster recovery - Business - Fire and Security - Business Services - Emergency Management

Actifio launches disaster recovery appliances

Mon, 2010-08-16 22:11
Actifio emerges from stealth mode with appliances for managing data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity in VMware environments; the startup's challenge is to convince customers to change the way they manage data on virtual machines.



VMware - Disaster recovery - Business - Virtual machine - Business continuity

Data center consolidation best practices for disaster recovery planners

Mon, 2010-08-16 22:11
Many organizations large and small are finding a need to consolidate their data. Follow these best practices for your data center consolidation.



Data center - Disaster recovery - Best practice - Business - Storage

A look at direct-attached storage devices in 2010 and beyond

Mon, 2010-08-16 21:28
DAS devices may not be sufficient for large enterprises, but the market for DAS still exists for SMBs.



Direct-attached storage - Storage - Hardware - Subsystems - Business and Economy

i365 adds new features to its EVault Remote Disaster Recovery Service

Fri, 2010-08-13 02:07
This week's disaster recovery news in brief: i365 adds new features to its disaster recovery service and Palisade Systems introduces new data loss prevention service.



Disaster recovery - I365 - Business - Data loss - Business Services

JetBlue switches to EMC Avamar, does remote-office backups over WAN

Tue, 2010-08-03 21:48
While migrating to larger data centers, JetBlue centralized its backup process by using EMC Avamar deduplication instead of tape at remote sites; now the airline doesn't have to fly IT people to regional offices to collect tapes.



Backup - Data deduplication - Data center - EMC Corporation - Business

Oracle backup best practices

Mon, 2010-08-02 22:11
Learn Oracle backup best practices in this column from backup and recovery expert W. Curtis Preston.



Backup - Utilities - Oracle - Site Management - Home

LTO tape media data transfer rate to increase in smaller increments through LTO-8 tape

Mon, 2010-08-02 22:11
The LTO Program announces generations LTO-6 though LTO-8 of LTO tape media; data transfer rates will increase, but in smaller increments through LTO-8.



Linear Tape-Open - Hardware - Storage - Tape drive - LTO Program

Laptop data backup and desktop data backup best practices

Mon, 2010-08-02 22:11
Laptop and desktop backup is just as important as enterprise data backup. Learn about the best practices to follow for backing up your laptop and desktop data in this Q&A.



Laptop - Hardware - Notebooks and Laptops - Backup - Cases and Accessories

Pancetera Unite helps speed up virtual machine backup

Mon, 2010-08-02 22:09
Startup brings out Pancetera Unite to reduce I/O requirements and accelerate backups of virtual machines; the vendor promises other management capabilities.



Virtual machine - Backup - Site Management - Freeware - United States