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Symantec will soon launch an intellectual property protection suited dubbed Data Insight, which will be integrate its security and storage products. Read more »

With SGI acquiring MAID-maker Copan Systems at a clearance price, customers hope to see Copan disk arrays get a performance improvement, as well as easier and cheaper upgrades. Read more »

CA is planning a relaunch of its storage portfolio later this year, along with more partners using its products to deliver backup-as-a-service. Read more »

DataDomain's proucts will evolve to add high availability pairs and backup software integration, as data deduplication evolves to move beyond backup. Read more »

Microsoft is considering a new service that will allow users of its Azure cloud services to send it disks for bulk data upload. Read more »

Iron Mountain has aquired Mimosa, signalling a move deeper into the data centre. Read more »

Fibre Channel kit will sell well in 2010, but will trend downwards forever after as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) becomes the world's preferred SAN connectivity protocol. Read more »

Startup Virsto Softwaer has released a public beta of a product users say can boost I/O under Hyper-V by 30% compared the performance of Microsoft's native virtual disks. A version for VMware is on the way. Read more »

EMC has upgraded its Atmos cloud storage, adding a new feature called "GeoProtect" to geographically disperse data so a single data center failure does not reduce access to data. Read more »

A release candidate of Microsoft's backup tool, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, is now available for download. Read more »

Prepare to receive unusually sophisticated marketing material from NetApp's channel, as the company prepares to bring a new marketing program to Australia. Features screenshots of the web-based marketing tool. Read more »

Two days after letting news of its new scale-out NAS leak onto the Net, IBM has officially launched the product, but now the industry is wondering what the launch means for IBM's partnership with NetApp. Read more »

IBM has quietly released what appears to be a new product line it dubs "SONAS," short for scale-out NAS. The product seems to be a rebadging of its previous "Scale-out file system" that productises bundles of hardware optimised to use IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS). Read more »

EMC has moved quickly to quash rumours it plans to merge its Clariion and Celerra product lines. Read more »

Would-be buyers of Oracle’s Exadata database appliance will be able to operate the machines without storage specialists on staff Read more »

Cloud storage provider Carbonite will launch a local version of its new small business cloud backup service. Read more »

The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility has chosen IBM’s DS4700 to collect data in its new research facility, albeit with a touch of buyer’s remorse about its decision to adopt fibre channel over iSCSI. Read more »

NetApp has given up on its NearStore VTL product. Analysts say the company should now be hunting for a new data deduplication partner. Read more »

CommVault’s Simpana can now dump your data into cloud storage services from Amazon, EMC, Iron Mountain, Microsoft and Nirvanix. Updated with analyst reaction from Gartner and ESG. Read more »

Macquarie Telecom has splashed more than $AUD 1million on EMC CLARiiON and Ionix products. Read more »