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Incriptus heads for the enterprise
Adelaide “community cloud” backup company Incriptus has developed an enterprise version of its product and is seeking funding to help take it to the world.News | 03 Oct 2011
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A sneak peek at Avamar vCloud Protector
EMC has used VMware2011 to show off a new backup tool, Avamar vCloud Protector, which offers new and advanced ways to backup virtual machines.News | 30 Aug 2011
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Storage considerations for containerised data centres
Containerised data centres are useful disaster recovery infrastructure. But if you use a lot of storage, don't expect off-the-shelf units to do the job.Tip
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Five types of tape for backup or archive
There are plenty of tape formats to choose from when you are looking for a backup or archival medium. Here are five of the most common formats to consider.Feature
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Expect weighty issues when installing Atmos
A new user of EMC’s Atmos cloud storage product had weighty problems – literally and figuratively – when implementing its new systems.Feature
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Acronis wins where skills are thin
Acronis latest upgrade is winning friends where storage administrators fear to tread, often in places where the resources industry likes to operate.News | 09 May 2011
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Rackspace’s cloud storage outage
Rackspace has experienced a disruption to one of its cloud storage products.News | 30 Apr 2011
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HDS, NetApp and EMC all agree on big data
HDS, EMC and NetApp have all picked up on the same ‘Big Data” theme in recent blogs, but is NetApp struggling to ship enough FAS 3200 units to meet demand?News | 27 Mar 2011
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Legal Aid NSW picks EMC CDP for SAN, DR upgrade
A data migration project has helped Legal Aid NSW to improve its disaster recovery plan, after it chose to upgrade its existing EMC CLARiiON fleet to newer models from the same range and add continuous data protection software.News | 27 Mar 2011
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EMC preparing SnapImage upgrade for Solaris
EMC has invited Solaris users to alpha test an upgrade of its block-level snapshot tool, SnapImage. PLUS: what EMCers see on their first day at work.News | 04 Feb 2011
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Incriptus heads for the enterprise
Adelaide “community cloud” backup company Incriptus has developed an enterprise version of its product and is seeking funding to help take it to the world.News | 03 Oct 2011
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Storage considerations for containerised data centres
Containerised data centres are useful disaster recovery infrastructure. But if you use a lot of storage, don't expect off-the-shelf units to do the job.Tip
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Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft
The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.News | 07 Aug 2011
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Amazon Web Services testing the waters for Australian data centre?
Amazon Web Services has asked its global customers for feedback on it services, and the questions asked of users suggest the company is considering the introduction of a local data centre.News | 29 May 2011
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OPINION: Disaster Recovery pros already know the disaster recovery lessons from Japan
Does your disaster recovery plan need a tweak after recent events in Japan? Probably not.OPINION
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EMC preparing SnapImage upgrade for Solaris
EMC has invited Solaris users to alpha test an upgrade of its block-level snapshot tool, SnapImage. PLUS: what EMCers see on their first day at work.News | 04 Feb 2011
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Mean time between failure vs. load/unload cycles
Mean time between failure, the traditional metric used to predict the life of a disk drive, is being challenged by counts of load/unload cycles and annualized failure rates.Tip
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Perth Radiological Clinic upgrades HDS SANs
Perth Radiological Clinic (PRC) has selected twin storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and will use the hardware to create a nearline archive containing seven years of medical images.News | 15 Aug 2010
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Illumos project hopes to revive OpenSolaris for ZFS storage
Former Sun and current Nexenta engineer leads effort to revive OpenSolaris source code used in ZFS storage systems. Oracle's involvement is a question mark.Article | 04 Aug 2010
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iiNet to launch cloud backup for business
Internet Service Provider iiNet has launched a cloud backup service for consumers, and plans to scale it up for business users.News | 03 Aug 2010
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Western Digital undisputed King of disks, vanquishing Seagate, after Hitachi GST buy
Western Digital is now the undisputed disk drive champion of the world, after acquiring Hitachi GST and reaching nearly 50% market share.News | 09 Mar 2011
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Sectors – Storage news from Seagate, Isilon and StorageCraft
Seagate has debuted 1TB enterprise 2.5” drives, while StorageCraft has launched a flood relief effortNews | 17 Jan 2011
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Film, Television and Radio School seeks 200TB
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School is looking for 200 TB of storage to help its students create digital media, improve backup and create an archive.News | 20 Dec 2010
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Mean time between failure vs. load/unload cycles
Mean time between failure, the traditional metric used to predict the life of a disk drive, is being challenged by counts of load/unload cycles and annualized failure rates.Tip
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How to automate Windows server disk defrag
Keep your Windows servers' disks defragmented with this script, which automatically invokes the Windows defrag utility.Quiz
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How to beat Bit Rot
Hard disks are marketed as supremely reliable and often quote mean times between failure (MTBF) in the hundreds of thousands of hours. But while drives keep on keeping on, it is still possible to lose data thanks to a phenomenon called Bit Rot. Learn how to detect and prevent Bit Rot in this story.Tip
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How to use Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage for disk-to-disk backup and recovery
Enterprise Storage Group Analyst Lauren Whitehouse explains how to use Symantec 's Veritas NetBackup OpenStorage option for disk-to-disk data backup and recovery.News | 04 Aug 2009
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Importer dumps tape for Acronis backup
Australasian Merchandisers has abandoned tape backup in favour of disk-based systems and server snapshots.News | 30 Mar 2009
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Law firm ditches tape for the cloud
Law firm Middletons has given up on tape and instead adopted a cloud storage provider for its archival needs.News | 16 Feb 2009
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Australian Catholic University plans realtime disk backup over the WAN
AARNet's gigabit speed network will make it possible for the Australian Catholic University to use realtime disk-to-disk backup.News | 20 Nov 2008
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Maritime museum backs up with HP LeftHand, Microsoft
The Australian National Maritime Museum has revamped its storage infrastructure, selecting HP LeftHand and Microsoft.News | 07 Aug 2011
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Five types of tape for backup or archive
There are plenty of tape formats to choose from when you are looking for a backup or archival medium. Here are five of the most common formats to consider.Feature
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Centrelink to create private storage cloud in ILM push
Centrelink has announced plans to establish “a panel for the provision of Enterprise Storage” as it aims to move “towards delivery of storage as a service,” extend its information lifecycle management strategy and develop an archive that can retrieve 130 year old emails.News | 23 Sep 2010
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The future of backup to tape and a look at LTO-5 tape technology
This tip explores some of the reasons why backup to tape is still popular, and takes a look at the latest iteration of LTO tape technology, LTO-5.Tip
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Family Court of Australia seeks new tape drives, sticks with LTO-4
The Family Court of Australia has decided to upgrade its backup hardware with new LTO-4 drives, but expects it may need to double its backup capacity.News | 22 Mar 2010
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Victoria seeks storage for 25,000+ tapes
CenITex, Victoria's shared services IT agency, is looking for a company to arrange for off-site storage of 25,000+ backup tapes.News | 05 Mar 2010
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LTO 5: Fast, vast but still the past?
The next generation of the Ultrium standard is so fast and has so much capacity that many users will ignore it.News | 30 Jul 2009
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Virtual tape libraries grow up, speed up, up the ante
A new wave of virtual tape libraries are faster, scale higher and offer more flexibility for their owners.News | 14 Jul 2009
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LTO 5: Fast, vast but still the past?
The next generation of the Ultrium standard is so fast and has so much capacity that many users will ignore it.News | 30 Jun 2009
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Sectors - NetApp says EMC Centera loses data, gets slapped by blogosphere
NetApp has tried to smear EMC, starting a blogosphere brawl which embroiled Symantec but may have left egg on its face.News | 10 Feb 2009
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A sneak peek at Avamar vCloud Protector
EMC has used VMware2011 to show off a new backup tool, Avamar vCloud Protector, which offers new and advanced ways to backup virtual machines.News | 30 Aug 2011
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Schiavello drops Symantec, picks up CommVault
Difficulties backing up remote offices has seen business furniture company Shciavello discard Symantec software in favour of CommVault.Case Study
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Legal Aid NSW picks EMC CDP for SAN, DR upgrade
A data migration project has helped Legal Aid NSW to improve its disaster recovery plan, after it chose to upgrade its existing EMC CLARiiON fleet to newer models from the same range and add continuous data protection software.News | 27 Mar 2011
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Target-based deduplication appliances vs. source-based dedupe
Learn the difference between source and target dedupe, and why target-based deduplication appliances excite storage administrators.Tip
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Symantec Australia leaves its NAS offshore for now
Symantec has launched a new range of storage appliances, but isn’t bringing all of them to Australia ... yet, so it can concentrate on taking on the data deduplication market pioneered by Data Domain.News | 18 Jan 2011
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Simpana 9 on sale in Q3, adds source-based de-duplication
CommVault’s Australian offices are preparing for beta testing of Simpana 9 to begin in August, while also busying themselves with the new task of serving as part of the company’s follow-the-sun support operations.News | 28 Jul 2010
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Data Domain rejects EMC's offer
Data Domain's board has told its shareholders it would prefer to be acquired by NetApp, spurning EMC's higher offer.News | 28 May 2010
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EMC boosts Data Domain capacity with new clustered DD880
EMC has refreshed its Data Domain deduplication portfolio, doubling capacity and adding encryption.News | 12 Apr 2010
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Melbourne IT turns to data deduplication to backup virtual machines
Hosting provider Melbourne IT has achieved 25:1 deduplication ratios using Data Domain to backup virtual machines, but hopes those ratios will fall over time as it learns more about how dedupe works.News | 09 Apr 2010
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Symantec, CommVault, FalconStor explain dedupe roadmaps
Deduplication and the cloud feature in new product roadmaps from Symantec, CommVault, and FalconStor.News | 02 Nov 2009
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