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Data center upgrade saves ICF International millions
Professional services firm ICF’s data center upgrade saved nearly $2 million with the help of a public cloud and server virtualization.News | 06 Apr 2012
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Week in review podcast: HDD shortages, HP earnings and more news
Listen to the Storage Media Group news headlines: How the Thailand floods have created HDD shortages through 2012, HP’s earnings report and more data storage industry headlines.Podcast
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Hard disk drive shortage takes aim at enterprise SAS, SATA in 2012
Analysts and vendors expect the hard disk drive shortage caused by Thailand floods to curtail availability of enterprise SAS and SATA drives until at least the second half of 2012.News | 24 Feb 2012
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IT data storage priorities 2012: Virtualization, dedupe and cloud
A TechTarget survey of IT data storage priorities has managers and staff claiming a growing interest in storage virtualization, data dedupe and cloud storage.Tip
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Data storage 2011 Products of the Year finalists
Find out which enterprise data storage products are in the running for a 2011 Products of the Year award.Awards
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NetApp announces Big Data solutions as market grows
In the quest to manage Big Data, NetApp has announced new solutions to manage the growth in unstructured data in a dynamic marketNews | 16 Nov 2011
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Storage supplies constrained by Thai floods
Storage prices are on the way up with the recent floods in Thailand resulting in supply chain constraints.News | 15 Nov 2011
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How to choose a NAS
Choosing a NAS might be complex but there are a few things you can do to simplify the choiceTip
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Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers
The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.News | 30 Oct 2011
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SNIA unveils 'Emerald' power measurement standard
The Storage Networking Industry Association has released a new Power Efficiency Measurement Specification, dubbed SNIA Emerald.News | 10 Oct 2011
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NetApp trials University alliance to tackle skills shortage
NetApp will try to introduce certifications in its products to the curricula of nine Australian universities, to address a shortage of people skilled in operating its products.News | 28 Jul 2011
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EMC says HDS sells for no profit to beat CLARiiON
EMC’s competitive assessment of Hitachi Data Systems Adaptive Modular Storage product suggests it is being sold at cost price, and says Hitachi’s USP V lacks robust VMware supportNews | 08 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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Logical Units: Unisys storage assessment service; EMC’s new Avamar certification
Our occasional roundup of new storage products includes a new certification for EMC pros, Unisys bringing its storage assessment service to Australia and a half-height LTO-5 drive.News | 30 Apr 2010
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Amazon working to bring S3 portable storage device export feature to overseas customers
Amazon’s new service exporting data from its S3 cloud storage service to portable media devices may soon be available in Australia and New Zealand.News | 17 Aug 2009
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Storage security ignored, says SNIA security lead
The Chair of SNIA's Security Technical Working Group says that security professionals don't understand how to make storage a part of a defence-in-depth strategy.News | 27 Aug 2008
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EMC's cloud lost in fog of "governmental sensitivities"
Legal issues associated with management of cross-border data flows are slowing EMC's storage-as-a-service push.News | 23 Jul 2008
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Melbourne's City of Whittlesea outsources its disaster recovery
A Melbourne Council has dumped backup software vendor CommVault, adopted outsourced disaster recovery and saved half a million dollars over three years.News | 15 Jul 2008
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Quantum's Tamlin jumps to Spectrum Data
EXCLUSIVE: Craig Tamlin, Quantum's country manager, is heading west to take up a position at the head of Perth's Spectrum Data.News | 23 Sep 2007
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IBM Australia to expand storage-as-a-service faciilties
Big Blue says customer demand for outsourced storage will see it bolster its local on-demand facilities.News | 24 Jul 2007
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Week in review podcast: EMC goes cloud building; and more
In our latest podcast, Senior News Director Dave Raffo and Executive Editor Ellen O’Brien talk EMC's cloud-building plans and about what to look out for in transaction fees.News | 23 Mar 2012
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Agile design process takes business to the doghouse and the cloud
When faced with the challenge of designing and deploying a new system, 99designs turned to their won rapid development methodology and the cloudNews | 02 Dec 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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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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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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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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What the NBN would mean for storage
The future of the National Broadband Network is in the balance, but just in case the Independents need some food for thought, we asked some leading Australian storage experts what fast broadband could mean for data storage.News | 22 Aug 2010
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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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Say goodbye to shipping backup tapes from remote offices with file virtualization
Learn how file virtualization can protect data in remote offices and remove the need for shipping backup tapes offsite.Tip
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SGI adopts hybrid storage for clustered NAS
SGI NAS uses hybrid storage with DRAM, solid-state drives and hard drives, ZFS, and SGI caching and management software in scale-out clusters.News | 13 Apr 2012
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Choose an integrated stack for efficiency, easy storage implementation
An integrated stack bundles servers, storage and networking in a preconfigured product and is easy to install and manage.Feature
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Symantec aims Data Insight 3.0 at unstructured data management
Symantec representatives say Data Insight 3.0 can facilitate unstructured data management by showing who owns and can access file data.News | 13 Mar 2012
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Week in review podcast: Flash storage arrays see increased adoption
Listen to the top news from the Storage Media Group; we discuss all-flash storage arrays from Kaminario, Dell's newest storage arrays and get a UK update about virtual DR software.Podcast
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Dell EqualLogic supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet copper for iSCSI SAN
Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs now support 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) copper as well as optical, reducing the price of the higher-speed Ethernet.News | 27 Feb 2012
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IT data storage priorities 2012: Virtualization, dedupe and cloud
A TechTarget survey of IT data storage priorities has managers and staff claiming a growing interest in storage virtualization, data dedupe and cloud storage.Tip
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Week in review podcast: EMC offers VFCache PCIe flash card, more news
Listen to the top storage headlines of the week from TechTarget's Storage Media Group, starting with a discussion around EMC's release of the VFCache PCIe flash card.Podcast
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NetApp announces Big Data solutions as market grows
In the quest to manage Big Data, NetApp has announced new solutions to manage the growth in unstructured data in a dynamic marketNews | 16 Nov 2011
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Storage supplies constrained by Thai floods
Storage prices are on the way up with the recent floods in Thailand resulting in supply chain constraints.News | 15 Nov 2011
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Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers
The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.News | 30 Oct 2011
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I spy web servers which don’t lie
The storage blogosphere is reporting an interesting incident involving Symantec and Permabit, plus a stoush between Oracle and NetApp.News | 30 Oct 2011
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NetApp trials University alliance to tackle skills shortage
NetApp will try to introduce certifications in its products to the curricula of nine Australian universities, to address a shortage of people skilled in operating its products.News | 28 Jul 2011
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How Google runs its storage and more from the storage blogs
Google has posted a paper that outlines its storage architecture, and that’s the choicest morsel in a month when the usual blogosphere protagonists have gone easy on each other.News | 24 Apr 2011
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The big security/storage crossover: Is your job safe? [Part Three: Why consumers count]
Is the cutting edge of security and storage in business, or in your lounge room? In this third installment in our four part series, Symantec's David Sykes explains why consumer behavior is the key to understanding what lies ahead.News | 09 Nov 2009
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SNIA ANZ announces new training courses
The Storage Networking Industry Association of Australia and Zealand has announced three new training courses in July and August.News | 12 Jun 2009
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Cloud backup - the pros and cons
Cloud backup is fast becoming a rival to tape. But it's not for everyone, as analyst Lauren Whitehouse explains in this assessment of the pros and cons of the technology.News | 24 Mar 2009
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SNIA ANZ announces 2009 training courses
SNIA ANZ has announced four training courses, while SNIA's global incarnation has started work on cloud storage specifications.News | 10 Mar 2009
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Storage Decisions Australia 2009 – the washup
Looking for presentations and photos from Storage Decisions 2009? Read on to find all the content from the conference.News | 20 Apr 2008
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SNIA ANZ offers free virtualisation education
Storage networking industry body invites users to learn about storage virtualisation in free workshops.News | 04 Mar 2008
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SNIA ANZ on track for world domination
SNIA ANZ initiatives are being noticed by the storage industry worldwide, with new local alliances offering the potential for more relevant storage standards.News | 21 Feb 2008
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Agile design process takes business to the doghouse and the cloud
When faced with the challenge of designing and deploying a new system, 99designs turned to their won rapid development methodology and the cloudNews | 02 Dec 2011
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Storage supplies constrained by Thai floods
Storage prices are on the way up with the recent floods in Thailand resulting in supply chain constraints.News | 15 Nov 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics counts on no storage team, HP, for census
Australia’s recent agricultural and population censuses will be stored on and tabulated using HP SANs, but a dedicated storage team won’t help the count.News | 26 Sep 2011
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Bad Sectors: the latest storage news
Our regular roundup of storage news sees EMC notch a Canberra win, a couple of agencies announce their plans to buy SANs, Ninefold's sneakernet, a nasty rumour about HP and a new entrant to the local SAN market.News | 25 Sep 2011
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Richard Gere loves EMC, so it probably isn’t worried about NetApp haters
Our monthly wade through the slime of the storage blogosphere has found an EMC Symmetrix making Richard Gere look animated, and some rather odd Spam in NetApp’s back yardNews | 19 Sep 2011
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How ASIC stops I/O storms hurting its SANs
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has deployed virtual desktop infrastructure, creating 3000 desktop images for its 2300 staff. At VMworld it explained how it runs that fleet without boot storms hurting its SANs.News | 29 Aug 2011
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Bad Sectors – Dell, HP refresh storage ranges
Dell has announced new EqualLogic products, HP has announced a ‘storage federation’ and the VCE alliance has received a boost from a global partner.News | 26 Aug 2011
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Bad Sectors - Amazon warns on S3 security, UXC and CommVault cuddle
This week’s roundup of storage news touches on cloud security and a stronger alliance between UXC and CommVaultNews | 22 Aug 2011
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VMware, Intel, EMC, NetApp and IBM battle in the blogs
The storage blogosphere is ablaze with many battles over VMware, XIV, VMAXe and more.News | 07 Aug 2011
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