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BakBone Certified with Data Domain

Reading, UK - April 23, 2008 - BakBone Software is now certified with Data Domain.

Working together, BakBone and Data Domain now offer the ability to use Data Domain systems as NAS or as a VTL within a NetVault environment, D2D2T (Disk to Disk to Tape backup) and reduced backup windows. The combination of BakBone and Data Domain products has already helped many organisations.

One example is the City of Nampa, Idaho (population 80,000). Police investigation audio records, city records, and other critical community information form the city’s 5TB of data, stored across 30 servers. Nampa was using Symantec's Backup Exec for its storage solution, but as the data increased, the city needed a solution with faster restore capabilities and easier accessibility.

“After researching our options, we found that NetVault: Backup with Data Domain provided the most robust solution,” said Dennis D. Elledge, director of Information Systems for the City of Nampa. “It is incredibly easy to manage our archives and maintain data, without having to pull out tapes. Our backup administrator enjoys using NetVault: Backup because it performs faster, is easy to access, provides fast restores for our end users, and gives us the confidence that our data is being protected.” ...BakBone profile, ...Data Domain profile


Former Intel Storage Exec Joins Atempo Board

Palo Alto, Calif - April 8, 2008 - Atempo, Inc. today announced that storage industry veteran Michael V. Wall has joined its board of directors.

Mr. Wall was a founding member of the management team that developed Intel's storage business where he worked closely with many of the multi-national OEMs that manufacture and distribute servers, workstations, and storage solutions. Prior to joining Intel, Mr. Wall served as a GM responsible for North American Operations at Cray Research. ...Atempo profile, Backup Software, Storage People


Fujifilm Launches Wireless Backup Tape Tracker

VALHALLA, N.Y. - March 26, 2008 - Fujifilm today announced the immediate availability of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, a wireless tool to help data managers increase security of data by tracking in real-time the location and status of sensitive removable media cartridges while in transit.

The Fujifilm Tape Tracker (patents pending) is designed within a 0.5" tape cartridge format, enabling it to fit snugly and discreetly inside nearly any tape media case. The Fujifind application uses the information, tracking, geo-fencing and notification capability of SC-Integrity's LoJack InTransit monitoring solution.

"The tremendous feedback we received from customers when we introduced this concept last year made clear - there is a significant desire to maintain visibility and control over removable media during shipment from one location to another," said Daniel Greenberg at Fujifilm Recording Media. "The ability of tape to store large quantities of data in a cost effective, energy efficient, removable format make it a preferred medium to backup and archive critical business data. The Tape Tracker gives power back to the data managers to maintain a chain of custody for these assets as they move between data center backup, vault or disaster recovery destinations." ...Fujifilm profile


Avnet to Distribute BridgeHead's Archiving Products

Woburn, MA - February 19, 2008 - BridgeHead Software today announced a distribution agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions in the U.S.

"BridgeHead Software has experienced rapid growth in the North American healthcare market, largely as a result of its long-established relationship with MEDITECH" said Ryan Witt, senior VP, sales & marketing, BridgeHead Software. "Our new relationship with Avnet will allow us to build on that market success and to expand into other verticals."

"Healthcare is a highly specialized market that requires a deep level of expertise and knowledge which can take years to acquire" said Tony Vottima, VP of vertical market solutions at Avnet Technology Solutions. "To address the needs of Avnet's channel partners, we launched our HealthPath practice in 2006 (which) provides in-depth pre- and post-sales support, along with comprehensive sales training and market-specific technology solutions..." ...BridgeHead Software profile, Backup Software, Storage VARs


Asempra's BCS Validated by IBM

Santa Clara, Calif - January 31, 2008 - Asempra Technologies announced its Business Continuity Server has been validated as Ready for IBM Tivoli software.

The BCS has also been certified by IBM as System Storage Proven. Asempra's BCS solution protects SQL, Exchange, and Windows File Server applications and data through a patented approach that captures and indexes all data events, creating a virtualized data store that allows instantaneous recovery to any point-in-time. Using Asempra's virtualized recovery and data protection technology Exchange and SQL can be available as fast as 30 seconds after a storage failure. ...Asempra Technologies profile


IDC Says Enterprises Slower to Adopt Online Backup Services

FRAMINGHAM, Mass - January 7, 2008 - IDC estimates revenue for the online backup services market will reach $715 million by 2011, representing a 33.3% compound annual growth between 2006 and 2011.

IDC anticipates that more than 50% of spending in this market will be in North America in earlier years, with other regions gaining share through 2011. Adoption by consumers and small businesses will dominate the market for several years, with slower adoption by medium-sized businesses and enterprises.

"Consumers and small businesses especially are interested in alternative methods of protecting their data, as traditional backup methods fall short regarding efficiency, reliability, and ease-of-use," said Doug Chandler, research director for Storage Services at IDC. "Online backup has become an attractive approach for many customers, with the advent of cheaper broadband access, users' greater comfort level with Web-based services, and the growing business need for a 2nd site for remote data protection purposes." ...IDC profile, Market research


Double-Take Acquires TimeSpring

Southborough, Mass - December 26, 2007 - Double-Take Software today announced the acquisition of TimeSpring.

The transaction was structured as a purchase of 100% of the outstanding shares of TimeSpring, for a total cash purchase price of approximately $8.3M plus transaction costs.

The combination of Double-Take continuous replication with TimeSpring's Any-Point-In-Time capabilities allows IT administrators the ability to "rewind" and "fast-forward" the data on the server and recover to the moment before an unwanted change. The granularity of operational recovery extends to the application-level, which allows users to see application data in native format so they can easily recover from any point in time. ...Double-Take profile, ...TimeSpring profile


IBM Acquires Online Backup Company

ARMONK, N.Y. - December 6, 2007 - IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Arsenal Digital Solutions.

Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Upon completion of the acquisition, Arsenal will become part of the BCRS business unit in IBM Global Technology Services. IBM says Arsenal brings unique capabilities in the on-line data protection market, complementing IBM Tivoli's flagship data protection offerings. ...Arsenal Digital profile Solutions, ...IBM profile


CommVault Slashes 90% Off Backup Time for Crutchfield Corp

OCEANPORT, N.J. - November 29, 2007 - CommVault today announced that it has slashed the time it takes to do full backups and restores for Crutchfield Corp. from 48 hours to 5 hours compared to a previous solution from Symantec.

Selling electronics directly to consumers technology plays a major role at Crutchfield where a 14-person IT infrastructure team oversees 120 Microsoft servers running Windows 2003, SQL Server 2005, Exchange 2003 and SharePoint Portal Server 2007. The company also supports a growing storage environment comprising EMC SANs and 8 terabytes of storage that's increasing each year.

After a storage growth spurt overtaxed the company's existing backup and recovery foundation, Crutchfield decided to deploy best-of-class disk-to-disk-to-tape hardware and more robust data protection software.

The evaluation of competing software alternatives coincided with a deployment of Microsoft SharePoint, which added item-level recovery of SharePoint files to its top selection criteria. As one of the first vendors to support this level of granular backup and recovery for SharePoint, CommVault was selected over Symantec Veritas NetBackup and EMC Networker, both of which would have required Crutchfield to rebuild an entire SharePoint system offline from tape for restores. In contrast, CommVault's first SharePoint recovery took less than an hour.

Crutchfield also leverages CommVault's on-the-fly tape encryption to ensure complete compliance with Payment Card Industry regulations while its "set it and forget it" operation and system-state backup feature have virtually eliminated administrative overhead. ...CommVault Systems profile

Mimosa Offers Free Copy of Email Archiving For Dummies

SANTA CLARA , Calif. – November 6, 2007 – Mimosa Systems today announced it is sponsoring a new book called - Email Archiving For Dummies.
Co-authored by Mimosa employees Bob Spurzem and William Tolson the new book gives readers all the tools they need to augment the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange with powerful new email archiving technologies.

Written in the engaging style that has made the "For Dummies" series such a success, the book offers users an easy route to learn everything they want to know about building an email archiving system. Sign up for a free copy, ...Mimosa Systems profile
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SiteShelter Backs Up Web Sites

Memphis, Tenn. - October 22, 2007 - Remote Backup Systems Inc. today introduced SiteShelter - an automated utility that backs up, mirrors, monitors, and even repairs web and FTP sites.

SiteShelter can back up web sites and FTP sites hosted on Windows, Unix and Linux servers, as well as most other popular operating systems. The software can back up an unlimited number of web sites or FTP sites concurrently. To preserve bandwidth during peak hours, SiteShelter can be programmed to launch automatically during low-traffic times. SiteShelter is currently available and costs $199. ...Remote Backup Systems profile


US & Brits are Worst Backupers - says Seagate Survey

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif - October 22, 2007 - A worldwide survey of over 10,000 adult computer users sponsored by Seagate Technology finds that the US population is well behind the rest of the world when it comes to taking the proper steps to back up their digital files.

According to the results of the poll conducted this summer by Harris Interactive, a little over a third of the adults in the US do not take the risk of losing their digital content seriously.

This global poll of consumers also shows that other English-speaking markets are just as far behind the curve as the US when it comes to protecting their digital assets. While US and Great Britain consumers are the most negligent at 35% neglecting to make backup copies of digital content stored on their computer to external devices or media, Australia trails close behind with 30% of the population not backing up.

Of the 6 international markets surveyed, China leads the world in data backup with 83% doing so, followed by France at 81% and Germany rounding out the top 3 with 73% taking the proper steps to ensure they'll have access to their data even in the event of a disc failure or system interruption.

The astonishing discovery is that 31% of those surveyed are still not backing up even though half of them (50%) have experienced the loss of important data in the past. ...Seagate profile, Market research


ExaGrid Doubles D2d Backup & Restore Speed

Westborough, MA - September 25, 2007 - ExaGrid Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of ExaGrid 3.0.

This provides up to 2x the backup and restore performance of previous versions, and scalability for a 20TB full backup, plus retention, in a single GRID system. ExaGrid has also shrunk its system footprint compared to previous versions.

ExaGrid's disk-based backup system builds on patented technology and delivers fast backup performance due to post-process de-duplication. ExaGrid writes directly to disk without any processing on the fly to slow down backups. This results in backup throughput up to 2 terabytes / hour, (583MB/sec).

Backup is only half the story. ExaGrid delivers fast restore and tape copy performance with byte-level data de-duplication which keeps the most recent backup in its whole form (unlike other solutions, which require re-assembly from small blocks and large hash tables). The result is restore throughput up to 1.5 terabytes / hour (417 MB/sec). ...ExaGrid profile


InMage and iStor Launch IP SAN Bundle at VMworld

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif - September 10, 2007 - InMage Systems, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with iStor Networks, Inc.

iStor will bundle a lite version of InMage's DR-Scout disaster recovery and continuous data protection software solution with all shipments of its iS325 storage systems. The combined solution will debut this week at VMworld. ...InMage profile, ...iStor Networks profile


50% Growth in UDO Archive Appliance Sales

CAMBRIDGE, England - August 29, 2007 - Plasmon today announced a 50% year-on-year growth in the company's UDO Archive Appliance sales.

According to Plasmon's CEO, Rod Powell this is as a result of corporate governance and regulatory compliance standards, e-discovery and increasing demand for secure, searchable, long-term archives.

Plasmon has also seen solid increases in the overall market adoption of its UDO2 technology with the certification and shipment of UDO2 by GE Healthcare, AGFA, IBM and Konica Minolta. ...Plasmon profile, Storage Media, article:- Bare Media Exposed - Looking at the Contenders for Optical Media Archiving
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Backup Software ISVs
This list includes data backup and archiving ISVs but excludes storage hardware oems
Acronis

Alacritus Software

APTARE

Archivas

ArcSoft

Argentum

Arkeia

Asempra Technologies

Asigra

Atempo

Availl

AXS-One's

BakBone Software

Beatty and Company Computing

Beta Systems Software

Blue Nomad

BMC Software

Bocada

BridgeHead Software

CaminoSoft

Columbia Data Products

CommVault Systems

Computer Associates

CYA Technologies

DataMills

DataMirror

Datman

Diligent Technologies

Double-Take Software

EVault

everStor

Evertrust.net

Evgeny Software

e-zdata.net

FilesX

FileTek

HELIOS Software

iLumin

InMage

Invio Software

ITS Systems

Lakeview Technology

LI Utilities

Lockstep Systems

Microlite

Microsoft

Mimosa Systems

Moonwalk

NewTech Infosystems (NTI)

Northern

NovaStor

NuView

OrionSoftLab

OuterBay

Peer Software

Pegasus Disk Technologies

Precise Software Solutions

Princeton Softech

Quest Software

Remote Backup Systems

SENCOR

Servergraph

Softek

Software Pursuits

Solix Technologies

Solution-Soft

StarForce Technologies

St. Bernard Software

Storactive

StoredIQ

Storix Software

Symantec

Syncsort

Tavata Software

Tek-Tools

TeraCloud

TimeSpring

TOLIS

Topio

TrueArc

Uniblue Systems

UniTrends Software

U.S. Design

VisionWorks Solutions

VOB Computersysteme

Vyant Technologies

XOsoft

Yosemite Technologies
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a Short History of Disk to Disk Backup
STORAGEsearch.com has been reporting on the enterprise D2d market since the concept first began.
This article plots the main events in the market transition from the heady days when tape backup was at its height - through to the situation now where most corporate data is backed up using disk to disk backup. click to read the article - a Short History of  Disk to Disk Backup
In the past month - D2d was the #1 subject viewed by Storage Searchers. ...read the article, Hard disk drives, Backup Software
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Teralyte removable disk to disk backup for SMBs
ejectable disk to disk backup for SMBs
Teralyte from Idealstor

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Squeak! - the Fastest Growing Storage Companies
read the article - the Fastest Growing storage companies in 2005
This is the 6th annual edition of this popular article, and is compiled from analyzing the reported results from the top 1,000 storage companies.

The top 3 companies had over 300% year on year revenue growth.

If you're looking to team with successful storage companies or want to emulate their success, this article will tell you who they are and the market segments they are in. ...read the article
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Quorum offers real-time resource control for any application across any system.
Quorum - High Availability and Workload
Management appliance from Themis Computer
Manage upto 50 servers in real-time, any application,
any server with 1 simple interface.
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Squeak! - SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
Does the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into flash solid state disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration applications - such as RAID systems?
It was certainly true as little as a few years ago.

What's the risk with today's devices?

This article looks at the current generation of products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried.
read the article - SSD Myths and Legends
RAM based SSDs have been used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 512G in 3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to look interesting. ...read the article, storage reliability solid state disks
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read the article by ICS - Sanitization Methods
Sanitization Methods for Cleaning Up Hard Disk Drives - article by Intelligent Computer Solutions

Removing the data on old unwanted disk drives has become a concern for all users.

In 2005 Pointsec found that they were able to read 7 out of 10 hard-drives bought over the Internet at auctions such as eBay, for less than the cost of a McDonald's meal, all of which had "supposedly" been "wiped-clean" or "re-formatted".

This article reviews the various methods available to sanitize hard disks along with the advantages and disadvantages in each case....read the article, ...Intelligent Computer Solutions profile, disk sanitizers
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article - the Dangers of Removable Storage Media by Pointsec
the Dangers of Removable Storage Media - article by Pointsec

In the early James Bond films of the 1960s, viewers were introduced to an array of implausible (at the time) portable high tech spy gadgets. Nowadays we know from our own everyday experience that something the size of a cigarette lighter can actually be a video camera with its own wireless internet access.

The proliferation of miniature high capacity storage devices creates a serious problem for commercial and national security. This article provides an up to date picture of the intrinsic dangers posed by current removable storage technologies. ...read the article, ...Pointsec profile, Security, Removable Storage
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Sun Ray compatible notebooks from Accutech
Sun Ray compatible notebooks
from Accutech Ultrasystems
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Squeak! - Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Squeak! - Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Animal marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage products and services.

The storage market was worth over $160 billion in 2006, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial (or deserving) characters and virtues.

The idea behind this type of marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by the population of the storage ark.

This reference articles lists all known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article, Mice in storage

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