| Backup Software news |
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.
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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,
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- the Fastest Growing Storage Companies |
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
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Quorum - High
Availability and Workload
Management appliance from
Themis Computer
Manage upto
50 servers in real-time, any application,
any server with 1 simple
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- 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. |
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| 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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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,
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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
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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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