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Here you will find up-to-date news, expert insight/perspective/technical analysis of data storage, recovery, backup, and archiving packages that you need to design, deploy, monitor, manage, secure and maintain your storage resources. eWEEK Data Storage coverage includes production-ready, nearline storage and deep freeze-type archiving. eWEEK Data Storage coverage includes disk-based, solid-state, tape-based and online storage; Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS); iSCSI and Fibre Channel; and fabric networks. It also includes storage management software, master data management, data deduplication, snapshots, thin provisioning and single-instance storage. eWEEK Data Storage coverage follows many vendors, including EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Dell, Hitachi Data Systems, Seagate Technology, SanDisk, Fujitsu, 3PAR, Toshiba, Sun Microsystems, Terradata, Brocade, NEC, Samsung and Lefthand Networks.
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Several storage industry analysts tell eWEEK they believe NetApp should take a breather and then pursue an acquisition that makes sense—one that it can afford yet one that will help the data storage company broaden its market opportunities and keep growing.
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IBM pulled the covers off new technology today that uses optical character recognition to conceal data. The data masking tool does not change data but filters it before it reaches the PC screen, making it unnecessary to develop sanitized copies of enterprise data for individual users.
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Zoho continues to create plug-ins to let users migrate data created in Microsoft's on-premise applications to Zoho's cloud computing application environments. The latest free plug-in, Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Access, lets users import their data from Microsoft Access database applications to Zoho Creator. The idea is to help Microsoft customers migrate to Zoho's SAAS suites.
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The DXi7500, Quantum's flagship disk-based backup and data deduplication solution, offers a robust feature set and high-quality construction and architecture for the enterprise disk backup market. With solid throughput and deduplication performance, the DXi7500 can serve as the centerpiece of an enterprise's VTL or NAS-based disk backup infrastructure.
Click through the slideshow for a closer look at the DXi7500, and a peek inside Quantum's Colorado Springs, Colo., assembly facility.
Also, be sure to check out eWEEK Labs' full review of the product, here.
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Acronis announces the next generation of disaster recovery products aimed at cost-conscious businesses, the Backup & Recovery 10 line of software products.
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The flagship backup solution boasts up to 240TB of raw, VTL- and NAS-accessible disk space, all wrapped in a management GUI that speeds implementation and eases backup administration burdens.
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The next time you download new or updated Java networking software for a mobile device, laptop or desktop computer, you'll be offered a free 30-day trial of Carbonite, a Web service that offers unlimited data backup for $4.95 per month or $55 per year.
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UPDATED: EMC will acquire Data Domain for $2.1 billion. NetApp Chairman and CEO Dan Warmenhoven says NetApp can't justify an increasingly expensive bidding war that would reduce the benefits of the deal.
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On the heels of announcing a compact network-attached storage solution, the DS409Slim, Synology debuts the rack-mounted 4-bay network attached storage server, the Rack Station RS409.
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Facebook, which claims to have more than 200 million users, played a central role in interactive Web communications during the event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The social networking site reported some impressive traffic-related statistics shortly after the 2-hour-long event ended.
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UPDATED: Industry analysts who read/research/blog/report on these things tell eWEEK they are generally in agreement: The corporate battle between NetApp, the original mover in the Data Domain sweepstakes, and outsider EMC has gotten way, way out of hand. Whichever company eventually makes the purchase will be paying far too much for what amounts to one point product.
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The OffiSync plug-in, which marries Google Apps, Docs and search engine functionality with Microsoft Office documents, is coming to enterprise users. For $10 per user, per year, businesses will be able to bring Microsoft Office documents into the cloud, saving them for collaboration in Google Apps. The tool comes as vendors grapple with how to expose more on-premises users to cloud computing.
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Dell has announced sweeping additions to its virtualization solutions suite, paying particular attention to accelerating the delivery of benefits to its corporate clientele. In an interview with Ziff-Davis Enterprise Contributing Editor Steve Kovsky, Dell Solutions Director Anthony Dina explains that in the past, customers were frustrated by the length of time it took for a new technology investment to pay for itself. Dell’s new approach emphasizes quicker returns and better measurement of each customer’s ROI. "There’s a lag time between when a person decides they want to get after the advantage, and when they actually get the advantage, so with this announcement, we put a lot of effort into what we call ‘the fast track to efficiency’," Dina said. That fast-track approach calls for a combination of pre-configured hardware and software packages, bundled with advisory and consulting services that are designed to let companies plan, deploy and manage their server virtualization investment with a minimum of downtime or delay.
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Saying that the global recession is continuing to fuel cuts in commercial IT budgets and consumer hesitancy to buy, research firm Gartner is lowering its overall worldwide IT spending forecast. Earlier in the year, Gartner predicted a 3.8 percent drop, but now says the decline could hit 6 percent, to $3.2 trillion. Other research firms, including Forrester, also have lowered expectations for 2009. However, like Forrester, Gartner is expecting a rebound of sorts starting in 2010.
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The sixth version of Open-E's data storage software solution is available, featuring new architecture and an improved user interface.
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The flagship backup solution boasts up to 240TB of raw, VTL- and NAS-accessible disk space, all wrapped in a management GUI that speeds implementation and eases backup administration burdens.
REVIEW: The Dot Hill 2722 is a 2U RAID storage array that can house as many as 24 2.5-inch drives accessible via dual 4Gb Fibre Channel controllers. eWEEK Labs' tests show that the system is a solid step into the smaller 2.5-inch form factor, with an easy-to-use GUI, good performance and a high-availability architecture.
Flexibility, extensibility, thorough management capabilities and first-class performance make the HP LeftHand P4300 4.8TB SAS Starter SAN Solution an excellent choice for midrange and above iSCSI storage.
REVIEW: With miSAN D, Cybernetics establishes the right balance of price and features for the price-conscious iSCSI SAN shopper. Where other SAN manufacturers pack innumerable features into their products, Cybernetics focuses on providing only those features you’re likely to use: volume snapshots, internal RAID, full device redundancy and device-to-device replication.
TECH ANALYSIS: IBM could help its flagging storage business by buying Sun, which has boosted its tape storage portfolio through the StorageTek acquisition and has been innovating throughout its storage line. IBM also would be able to take advantage of the growing desire among many enterprises to migrate their mission-critical applications off costly mainframes and onto a more open platform, such as Sun’s OpenSolaris and Open Storage. And they could use IBM Global Services to do the migration work.
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