Henry Baltazar

Overland Storage Inc.s REO Series R2000 is an interesting backup acceleration appliance that caters to small businesses and remote offices. Leveraging iSCSI and Serial ATA drives, the REO Series R2000 is a good solution for sites that want to implement a disk-to-disk backup system in a cost-efficient manner. The REO Series R2000 sits between application […]

Although we saw a number of interesting storage hardware products during the past year, the space to watch is clearly storage management software. In fact, the biggest problem in the storage world—still—is not performance or capacity but management. And that goes for all levels of storage, not just in the enterprise. Moving forward, we expect […]

There was a feeling of optimism in the air at the StorageTek Forum, held last month in San Diego, fueled by the direction the storage market appears to be taking. Companies are now buying different types of storage, which is good news for Storage Technology Corp., the shows sponsor. If eWEEK Labs had to summarize […]

FalconStor Software Inc.s FalconStor Virtual Tape Library appliance allows IT managers to implement disk-based backup while leveraging the investments they have already made in backup software. Simply put, the FalconStor VTL appliance takes RAID and JBOD (just a bunch of disks) storage arrays and presents them to servers as virtual tape libraries. The emergence of […]

The Digistor Ultraslim DVD Multi Burner, which shipped earlier this month, is a neat little portable DVD burner that could be a great alternative to dragging along a docking station on business trips. I could connect the $350 product using a USB 2.0 or FireWire port, and my drive unit could handle CD-R, CD-RW and […]

Thanks to numerous Wall Street scandals and tighter regulations across a number of industries, IT managers are being forced to account for, preserve and, on demand, restore data. This has created a big market for WORM storage systems. For financial services companies, the Securities and Exchange Commissions SEC Rule 240.17a-4(f) created a requirement forcing companies […]

Forward Solutions Inc.s Migo portable USB storage device will get a lot of attention from mobile users, and for good reason. Although the Migo device looks like almost any other portable Universal Serial Bus offering, its unique ability to intelligently grab data profile information and synchronize it with files makes it compelling. Find out why […]

The Kashya KBX4000 disaster recovery system is an interesting product that can help IT managers replicate their SAN data over a WAN. eWEEK Labs recently went to Kashya Inc.s San Jose, Calif., offices to get a look at the Kashya KBX4000 in action. We believe that the system, which is slated to ship this month, […]

Network Appliance Inc.s SnapLock compliance edition gives IT managers a hard-drive-based solution for storing WORM content. With the enforcement of data retention regulations, WORM data archival systems have been pushed to the top of many companies IT priority lists (see SnapLock in action). SnapLock Compliance is a software package that allows IT managers to create […]

IT managers are retooling their data protection infrastructure—whether they want to or not. For many years, IT managers have leaned on tape backups as the cornerstone of their disaster recovery and data protection infrastructure. Tape wont be going away any time soon, but changing business environments and the need to come into compliance with a […]

Whether an organizations need to implement off-site data storage is driven by regulations or a healthy sense of self-preservation, many IT managers are finding that traditional tape backup (with off-site tape storage) is not enough. Fortunately, there are several solutions—both low- and high-end—that can help IT managers move and synchronize data between primary and backup […]

Although EMC Corp.s new software offerings dont break a lot of new ground, they clearly show that EMC is serious about being a software vendor and wants to reach out to small and midsize businesses. EMC VisualSAN 3.0 and EMC VisualSRM 1.5.9, both of which shipped last month, dont have the muscle of EMCs enterprise-class […]