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The SMB backup dilemma Every time I hear a pitch for an SMB backup solution it comes complete with a chilling statistic that suggests smaller companies are tone-deaf to data protection. EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Managing content in a rich media world For years, directors at the Dallas Museum of Art faced a daunting problem that threatened to stifle the growth of the century-old organization. The prolific use of computer-generated content was requiring them to store ever more videos, audio clips, and digital images relating to the museum’s vast collection of works to assist in research, accounting, outreach, and other day-to-day operations.  January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Storage In EMC’s march on the enterprise NAS market, two big feet fell this year in the form of the company’s Rainfinity (global file system) and Infoscape (file classification) releases, which we took for early spins in EMC’s labs. The year also brought a smooth rev of Windows Storage Server, a swell mid-range SAN from Compellent, and a slick tape library from Spectra Logic. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM unveils new tape virtualization engine IBM is unveiling Thursday a new virtual tape drive management system for mainframes that compares to similar technology introduced last spring by rival Sun Microsystems. September 21, 5:09 a.m. PDT Sun, IBM launch tape encryption technology Sun Microsystems and IBM are both introducing data tape encryption technology this week, protecting against a security breach that can endanger or embarrass an enterprise. September 13, 4:53 a.m. PDT EMC-HP storage race heats up Number two storage systems maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has closed the gap between it and number one EMC Corp. to what research company IDC calls "a statistical tie." September 1, 4:55 a.m. PDT Quantum DLT tape drive challenges LTO A new tape model from Quantum comes out about every two years, and it arrived as expected early this year in the form of the DLT-S4. August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun, Imation team up on tape drive Sun Microsystems has teamed up with data-storage vendor Imation to develop a new Sun StorageTek tape drive with improved capacity and security features. July 5, 8:14 a.m. PDT Dell tape library is built to scale Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands, into more congenial devices, easily scalable for capacity and performance. May 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM makes tape density breakthrough IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in magnetic tape data density they say will help secure the media's destiny. May 16, 7:42 a.m. PDT CA extends tape encryption to mainframes CA will launch new software on Monday that aims to ease tape encryption and key management for mainframe users, the company said. May 11, 12:52 p.m. PDT Sun rolls out storage products, strategy Sun Microsystems continued Tuesday to integrate technologies gained from its $4.1 billion purchase of StorageTek last year and sought to clarify its overall strategy for storing, managing and securing data throughout the enterprise. May 2, 11:43 a.m. PDT Top six steps toward disaster-recovery I recently got to write a fun piece for InfoWorld called "Stupid user tricks" about protecting your network from human error. Researching the article revealed to me how many variables folks tend to miss when running a network, as well as when planning to protect and recover that network. (By the way, if you were one of the folks who submitted anecdotes for this article, check out the SMB IT blog to see whether you’re on the list for a free InfoWorld backpack.) April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exabyte stretches the tape drive A new tape drive from Exabyte promises to ease the growing pains of the small company that one day realizes it has more data to back up than can fit on a single tape. The VXA-172, which Exabyte began shipping at the end of February, has the unique feature of being expandable. You can purchase a starter unit capped at 172GB (compressed), and later, when your mountain of data outstrips that capacity, you can buy a license to expand the capacity to 320GB. No need to buy new tape drives or jump to a new tape format. March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Communications panel studies lessons of Katrina An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday. January 30, 2:10 p.m. PST Another storage security misadventure Now that it's the first week of January, I probably should be looking at the storage excitement that 2006 has already brought us, such as what's happening at Storage Decision and CES in Las Vegas. But 2005 went out with a bang that's impossible to ignore. January 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Storage vendors move beyond blocks and LUNs No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as important developments in disks, tapes, and switches. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Hard disks: the autumn years I once reviewed a RAM-based storage device, a huge rack-mounted backplane equipped with memory cards and an SCSI interface. It was hot, loud, and expensive, but I was convinced I had the future roaring away in my living room. October 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Quantum puts faith in tape I was fairly certain I knew what an upcoming chat with Quantum would focus on. I was expecting to hear more about SDLT (super digital linear tape), the next generation of their high-end tape that, according to previous conversations, the company should release sometime this year. September 15, 4:00 a.m. PDT Dell reworks the autoloader The last Dell autoloader I looked at, the PowerVault 122T, didn’t wow me, but there’s a lot more to like about its successor. Instead of the mailbox-fed sealed carousel of the 122T, the new rack-mountable PowerVault 124T has two removable eight-slot magazines, one on each side. You still have a mailbox slot, but you probably won’t use it much. August 29, 4:00 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Storage hardware > Storage > Storage hardware |
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