USB memory sticks
02 April, 2009
The Store'n'Go Retractable and the Store'n'Go Mini Traveller USB memory sticks have been released.
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
02 April, 2009
has enhanced its Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM.
Virtual disaster recovery
02 April, 2009
Site Recovery Manager, a product for disaster recovery management and automation, is available from VMware. It uses virtualisation to simplify business continuity planning and testing and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.
Fourth-generation LTO half-height tape drives
02 April, 2009
Tandberg Data has introduced fourth-generation LTO half-height tape drives for the StorageLibrary T24, T40+ and T80+.
Backup system
02 April, 2009
ShadowProtect 3.2 includes 64-bit support for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Tape library for Reliance Australia
20 March, 2009
The Australian branch of Reliance Worldwide has acquired a tape library system to accommodate a recent explosion in company data.
Australian Catholic University centralises storage
13 March, 2009
Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university founded in 1991 as the result of the amalgamation of several Catholic colleges of higher education. It has six campuses across four states and territories, including almost 14,000 students and more than 3000 staff.
Data replication helps Orchard bloom
17 February, 2009
Orchard, a property funds management company, has invested in a data replication system to help keep the company’s data safe in the event of a disaster.
Will you be at Storage Decisions Australia?
17 February, 2009
IT storage professionals across Australia will have the chance to listen to international backup guru W Curtis Preston when he visits our shore for the first time in April as the keynote speaker at Storage Decisions Australia 2009.
SMB adopts disk-based backup
13 February, 2009
Like many small and mid-size businesses, Australasian Merchandisers reached a point where its tape backup system no longer met its rising demands for data protection and disaster recovery. Australasian is an importer and distributor of stationery products in Australia. The computer systems supporting its business operations were storing increasing quantities of file and application data. It needed to protect this data and ensure its availability, but the tape backup system it used was slow and prone to failures.
Law firm drops tape for online storage
13 February, 2009
Middletons, an Australian law firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, recently moved its backup from a tape-based solution to an online system.
Archiving success leads to backup deployment
13 February, 2009
To cope with increasing compliance demands, utility provider ActewAGL has deployed an archiving and backup system with search and recovery capabilities.
Google Earth helps ANU deploy disaster recovery
24 January, 2009
The Australian National University (ANU) has deployed a disaster recovery system based on a 1 Gbps free space optics (FSO) link, which it first tested at the IPv6 Summit in 2007 with the help of Google Earth. The FSO-based system replaces the university’s previous 100 Mbps microwave radio-based strategy.
Melbourne’s City of Whittlesea outsources its disaster recovery
14 January, 2009
The City of Whittlesea, a local government area in Melbourne’s outer north, has outsourced its disaster recovery (DR) systems to Global Storage after finding the cost and time required to archive its data onto tape were becoming unacceptable to the organisation.
Storage supplements help impress customers
14 January, 2009
Perth-based ISP Westnet has augmented its existing storage infrastructure in order to cope with recent surges of growth.
