Storage and the changing face of health care
08 January, 2014 by Warren Pasque, SNIA ANZ Contributor and Hitachi Data Systems’ Industry Manager, APAC Healthcare, Industry and Alliance SolutionsData storage has an exciting role to play in the all-important healthcare industry, which is becoming increasingly reliant on IT.
Is direct-attached storage dead?
17 December, 2013 by Stephen WithersSeveral years ago, there was a concerted move from direct-attached storage (DAS) towards SAN (storage area network) and NAS (networked-attached storage). But emerging storage technologies could mean the resurgence of DAS within the next 10 years.
The 3-2-1 of cloud backup
21 November, 2013 by Lawrence Garvin*There are a few basic questions anyone looking at cloud-based backup needs to ask themselves.
Data storage: the third big challenge of IT
26 September, 2013 by Charles Clarke*Over the decades IT has seen two distinct challenges: processing power and later network bandwidth. While they are both still important, storage space has become the dominant concern.
Flash: saviour of the data centre?
19 September, 2013 by Stephen WithersThe widespread use of smartphones, tablets, ultrabooks and various other electronic devices means flash storage has become part of everyday life for many people, but it is also playing an important role in the data centre.
Peter Alexander, CIO for the federal Treasury, on lazy coding, storage stacks and punting
04 July, 2013 by Anthony CaruanaWith more than two years in the CIO’s chair at The Treasury of the federal government, Peter Alexander is one of the most high-profile and influential IT executives in Australia. We spoke to him about some of the hot topics on his radar.
CA ARCserve D2D for Linux
04 July, 2013CA ARCserve D2D for Linux provides data protection and disaster recovery for businesses running virtual and physical servers on the Linux open source platform.
Government ditches mandatory data retention - for now
25 June, 2013The Australian Government has dropped its plans to require ISPs to retain customer metadata for up to two years - at least for now.
More data storage? Here’s how to fit 1000 terabytes on a DVD
21 June, 2013 by Min Gu, Yaoyu Cao and Zongsong GanWe live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past two years. The obvious question is: how can we store it all?
The impact of environmental catastrophes
28 May, 2013 by Adrian De Luca, SNIAThe plagues of natural disasters do more than devastate infrastructure, communities and local economies. In the age of the connected global economy, natural disasters have the ability to transcend much further than streets, towns and country borders to impact economies all over the world.
Kroll Ontrack EasyRecovery 10.1 software tool for data recovery
28 May, 2013 | Supplied by: Kroll Ontrack IncOntrack EasyRecovery 10.1 is a software tool for data recovery. It helps users perform recoveries on all drive types.
Post-production company processes 20 TB a day with new system
18 March, 2013Park Road Post Production, an NZ-based film company, has implemented a storage system that can manage up to 20 TB of data each day.
EMC extends flash storage for enterprises
07 March, 2013 by Anthony Caruana | Supplied by: EMC CorporationEMC’s Xtrem family of flash-optimised server and storage products is a PCIe-based flash card that is designed to accelerate application performance.
CommVault Simpana 10 data management software platform
01 March, 2013 | Supplied by: CommVault Systems IncCommVault has released its Simpana 10 data management software platform. The software allows employees across the enterprise to repurpose data under management and search, access and create information to enable better decision making and collaboration.
Churchie dumps tape backup for disk
26 February, 2013 by Andrew Collins | Supplied by: StorageCraftAnglican Church Grammar School - aka ‘Churchie’ - has switched to a software and disk-based back solution for data recovery, after its tape-based solution failed one too many times.
