Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drives
25 November, 2009
Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drives feature complete system backup (Windows only), password protection for added security and enhanced software features.
StorageCraft ShadowProtect 3.5 backup for failing hard drives
25 November, 2009
StorageCraft ShadowProtect 3.5 enables backup of failing hard drives so users can salvage as much data as possible. It allows a backup to continue even if some areas of the hard drive can no longer be read.
Pure Gold for SNIA international committee
12 November, 2009Clive Gold, the Marketing CTO for EMC Australia and New Zealand, has been appointed the new Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA) International Steering Committee. Gold is also the Vice-Chair of SNIA ANZ.
Unified storage provides fast access to customer simulations
15 October, 2009
The Diversus Group is a small business providing professional and advisory services to customers needing data storage and management services with 80% of its staff being remote users. Its headquarters and IT infrastructure is based in Canberra, and consultants work in Sydney and Melbourne.
Fibre channel over ethernet (FCoE) connectivity
15 September, 2009
DataCore Software has announced support for native fibre channel over ethernet (FCoE) connectivity for its SANmelody and SANsymphony storage virtualisation solutions.
Mobile hard disk drive
15 September, 2009
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced that it is shipping its Travelstar 7K500, a 500 GB, 2.5″, 3 Gbps SATA drive designed for notebooks, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions. Combining performance, ruggedness and capacity, Travelstar 7K500 is suitable for multitasking, gaming and other graphic-intensive applications.
MEOW adds bite to disaster recovery
08 September, 2009
With the bushfire season approaching again, Australia's defences against future bushfire threats received a significant boost with Telstra's launch of the $200,000 Mobile Exchange on Wheels (MEOW), the first of its kind in the country.
Data recovery
17 August, 2009
Kroll Ontrack has released a technology to recover data from NetApp storage systems. Offering support for both hardware and software failures, Ontrack Data Recovery offers NetApp users a viable option to address data loss for the Data ONTAP platform.
Deduplication calculator
17 August, 2009
Acronis has unveiled an online calculator to estimate the storage savings an organisation can achieve using the deduplication technology of Backup & Recovery 10 to cut storage requirements.
Small business storage
17 August, 2009
Seagate has announced a portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime.
Two-terabyte hard disk drive
17 August, 2009
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is shipping a 2 TB, 7200 rpm hard disk drive (HDD), the 2 TB Deskstar 7K2000 that blends high performance and high capacity with low power and other eco-friendly features designed to enable Energy-Star rated computers and other high-performance desktop systems.
3.5" hard drive
22 July, 2009
Seagate has announced the availability of its Cheetah 15K.7 high-capacity, 3.5", mission-critical, enterprise-class hard drive for Tier 1 environments.
Backup platform
17 July, 2009
Symantec has announced its latest releases to its NetBackup platform to help organisations improve operational and storage efficiencies across physical and virtual environments. NetBackup provides recovery of information and reduces overall complexity by uniting next-generation information management technologies for disk backup, data deduplication, virtual machine protection, continuous data protection (CDP) and replication in the heterogeneous enterprise data centre.
Adaptable modular storage series
17 July, 2009
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series is a mid-range platform that delivers improved performance, connectivity, scalability, reliability and ease-of-use to customers. The 2000 family is one of only a few mid-range storage products with symmetric active-active controllers that provide integrated, automated hardware-based front-to-back-end I/O load balancing.
Disaster recovery services
17 July, 2009
An integrated deduplication and backup and recovery solution has been released by Acronis. Called the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, it is the next generation of the True Image systems. It offers data deduplication, which can cut storage requirements by up to 90% by eliminating backup copies of redundant data.
