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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
