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.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 disk management software
22 February, 2013Paragon Software Group has released its Hard Disk Manager 12 disk management software, suitable for administrators who need to make changes to the configuration of storage devices. It comes in Business and Premium editions.
Crushing gluttonous disaster-recovery traffic with WAN optimisation
19 February, 2013 by Andrew CollinsGunnersen, a manufacturer and distributor of wood-based building products, has solved its problems with gluttonous disaster-recovery (DR) data on its network by implementing a virtual WAN optimisation solution.
IT tips for mid-size organisations
15 February, 2013Mid-size organisations exist in an odd part of the budget spectrum: they have significantly more difficult IT burdens to bear than smaller organisations, but they don’t quite have the expansive budgets that a larger organisation might have to deal with such problems.
RSA Archer Business Continuity Management and Operations
25 January, 2013 | Supplied by: RSA SecurityRSA has introduced two additions to the Archer product suite. Archer Business Continuity Management and Operations is designed to address business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management, and is engineered to align with BS25999, NIMS and ISO 22301.
