Data sovereignty and the dangers of hosting data outside of Australia
13 July, 2012 by Carlo Minassian*, Founder & CEO, earthwaveHosting your data in the cloud offers several benefits for organisations, including easier file sharing among employees, easy remote backup, and, in some cases, cost savings. But with the US Patriot Act, the DMCA, and similar, storing your data with an offshore company may allow foreign entities to rifle through said data - without your knowledge. Carlo Minassian, Founder & CEO of earthwave, explains how the physical location of your data affects your privacy.
FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) 7.5, available as software, an appliance or virtual machine
13 June, 2012FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) 7.5 allows customers to tailor deduplication processes to the needs of their environment. The product offers several deduplication options, including inline, concurrent and post-processing or no deduplication. They can be deployed in multiple configurations to match types of data and available storage.
Flash - saviour of the (I/O) universe?
21 May, 2012 by Clive Gold, CTO Marketing at EMC and Vice Chair of SNIA ANZIf you read certain sections of the media you would not be wrong in thinking that flash storage is like ‘the cavalry’ coming over the hill to save the day, but is it going to be the industry saviour? Clive Gold, CTO Marketing at EMC and Vice Chair of SNIA ANZ, comments.
IT services company Oxygen IT implements StorageCraft disaster recovery solutions
02 April, 2012After the earthquake that devastated Christchurch in February 2011, IT services company Oxygen IT saved numerous businesses from disaster by recovering their servers and retrieving their data quickly.
Outback council introduces multivendor disaster recovery program
21 February, 2012Wentworth Shire Council has deployed a more resilient IT disaster recovery program in anticipation of catastrophic natural disasters.
Big data requires different thinking for backup and recovery
17 February, 2012 by Merri MackBig data has become big business, with increasing numbers of organisations trying to amass stores of information and subject it to analysis. But this is creating headaches for backup and recovery. Merri Mack looks at the options for dealing with this problem.
Quest Software NetVault FastRecover 4.5 data recovery
13 February, 2012NetVault FastRecover 4.5 enables fast recovery of critical Oracle data through virtual on-demand recovery technology. In addition to Oracle, it also provides backup and virtual on-demand recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows file-system data.
Acronis vmProtect 6 disaster recovery for VMware
29 September, 2011
vmProtect 6 is a backup, migration and disaster recovery solution for VMware virtual environments.
EMC Symmetrix VMAXe storage system for virtual environments
28 September, 2011
The EMC Symmetrix VMAXe storage system is designed for virtualised cloud and mission-critical IT environments.
Acronis vmProtect 6 disaster recovery solution
28 September, 2011
Acronis has launched vmProtect 6, a backup, migration and disaster recovery solution for VMware virtual environments.
EMC ProSphere storage resource management
27 September, 2011
EMC has announced the release of its latest ProSphere storage resource management (SRM) offering.
Seagate Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 solid state drives
24 August, 2011
The Pulsar XT.2 solid state drive (SSD) and Pulsar.2 SSD are now available.
More than half of SSD users experience data loss
24 August, 2011
Despite an overwhelming belief that solid state disks (SSD) are reliable, more than half of SSD users report experiencing data losses while using the technology.
Aeronautical R&D firm evades contractual missile with storage system
15 August, 2011
To avoid commercial penalties for not delivering on contractual commitments, the Australian branch of electronic information systems business Thales has implemented a multiple-site storage system including disaster recovery, virtualisation and deduplication.
Trend Micro SafeSync for Business file sharing service
12 August, 2011
Trend Micro SafeSync for Business, a cloud-based virtual file share system, is now available in Australia and New Zealand.
