11/11/2011 - Storage Predictions for 2012: Infiltration of ‘Small Data’ and a New Kind of Cloud

Drobo has released storage industry predictions for the coming year. These predictions are based on the company’s interactions with thousands of customers, analysts and industry luminaries.

25/11/2010 - Efficient Data Center Design Can Lead to 300% Capacity Growth in 60% Less Space

Emerging trends in data center design mean that new data centers will be able to provide a 300 percent growth in capacity in 60 percent less space than existing data centers, according to Gartner. New data centers are being designed to be efficient in terms of power utilization, space allocation and capital expenditure.

22/09/2010 - Urgent Requirement for £1billion Upgrade to Britain’s Data Centres

UK data centres are facing a ‘data crunch’ unless more than £1billion is invested in this critical IT infrastructure over the next 12 months according to Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director of data centre specialists, Migration Solutions.

04/05/2010 - 300,000 Petabytes of Storage Capacity to Enterprise Datacenters and Clouds

According to new research from IDC, HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.

24/11/2009 - DroboElite Brings BeyondRAID Technology to SMBs

Data Robotics announced DroboElite, the first iSCSI SAN storage that manages itself. DroboElite is a business class data storage solution that brings the company’s BeyondRAID technology to small and medium businesses.

DroboElite delivers automated capacity expansion and one-click single- or dual-drive redundancy for data protection for Windows, Mac and Linux machines.

The new system extends the number of Smart Volumes – Data Robotics’ unique thin provisioning that pulls storage from a common pool of drives – so that users can now create up to 255 virtual storage volumes.

17/11/2009 - Research: Bringing Cloud into the Datacenter Transformation

“Datacenter transformation is a stark reality facing most customers in the Asia/Pacific region,” says IDC. Based on its recent datacenter research, the ageing and somewhat inefficient datacenters that were built seven-ten years ago are struggling to keep up with the current technology – leading to high operational costs, poor utilization levels and increasing complexity.

“However – the report says - the current economic environment has led many CxOs to mandate CAPEX restrictions, which has forced CIOs to look for ways they can do more with the same.”

02/11/2009 - AFCOM Survey: Most Data Centers Not Ready for Cyberattack

Significant findings of AFCOM’s 2009/2010 Data Center Trends survey reveal that though threat of cyber terrorism is real, it is not being adequately addressed by the world's keepers of the most confidential financial, military and personal data.

Survey also reveals that despite hype around cloud computing, only 14.9 percent of data centers have deployed cloud solutions to date - and it shines a new light on the fate of mainframes.

22/10/2009 - Transformational Impact of Server Virtualization on IT Infrastructure

A recent IDC survey investigating server virtualization deployments in vorious organizations reveals that the technology is transforming server, storage, and networking infrastructure and even more so the way their datacenters are and will be built and managed.

The survey also suggests that many users are pushing their virtual server environments to the limits, which is causing several problems, such as virtual server sprawl and storage I/O bottlenecks.

09/10/2009 - New Book From Oracle Guru: "Oracle Performance Tuning With Solid State Disk"

The increasing popularity of SSD is challenging DBAs to adapt their database performance tuning methodologies in order to optimize application performance and return on investment.

The book from Mike Ault shows how to accelerate Oracle databases and target solid state disk for maximum benefit.

Mike Ault is an Oracle expert and a prolific author, who has published more than twenty Oracle-related books. He was an Oracle database specialist at Quest Software and has has five Oracle Masters Certificates and more than 17 years of experience as an Oracle DBA and consultant.

01/10/2009 - Channel Data Releases New REO Business Continuity Appliance

Channel Data has released the REO Business Continuity Appliance (BCA) from its principal, Overland Storage. An 'all-in-one' business continuity solution, the REO BCA is designed for both continuous local backup and remote disaster recovery applications.

It is positioned as a flexible data replication solution, enabling automated recovery of mission-critical data and applications at both the local data centre and remote disaster recovery levels.

29/09/2009 - Dataram Unveils XcelaSAN Storage Optimization Appliance

Dataram has introduced the XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance, as the company claims - the industry's first solution to seamlessly deliver up to 30x performance improvement to existing applications.

The XcelaSAN storage optimization appliance augments existing storage systems by transparently applying caching algorithms that serve the most active block-level data from high speed solid state storage, creating an intelligent, virtual solid state SAN.

02/09/2009 - DataCore Now Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet

DataCore announced support for native Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity for its SAN storage virtualisation solutions.

According to the company, their customers can now transition to an FCoE infrastructure while still supporting existing Fibre Channel investments. They can run both FCoE and IP traffic through the same port and on the same wire, eliminating the need and expense for separate SAN and LAN adapters and cables.

31/08/2009 - DataPipe Rolls Out 3PAR Cloud-Agile Services

3PAR, a provider of utility storage, announced that managed global IT service provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner DataPipe now offers differentiated virtual private array (VPA) and disaster recovery (DR) services as part of their Stratosphere cloud services, which are powered by 3PAR Utility Storage.

DataPipe is the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to offer its customers 3PAR Cloud-Agile ASSURED and 3PAR Cloud-Agile SECURED services through this program.

20/08/2009 - Verizon to Offer New Encryption Services For Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Verizon is expanding its encryption service to cover documents and e-mail. Encrypted Docs enables the user to encrypt files and folders and determine who can access, read and write to the file or folder, enforcing privacy policies.
According to the company, e-mail encryption and newly added data encryption services will help prevent privacy leaks, unauthorized access and help keep documents private in case of theft or loss.

19/08/2009 - BTI Receives Brocade Data Center Ready Status for Storage Networking Modules

BTI Systems has announced that the BTI 7000 Series has additional client services modules, verified by Brocade Communications Systems, as compatible with Brocade-based SAN infrastructure.

11/08/2009 - Nexsan and FalconStor to Deliver New Nexsan DeDupe SG Family

Nexsan Technologies, the provider of disk-based storage and FalconStor Software, the provider of data protection solutions, announced a strategic venture to deliver a joint solution, which has resulted in the delivery of an integrated deduplication product family for high-performance, power-efficient data storage.

07/08/2009 - Texas Memory Systems Delivers Record 5-Million IOPS Flash-based SSD System

Texas Memory Systems launches the RamSan-6200 SSD System that offers up to 100 terabytes of Flash-based storage in a 40U rack configuration that can sustain a record 5 million input/outputs per second (IOPS) with 60 gigabytes per second throughput while using a little over 6 kilowatts of power.

06/08/2009 - DataCore and Citrix to Distribute Free-To-Try DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance

DataCore Software, the provider of storage virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, announced that it has teamed up with Citrix Systems to distribute a free to try, downloadable, DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance. The company also released a Citrix StorageLink adapter to integrate its storage virtualisation solutions with Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V.

05/08/2009 - Digital Realty Trust Launches Pod Architecture Services

Digital Realty Trust, the wholesale datacenter provider, has launched a new offering called POD Architecture Services(SM) to provide design and construction services to companies that own or want to own their own datacenter facility, and would like to leverage Digital Realty Trust's datacenter expertise and resources.

03/08/2009 - Teradata Announces Availability of Its Newest Database for Enterprise Intelligence

Teradata Corporation, the company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, today announced general availability of Teradata 13, which includes Teradata Database 13, Teradata Tools and Utilities 13, services and partnerships.

30/07/2009 - Sohu Selects 3Com's H3C For Next-Generation Data Center

3Com is to build a next-generation data center for Sohu, one of China's premiere online community destinations.
Sohu made its decision after a two-month field test of 3Com's recently launched H3C data center solutions — including the S12500 Series core switch line and the S5800 Series 10-gigabit switch series.

23/07/2009 - Telehouse Offers Service to Reduce Data Loss Risk

TELEHOUSE America has announced it is offering Integralis' data loss prevention (DLP) consulting services as part of its Manage-E solution.
Manage-E customers of TELEHOUSE can now leverage global information risk management provider Integralis' expertise in all aspects of DLP and data risk management, as well as its comprehensive methodology to determine an organization's unique data risk factors and the appropriate data protection policies, processes and solutions.

23/07/2009 - Iron Mountain Unveils First UK Cloud-Based File Archiving Customer

Iron Mountain Digital has announced that it has signed its first European customer for its recently launched Virtual File Store service.
The provider of STorage-as-a-Service (STaaS) for backup and archiving's Virtual File Store solution is an enterprise-class cloud-based data archiving service designed to help companies reduce the costs of storing and managing inactive data.

23/07/2009 - HSBC Fined $5.2 Million in UK for Data Loss

Three units of HSBC Group have been fined GBP 3.185 million (USD $5.2 million) by Britain's financial regulator for failing to protect consumer data from loss or theft.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said all three firms had been warned by HSBC Group Insurance's compliance team about the need for robust data security controls in July 2007.

23/07/2009 - EMC Q2 Results Better Than Expected, Completes Data Domain Acquisition

EMC has reported a slight increase in revenue last quarter and provided an optimistic forecast for the second half of the year.
The announcement came as it completed the USD $2.1 billion acquisition of data deduplication specialist Data Domain.