Network Storage

Communications and storage chip maker PMC-Sierra has acquired Adaptec’s RAID storage product line for about $US34 million.

According to new research from International Data Corporation (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.

While more than three quarters (84 per cent) of Australian organisations questioned in a recent survey rely on backups to restore lost corporate data, only 35 per cent of IT managers conduct monthly or weekly checks to confirm that data can be retrieved from their backup systems.

Compellent has expands its unified storage offerings with the zNAS (network-attached storage) solution, which consolidates file- and block-level storage on a single, intelligent platform based on the ZFS file system.

StorageCraft has announced ShadowProtect Server 4.0 and StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server 4.0, the latest version of its backup, disaster recovery and system migration technology.

IBM has announced a range of new storage products that are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of storing vast amounts of data while making it easier for users to apply analytics and gain insight from the data.

Axceler's administration software for Microsoft SharePoint now manages more components, with the launch of release 3.8 of ControlPoint.

EMC has launched a new Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA), which it claims is the industry’s fastest in-line deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications.

A new report from the Ponemon Institute, together with PGP Corporation, claims the average cost of a data breach at Australian organisations is almost $A2M.

Dalet Digital Media Systems has announced a new integrated offering based on Dalet Enterprise Edition and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

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