The International Data Corporation (IDC) end-user study, CloudView 2016, has found that 67% of all Australian organisations surveyed are embracing cloud, using public or private cloud for more than one or two small applications or workloads yet only 13% of the respondents believed that they have an "optimised" cloud strategy.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which split from HP last year, has acquired SGI, a company that makes servers, storage, and software for data analytics and data management, for $US275 million in cash and debt.
Leading Australian managed services provider, Brennan IT, has selected Commvault Software and Huawei OceansStor to deliver a scalable and flexible Backup-as-a-Service solution.
For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing 3 bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM).
Startups are addictive. When you set a milestone and then meet it, it's like a rush of adrenaline. I'm on my third startup, a company focused on enterprise-class content indexing, and I still remember clearly the excitement I felt years ago when we first started receiving an influx of calls from law firms after announcing our ability to directly index backup tapes.
US storage software developer Infinite IO has launched a a Metadata Accelerator it claims can massively speed up access to data on network attached storage systems
Sony has unveiled the second generation of its Optical Disc Archive System, which adopts a new, high-capacity optical media developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic. This newest media, rated with a 100-year shelf life, doubles the capacity of a single cartridge to 3.3 TB.
No one wants to be in the firing line when their business makes headlines for the wrong reasons. Similarly, few employees would enjoy explaining to their boss that they accidentally handed over sensitive data to a competitor. Organisations don’t like it when these things happen any more than employees do. That’s why most have data security measures to stop information ending up in the wrong hands.
Veritas Technologies has announced support for Google Cloud Platform with its NetBackup 7.7 and Backup Exec 15 solutions. Organisations can use the Google public cloud as a backup destination, run back up and perform disaster recovery to or from the Google Cloud Platform.
