The Smart Way To Handle Secondary Storage
A British storage company has launched an attempt to take on the likes of EMC in the secondary storage market by offering a cost-effective approach.Essex-based Tarmin Technologies has introduced GridBank, which it claimed would provide users with a smarter approach to secondary storage. The company said that traditional secondary stories limited the amount of end user access while Tarmin GridBank ...

Ibm Expands Storage Virtualization For Smbs With San Volume Controller Entry Edition New Svc Entry
Storage Networking World -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its industry leading storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, will be packaged for small and medium sized (SMB) businesses, one of the faster growing parts of the storage marketplace.(1)The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software is designed to ...

How Much Self Storage Can Your Afford
Getting a cheap self storage is not a very difficult task these days. There are many firms that are offering storing areas at affordable prices. These storehouses come with standard features. If special features like environmental regulation and enhanced security are required then one has to obviously pay more. But even these services are offered at very reasonable prices by many firms. One has to decide upon the features and ...

Pgp Launches Network
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced a significant expansion of its channel strategy with the launch of the PGP Managed Service Provider Network (MSPN). PGP Corporation is broadening access of its encryption solutions to mid-market and small businesses through a new worldwide network of managed service providers and existing channel partners that will initially offer the award ...

Iomega Offers 1tb Of Network Storage For 300
StorCenter ix2 comes in 1TB and 2TB ($479) versions and provides a centralized network storage repository for homes or small offices. "It's ridiculous how cheap these things are, but it is what it is," says Iomega President Jonathan Huberman.Storage new-product news usually involves items that are bigger, faster and cheaper, as disk drives themselves become more capacious and cutthroat competition lowers ...

Nashville Conference A Terrific Success For Inside Self Storage Expo
More than 1,100 self-storage professionals gathered in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7-10, for the largest fall conference and tradeshow ever hosted by the Inside Self-Storage Expo. Participants enjoyed four days of educational seminars, networking events and more than 100 vendor exhibits.The event kicked off with a special opening address presented by investment-analysis specialist Charles Ray Wilson titled, Self-Storage at ...

Five Opportunities Three Rules For Cloud Storage
If virtualization was last year's hottest water-cooler topic, cloud computing has to be this year's. Vendors are scrambling to adapt their business models and "cloud enable" offerings to take advantage of an increasing willingness by all sizes of IT shops to use hosted services, including for storage. In fact, in a recent InformationWeek cloud computing poll, storage--including archiving and disaster recovery--was cited as the ...

Businesses Facing Critical Problems Rise 600
Begbies Traynor, the business rescue, recovery and restructuring specialist, has announced that the number of property businesses facing 'critical problems' has risen 600 per cent in the past year.Looking at the third quarter of 2008, Begbies Traynor reported that the number of companies hit with such critical problems as winding petitions or poor accounts had increased massively both year-on-year and since the previous quarter.Nick ...

Symantec Corporation Symantec Reduces Storage Costs By Optimizing Thin Provisioned Storage Veritas
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation that maximize the value of thin-provisioned storage environments by optimizing migrations and enabling storage reclamation. Storage Foundation leverages the industry's only cross-platform thin-provisioning optimized file system and provides the only online storage migration solution that is ...

Data Center Rethink Needed Warns Analyst
IT managers need to fundamentally rethink their data centers in order to ensure that they become much more dynamic and less rigid, according to analyst house Burton Group.Speaking at Burton's Catalyst Conference in Prague, Drue Reeves, VP and research director says it is self evident that business dependency on IT will continue, but applications and workloads ...