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ed but not masked, meaning it has been allocated within the storage array but not recognized by a server.3. Audit backup and replication configurations to cut waste. As important as disaster recovery is, the technologies that enable it sometimes lead to waste. In a typical storage environment, there can often be as ... This tendency for over-allocation combined with limited ability to effectively forecast data growth in most organizations leads to a significant gap in the amount of capacity that is allocated versus actually used.Reclaiming wasted storage will often require application downtime, making careful planning necessary. Using ... storage costs eat up at least 11% of IT hardware budgets, but there are plenty of ways to save money without sacrificing performance or security. In a new report called Five Key storage Strategies for a ...

Asempra Beefs Up Business Continuity
rather than hours or even days.Asempra BCS also includes application failover, snapshot, replication, disk-based backup, and seamless tape backup features. "Mid-size[d] companies are now demanding enterprise-level storage features," says Gary Gysin, Asempra's CEO. Vertical industries that have been interested in the ... sempra, which is a former Top 10 startup, fleshed out its Microsoft story today in an attempt to reduce users risk of data loss.Better performance and support for more Microsoft applications -- especially noteworthy is Exchange 2007 -- are the key enhancements in the latest release of the Asempra Business Continuity ... d seamless tape backup features. "Mid-size[d] companies are now demanding enterprise-level storage features," says Gary Gysin, Asempra's CEO. Vertical industries that have been interested in the technology include Websites, financial services, municipal governments, and special service firms, such as those ...

Nexsan Databeast Storage Array Consolidates Sata Sas Disk Storage
SATA and SAS disk storage and can be expanded to up to 5 PB. Nexsan, which started off selling ATA and then SATA systems for backup, added an Assureon archiving product in 2005 and launched its first SAS system last month. In addition to its support for SATA and SAS disk storage, the dataBeast storage array adds NAS capabilities to Fibre Channel connectivity for file ... Nexsan Technologies has rolled out a storage array called dataBeast that consolidates SATA and SAS disk storage and can be expanded to up to 5 PB. Nexsan, which started off selling ATA and then SATA systems for backup, added an Assureon archiving product in 2005 and launched its first SAS ... Nexsan Technologies has rolled out a storage array called DataBeast that consolidates SATA and SAS disk storage and can be expanded to up to 5 PB. Nexsan, which started off selling ATA and then SATA systems for backup, added an Assureon ...

Bus Tech Mainframe Vtl Available Through Hitachi Data Systems
on. The combined solution set will provide enterprise data centers with lower tape processing costs, faster backups and restores, improved business continuity and disaster recovery and the ability to include compliant storage in their mainframe environment.Hitachi data Systems will offer Bus-Tech's Mainframe data Library ... Mainframe data Library Provides Cost-Effective Mainframe Tape Replacement with Scalable and Secure SolutionBus-Tech, Inc., the market leader in mainframe tape-on-disk controllers and data center connectivity products, today ... s, faster backups and restores, improved business continuity and disaster recovery and the ability to include compliant storage in their mainframe environment.Hitachi Data Systems will offer Bus-Tech's Mainframe Data Library (MDL) which uses a modular approach for scalability and high-availability. Additional capacity can be easily ...

Users Find Cost Cutting Data Backup And Dr Built Into Applications
ft SQL Server 2008 and VMware's ESX Server to reduce the number of products in their shops for backup and disaster recovery, cutting costs and management headaches.Glenn Berry, database architect for Colorado-based NewsGator, manages 25 TB of storage on 3PAR's InServe S400 high-end disk array. The ... A Web 2.0 database architect and a construction-company chief technology officer say they've used embedded tools in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and VMware's ESX Server to reduce the number of products in their shops for backup and ... es.Glenn Berry, database architect for Colorado-based NewsGator, manages 25 TB of storage on 3PAR's InServe S400 high-end disk array. The majority of NewsGator's data is served through multiple instances of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008, which it recently put into production after beta ...

Ibm And Sun Each Claim To Develop First 1tb Tape Drive
as deep as you can.IBM boasted that its new tape drive delivers data at a rate of 160 megabytes per second, allowing backups to be completed 54% faster than its previous product. Sun on its product Web site says its own T10000B drive delivers speeds of 120Mbps.IBM also said it developed a Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) ... ake that archive as deep as you can.IBM boasted that its new tape drive delivers data at a rate of 160 megabytes per second, allowing backups to be completed 54% faster than its previous product. Sun on its product Web site says its own T10000B drive delivers speeds of 120Mbps.IBM also said it developed a ... Both IBM and Sun this week claim to have developed the "first one terabyte storage tape drive," but Sun will get its drive on the market a little bit sooner than IBM.Sun on Monday announced the storageTek T10000B Fibre Channel tape drive, which is double Suns previous top capacity of 500GB. Suns device will be ...

Emc Merges Home Backup With Cloud Based Storage
The fruits of three EMC acquisitions are coming together with an integration involving Retrospect backup software, the Mozy online backup service, and Iomega external hard drives.Targeted at consumers, the offering announced Wednesday nonetheless is a potential preview of enterprise products that ... -based backup service. Combining the offerings gives customers an extra level of data redundancy and access to files anywhere via the Web.Essentially EMC is saying, weve got these products, the target audience for the products is the same, lets bring them together and over time further integrate them, says Steve ... ted at consumers, the offering announced Wednesday nonetheless is a potential preview of enterprise products that join EMCs storage, online backup and traditional backup capabilities. (Compare products.) Iomega hard drive buyers are being offered a free download of Retrospect backup and restoration software and easy access to the Mozy ...

3par And Sysdba Launch Utility Storage In South Africa
with demand, blackouts are a reality for South African datacentres. "If you need to run a datacentre on emergency backup power, then you have to consider technologies such as 3PAR that reduce your power consumption and drive up utilisation of your resources," said Bamber."We are very excited about this partnership with SYSDBA - not just because ... portfolio of products that collectively optimise and consolidate their clients datacentres by reducing management overhead and improving resource utilisation, ultimately saving their clients money. 3PAR Utility storage is designed to enable a new generation of utility computing applications such as delivery of enterprise ... Partnership Takes Virtualisation into the storage Infrastructure for Greater Consolidation, Cost Savings, and Administrative Simplicity...London, UK, 15th July 2008 - 3PAR (NYSE Arca: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today a new ...

Emc Adds Mozy Lifesaver To Iomega Drives
EMC is rolling together two of its recent acquisitions into a storage bundle that combines both local and remote data backup.Iomega external hard drive customers can today download a software package that combines EMC Retrospect Express backup with the Mozy online backup service.Customers who purchase an Iomega external ... ther two of its recent acquisitions into a storage bundle that combines both local and remote data backup.Iomega external hard drive customers can today download a software package that combines EMC Retrospect Express backup with the Mozy online backup service.Customers who purchase an Iomega external hard drive can choose ... EMC is rolling together two of its recent acquisitions into a storage bundle that combines both local and remote data backup.Iomega external hard drive customers can today download a software package that combines EMC Retrospect Express backup with the Mozy online backup service.Customers who ...

Emc Makes Consumer Storage Move
$213 million earlier this year, is rolling out external hard drives that come bundled with EMC Retrospect Express backup software and EMC's Mozy online backup service in an attempt to ensure that consumer data is safely stored.EMC has been gradually expanding its reach from the enterprise into the consumer market. Iomega has ... Sophisticated data protection is moving from the enterprise into the consumer market. Iomega, which was acquired by EMC for $213 million earlier this year, is rolling out external hard drives that come bundled with EMC Retrospect Express backup software ... ide whether to store information on an external hard drive or a network drive; online storage; or a combination of the two.Retrospect Express 7.6 for Windows, which can be integrated into MozyHome or MozyPro, backs up internal and external hard drives, NAS devices, CD/DVDs, and removable ...