© .Fabio Veritas NetBackup announced the integration of data de-duplication as part of the standard product on Jun 10, 2008. Now integrated with their continuous data protection technology this...

With so many data centers working toward consolidation, it seems more than a little odd that a new storage method attempts to do just the opposite: split it up into pieces. This off-beat method is...

Sometimes IT is lost on the little guys. The prohibitive costs associated with backup and storage can make it difficult for the smaller business to be able to archive and keep up with regulatory...

According to a recent study by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year are generated world wide....

Guess who's entered the data management space? Symantec, long known for its Norton line of computer protection, has made data management part of its lineup. As Symantec puts it, "Data...

How do you know that your archiving methods today will be enough to retrieve information tomorrow? Will the information you save today be readable in say ten or twenty years? What about encryption?...

Are blade systems ready for enterprise storage workloads? A new report by Hitachi says that blade systems can increase compute density and bring space-savings to the data center. The facts: blade...

If you've not implemented single instance storage (SIS) yet, why not? The idea is so simple, it's brilliant: SIS works by searching a hard disk volume to identify duplicate files. When SIS...

Today, expect each employee to receive an average of 80 emails. Average users receive that many every day, and most employees spend approximately 49 minutes dealing with them. Of those emails, much...

If the vendors had any say in the matter, you'd be backing up your data from disk to disk. That's the solution offered by Adaptec, Network Appliance and others hoping to replace your slow,...

If five of the largest storage manufacturers have anything to say about it, you'll soon have new technology designed to improve system performance and introduce the world to hybrid disks. Hitachi...

Didrik Johnck's Weblog: Saved by a CD: An object lesson - backups are important, folks. Really important. What's the lesson here?? A single electronic backup is not enough; always do a third...

"The G-Force MegaDisk provides up to 1.5 terabytes of capacity - the first drive solution in its class to reach the 1.5 TB benchmark -- in an affordable, high-performance external hard disk...

Introducing disk-to-disk-to-disaster recovery: Concepts such as information lifecycle management haven't had much uptake yet. The concept is sound, but there's too much perceived and actual...

Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH "As neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err / computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system will...

I'm a Mac fan. Not quite a fanatic, but pretty close to it. I'm also a big fan of backups - not just for myself, but for other people as well. I've long bemoaned the reality that backups...

» GDrive is Platypus | Googling Google | ZDNet.com: If Google offer large amounts of storage for $little, then I'd be very keen. My home backups are in a deplorable state, and I'm constantly...

Insecure about Security: Here's the reality, plain and simple. Since the ChoicePoint breach in February 2005 there have been 9 publicly-disclosed data breach incidents involving tape loss...

HP RISS? ILM and paving a way to future storage... | Computerworld Blogs: "...the thing I need from HP is the information to be able to engage HP solution sets beyond the level of a hardware...

the cool hunter - LACIE BACKS UP: LEGO was a large part of my youth - looking back at it, I'd have to say that it was probably the first major sign that i was destined for a life......