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Axway launches cloud-based Axway Archiving

jccgutierrez — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:29:12 +0800

SINGAPORE – Axway, the Business Interaction Networks company, introduced Axway Archiving, a cloud-based email archiving solution feautring unlimited email archiving storage at a fixed price for any messaging platform. With cloud computing, Axway Archiving eliminates the need for on-premise hardware, sof

Microsoft Exchange 2010 is out

jccgutierrez — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:42:55 +0800

Microsoft Corp. released Exchange 2010 this week with improved email archiving, compliance, and high availability features.

Despite the improvements, some storage pros and analysts are taking a wait-and-see approach to the new features and are leery of an approach that doesn't allow for tiered storage.

Dexrex Gear offers cloud-based IM and data archiving

jccgutierrez — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:05:54 +0800

A company already offering consumers the ability to back up instant messages and social media messages from platforms like Twitter and Facebook is looking to take a cloud storage-based data archiving offering into the enterprise, at a time when some experts expect government regulations to tighten in the wake of last year's mortgage crisis and more recent scandals.

School consolidates storage with Xiotech, DataCore

jccgutierrez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:29:48 +0800

The Barren County, Ky., school district discovered it could make good use of management features such as thin provisioning and remote mirroring even if they're not included natively with its storage arrays.

Storage news summary: November 10, 2009

jccgutierrez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:23:24 +0800

Brocade SAN gear certified for Oracle bundles
Oracle Corp. has qualified a group of storage bundles including Brocade Communications Systems Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters (HBAs) that the vendors say will optimize Oracle database and application suites.

HP launches new NAS platform

jccgutierrez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:11:59 +0800

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. today launched a network-attached storage (NAS) platform based on software acquired from Ibrix. The new platform is part of a rollout of HP storage virtualization and server virtualization products.

EMC, Cisco, VMware form alliance

jccgutierrez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:02:05 +0800

Following the official announcement of the long-awaited cloud alliance between EMC Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and VMware Tuesday, enterprise data storage industry experts and customers said they are wary of the trend toward vendor consolidation and the delivery of vertically integrated stacks.

Acronis extends backup and recovery suite

jccgutierrez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:17:51 +0800

HONGKONG - Acronis has launched Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack, an add-on solution featuring advanced home users the flexibility to restore their files, applications and operating system to dissimilar hardware.

SAS, Teradata expand strategic partnership

jccgutierrez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:17:21 +0800

Two years into their strategic parnership, Teradata and SAS continue to expand in-database analytics options by introducing their newest Advantage Program offering: Business Insight Advantage.

Caltrol consolidates storage with Pillar

jccgutierrez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:03:10 +0800

Industrial process-automation equipment manufacturer Caltrol Inc. found Pillar Data Systems' Axiom iSCSI storage area network (SAN) a better fit for consolidating its newly virtualized server setup than upgrading to a new Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. LeftHand Networks SAN because Pillar offered more data storage capacity at the same price and performance.