Veeam boosts offsite backup times

Bandwidth constraints and costs are the single biggest reason many Africa-based organisations have avoided remote backups, choosing rather to store hard copies off site. But new technology from Veeam offers the ability to create offsite backups over a network, even...

HP announces Converged Storage innovations

HP recently announced new HP Converged Storage innovations that enable customers to maximise the return on investment (ROI) of their virtual infrastructure by lowering costs while increasing agility and capacity utilisation. Extending its six-year leadership in...

WD launches new storage association

WD, a Western Digital company, has announced that it has founded the Storage Products Association (SPA) with other hard drive companies to promote the merits and value of rotating magnetic storage technologies, as well as to make consumers and professionals aware of...

Worldwide FOBS market on growth curve

The worldwide file- and object-based storage (FOBS) market continues to gain momentum with revenues exceeding $23-billion in 2013 and forecast to reach $38-billion in 2017. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), growth in the overall...

Triple4 offers affordable enterprise backups

Ask any IT administrator which task is the most painful for them and the chances are very good they will reply “backup”. While this has never been a popular or enjoyable job for the vast majority of those tasked with doing it, backups are also enormously...

Huawei OceanStor wins Red Dot award

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently announced that its OceanStor HVS Enterprise Storage System, flagship product of Huawei’s storage portfolio, was presented with the “Red Dot Award: Product...