Huawei unveils OceanStor N9000

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled the Big Data Storage System OceanStor N9000.  Based on the innovative concept of “X-in-One”, Huawei OceanStor N9000 converges storage, analysis, and...

MWEB Business simplifies data backup

The oft-repeated management platitude that people are a business’s most valuable asset is wrong: data is. That’s the view of Kris Desmet, head of Product at MWEB Business who says that while the consequences of lost data can be relatively minor (having to re-input a...

EMC Isilon NAS supports cloud, analytics

At EMC World 2013, EMC announced that it is preparing the next version of its EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system. Building on the successful late-2012 launch of OneFS 7.0 (“Mavericks”), the next version of Isilon’s industry-leading operating system will...

EMC unveils ViPR at EMC World 2013

At EMC World 2013, EMC has introduced EMC ViPR, the world’s first software-defined storage platform. As service provider and enterprise data centres grow to tens and hundreds of petabytes, the cost and complexity associated with managing them becomes untenable.  By...

Simple backup and recovery for SMBs

Threats to data abound these days. Data loss caused by hardware or software failure is even more common than malware attacks, so backing up computer data is essential. With words like business continuity and disaster recovery being bandied about on a regular basis,...

Fujitsu, Quantum boost enterprise backup

Fujitsu has announced that enterprises will soon find it far easier to balance backup and recovery speed with the cost of flexibly storing virtually unlimited amounts of data on any combination of storage media.  In an extended sales and technology agreement, Fujitsu...