Consolidating backup and recovery makes sound business sense
The majority of enterprises today are burdened with multiple backup and data protection solutions. By Mike Rees, territory account manager: South Africa at Commvault These options often become complicated, hard to manage and expensive to maintain. Consequently, such a...
Fujitsu, Veeam partner on simplified backup and recovery
Fujitsu and Veeam are focusing on simplifying backup and recovery for customers running mission-critical virtual machines in the data centre. This new partnership delivers increased availability of data and faster recovery from disasters and unplanned system downtime....
Commvault extends data recovery support to Nutanix Files 3.5
Commvault has announced that Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery tightly integrates data protection for Nutanix Files 3.5. The introduction of Nutanix Files 3.5 offers an enterprise-grade scale-out file storage solution leveraging the cloud-like flexibility of the...
Infinidat unveils new storage vision
Infinidat has announced their vision for the future of enterprise-class storage with a focus on empowering customers' data-driven competitive advantage at multi-petabyte scale. The vision is supported by key new product enhancements and programme releases. Components...
Redstor debuts realtime data availability solution
Data management company Redstor offers a secure, real-time data management solution that provides organisations with access to all their data irrespective of the device used. "Data management in the digital world requires a new perspective on what availability must...
Fujitsu Eternus DX8900 S4 comes out tops in SPC-1
Fujitsu's storage solution Eternus DX8900 S4 has achieved a double first in terms of high performance for a storage system - setting a new benchmark record as well as being the first to break the 10 Million IOPS per second barrier, as confirmed by the latest results...
Fujitsu and Commvault offer more backup choices
Fujitsu is giving customers the widest choice of backup solutions to suit their individual business needs and budgets, with the addition of Commvault HyperScale Appliances to its storage portfolio. The hyper-converged Commvault HyperScale Appliances are built on...
Veritas NetBackup available in IBM Marketplace
Veritas Technologies has announced that its flagship product, Veritas NetBackup, is now available in the IBM Marketplace, providing access to data backup and protection for IBM Cloud and Veritas customers. Veritas' industry-leading backup and recovery solutions help...
AI drives paradigm shift in the storage environment
Tapes, removable disks, hard disks and Solid State Drives (SSDs), also known as flash storage -there have been many technological advancements and this is continuing to evolve. Eran Brown, chief technology officer for Infinidat, EMEA As artificial intelligence (AI)...
The importance of data backup
Data may have become the new oil, but many consistently fail to protect such a valuable resource, writes David McMurdo, regional director: South Africa at Veritas Technologies. Over a thousand mobile phones, laptops and hard drives are lost or stolen each day. Stored...
World Backup Day – a reminder to liberate your backup
World Backup Day on Sunday 31 March brought into sharp focus the importance of regularly backing up data - but there is more to this aspect of data management that businesses can ill-afford to neglect. This is according to global data management SaaS specialist...
Backing up the always-on enterprise
The concept of backups is debatable for businesses with a clear vision and strategy. Some executives will tell you that having a plan B means that plan A will never work. Kate Mollett, regional manager for Africa at Veeam There is one type of backup option which is...