Veeam, Lenovo partner on data management
Veeam Software has announced a new global partnership with Lenovo, which will enable customers to purchase Veeam Intelligent Data Management solutions with Lenovo Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) and Storage Area Network (SAN) offerings directly from Lenovo and...
Fujitsu storage appliance supports archiving
Fujitsu has added a powerful new storage appliance for archiving to its portfolio. The Eternus CS8050 NAS provides comprehensive, competitively priced storage for the archiving needs - including SoftWORM (Write Once, Read Many) features for legal compliance,...
A customer-centric approach to hyper-availability
South African businesses are increasingly leveraging data to deliver a better customer experience and differentiate their offerings from competitors. Kate Mollett, regional manager: Africa South at Veeam For example, one local bank lets a person open an account simply...
Company data on backup tapes poses problems
Company data left on discarded backup tapes is potentially a bigger problem than data left on discarded hard drives. Many companies discard backup tapes before they start experiencing any problems and there is a vigorous market in used tapes and cartridges. However,...
Fujitsu launches new storage appliance
Fujitsu has added a powerful new storage appliance for archiving to its portfolio. The Eternus CS8050 NAS provides comprehensive, competitively priced storage for the archiving needs - including SoftWORM (Write Once, Read Many) features for legal compliance,...
Space: not the final frontier
Space. It may once have been the final frontier, but now it's the one thing that anyone with technology runs out of. The sheer volume of data generated every day is staggering with the average for 2017 working out to around 2,5-quintillion bytes daily. Research by...
SA distributors get Commvault’s HyperScale
Last year, Commvault, global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, launched its HyperScale Appliance and HyperScale Software across international markets. These powerful, cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings are now available in South...
It’s time to get NAS
Everyone is ready for NAS, especially the SME, writes Joanne Weng, South Africa sales manager of Synology. The enterprise market has traditionally been seen as the one that sits up and pays expensive and complicated attention to cloud storage. It is, after all, only...
Commvault Partners with IBM
Commvault has announced a new partnership with IBM, in which IBM Business Resiliency Services will be able to provide a managed service based on the Commvault software portfolio of data management and protection software, including the Commvault Data Platform. With...
Commvault, Lucidworks add AI to backup
Commvault has announced a new technology partnership with Lucidworks, bringing new innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) to the rapidly-evolving data backup and protection market. The convergence of AI technology with powerful backup and data protection...
Fujitsu simplifies disaster recovery
Fujitsu has introduced the latest version of Fujitsu Eternus Snapshot Manager (ESM). The feature-rich and efficient software enables near-instant disaster recovery and reliable business continuity through array-based snapshot and data replication of Fujitsu Eternus...
Protect data in physical, virtual, cloud workloads
Synology has released two major backup applications in Active Backup suite of packages, the official version of Active Backup for Office 365 that supports SaaS cloud backup, and the beta version of Active Backup for Business that provides data availability for...