Flash: talk about service, not performance
There comes a time in the lifecycle of every technology when vendors need to give businesses more than benefits such as cost savings, increases in productivity and ease of management, writes Gary de Menezes, country manager at NetApp South Africa. Advantages such as...
From backup as a service to DR as a service
While some companies acknowledge that they need disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS), many still think that backup as a service (BaaS) is sufficient to meet their data management needs, writes Iniel Dreyer, MD of Gabsten Technologies. Those that are convinced that...
Commvault supports Red Hat Virtualization 4
Commvault has announced support for Red Hat's Kernel-based Virtual Machine powered virtualisation platform, Red Hat Virtualization 4. Through this integration, customers can implement a unified data protection strategy for workloads running on Red Hat Virtualization 4...
NetApp leads in magic quadrant
NetApp has been named a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays, based on its ability to execute and its completeness of vision. According to Gartner, Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow. "We...
HDS offers all-flash solutions
Hitachi Data Systems has announced support for VMware NSX network virtualisation platform, which when combined with the trusted family of high-performance converged and hyperconverged infrastructure systems from Hitachi Data Systems provides a solid foundation for...
First Technology debuts cloud storage offerings
Local IT specialists First Technology National has announced the release of Data Backup/Archiving as a Service, powered by Commvault and FirstNet Technology Services. This is one of the first offerings of its kind in Africa in partnership with Commvault. The solution...
Unitrans satisfied with Redstor’s cloud backup
Supply chain solutions provider Unitrans has implemented Redstor's backup solution to provide it with better redundancy and a more cost-effective way to manage its file server backups across 152 depots in South Africa and southern Africa. Part of KAP Industrial,...
Western Digital in 64-layer NAND first
Western Digital has successfully developed its next generation 3D NAND technology, BiCS3, with 64 layers of vertical storage capability. Pilot production of the new technology has commenced in the Yokkaichi, Japan joint venture facilities and initial output is...
NAS with personal cloud capability ideal for SMME s
Cloud storage is a technology that at the outset was typically viewed as something for the consumer market alone. However, in time more and more businesses began to realise the advantages of having centralised online storage solutions that could be accessed and shared...
Rethinking cloud storage
Growing acceptance of cloud computing and storage are seeing decision-makers refining their backup strategies to be even more efficient and cost effective. Danie Marais, founder of the software division at Redstor, feels that innovations in the market will herald...
PPS simplifies SAN environment, boosts performance
PPS, a mutual financial services company that focuses exclusively on graduate professionals, has successfully upgraded its storage area network (SAN) platform with Datacentrix, creating a redundant environment that is less complex, easy to use and high performing. PPS...
Stage2Data drives business continuity through Redstor
Canadian private cloud solution provider Stage2Data has been diversifying its client product offering in the Caribbean and Canada following its recent alliance with Redstor, a global provider of cloud backup service and data protection solutions. “Our approach to...