NAS storage meets SME needs
For the small to medium enterprise (SME) and even the consumer, data storage is becoming an increasing concern, says Anamika Budree, sales manager, Branded Products at WD South Africa. The growing volume of content, whether it be business-related or personal, and the...
DCC offers WD Red and Red Pro
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) is extending its range of purpose-built Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives with the inclusion of the new higher capacity WD Red drives, as well as medium to large enterprise-class WD Red Pro drives. WD Red drives,...
Fujitsu introduces scalable tape library
Fujitsu has introduced a new Petabyte-scale expandable edition of its Eternus LT tape library that combines performance with exceptionally high data storage density, making it ideally suited to both short-term back-up plus longer-term archiving deployments. As the new...
Oracle introduces FS1 Series flash storage
Transcending the limitations of existing all-flash storage arrays, the new Oracle FS1 Series flash storage system scales to petabytes of all-flash capacity while delivering a multitude of innovations designed to take flash technology to new extremes. Users of Oracle...
CommVault unveils new consulting service
To tackle a perennial weakness in private cloud implementations that has prevented enterprises from reaping the benefits of modern cloud architectures, CommVault has announced a new consulting service that enables customers to rapidly design data protection services...
Cloud growth fuels storage need
Massive data growth and an increasing trend toward virtualisation technology are having a profound impact on the modern organisation. The data centre, as well as cloud services and solutions both public and private, are becoming increasingly important to the survival...
WD introduces Ae line of hard drives
WD has announced its innovative WD Ae line of hard drives designed for the unique operating characteristics of the emerging archive tier within web-scale data centres. Built on a platform to achieve optimal TCO, WD Ae hard drives utilise the lowest possible power...
Fujitsu, Red Hat collaborate on storage
Fujitsu has announced a collaboration with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, to deliver a hyperscale, software-defined storage appliance for service providers and IT organisations that provides online data access in the multi-petabyte...
Seagate enhances storage portfolio
To address the dramatic growth in data creation and consumption, Seagate has announced a series of significant product updates that support its mission to lead the world in storing, sharing and protecting data. Amongst the releases is a new Cloud Systems and Solutions...
Business continuity versus disaster recovery
Despite the importance of having business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plans in place in the connected world, many organisations irrespective of size and industry are still struggling to get to grips with the differences between these two...
Metadata key in backup, recovery
Metadata is data about data. It tells us who authored a document, when, what the document contains and where the file "fits" in relation to other data. Metadata is important because it is a key enabler of data storage, retrieval and/or restoration – a vital...
Seagate ships first 8Tb hard drive
Seagate Technology has announced that it is shipping the world’s first 8Tb hard disk drive. An important step forward in storage, the 8Tb hard disk drive provides scale-out data infrastructures with supersized-capacity, energy-efficiency and the lowest total cost of...