WD offers Sentinel RX4100 storage server
WD, a Western Digital company and leader in digital storage solutions has expanded its product portfolio addressing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) with the addition of the WD Sentinel RX4100, its first 1U rack-mount small business storage server. “Following...
Metalogix StoragePoint from Soarsoft Africa
Soarsoft Africa, a specialist of archive, migration, messaging and collaboration solutions, has announced the release of Metalogix StoragePoint 4.2, the industry’s first and only fully integrated SharePoint storage, backup and recovery solution. Established as...
Veeam boosts offsite backup times
Bandwidth constraints and costs are the single biggest reason many Africa-based organisations have avoided remote backups, choosing rather to store hard copies off site. But new technology from Veeam offers the ability to create offsite backups over a network, even...
HP announces Converged Storage innovations
HP recently announced new HP Converged Storage innovations that enable customers to maximise the return on investment (ROI) of their virtual infrastructure by lowering costs while increasing agility and capacity utilisation. Extending its six-year leadership in...
WD launches new storage association
WD, a Western Digital company, has announced that it has founded the Storage Products Association (SPA) with other hard drive companies to promote the merits and value of rotating magnetic storage technologies, as well as to make consumers and professionals aware of...
Worldwide FOBS market on growth curve
The worldwide file- and object-based storage (FOBS) market continues to gain momentum with revenues exceeding $23-billion in 2013 and forecast to reach $38-billion in 2017. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), growth in the overall...
Forecast for tape backup grim
Lists consisting of client details, schedules, strategies, budgeting information, payroll … along with employees and the product or service on offer, data is indisputably a critical part of a company’s most precious commodities, and protecting that data by backing it...
Triple4 offers affordable enterprise backups
Ask any IT administrator which task is the most painful for them and the chances are very good they will reply "backup". While this has never been a popular or enjoyable job for the vast majority of those tasked with doing it, backups are also enormously important,...
Backup and recovery for emerging enterprises
There is a lot of hype in the marketplace about virtual machine backups at a host level to backup infrastructures in its entirety in order to deploy it elsewhere as part of their backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. In reality, these types of backup and DR...
Video surveillance demands reliable HDDs
Governments and businesses of all sizes have invested in digital video surveillance and digital CCTV solutions over the years, as part of an all-encompassing security system to protect valuable assets, says Kalvin Subbadu, Components sales manager, WD South Africa....
Huawei OceanStor wins Red Dot award
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently announced that its OceanStor HVS Enterprise Storage System, flagship product of Huawei’s storage portfolio, was presented with the "Red Dot Award: Product Design...
Fujitsu enhances the EXTERNUS DX family
Fujitsu has announced several enhancements to the ETERNUS DX family of disk-based storage systems to significantly broaden and deepen access to performance-hungry scenarios such as business analytics, data bases and online transaction processing (OLTP). To help to...