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...
Virtualised backups ideal test environments
Virtualising IT environments isn’t just about optimising hardware resources and saving energy – it can shorten development cycles and help to make organisations more agile, according to Warren Olivier, territory manager of backup and virtualisation management company...
SanDisk announces new USB Flash drives
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, has announced three USB flash drives, the SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, Cruzer Orbit and Cruzer Force USB flash drives. Designed with style, speed and reliability in mind, all three drives are ideal for...
EMC expands data protection portfolio
EMC Corporation has announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures that address today’s and tomorrow’s data protection challenges. The new products cut across the company’s market...
PPC solidifies backups with CA ARCserve
PPC has consolidated the management and control of its backups across a highly distributed computing environment using CA ARCserve Management Capacity Licence, from CA Southern Africa. This licence allows PPC to purchase a single licence for its multiple offices and...
HDS brings security to mobile workforce
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has unveiled new solutions and services that allow enterprises to adopt cloud computing more readily, enable their mobile workforce more securely and reliably, and provide a better IT...
Choosing a suitable WD drive
Any colour as long as it’s black? WD drives, available from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) may have a technology pedigree analogous to that of Ford’s in the motor industry but they are way ahead in terms of providing its broad base of customers with...
Offsite backup boosts disaster recovery
Offsite backups of virtualised IT environment are now available in South Africa, with Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition being offered by several local service providers, including CipherWave, Afrihost, Vox Telecom, Cybersmart, Triple 4 Consulting and Server...
HP expands Converged Storage portfolio
HP has expanded the company’s Converged Storage portfolio with a solid-state optimised all-flash HP 3PAR StoreServ system that delivers performance and low latency without compromising enterprise resiliency or adding data centre complexity. HP also has extended its...
Veeam named in “Visionaries” Quadrant
Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise...