Fujitsu optimises Eternus DX S2
Fujitsu has accelerates business customers’ mission-critical applications by further optimising the Eternus DX S2 Disk Storage Family as systems of choice for high-performance applications. With a long record of leading benchmarks and satisfied customers, Fujitsu now...
Veeam supports VMWare vCloud Director
Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, is extending its support for VMware vCloud Director. An Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner, Veeam has...
NetApp expands Flash portfolio
In a move that extends its leadership in the industry, NetApp has announced the availability of the EF540 all-flash array for today’s extreme performance-driven enterprise applications, and previewed the architecture of its new, purpose-built FlashRay product family,...
Dell unveils new backup appliance
To help customers better manage and reduce the cost of backing up and recovering company data, Dell today unveiled its next generation disk backup appliance built on the Fluid Data architecture. The new high performance Dell DR4100 disk backup appliance can help...
DCC stocks WD Red NAS drive
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) is now delivering Western Digital’s (WD) Red network attached storage (NAS) hard drives. The Red drive is an innovative line of SATA hard drives with intellipower technology specifically designed for home and small office...
EMC Isilon recognised by Gartner
EMC Corporation has announced that its EMC Isilon product has been recognised with the an overall product viability rating of “outstanding” by Gartner in its new Critical Capabilities for Scale-Out File System Storage report. The rating was given to EMC Isilon based...
DCC introduces OceanStor T Series
Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has introduced the OceanStor T Series from Huawei Technologies, a unified new-generation storage system encompassing entry-level, mid-range and high-end storage applications. The OceanStor T Series of storage products...
Securing cloud backups
Popular cloud storage and backup solutions deliver lower total cost of ownership and more convenience for SMEs, but are cloud backups secure, asks Gareth Tudor, CEO of Altonet. Many South African organisations don’t feel comfortable with the perceived parting with...
ILM implementation empowers utilities
It boasts the distinction of being the largest producer of electricity in Africa and ranks among the top seven utilities in the world in terms of generation capacity, providing power to more than 4,3-million customers. But what exactly goes into powering a major...
Fujitsu achieves record benchmark
Fujitsu has announced that the ETERNUS DX8700 S2 disk storage system has scored the highest ever Storage Performance Council (SPC) Benchmark 2 results for both processing throughput and price-performance ratio for high-end systems, as of 3 December, 2012. For...
Seagate wins Best of CES 2013 award
With a "Best of CES 2013" win, Seagate’s Wireless Plus is destined for great things, says local distributor Platinum Micro. The Wireless Plus mobile storage device was singled out by international consumer technology news site CNET for the award in its Networking and...
WD expands SMB storage portfolio
Western Digital (WD) has announced an expansion of its product portfolio addressing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the addition of network backup software and appliances from Arkeia Software, a privately-held data protection company based in Carlsbad,...