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Idera has announced the upcoming release of its Pointbackup™ product, a powerful, easy to use backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SharePoint sites and site collections. It enables administrators to ensure the safety and integrity of vital SharePoint content by automating the backup and recovery process. A powerful and flexible scheduling engine enables automation of backup operations, ensuring that vital content is backed up regularly. Pointbackup saves storage costs by employing powerful compression technology. This reduces backup file sizes by as much as 95 percent.
The global leading data storage company, Proware Technology Corp. has released EP4429, the first high density storage solution of EPICa product line, to meet the increasing needs of enterprise customers. EPICa RAID system is the new generation of RAID products capable of supporting SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and SATA drives. In order to meet the needs of its enterprise level customers, Proware chose the Seagate Barracuda ES Hard Drive family product.
IBM has launched its new storage solutions which would enable financial, political and other forms of institutions to convert static data into information that is more dynamic and available in a cloud computing environment. The new suite is a result of $ 2 billion investment over three years. According to IBM, the spread of mobile web will increase the average annual information footprint for a person from one terabyte to 16 terabytes by 2020.
Data Domain®, the leading provider of Deduplication Storage systems, has released the Data Domain Retention Lock software option, the industry’s first software to allow file locking for IT regulatory governance with high throughput inline deduplication and maximum flexibility for trusted operators. With Data Domain Retention Lock software, IT administrators can now store deduplicated files in an unalterable state for a specified length of time. This introduction of WORM (write once - read many) for active archive, high performance deduplication storage allows enterprises to implement a wide range of corporate IT governance policies that require data be retained and unchanged for fixed periods of time before removing it.
Plasmon has re-launched its RAID product, courtesy of NetApp, with Plasmon’s software providing a two-tiered storage capability with online disk and online optical archival UDO drives - which can be taken off-site. The new NetArchive product integrates NetApp RAID technologies with Plasmon’s Archive Appliance and data management software to allow customers to provision data within NetArchive according to its unique storage requirements. It’s policy-driven with data moving automatically between the NetApp storage and the archival drives.
Seagate Technology has unveiled a network hard drive that allows families to back up their media collection. The Maxtor Central Axis network drive provides up to one terabyte of storage which can be linked to multiple computers in a home, to allow for video, photo and music files to be centrally backed-up. Automatic back-up of the computer on the network can also be carried out by the Maxtor Central Axis network drive, removing the responsibility from the user to save data on the second system.
RAID Inc., a customized storage solution and services provider specializing in leading edge technologies, has entered into an OEM agreement with NEC Corporation of America, a premier provider of IT, network and identity management solutions. RAID will license NEC’s D-Series Enterprise Modular Storage products and sell them under the RAID Inc.’s brand. The new product line will be incorporated into RAID Inc.’s suite of storage solutions for the high performance computing (HPC), government, research and corporate markets.
Data Robotics has launched the second generation of its Drobo storage product. Among the new features is the addition of FireWire 800 for faster read and speeds. The new units also include an upgraded core processor and an optimized firmware. According to Data Robotics, the new Drobo “addresses the needs of any user seeking a reliable method of managing vast amounts of data without sacrificing performance; from video editors, to heavy down-loaders, to photographers who shoot raw images.”
Nexsan, a leading provider of energy efficient, long-term storage, has introduced a high-capacity, high-density storage solution, DATABeast™, to address the growth of business-critical data at a price point targeted for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The DATABeast is a large capacity, full-service green storage system that stores up to 336TB in 42U and easily scales to accommodate up to 4 PB in a single, easy to manage system. Additionally, the solution fully integrates and consolidates SATA and SAS disk-based storage according to individual user preferences.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) has introduced two new CinemaStar(TM) hard drives that are optimized to be used in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is available in a broad range of capacities up to one terabyte (1TB) and the CinemaStar 5K320 delivers up to 320GB of capacity and incorporates innovative Hitachi CoolSpin technology. CoolSpin drives use a motor speed optimized for low power and acoustics, enabling Hitachi to deliver the industry’s quietest, most energy-efficient 3.5-inch hard drives.