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WeRecoverData.com Does Heavy Lifting for e-Discovery
Recovering crashed hard drives, discovering lost passwords, performing e-discovery chores and other data retrieval tasks have required tools and specialist not often available to the typical solution provider. Customers calling for those services were usually shuffled off to an organization specializing in those tasks, leaving the solution provider out of the loop. WeRecoverData.com is looking…
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IBM, Voltaire Seek Faster Data Centers
Voltaire has announced it will design a custom, high-performance 40GB per second InfiniBand switch module for IBM to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter. The integrated product, expected to be released within the next six months, will help solution providers deliver faster, more efficient data center solutions. “Customers’ data centers are only as fast…
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Overland Introduces Next-Gen Tape Libraries to Hungry Midmarket
Despite predictions to the contrary, tape-based storage, backup and archiving technology is far from dead. In fact, Overland Storage has introduced next-generation models of its NEO series automated tape libraries to capitalize on the still-growing need for scalable, affordable and reliable data protection and archiving solutions. According to Robert Amatruda, research director at IDC for…
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VMware, Iomega Create Storage Solution for the V-Curious
VMware and Iomega, cousins to each other under mothership EMC, co-launched a new shared-storage system Feb. 24 for small businesses and remote corporate offices and/or workgroups. The new configurations link VMware’s ESX and/or ESXi hypervisors with Iomega’s newest 1TB and 2TB spinning-disk storage systems for the first time. The new configurations, which will be sold…
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Fujitsu’s Secret Tactics to Beat the Recession
In a tight economy when your customers’ IT budgets are shrinking, and you are competing for those fewer dollars against the giants in the industry, how is it possible to gain an edge? Fujitsu has found one way – a try-before-you-buy program that places evaluation units of the company’s storage technology, SAN and NAS solutions,…
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FalconStor Aims to Make Storage Less Taxing
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, in this world, nothing’s for certain except death, taxes and, perhaps, storage. The inevitability of data growth and the very real possibility that they’ll outgrow capacity lead many organizations to consistently overestimate storage needs in annual budgets. In the short term, this strategy makes sense, but long term, the results are…