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  • Solid-state drives speed past data recovery techniques
    Solid-state disk drives are fast, use little power, get cheaper almost every day and are winning friends among all the big storage vendors. But the disks may also make it harder to use the last line of defence: data recovery. Simon Sharwood reports on the (mostly) upsides and downsides of data recovery using solid-state drives.
  • Storage tiering lowers overall IT costs
    Hardware, storage management software and document management software all stake a claim for tiering duties claims Simon Sharwood. Storage tiering is a hot theme, and rightly so, because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage.
  • Dense disks make for smart storage
    Disk drives will soon reach 10 terabytes, but the storage industry is worrying about how these new drives will complicate storage, rather than rejoicing in extra capacity. Simon Sharwood explains the new technologies pushing disk capacity higher and explores why larger disks are not entirely good news.
Feature (1)
  • Small-to-medium storage: Part two
    Part one of our small-to-medium business (SMB) storage analysis covered the relevance of new storage technologies to small and medium businesses. In this second part, we delve into deeper SMB semantics.
Product (29)
  • Seagate Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 solid state drives
    The Pulsar XT.2 solid state drive (SSD) and Pulsar.2 SSD are now available.
  • Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with 1 TB storage capacity per disk platter
    Seagate has released a 3.5″ hard drive featuring 1 TB of storage capacity per disk platter. The company’s GoFlex Desk products feature the hard drive, delivering storage capacities of up to 3 TB and an areal density of 625 Gb per square inch.
  • Lexar Media Crucial m4 solid-state drives
    Crucial m4 solid-state drives are available in capacities ranging from 64 to 512 GB and incorporate Micron’s 25 nm NAND flash technology in a 2.5″ form factor.
  • Intel SSD 320 solid-state drives
    The third-generation solid-state drive SSD 320 Series is based on Intel’s 25 nm NAND flash memory, and replaces and the X25-M SATA SSD.
  • Hitachi GST Z-Series Travelstar and CinemaStar drives
    Hitachi GST has launched the 7 mm Z-Series range of ultra-slim and light z-height Travelstar and CinemaStar drives, the claimed highest capacity and fastest 7 mm 2.5″ drives that enable ultra-portable computers, CE devices and industrial systems.
  • Verbatim mobile hard drive
    The Mobile Hard Drive is a portable 2.5″ hard drive, available in 320 and 500 GB capacities.
  • Hitachi Ultrastar C15K147 and 15K600 hard drives
    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced two Ultrastar 15,000 rpm hard drives: C15K147, a 2.5″ 6 Gbps serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, and the 600 GB 15K600 3.5″ with either 6 Gbps SAS or 4 Gbps fibre channel arbitrated loop (FCAL) interfaces. The drives are industry compliant, self-encrypting and enterprise class.
  • Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drives
    Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drives feature complete system backup (Windows only), password protection for added security and enhanced software features.
  • Quantum disk-to-disk backup
    Quantum has released the DXi6500 series that integrates disk-to-disk backup and restores performance with all leading backup applications, using a simple NAS interface and the company’s deduplication technology.
  • Mobile hard disk drive
    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced that it is shipping its Travelstar 7K500, a 500 GB, 2.5″, 3 Gbps SATA drive designed for notebooks, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions. Combining performance, ruggedness and capacity, Travelstar 7K500 is suitable for multitasking, gaming and other graphic-intensive applications.
  • Small business storage
    Seagate has announced a portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime.
  • Two-terabyte hard disk drive
    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is shipping a 2 TB, 7200 rpm hard disk drive (HDD), the 2 TB Deskstar 7K2000 that blends high performance and high capacity with low power and other eco-friendly features designed to enable Energy-Star rated computers and other high-performance desktop systems.
  • 3.5" hard drive
    Seagate has announced the availability of its Cheetah 15K.7 high-capacity, 3.5", mission-critical, enterprise-class hard drive for Tier 1 environments.
  • Hard drives
    Seagate has added two drives to its Cheetah enterprise-class hard drive family: the 15K.7 and the NS.2.
  • Disk libraries
    The Disk Library 3D 1500 and 3000 are backup-to-disk libraries with data deduplication facilities, suitable for mid-size LAN-based environments.
  • Self-encrypting hard drives
    The Momentus FDE (full-disk encryption) drives are self-encrypting notebook hard drives available in 160, 320 and 500 GB capacities.
  • Hard disk drive
    The Savvio 15K.2, a 2.5" SAS 2.0 hard disk drive (HDD), is now available.
  • External hard drives
    A range of 2.5 and 3.5” external hard drives are now available from Verbatim. They provide between 120 GB and 1 TB of storage capacity. The external drives offer users a way to backup from laptop or PC.
  • Disaster recovery
    PlateSpin Forge is a disaster recovery package for protecting physical and virtual server workloads, built on VMware infrastructure. The appliance provides protection for up to 25 physical or virtual workloads
  • High-density storage
    Nexsan has announced the SATABeast Xi, a high-density storage solution built for the Apple Xserve and Mac Pro markets.
  • Storage provisioning
    The Dynamic Provisioning software from Hitachi allows storage administrators to allocate virtual disk storage based on their anticipated future requirements, without dedicating physical disk storage upfront.
  • Optical character recognition
    OmniPage Professional 16 is an optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application for Windows.
  • CCTV management solution in an embedded format
    More than just a video recorder, the Divar MR from Bosch is a complete CCTV management solution in an embedded format.
  • Tape library
    Quantum's Scalar 50 is an entry-level tape library designed to provide data protection for small- to medium-sized storage environments.
  • StoreVault S300 small business storage
    The StoreVault S300 is an all-in-one storage solution for small and medium businesses (SMB).
  • Data validation
    SnapValidator for Oracle proactively checks and intercepts potential data corruption or loss, increasing data reliability while helping to reduce risk and unplanned down time.
  • SMB storage solution with enterprise capabilities
    Hitachi has announced the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage Model 100, a low-cost, plug-and-play storage solution. It claims to be affordable and easy to manage and maintain, with no storage expertise required.
  • Clustered storage
    The IQ 12000 and EX 12000 clustered storage devices have been released.
  • Blu-ray media
    The Sony 50 GB Blu-ray Disc holds more than 10 times the capacity of a DVD-R disc. The 50 GB BD media enables businesses to back up essential files and easily store the highest capacity of high definition video available.
News (4)
  • CSIRO develops ultra high-res visualisation system
    The CSIRO has developed an ultra high-resolution visualisation system to help scientists analyse large volumes of information.
  • Storage innovators take home Nobel Prize
    Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their simultaneous discovery of a technology that revolutionised the way storage devices read information.
  • NetApp and Sun lock horns again
    In the latest of a number of litigious jabs, Network Appliance (NetApp) is seeking legal clarification that it is not infringing three of Sun Microsystems' patents, and that these patents of Sun's are invalid. The suit also claims that Sun's use of its ZFS technology has infringed seven NetApp data processing systems patents.
  • Disk-based backup rising in Asia–Pacific
    Australia has one of the world's highest adoption rates of disk-based data protection storage solutions, says a survey conducted by Forrester Research on behalf of Network Appliance and Symantec.
Case Study (2)
  • SMB adopts disk-based backup
    Like many small and mid-size businesses, Australasian Merchandisers reached a point where its tape backup system no longer met its rising demands for data protection and disaster recovery. Australasian is an importer and distributor of stationery products in Australia. The computer systems supporting its business operations were storing increasing quantities of file and application data. It needed to protect this data and ensure its availability, but the tape backup system it used was slow and prone to failures.
  • Happy Feet can dance and dance
    Oscar contender Happy Feet, which has been nominated for best animated feature film, puts a smile on everyone's face when they see it. The technology and the management behind this feelgood movie is complex
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