HP, IBM and Quantum have jointly announced that the LTO Ultrium format has achieved sales of more than 1.5 million drives since it became commercially available in September 2000.

Open source backup and recovery software developer Zmanda has introduced what it is claiming is the first comprehensive, enterprise-class backup and recovery solution designed specifically for MySQL databases.

SpectrumData has signed a four-year contract with the Ethiopian Government to recover and reformat exploration data

After two successful days, a mix of seminars, presentations, exhibitions, networking and even a spot of music, SNW has closed its doors leaving delegates and visitors alike with a new outlook on the world of content storage.

Alfresco Software is pitching itself as the first provider of an open source enterprise content management with the release of its Alfresco Records Manager.

Among its other recent acquisitions of RSA and Network intelligence, earlier this month EMC quietly took over virtual tape library (VTL) software specialist NearTek.

New Zealand’s National Library Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa is doing more than its share of work helping to prevent the digital dark age by helping to develop an open source web crawler to save vast tracks of cyberspace for posterity.

Australian investment consulting company Intech is now relying on Messagelabs to protect it from non-compliance as well as spammers.

AMD has taken a leaf out of the open source community’s book and has released the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor, prompting big changes from players such as IBM.

IBM has launched a new virtual tape drive management system competing with technology released by Sun Microsystems