Network Storage

Lexar Media is launching flash-based, backup drives, the Lexar Echo SE and Lexar Echo ZE, designed to protect netbook and notebook computers.

Symantec has announced a set of four new security products designed to deal with network and email threats, data loss prevention and IT management.

NetApp has unveiled new storage solutions for SharePoint 2010, including NetApp SnapManager 6.0 due out in August 2010 to provide policy-based management of data.

The widespread uptake of self-encrypted drives and growth of virtual machines is delivering new challenges to digital evidence, according to Wave Systems Chief Scientist Robert Thibadeau, PhD.

Azaleos Corporation has announced the newest version of its remotely managed service for SharePoint Server, Azaleos Managed SharePoint 2010 Services.

Communications and storage chip maker PMC-Sierra has acquired Adaptec’s RAID storage product line for about $US34 million.

According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.

While more than three quarters (84 per cent) of Australian organisations questioned in a recent survey rely on backups to restore lost corporate data, only 35 per cent of IT managers conduct monthly or weekly checks to confirm that data can be retrieved from their backup systems.

Compellent has expands its unified storage offerings with the zNAS (network-attached storage) solution, which consolidates file- and block-level storage on a single, intelligent platform based on the ZFS file system.

StorageCraft has announced ShadowProtect Server 4.0 and StorageCraft ShadowProtect Small Business Server 4.0, the latest version of its backup, disaster recovery and system migration technology.

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