EMC has announced expanded data de-duplication capabilities for its EMC NetWorker and EMC Avamar backup software and EMC Disk Library, for disk-based backup.
The $US1.5B acquisition of Data Domain has been announced by storage giant NetApp, continuing the vendor's push to accelerate the adoption of disk-based backup in multi-vendor environments.
Flexible backup and restores of deduplicated Microsoft SharePoint sites and site collections are being promised by FalconStor and Idera Software under a new sales and marketing partnership.
Karoon Gas Australia, an ASX-listed energy exploration company, has implemented the NetApp FAS3020 "fabric-attached" storage system to speed up data access and address compliance.
Three new software offerings from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) are designed to provide an extended management view beyond the storage system:an IT Operations Analyzer, Virtual Server Reporter, powered byAPTARE and the Storage Command Portal.
Australian TV production giant FremantleMedia Australia has slashed its data backup window from 15 hours to 2-3 hours - and down to 90 minutes in some instances - by using ShadowProtect from StorageCraft.