Network Storage

With the federal election just around the corner, Communications Minister, Helen Coonan and her Labor counterpart, Senator Stephen Conroy have exchanged blows in a salvo of attacks on their opposing broadband plans.

IBM has rolled out a bunch of new software this week, significantly expanding its data management portfolio and speeding up deployment of business intelligence applications.

Hitachi is making waves this week, announcing that it has achieved a significant nanotechnology milestone and potentially quadrupled hard disk storage capabilities with a new teeny-tiny read head.

In a bid to meet growing storage requirements at the small end of town, Hitachi Data Systems has announced its first foray into the small to medium sized business (SMB) market with the launch of the SMS 100.

Plasmon has just released its new Archive File Manager, addressing challenges it perceived growing out of file and backup management issues with an automatic data migration solution.

Syncsort is promising end-to-end data protection and disaster recovery solution with the latest incarnation of its Backup Express.

Application delivery infrastructure provider Citrix Systems has added on-demand provisioning of virtual servers to its arsenal, enabling the streaming of data centre and desktop operation systems.

Riverbed has responded to allegations of patent infringement laid out by Quantum earlier this week, acknowledging Quantum’s complaint but asserting its innocence.

Removable disk storage specialist ProStor Systems has announced what it says is the world’s first removable disk archive system for small and medium enterprises.

Continuing its de-duplication patent dispute, Quantum has launched legal action against Riverbed claiming that the company has infringed and continues to infringe the method, patented by Quantum in 1999.

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