Understanding the difference: Disaster Recovery and Data Backup

Backup Software and Disaster Recovery are often mistakenly placed in the same category. Harking to an early era when enterprises tended to run batch processing systems and the working day was 9 to 5, the notion of a data backup seems less relevant for a highly virtualised and always on modern IT environment. Yet, the lines are still blurred while a sea of marketing messages around cloud as-a-service further pitch the two concepts as bedfellows. Zerto’s Vice President EMEA, Pete Godden...

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Unitrends breaks the 100 TB barrier

Recovery-944S and 946S optimised for unmatched scalability, performance and recovery times; cloud enabled appliances cut capital and operating expenses.

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Flash for less than $1/GB

Kaminario has unveiled its K2 v5.5 all-flash primary storage array. In an industry-first move, K2 drops the average cost/GB usable less than $1/GB and introduces deployment of 3D TLC drives, building on the company’s earlier K2 and offering an even more cost-effective and scalable all-flash array to enterprises. Kaminario’s new system also includes native array-based replication and the company’s Perpetual Array™ program, enabling customers to seamlessly phase in new...

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Tintri launches all-Flash appliances

Tintri also introduces VMstack Converged Infrastructure along with qualified partners to offer best-of-breed compute and network with Tintri VM-Aware storage.

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Seagate Technology to acquire Dot Hill Systems

Seagate Technology and Dot Hill Systems  have entered into a definitive agreement under which a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Seagate will commence a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Dot Hill in an all-cash transaction valued at $9.75 per share, or a total of approximately $694 million on a fully-diluted equity value basis. As Dot Hill has approximately $49 million in cash on its balance sheet as of June 30, 2015, the transaction reflects an enterprise value of...

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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