DSI Launches Second Generation of its Data Storage Virtual Tape Library Series

Global cloud spending is expected to grow at a robust pace over the next few years. According to a report from Seagate Market Research and IDC cloud is expected to represent 39% of total enterprise drive capacity by 2013. This augurs well for Quantum which offers solutions for storing and protecting information in physical, virtual, cloud and big data environments. Last month Quantum reported strong financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2013. For the quarter ended December 31, 2013, the San Jose, California-based company reported revenue of $159 million. On a GAAP basis the company reported a net loss of $8 million or $0.04 per share for the quarter. On a non-GAAP basis the company reported net income of $5 million or $0.02 per share.

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Data Storage Upgrades Prove Disruptive to SMBs

Managing the storage lifecycle due to staggering data growth is a significant challenge for IT administrators, according to a study on the top IT pain points impacting today’s midmarket enterprises from software-defined storage solutions specialist Gridstore. The survey indicated that during a major storage upgrade more than half (55 percent) of midmarket enterprises experienced business and end-user disruption while 32 percent experienced failed upgrade process where migrations didn’t complete and 9 percent lost data or access to data during the migration. When asked what their top challenges are today, the survey respondents commented that keeping it cost effective, responsive and adequate for growing businesses needs, backing up vast amounts of data, catching up with the growth of data and the expense to do that and hitting capacity limits too quickly were their top concerns.

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Aegis Technology Services Formed as a Joint Venture between Data Storage Corporation and ABC Services

Aegis Technology Services a managed services provider of cloud computing solutions for the IBM Power Systems market announced today the official formation of the company as a result of a joint venture between Data Storage Corporation, a long-standing leader in cloud storage and cloud computing and ABC Services, Inc, a certified IBM IT solutions provider. Aegis Technology combines ABC’s industry-leading managed services expertise in IBM iSeries/AIX v7 with technical support and data center operations expertise from Data Storage Corporation. This combined know-how will enable mid-market firms built on IBM hardware platforms to deploy new levels of reliable and cost-effective computing and high availability solutions, leveraging the cloud and the benefits of the Infrastructure-as-a-Servic /hosted model.

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Xyratex And Pentaho Partner To Unlock Big Value From Big Data

A leading provider of data storage technology announced that it has partnered with Pentaho Corporation which delivers big data and predictive analytic solutions from one integrated platform to develop the industry’s first fully integrated Big Data analytics and scalable storage solutions. The combined offerings which will be released later this year will help organizations decrease the amount of hardware and software required to complete major data analysis projects and unlock the limitless potential of Big Data while delivering lower total cost of ownership to end users. The combination of Xyratex and Pentaho will for the first time give users the ability to manage their vast and growing data challenges on one integrated platform. Large data silos, limited to no access for key users and the complexity and cost of buying separate stand-alone products to manage data have undermined users’ abilities to derive value from Big Data.

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Cleversafe Launches Solution Network to Build Out Big Data Storage Ecosystem

Businesses today are challenged to provide their end users with a complete storage solution. Today those requirements have grown to include always-available access to information, ways to effectively tier, retrieve and store content, backup and archive data for disaster recovery and business continuity, and to meet all governance and compliance requirements. To address these mounting challenges, Cleversafe Inc., the solution for limitless data storage, today announced the formation of The Cleversafe Solution Network designed to provide customers with a comprehensive ecosystem offering the most cost-effective, scalable and highly available end-to-end storage solutions to address today's business requirements now and well into the future. Customers inherently buy storage platforms to store data from a wide variety of applications, all focused on delivering business value. The problem is that not all application vendors are interoperable or are integrated in such a way that companies can easily fold their storage strategy together to solve the challenges associated with today's data growth.

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Recovery Toolbox software releases Outlook Recovery Service providing improved email restoration engine

The service of Outlook recovery provided by means of Recovery Toolbox for Outlook data recovery software, permits recovering MS Outlook folder with higher efficiency than before, it is possible due to the usage of more sophisticated data restoration algorithms, explains Victor Bobrov, founder of Recovery Toolbox software. Like before Outlook recovery solution can be applied to any version of mailbox in this format so there is no need to worry about possible compatibility problems. This application is fully automated and supports all instances of Outlook recovery, under all possible PC hardware configurations in use. In the same time the developer reminds that more powerful hardware may considerably improve the speed of analysis. Recovery Toolbox software vendor works on data recovery tools for more than ten years therefore it has a lot of experience in developing software solutions for more than twenty popular data formats. This company permits free evaluation for all of its solutions therefore users may evaluate the efficiency of analysis and friendly interface of Recovery Toolbox programs before buying.

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Stellar Becomes the First Data Recovery Company to Reach 2 Million Customers

Stellar Data Recovery leaders in data recovery software and services crossed the 2 million customer mark this January. Since its establishment in 1993 the company specializes in data recovery solutions with a whole range of do it yourself software and in lab services.  Stellar has a reach in more than 170 countries and in 2012 alone the company sold more than 150,000 product licenses. It is targeting selling over 200,000 licenses in 2013. USA is the largest market with Germany outpacing UK to become the second largest market for Stellar. Our offerings have helped businesses & consumers recover from critical data loss situations and we are delighted with the fact that we have been able to bring back smiles on so many customers' faces over the years. This has strengthened our resolve to continue creating world class products and I would like to thank all our partners & associates for their constant support.

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Novosoft Announces Backup Seeding Service

Novosoft an international software development and IT consulting company announced that they will soon be offering a new option of initial backup seeding as a part of their Online Backup service. The seeding process will be based on sending an initial copy of HDD data to Novosoft’s storage center and then using Online Backup to safeguard subsequent changes. Transferring a full drive backup to an online server can take several days or even weeks to get completed and our users frequently ask if it can be made in a more convenient form. The new feature of initial backup seeding will completely change the experience of offsite backups. Instead of copying so much data over the Internet, our customers will be able to create a local snapshot of their drives, physically send it to our storage and then enjoy the power and simplicity of online incremental backups provided by our service.

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Imation Aquires Nexsan with Hopes to Improve Storage &Security Solutions

Storage solution company Nexsan has been acquired by the Imation Corporation, a storage and data security company with the goal of improving Imation's operating margins for data storage and security solutions.With the acquisition of Nexsan, Imation will be able to utilize its previously mentioned solution platforms to improve what the company can offer its consumer base.The combination of Nexsan’s products, technologies and talented teams with Imation’s global reach and infrastructure will be an excellent accelerator for our growth strategy in storage solutions.According to a conjoined statement from the two companies they have noticed that small businesses and distributed enterprises or SME storage companies are having trouble meeting consumer needs but with this acquisition Nexsan and Imation will be able to combine their services and tools to improve data storage and management issues that these businesses currently face.

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SoftNAS Offers Cloud Storage Management

Storage start up SoftNAS has released a new beta version of its virtual appliance for managing an organization's storage capacity. The software which is also named SoftNAS runs within cloud environments such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or on a customer's existing virtual servers including VMware ESXi vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V and converts storage space into a network attached storage or NAS like environment.The company offers a free Essentials version that's limited to a maximum storage capacity of one terabyte. A paid edition is $995/terabyte per year or $100/terabyte per month.SoftNAS aggregates disks to create a chunk of storage space which function like volumes or file systems. The program offers deduplicating and other features intended to increase storage capacity and system speed. A snapshot capability takes copies of changed data blocks as new data is saved. It also captures snapshots of specified volumes and file systems at scheduled intervals.

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X-IO Delivers Big Storage Solution for Big Data, Offering 1 Petabyte of Capacity and 1 Million IOPS

Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies today announced ISE Station XL, the newest member of its ISE Station X family of data storage solutions. Available now the second generation ISE Station XL is a preconfigured storage solution that offers 1 petabyte (1024 terabytes) of capacity and delivers over 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) in a dense, energy-efficient package. ISE Station XL accelerates enterprise applications and provides unmatched price/performance all with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry.

Designed for data center operators and cloud-based service providers who need both high performance and high capacity, ISE Station XL provides built-in support for major virtualization engines from Citrix, VMware and Microsoft, removing SAN controller bottlenecks and complexity from large-scale virtualization architectures. ISE Station XL consumes only 34.56 square feet (3.21 square meters) of floor space and 28 kilowatts of energy while producing a heat load of only 95,536 BTUs and offering the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry.

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Sterling Data Storage Launches Three Cloud Backup Services

Cloud storage and backup solutions provider Sterling Data Storage announced it has launched three cloud backup services in an effort to increase adoption rates and provide an affordable cloud backup solution. Data backup and recovery are essential value-added services for web hosting companies to provide to customers as it ensures that their data will remain secure and in compliance with ABA standards, HIPAA and SOX regulations.Partnering with providers of data backup services can give web hosts a considerable edge over their competition.In November web hosting provider HostPapa begin offering backup and disaster recovery through the Vembu StoreGrid solution while Peak 10 enhanced its recovery cloud service to its scope, processes and technology in September.The new Sterling Data Storage solutions offer three versions of its cloud backup service for businesses to provide a hosted remote storage solution.This will help businesses automatically and reliably manage data backup, data recovery and business continuity according to the press release.

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Recover Lost Photos From Digital Camera

Choosing data recovery software is the first step for recovering photos and it is directly related to success rate of data recovery. Data recovery software is of different qualities on the internet but generally we should consider whether the price is reasonable and whether it is reliable or not which will cause certain influence. The worst situation is that some software package contains junk plug-in or viruses. All the problems should be considered at the same time. Then how to choose reliable data recovery software to facilitate photo recovery? I’ll recommend the free data recovery software MiniTool Power Data Recovery that I quite familiar with. It has 5 data recovery modules and Digital Media Recovery is earmarked for recovering lost digital files including photos. Digital media recovery form flash drive, MP3, digital camera, memory card can be realized easily and in the recovery process, preview function is provided. Just use it to recover lost photos.

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HP Launches Data Storage Solutions

Hewlett Packard this week launched three storage solutions with a common architecture across storage segments and categories so that businesses can simplify their tangled, divergent, complex and in efficient data systems. The new solutions are designed to replace other storage vendors that are simply not equipped to help organizations respond to new workloads.The StoreServ 7000 solutions which halve a company’s storage capacity requirements and double its virtual machines reducing the time to manage storage by 90 percent. The scalable StoreAll Storage which provides a simplified platform for big data retention and cloud storage and the StoreOnce 2000 and 4000 Backup which performs backup operations up to three times faster than similar systems are equipped with Tier 1 enterprise storage features for virtualized and big data retention environments and are mid priced at approximately P1.6 million for a 10-terabyte configuration.

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Agilent Technologies Introduces Secure Central Data Storage and Operations Management Solution

Agilent Technologies has introduced OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications, an out of the box solution for smaller laboratories that provides secure central storage of the data produced by Agilent’s OpenLAB chromatography data systems. The software is also designed to streamline the management of laboratory operations, assets and regulatory compliance. Other commercially available solutions are designed for larger laboratories and involve a combination of enterprise level electronic laboratory notebooks, laboratory information management systems and scientific data management systems. OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications is focused on the essential tasks that make it easy for smaller laboratories to install and do their work. Smaller chromatography labs want to adopt a networked solution that's simple to deploy with minimal ongoing IT support. Because OpenLAB Data Store with Lab Applications is designed to work without customization, labs can expect to be up and running in only two days. Thats up to ten times faster than other solutions.

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