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NetApp offers e-mail archiving
The email 'monster' tamed.
Real-time compression box squeezes SAN data
Working on-the-fly.
IBM's storage beats HP
But EMC is still way out in front.
Symantec marries disk and tape backup
Two-way interchange between PureDisk and NetBackup
Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive
Aimed for Vista ReadyDrive feature.
The world's not big enough
We're running out of storage
RFID system to track tapes using GPS
Tagged cartridges can run but not hide.
NetApp adds SME storage arrays
Scales to insane 126 Terabytes.

Who sells most networked disk storage?New
In the 2006 external controller-based disk storage market HP and Dell both lost market share. Seagate leads Western Digital and Hitachi GST in the disk drive market.
E-discovery is not just a series of case-by-case projectsNew
Index Engines says eDiscovery is not a project but a continuously updated repository building effort. Because it can search tape backup as well as disk it's got great technology for this.
Date breaches? You're NIKDNew
A new gang of four aims to stop data breaches happening. A customer seminar involved the four recently and here are notes about what was said by whom.

Virtual recovery to the rescue
Transforming the existing IT infrastructure into a virtual infrastructure can bring benefits beyond consolidation -- including business continuity
Open source software takes the storage stage
Do you want to go the open source storage software route? Can you? Is it feasible? Where are the limits?
How to assess open source storage software
With many companies looking to save costs by adopting open source storage products, what factors should a manager take into account before going down this route?

Changing the rules of data protectionNew
The Sepaton virtual tape library appliance has unique technology to speed large I/O transfers from its drives and delivers tremendous performance.
Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p5: Introduction and ConfigurationNew
An introduction to Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p5 servers.
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
We present data collected from detailed observations of a large disk drive population in a production Internet services deployment. The population observed is many times larger than that of previous studies. In addition to presenting failure statistics, we analyze the correlation between failures and several parameters generally believed to impact longevity.

US legal discovery is an horrendous nightmareNew
Prepare for the worst if you face potential involvement in US legal discovery activity. Intel didn't - and should have.
Brocade FAN activities
The logical end-point for FAN initiatives is a truly global name space and heterogeneous FANs. These are some considerable way off. A network-based FAN approach may be the best way of providing them.
Optical disk technology overview
Plasmon’s technical director surveys the history of optical storage technology, present day UDO, Blu-ray and HD DVD technologies, and discusses future possibilities, including holographic, near field, super resolution, and two-photon technologies.

Packeteer iShared
A WAN traffic and application accelerator that's great for organisations with a heavy investment in Windows.
DISUK Paranoia 2 and SafeTape
Paranoia is a stand-alone encryption and compression appliance that sits between the backup server and the storage device; SafeTape is an appliance that includes both the Paranoia hardware and an in-built tape drive (any one of LTO, SDLT or AIT).
SyncBackSE backup and sync v4.1
It is axiomatic that backup software is usually so slow and cumbersome that people end up not using it. Occasionally, you come across a small, blossoming software flower, and it restores some of your interest. Without wanting to get too carried away, SyncBackSE could be one such program.
Unitrends SafeServe
Entire workstation and server systems restored in minutes with a very smooth recovery process.
D-Link DNS-323 2-bay storage enclosure
Just add two SATA drives, and you've got an easy RAID.

Njini is a FAN fan
By agreeing a defined FAN marketecture and submitting it to a standards body, customers should be able to much better cope with the exploding amounts of file data they are facing.
Kazeon and Scentric approaches to data indexing and classification
Scentric and Kazeon compared and contrasted in their own words.
Opening the NetApp kimono
A conversation with Rich Clifton, VP and GM for NetApp's networked storage business units.

Calor Gas knows about storing gas in bulk facilitiesNew
A NetApp SAN and VMWare virtual servers has transformed Calor Gas UK's storage infrastructure. Calor Ireland went for VMWare and an IBM Shark though.
Global namespace Attune FAN solves mundane problem
The Central Florida YMCA improves member security, simplifies file management with Attune Systems' Maestro File Manager. This goes to show how a global name service can solve ordinary file access problems.
Ninety percent data compression at VW - and it's not de-dupe
VW Financial Services AG achieved a 90 percent data compression rate for structured SAP data. It didn't involve de-duplication. How on earth was it done?