New Veritas Storage Foundation: Powerful and Free
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(Source: Symantec) Symantec has just announced free software additions to the Storage Foundation family. And unlike many vendors' giveaways in the past, these two additions are real, capable, and immediately useful to an incredibly wide cut of the global enterprise IT community. Specifically, Symantec has released a fully-featured version of Storage Foundation for small or edge environments (Storage Foundation Basic) and a Storage Foundation Management Server application that provides a range of unified management coordination, automation and insights across existing Storage Foundation deployments of all sizes. This report examines both of these software solutions from Symantec and discusses the benefits of each.
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Ziff Davis - Both EMC and Veritas are building up their respective e-mail archiving offerings through development and acquisition to give customers more stringent control of enterprise content.
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SATABeast XI will allow up to 42TB drives in a 4U rack enclosure, the company said. The device will ship in mid-March through Nexsan resellers and will cost about $1,200 per terabyte, said Bob Woolery, senior vice-president of Nexsan.
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New service offers 2GB of storage and a copy of Outlook 2003.
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Linux Networx has developed a clustered storage appliance which is able to pool capacity from separate storage devices into a single high-capacity resource.
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COMPUTER security giant Symantec has agreed to acquire storage and backup program specialist Veritas Software in an equity deal valued at around $13.5 billion ($17.8 billion).
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Backup volumes in many organizations have grown so large that they are causing business disruption by tying up systems, storage, and network capacity and hogging valuable IT resources, according to a recent survey commissioned by storage management software vendor BridgeHead Software.More than half (59 percent) of IT executives said that the volume of data they are forced to backup is disrupting business operations or will do so eventually, according to a survey of 472 IT executives in the U.K. and North America. And the problem is not going away, with 93 percent saying that their routine backup volumes are continuing to increase.The problem is consuming IT resources for long periods with 37 percent admitting that daily backups of primary data now take them more than nine hours, while 19 percent said it took them more than 12 hours.More than two-thirds (84 percent) of those polled felt they could benefit by reducing the volume of data they routinely back up. Among the chief advantages highlighted were:* Less IT time devoted to backup and other business continuity processes (69 percent) * A reduction in the impact of backup and replication on network utilization and capacity (60 percent) * A reduction in disk resources devoted to data snapshotting, replication, and mirroring (58 percent) * Reduced disruption to the live application environment (45 percent)One of the most effective ways of reducing the pressure on backups is to take information that is static or seldom accessed and archive it off primary storage systems according to BridgeHead Software CEO Tony Cotterill."Sixty-one percent of organizations in our survey admit that between 30 to 50 percent of data on their primary disk is unlikely to be accessed ever again, yet they are squandering time and resources on backing up and replicating this big chunk of static data. It's a very poor use of resources," said Cotterill.BridgeHead said its research reveals that many organizations are starting to use archiving for specific types of data, such as e-mails, motivated by compliance and disaster recovery. According to the company, a lot of archiving activity is currently championed by finance and other business departments outside of IT's control.But to have a major impact on backup volumes, BridgeHead reckoned that there needs to be an IT-driven move away from point solutions or isolated archive appliances towards taking an organization-wide approach to archiving, allowing IT to retrieve control by archiving all data types across the organization from a single point."If you can take an organization-wide approach to archiving, then the volume of data you're taking off the primary store will start to reach a critical mass that will help call a halt to increasing backup volumes," said Cotterill.The survey was part of BridgeHead Software's Annual Information Lifecycle Management Audit, conducted by eMedia on behalf of BridgeHead Software during August 2007. eMedia surveyed 324 senior level executives, IT managers, system and network administrators and engineers from North America and 148 from the U.K.Techworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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(Source: DataDirect Networks) Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) are becoming an affordable, high-performance backup option, with next-generation VTL implementations overcoming many of the flaws inherent in early solutions. This white paper is for IT organizations that need high speed (1 GB/s and more), reliable backup of terabytes of data.
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A great way for Windows users to organize lots (and lots) of photos
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Amidst claims that IT shops can now provision BEA WebLogic Servers in mere minutes instead of hours, Veritas today debuted version 4.0 of Opforce Enterprise Edition for Windows, Linux (Red Hat &amp; SUSE), Solaris and AIX.
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Veritas Software Corp. (VRTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the largest independent US storage software provider, said on Tuesday it will buy e-mail backup company KVault Software Ltd.
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(Source: 3PAR) Here's an information-packed white paper from TheInfoPro (TIP) that delivers findings from one-on-one interviews with Fortune 1000 storage professionals. The paper explains how the deployment of tiered storage has driven the need for data migration in Fortune 1000 companies, and why those enterprises are now looking for more mature storage solutions that minimize complexity while harnessing the full value of tiered storage. It's must-read research for IT strategists who are looking to meet their business drivers for low-cost storage and high availability.
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Symantec has announced Veritas Backup Reporter 6.0, which will provide IT administrators with a single corporate view of backup and recovery operations, and Enterprise Vault 7.0 for backup and classification of e-mail and instant messaging traffic.
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LIVE WEBCASTAre you considering moving to a disk-to-disk backup and recovery solution for your multi-vendor storage environment? Join this live Webcast on October 12th with NetApp and Symantec and learn how integrating VERITAS&reg; NetBackup&trade;'s robust management capability with the powerful NetApp disk backup offerings can simplify your move to disk-to-disk backup in a multi-vendor storage environment.
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Opteron to gain power preservation tech - and other goodies
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid