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Microsoft adds brains to security drive
News Clementi was referring to OneCare's backup and disk clean-up features. Microsoft announced this week that it is setting up security response and research operations in Ireland and Japan and launched a preview of a new online Malware Protection Center. [27 Apr 2007]
NetApp spends $272m on data security pro
News Earlier this year, the storage company agreed to buy Alacritus, a privately held maker of backup disk emulation software, for an undisclosed sum. Decru, based in Redwood City, California, makes security appliances designed to protect both network... [17 Jun 2005]
EMC nicks IBM veteran as CTO
News Hiring Nick indicates that "EMC is thinking bigger than just disk array storage", Gartner analyst Roger Cox said. In the second quarter, its worldwide sales of external disk storage systems hit $719m, up 19.5 per cent from the same period a year... [06 Sep 2004]
Disaster recovery estimates differ between business and technology leaders
News Disk systems can offer faster recovery times but are more expensive, he said. In a report last year, market research firm IDC said the backup recovery services market would grow from $3.0bn in 2001 to $4.2bn in 2006, for annual growth of 6.9 per cent. [14 Jul 2003]
EMC raises its game by tapping 'the matrix'
News The new products are also expected to offer higher amounts of cache memory and to reflect a switch from RAID-1 technology to a newer RAID-5 approach, which lets data be stored 'redundantly' - or in more than one place for backup purposes - but... [30 Jan 2003]
Helpdesk hell: Your reader comments
News The user pointed to the 3.5" floppy disk drive and inside was the business card CD ROM. After 10 minutes trying to explain what it looked like, they fetched the person who normally changed the backup tape. [14 Aug 2002]
NetApp hits out at 'copycat' EMC
News It said in a written statement: "The company followed us into the NAS space and now continues the trend by following NetApp into hard disk backup/restore and online archival storage, as the announcement this week shows. [02 May 2002]
Back-up and recovery key words in CA deal
News The NearStore product is designed to allow data storage, which has previously been too expensive to keep on disk. The companies unveiled the integration of CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup software and the Network Appliance NearStore R100 software... [21 Mar 2002]
HP customers furious over missing XP recovery disks
News An email from customer support told him: "HP recommends that you do not replace the hard disk as it is preloaded with Windows XP. The operating system will be lost if the hard disk is replaced. If you further wish to replace the hard disk, please... [10 Jan 2002]
Microsoft: The messages just aren't getting through
News As many as 10 million people are unable to access their buddy lists at the moment due to a failed disk controller in one of the servers which hosts the service. The backup for the controller is also affected, according to reports. [01 Aug 2001]
Hard drives ditched as Quantum leaps into new sectors
News The deal, first disclosed on 4 October 2000 at a valuation of $2.3bn, was finally approved late on Friday and will make Maxtor the world's largest disk drive company. Late last month Quantum's tape backup and storage group (DSS) warned that results... [02 Apr 2001]
Symantec plans security upgrade
News It enables users to copy the entire contents of one disk to another to a disk image file. They can, in turn, use the image file as a template to create copies of the original disk. The latest version of Ghost will allow network administrators to... [27 Mar 2001]
Bloom to take Veritas to fruition
News The comments came during a conference call to announce the completion of Veritas' $20bn takeover of disk drive giant Seagate Technology. Bloom, who was previously second-in-command at Oracle, claimed the company was ready to hit the big time. [28 Nov 2000]
StorageTek streamlines its product range
News The storage specialist claims its virtual disk architecture allows users to cut backup time, and take rapid growth - common among dot-com companies - in their stride. The company claims its 9500 SVA virtual disk architecture can drastically reduce... [17 Feb 2000]
Scottish Life deploys Unisys storage and hardware
News The pension provider has upgraded to a Unisys ClearPath NX5820 server linked to an EMC storage disk, a move which it claims has already improved overnight processing and online transaction speeds. The existing mainframe will be used for backup... [20 Sep 1999]
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