Thursday, March 11, 2010

CTR Exclusives

Cloud Computing Backup? Five Key Questions
The quick evolution and maturity of cloud storage providers creates a new opportunity for managed service providers to offer cloud backup services. Backup to the cloud can provide a compelling cost advantage for SMB and SME customers and it opens up a new model for VARs and MSPs to profit with cloud-based backup services.

Information Inventory for Disaster Recovery: Cases In Point
In an instant -- a fire, flood or hurricane can erase years of business operations. Most companies have thought about how they would manage in the event of a disaster; and some have even taken steps to prepare. But one disaster recovery priority companies often overlook is how fast they can restore critical digital content.

News (Storage Technology, Storage Networks, Data Center, Data Mgmt)

Overland Storage expands channel partner benefits
Overland Storage, a global provider of effortless data management and data protection solutions across the data lifecycle, reinforced on Wednesday its commitment to the channel with an enhanced partner program that is designed to increase revenue opportunities and profitability for worldwide channel partners.

WD debuts My Passport AV portable media drives
Western Digital Corp. (WD), a provider of external storage solutions, introduced on Wednesday its new My Passport AV portable media drives. Designed for video storage and playback, the new My Passport AV portable media drives deliver a plug-and-play experience for digital media enthusiasts. Available at select retailers and WD's online store, the My Passport AV portable media drive is offered with 320 GB (gigabytes) of capacity.

OCZ Technology debuts Onyx Series SSD line
OCZ Technology Group Inc., a provider of memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDDs), unveiled on Wednesday the OCZ Onyx SATA II 2.5" Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, an ultra-affordable MultiLevel Cell (MLC)-based solid state storage solution designed for consumers looking to take advantage of flash-based storage technology.

HDS enables customers to address storage management challenges
Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and provider of Service Oriented Storage solutions, showcased on Wednesday growing customer adoption of the HDS Remote Storage Management Services portfolio of offerings. This portfolio provides customers access to a comprehensive set of remote managed services built on decades of HDS’ best practices that enable customers to efficiently and cost effectively manage their storage environment.

Kanguru Defender Elite achieves FIPS 140-2 certification
Kanguru Solutions announced on Wednesday that its Kanguru Defender Elite, a secure flash drive has received Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2) certification.

Xangati breaks price barriers to offer enterprise-wide virtualization management
Xangati Inc. released Wednesday two products – Xangati for ESX and the Xangati Management Dashboard. Designed to decrease the management burdens of virtualization experts, Xangati’s new line of virtual appliances offers extensive monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities at a fraction of the cost.

Mezeo Software joins SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative
Mezeo Software Corp., a provider of a deployable cloud storage platform for service providers, announced Tuesday that it has joined the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Cloud Storage Initiative.

Sanbolic Melio 2010 improves availability, scalability of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp
Sanbolic's new product, Melio 2010 Data Center, provides a highly scalable, highly available shared storage solution for the dynamic provisioning of XenDesktop and XenApp virtual infrastructures.

Dell simplifies data backup and recovery to help SMBs
To help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) respond to the challenge of storing, managing and protecting increasing amounts of business-critical data, Dell is introducing the PowerVault DL2100 powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010, a disk-based backup and recovery solution with available deduplication technology in a single server.

Proxure expands online backup offerings with KeepVault Key
Proxure Inc., a developer of information backup and synchronization technologies for consumers and small/medium businesses (SMBs), expanded on Tuesday its KeepVault online backup offerings with the introduction of a new software solution called KeepVault Key targeted toward manufacturers of USB (universal serial bus), SD, xD, CompactFlash, and Memory Stick-type flash memory cards.

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