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ExaGrid EX21000E Disk Backup Appliance Review

The ExaGrid EX21000E Backup Appliance provides for a full backup of 21TB, includes 42TB of usable backup storage (48TB raw) and specializes in fast restoration. The EX21000E, as well as all of ExaGrid’s backup appliances, divides its storage into two major portions: one is specified as the “Landing Zone” (which uses about half of the total usable storage) and the

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Unitrends Introduces Free Backup Capacity And Storage Inventory Reporting Tools

Unitrends has introduced two new free tools, Unitrends Backup Capacity Tool and Unitrends Storage Inventory Tool. The new pair enables businesses to identify significant cost savings by offering complete visibility into storage and file capacity and utilization. The tools are designed to help determine how much storage needs to be allocated for backups and which files

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

ExaGrid Announces Forthcoming Version 4.7 Software Update

ExaGrid today announced details about updates to its core software offering with enhanced scalability for GRID backup storage deployments and expanded data center replication for disaster recovery. Version 4.7 also adds parallel replication and deduplication functionality and a new, integrated ExaGrid-Veeam data mover solution for virtualized environments.

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Dell Launches Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite

Today Dell Software announced the release of a new data protection bundle, the Dell Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite. Through a single capacity-based licensing model, customers will have access to Dell’s full backup and recovery software portfolio. This new bundle will allow businesses to better create a solution that matches their needs versus paying too much

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Quantum Acquires Symform’s Cloud Services Platform

Quantum Corp has announced that is has acquired Symform’s cloud storage services platform and its development team, including Symform’s CTO and co-founder, Bassam Tabbara. Quantum plans on leveraging Symform’s cloud technology to expand its own cloud software capabilities and service offerings in data protection and scale-out storage.

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

EMC ProtectPoint Overview

Last month EMC hosted a Megalaunch in Londer, announcing their new VMAX family as well as a several other offerings. Though we mentioned ProtectPoint at the time (last paragraph before availability) there wasn’t a tremendous amount of detail at the event. Since then EMC has provided much more on the emerging technology. ProtectPoint is a data protection offering which hopes

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Quantum Announces DXi6900 Data Protection and Deduplication Appliance

Quantum today announced the latest addition its DXi deduplication family: the DXi6900 appliance, powered by StorNext 5 software and oriented towards enterprise deployments and service providers. The DXi6900 can scale from 17TB to 510TB, and according to Quantum, the DXi6900’s 16TB per hour ingestion rate will make it fastest single-stream backup and restore solution in its

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Unitrends Announces Unitrends Virtual Backup 8.0

Today Unitrends announced the availability of Unitrends Virtual Backup (UVB) 8.0 (formally known as PHD Virtual Backup), the only virtual appliance on the market providing protection for all three major hypervisors: vSphere, XenServer, and Hyper-V. UVB 8.0 features performance and management enhancements that simplify virtual data protection, speed up recovery and backup, and allow businesses

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Unitrends Announces Disaster Recovery as a Service

Unitrends has announced the release of its new offering, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Billed as an unequivocal Disaster Recovery Insurance, Unitrends’ DRaaS utilizes its ReliableDR, Unitrends Enterprise Backup and Unitrends Bridge to provide an automated business continuity solution that guarantees full recovery of entire IT infrastructure within hours of a declared disaster. This

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System Review

The HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System is a backup solution that allows small or medium-sized businesses to buy as they grow; it makes use of interchangeable disk cartridges (available in 320GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities) that can be archived as backups become outdated. The HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System backs up data at hard drive