Three years ago, there wasn't a disk-based backup market. Besides a pair of niche mainframe solutions, only a couple of small companies tried to convince information technology managers that ...

In their push to change the way corporate data centers back up their data, the vendors often leave in their wake confusion as to the viability of hard disk as a tape substitute. >> A new breed ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based vendor, one of the industry's largest suppliers of automated tape solutions, unveiled Pathlight VX 2.0, an application which can handle backups of up to 3,000 Tbytes. The ...

It’s a gross understatement to say that disk has taken the backup world by storm. Whether the goal is to complement and improve tape performance or to replace tape altogether, it’s safe to say that no ...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExaGrid ®, a leading provider of intelligent hyperconverged storage for backup, today announced the availability of an integrated disaster recovery, long-term ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Correctly sizing a disk backup ...

The highest performance 13TB appliance in the industry, ExaGrid’s EX13000E’s expanded backup capacity provides up to double the backup performance per TB of any other disk backup with a deduplication ...

It’s important to note, however, that the term disk-to-disk backup may be a bit misleading. What we’re really talking about when we use the expression “disk-to-disk backup” is actually disk-to-disk-to ...

Quantum, which stopped selling hard disks in 2000 but continues to sell networked storage systems, will begin selling hard disk-based backup systems, the company said this week. The DX30 acts like the ...

VMware takes a bigger step into the backup and restore market for virtual machines with the latest release of VMware Data Recovery 1.1 (VDR) VMware administrators may be interested and happy to know ...

This time out, we consider the dwindling role of tape in IT backup. Tape has been a part of the IT backup scene almost since the get-go. It has always offered the virtues of being cheap and easy to ...

Let’s be honest: Backup is an unloved necessity. It costs money and takes time. Restores are time-consuming and frustrating. But the fact is, you cannot live without them. Data must be backed up; it ...