Ash Ashutosh, Founder & CEO at Actifio
Leading new age storage vendor, Actifio announced that it has been chosen as one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies for 2012. Actifio’s Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) is a single, virtualised storage system for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity and test/development, delivering instant access to information at 90 percent lower cost than the traditional tools. Actifio PAS optimises the management of copies of data, by capturing data once and re-using it for multiple applications, eliminating backup software and its associated backup and restore windows, individual point tools for replication, and test and development.Read More…

WD introduced My Book Live Duo, a personal cloud storage system that combines the benefits of shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system with RAID technology. My Book Live Duo offers double-safe backup as it continuously maintains a second copy of all files for real-time data backup in mirrored mode (RAID 1). Half the capacity is used to store users’ data and half is used for a second copy. In the event of drive failure, data is protected because it’s duplicated on the other drive. The new My Book is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Lion, as well as DLNA/UPnP enabled devices.Read More…

According to the latest Worldwide Storage Software Qview by IDC, the storage software market grew in the second quarter of 2011, with a total market valuation of $3.4 billion during the quarter, up 11.3% over the same period last year. And, EMC cornered nearly 25% market share followed by Symantec, and IBM with 15.8% and 14.1% market shares respectively. Whereas, Hitachi clocked the highest percentage growth followed by HP.Read More…

Drobo, makers of award-winning data storage products for businesses and professionals, today announced that it has collaborated with Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, to deliver a simple and affordable data protection solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs).Read More…

EMC introduced its new EMC Symmetrix VMAXe storage system, innovative storage technology designed for virtualized cloud and mission critical IT environments. The VMAXe system enables IT organizations to accelerate their journey to cloud computing. Symmetrix VMAXe is based on the industry leading Virtual Matrix Architecture and innovative software as larger Symmetrix VMAX systems used in the world’s largest data centers. Read More…

LG Electronics unveiled its N1A1 Network Storage, which delivers complete data security with efficient and stable performance. Touted to be user-friendly that is specifically tailored to meet the high standards and expectations of advanced home users.

The new N1A1 combines the features of an external hard drive and network storage device, raising the expectations for convenient home data management. It can be switched among these two modes using external controls. Ethernet and USB interfaces provide even greater flexibility. It automatically runs back-ups from multiple computers, delivering reliable, distributed data recovery that is tailored to specific needs.
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