New Barracuda Backup Vx Enables Backup on Virtual Environments

Barracuda Networks introduces Barracuda Backup Vx, a new deployment option for Barracuda Backup aimed at organizations looking to reduce onsite hardware through virtualization. Barracuda Backup Vx uses both inline target-based deduplication and compression to reduce storage and bandwidth requirements, and easily scale storage as data grows, eliminating the need for forklift upgrades. Barracuda will demonstrate… Continue reading New Barracuda Backup Vx Enables Backup on Virtual Environments

EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

VMworld 2012 – Solution Highlights VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, powered by EMC® Avamar® software, is an all-new backup and recovery solution to be included with VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware vSphere Data Protection is tightly integrated with vSphere, simple to set up and can be managed directly from the new vSphere Web Client. VMware vSphere Data… Continue reading EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

Dell Delivers New Storage Backup, Application and Networking Solutions for SMBs to Large Enterprise

At its first Dell Storage Forum event in Europe, Dell today announced advancements in its Fluid Data™ architecture that enable customers to quickly adapt to the changing demands of their organizations and increase automation for management of their primary, backup and archive data. The Fluid Data architecture, designed to enable customers to manage more information… Continue reading Dell Delivers New Storage Backup, Application and Networking Solutions for SMBs to Large Enterprise

Permabit Announces Four New Patents, Year of Innovation in the Primary Storage Optimization Market

Permabit Technology Corporation, the leader in the development and delivery of OEM embedded Data Optimized Storage, today announced they have been awarded four new patents and looks back at a year of innovation and further development of their High Performance Data Optimization Software, Albireo. The deduplication engine was created for hardware and software storage OEMs… Continue reading Permabit Announces Four New Patents, Year of Innovation in the Primary Storage Optimization Market

Symantec Unites Virtual and Physical Backups in New Release of Backup Exec 2012

Symantec Corp. today announced the immediate availability of a partner-only beta release of Backup Exec 2012 and Backup Exec 2012 Small Business Edition. Open exclusively to Symantec’s global community of channel partners, the beta release will provide partners early access to one of Symantec’s market leading backup and recovery solutions and give them the opportunity… Continue reading Symantec Unites Virtual and Physical Backups in New Release of Backup Exec 2012

Actifio Bulks Up with $33.5 Million to Extend Leadership in Virtualizing Data Management

Actifio™, the Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform company, today announced that it has raised $33.5 million in an over-subscribed Series C financing round. Andreessen Horowitz led the round and joins existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Advanced Technology Ventures in the new investment, targeted towards executing on the growth phase of… Continue reading Actifio Bulks Up with $33.5 Million to Extend Leadership in Virtualizing Data Management

Quest Software Meets the Need for Serious Virtual Data Protection

The virtual world is the norm for most IT departments today, but their data protection strategies often remain stuck in the physical realm. Backup and recovery solutions that excel in physical environments don’t fare as well in their virtual counterparts, however, often resulting in excessive resource usage that starves virtual machines and slows business operations… Continue reading Quest Software Meets the Need for Serious Virtual Data Protection