Editor's pick: Remote-office and online data backup news
Remote-office backup and online backup has been in the news a lot these days, with many new product and technology announcements. Barracuda Networks recently acquired BitLeap, a provider of local and offsite data backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Overland Storage Inc. recently unveiled a replication appliance called REO Compass that will deduplicate and replicate virtual or physical tape images and allow them to be tracked using Symantec Corp.'s Backup Exec catalog. REO Compass is a 1U or 2U appliance that uses hashing keys to compare data at both ends of the wire. It then sends only new blocks from remote offices to a central data center for backup, keeping data synced and deduplicated across Overland virtual and physical tape libraries at multiple locations.
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