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Disk Backup
Recent disk backup news
Check out our disk backup news coverage from the past year.
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Removable disks help Salvation Army recover from flood
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|17 Apr 2008
Article - After a pipe burst, flooding a division office data center with water and corrosive chemicals, a decision to switch from tape to disk-based backup last year proved fortunate.
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IBM reportedly in talks to buy VTL vendor Diligent Technologies
20 Mar 2008
Article - IBM may be looking at acquiring Diligent Technologies, which would make Diligent the second Israeli company in IBM's portfolio for data deduplication on virtual tape libraries.
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Data Domain taps into Symantec's NetBackup API
31 Mar 2008
Article - Data Domain uses Veritas NetBackup API to streamline backups for customers of NetBackup 6.5 and Data Domain disk-backup devices.
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Semiconductor firm turns to Diligent deduplication
04 Apr 2008
Article - To keep up with the massive increase of data following an acquisition, Magnum Semiconductor turns to a Quatrio VTL and Diligent Technologies deduplication to make its backup window.
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Sepaton VTL customers waiting for dedupe compatibility
02 Apr 2008
Article - Sepaton's VTL customers say adding disk-based backup has shrunk backup windows, but it will be months before it can shrink data backed up by CommVault Simpana or EMC Networker software.
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HDS ships VTL bundles with Diligent deduplication
11 Feb 2008
Article - HDS and Diligent take data deduplication downmarket with prepackaged appliances to simplify deployment, but analysts hope to see them take deduplication beyond VTL.
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Data Domain dedupes its way to profit
25 Apr 2008
Article - With data deduplication/nearline storage sales picking up alongside its traditional backup and recovery market, Data Domain execs say they expect more 2008 revenue than previously expected.
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IBM acquires Diligent for data deduplication, VTL
18 Apr 2008
Article - IBM completes deal for Diligent Technologies, moving into VTL data deduplication space that is heating up with partnerships and new products.
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Don't blame the disks: Why data storage fails
31 Mar 2008
Article - A recent study suggests that the majority of failures in backup data storage systems aren't caused by disk failures.