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• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Customers still waiting for requested Backup Exec 2012 features

  Symantec has yet to fulfill promises made nearly a year ago to restore popular Backup Exec 2012 features that it cut, such as Jobs View.

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Analyzing recent developments in the backup software market

  Switching backup software products can be a hassle, so it helps to know your options. This article looks at changes in the backup software market.

• April 17, 2013 17 Apr'13

  Platform support main focus for Symantec backup application roadmaps

  Roadmaps for backup applications NetBackup and Backup Exec will favor platform support over features, Symantec VP for product management says.

• April 16, 2013 16 Apr'13

  Hitachi Data Systems aims HDIM at copy data

  Hitachi Data Systems launches Hitachi Data Instance Manager (HDIM), which it says will bring smart copy data management across an organization.

• April 16, 2013 16 Apr'13

  EMC pushes Data Domain for backup and archiving

  EMC tweaks Data Domain OS to ingest archived data faster, and pushes its dedupe staple as a consolidation play for backup and archiving on one box.

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Bocada expands, customizes backup reporting and monitoring

  Bocada gives its Prism, Vison and vpConnect backup monitoring and reporting software new features, including customizable dashboards.

• April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

  Backupify upgrades cloud-to-cloud backup of Google Apps

  'Spring release' of Backupify for Google Apps focuses on admin tools for enterprises, as larger companies turn to cloud-to-cloud backup services.

• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  PHD Virtual buys DR testing startup VirtualSharp, eyes cloud DR

  Backup vendor PHD Virtual takes another step toward the cloud, adds DR testing startup VirtualSharp and the ability to recover data in a public cloud.

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  California State University aims for 100% cloud backups

  California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is marching towards complete cloud backups with the help of Panzura storage gateways.

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  Data protection vendors add options for cloud backups

  To help their customers get used to cloud backups, software and hardware vendors add options for moving protected copies of data to public clouds.

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  NASCAR Productions chooses Spectra tape library for petabytes of video

  NASCAR Productions recently chose Spectra Logic's Spectra T-Finity tape library to store video footage, including broadcast video and broadcast-related data sets.

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  HydraStor adds hybrid nodes to scale enterprise archiving box

  NEC adds hybrid nodes to its HydraStor enterprise archiving and backup system, allowing it to scale higher for performance and capacity.

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  Sepaton adds data-at-rest encryption for enterprise disk backup

  Sepaton upgrades its flagship VTL, the S2100-ES3 2925, giving it data-at-rest encryption capability and support for open key management standard.

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  EMC overhauls DPA backup monitoring software

  EMC gives its Data Protection Advisor backup monitoring tool a new interface and analysis engine, and makes it easier to install.

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Cloud backup, BYOD challenges can threaten IT control over data

  IT executives at a data management symposium discuss gaining control over BYOD challenges and rogue cloud backup initiatives in their companies.