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• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Spanning Cloud Apps aids cloud-to-cloud backup for AMAG

  AMAG Pharmaceuticals moved its entire IT infrastructure to the cloud, but that didn't change its need for rock solid data protection.

• March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15

  ExaGrid expands in crowded backup appliance market

  ExaGrid CEO says the vendor's revenue grew in double digits last year and he expects to become a public company within a few years.

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Infrascale launches integrated backup appliance for cloud

  Infrascale Cloud Backup Accelerator combines data protection software, WAN optimization and a gateway to replicate to public or private clouds.

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Asigra Cloud Backup adds disaster recovery for VMs

  Asigra's Cloud Backup 13 gets new features for disaster recovery, endpoint data protection and support for data in Microsoft Office 365 cloud.

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Unitrends Certified Recovery Suite

  This year, Unitrends announced UCRS, a new software bundle that offers backup for virtual and physical servers, as well as hybrid cloud DR.

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• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Asigra Inc. Cloud Backup Version 13 Featuring Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Recovery

  The latest version of Asigra Cloud Backup adds cloud-to-cloud backup for Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365.

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Dell DR6000 Disk Backup Appliance

  Dell's DR6000 disk backup appliance is enhanced with Rapid NFS and Rapid CIFS for source-side deduplication.

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  HP StoreOnce 6500

  The HP StoreOnce 6500 backup and deduplication appliance takes gold in Storage magazine's annual Products of the Year awards.

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Quantum Corp. DXi6900 Deduplication Appliance

  Quantum's DXi6900 backup deduplication appliance grabs silver in the Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Products of the Year awards.

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  ExaBlox speeds up backups for the Hunger Task Force

  The Hunger Task Force was dealing with long backup windows and an archaic tape-based archiving solution. Exablox's OneBlox solved those problems for the non-profit.

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Back[up] to the future: Veritas brand returns as Veritas Technologies

  Symantec paid $13.5 billion for storage software vendor Veritas Software in 2005; now it prepares to spin it out as Veritas Technologies Corp.

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  New Unitrends CEO Kevin Weiss: Our mantra is 'everything cloud'

  New Unitrends CEO Kevin Weiss says he needs to build the company's brand awareness and wants to grow through acquisition and organically.

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Unitrends injects flash into Recovery Series backup appliances

  Unitrends isn't new to integrated backup appliances, but puts a new twist on their systems by adding up to 480 GB of flash to handle processing chores.

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Sphere 3D adds 3 TB drives to Overland's RDX QuikStor backup appliance

  Sphere 3D promises 3 TB RDX removable drives in its new QuikStor backup appliance, acquired in its $81 million merger with Overland Storage.

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  CommVault, NetApp partner on integrated backup appliance

  CommVault Backup Appliance is sold on NetApp E-Series hardware; backup software vendor looks to take on Symantec, EMC appliances.

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Asigra Cloud Backup will add Docker support in next version

  Asigra will add Docker support for its container backup and recovery in version 13. Although early adoption rates may be limited, the company preps for an expected uptick.

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  Backup and disaster recovery software: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

  This year's backup and DR software and services finalists illustrate the variety of products available for data protection.

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  Data backup hardware: 2014 Products of the Year finalists

  The finalists in the 2014 Products of the Year backup hardware category are competitive and feature-rich disk systems.

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  End of the year updates invigorate cloud backup and recovery market

  A busy year in the cloud backup and recovery services market ends with CloudBerry Lab, Axcient and iland making upgrades to their lineup.

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Fund services bureau automates DR with Veeam Availability Suite

  Veeam Availability Suite proxy servers on Dell storage cluster create production replicas for restoring shared VMware storage.

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Engineering firm opts for Nasuni for backup to the cloud

  ESD's engineering data was growing so fast, its backups could not keep up. The firm turned to the cloud for a backup system that could scale and meet its budget.

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Backup 2014: Acquisitions, spinoffs and cloud-to-cloud emerge

  Backup 2014 included breakups as Symantec divorced itself, acquisition as EMC picked up cloud-to-cloud backup and additions as Hitachi Data Systems got into disk backup.

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  Restoring data remains a challenge, but new technologies emerge

  The lines between backup, DR, archive, file sync and primary storage blurred in 2014 to streamline processes, reduce redundant copies and help with protecting and restoring data.

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Cloud backup trends: Datto buys Backupify, Asigra embraces AWS

  Cloud backup vendors fight for top position: Datto acquires cloud-to-cloud backup, Asigra lets service providers host on AWS, and Acronis broadens partner base.

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  Survey finds data protection problematic even in modern data centers

  Companies still find it difficult to achieve data protection goals, and downtime costs keep growing, according to a trio of vendor-sponsored surveys.

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Actifio improves database integration of copy data management software

  Latest Actifio upgrade adds automated log shipping, replication to more than two sites and enhanced integration with VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Arcserve plans integrated appliances, offers free endpoint backup

  Months after spinning off from CA Technologies, SMB backup vendor Arcserve expands its product portfolio by selling backup software on integrated appliances.

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Catalogic attempts to tame copy data sprawl for NetApp customers

  Catalogic Software digs deeper into NetApp products with its cataloging and copy data software, but what about all the other storage out there?

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  NetApp buys Riverbed's SteelStore cloud backup appliances

  NetApp acquires backup appliances formerly known as Whitewater that move data into public and private clouds.

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  File sharing frequently paired with endpoint backup products

  Backup vendors increasingly see file sync-and-share as a good fit for their endpoint backup software.

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  Overland Storage expands tape libraries with NEO-XL product line

  Overland Storage releases 60- and 80-slot automated tape libraries in 6U rack and scales tape storage into petabyte range.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Experts say Symantec break-up makes sense for storage

  Symantec breakup came about because executives realized its storage and security products were sold to a different set of customers, storage experts say.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec breakup should help its storage business

  Symantec breakup hopes to undo the Backup Exec 2012 fiasco which followed its Veritas acquisition.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Veeam adds free endpoint backup, gets a little physical

  Veeam Endpoint Backup Free is a departure for the virtual machine backup vendor -- not because it's free, but because it handles physical devices.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Symantec adds NetBackup 5330, doubles 5230 appliance capacity

  Symantec's NetBackup 5330 scales to 228 TB, nearly double the maximum capacity of its 5230 appliances.

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Resort uses Backupify to protect Google Apps

  Hotel resort chain streamlines mail and docs on Google Apps, but backs it up to Amazon S3 cloud with Backupify cloud-to-cloud backup.

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Virtual server recovery in place offers quick restores with limits

  SearchDataBackup contributor John Hilliard spoke with George Crump of Storage Switzerland to learn more about virtual server recovery in place -- a feature of some VM backup software products.

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  LTO tape vendors announce LTO-9 and LTO-10

  LTO tape vendors extend the LTO roadmap to include generations 9 and 10 with increasing capacity and transfer rates.

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Barracuda storage grows with new platforms, archiving acquisition

  Data Protection Plus integrates Barracuda storage devices with tools to improve file sharing and information management.

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  ExaGrid reworks dedupe appliance for replication, Veeam

  ExaGrid gives its backup dedupe appliance an upgrade to improve its replication performance and work better with Veeam backup software.

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  CommVault adds Simpana 10 bundles for VM and endpoint backup

  Rather than insist on customers buying its entire Simpana 10 R2 data protection package, CommVault is selling bundles for specific needs such as VM/cloud backup.

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  HDS buys Sepaton, gets its own disk backup appliance

  Hitachi Data Systems acquires its disk backup appliance partner Sepaton to enter crowded market; promises aggressive development of data protection technology.

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Application developer drops tape for STORServer TSM appliance

  When a custom app developer switched its AIX backup to Windows-based TSM integrated appliances, the project required re-architecting Tivoli databases and machine-by-machine migration of individual AIX clients to Windows Server 2008.

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  EMC's Guy Churchward talks virtual Data Domain, cloud, ViPR

  EMC data protection president Guy Churchward says EMC can deliver Data Domain as a virtual appliance and discusses plans for cloud-to-cloud backup and data protection services inside ViPR.

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Quantum DXi6900 backup box includes StorNext, utility pricing

  StorNext 5 and pay-as-you-go pricing included in Quantum DXi6900 backup appliance; challenges four EMC Data Domain configurations.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Dell extends AppAssure, backup appliance platforms

  Dell upgrades AppAssure backup software and rolls out new integrated and virtual backup appliances for remote offices/SMBs.

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Jeweler finds a gem in cloud-to-cloud backup

  Jeweler Kendra Scott turns to Spanning Cloud Apps cloud-to-cloud backup to protecting data inside Google Apps.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  New Catalogic CEO: Instant recovery is the new wave

  Catalogic CEO Ed Walsh says we're in a third wave of data protection, which requires instant recovery rather than slow tape or expensive disk backups.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  CommVault IntelliSnap protects DataCore virtualized SANs

  CommVault IntelliSnap optimizes data protection on most hardware arrays, and now works with hardware running DataCore SANsymphony-V.

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Carbonite goes after SMBs with cloud backup appliance

  Carbonite, a cloud backup pioneer going back to the days when it was something done only by consumers, is moving deeper into the SMB market.  Carbonite is also changing its delivery method from ...

• June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14

  HP Federated Catalyst pools deduped data resources

  HP claims it can simplify management of deduplicated backups with Federated Catalyst software running on its StoreOnce disk appliance.

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  Backup Exec 2014 restores popular 2012 features

  With Backup Exec 2014, Symantec restored popular features it removed from Backup Exec 2012, as it hopes to restore faith in its SMB backup app.

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Crump: Backup and data protection trends in 2014

  George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses this year's hottest backup and data protection trends.

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Law firm turns to Zetta.net DataProtect for convenience, fast restores

  Zetta.net DataProtect cloud backup makes it easy for Aero Law Group to protect and restore data after it outgrew its tape backup system.

• May 12, 2014 12 May'14

  Dell gives NetVault Backup a facelift, adds enterprise DR disk

  Dell gives NetVault Backup new look and greater scalability and monitoring, launches enterprise DR disk appliance.

• May 09, 2014 09 May'14

  CA takes unified data protection approach

  CA combines three ARCserve protects into arcserve Unified Data Protection to handle disk, tape, physical and virtual backup plus replication.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  Veeam CEO discusses modern data protection

  Veeam Software CEO Ratmir Timashev says modern data protection requires new technologies for today's data center.

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  Security, management remain challenges in laptop, mobile backups

  Security and management are the top IT priorities for mobile devices. Mobile backups tag along for the ride.

• April 25, 2014 25 Apr'14

  Nakivo upgrade focuses on Exchange recovery

  Virtual backup specialist Nakivo turns attention to Microsoft with greater Exchange support and roadmap plans for Active Directory and Hyper-V.

• April 18, 2014 18 Apr'14

  Unitrends digests PHD Virtual, plans cloud backup acquisition

  Unitrends CEO Mike Coney discusses product roadmap and integration of virtual backup vendor PHD Virtual, and says another acquisition is coming.

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Riverbed Technology Inc. turns Granite into SteelFusion

  Riverbed rebrands its Granite appliances as SteelFusion, and recasts them as a branch converged infrastructure instead of pure storage devices.

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  FalconStor CEO Quinn discloses turnaround plan

  FalconStor CEO Gary Quinn says the vendor will focus on the enterprise and reunify its data protection products to try and recover from a long slump.

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  EMC tailors data protection products for app admins

  EMC wants to make its data protection products -- including Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker, Vplex -- more appealing to non-backup administrators.

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Law firm takes new approach to VM data protection with Exablox OneBlox

  To protect virtual machines on-site and for DR, law firm bypasses traditional disk backup for commodity-hardware-based Exablox OneBlox.

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Fujifilm Dternity combines LTFS with NAS, cloud

  Fujifilm announces availability of new its Dternity archiving system, which utilizes NAS, cloud and tape storage.

• March 28, 2014 28 Mar'14

  Array-based replication, software replication keys in data protection

  Organizations improve their hardware and software replication to beef up backup and disaster recovery.

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Cancer hospital cures VM backup woes

  Roswell Park Cancer Institute struggled with VM backups and restores until it combined Veeam software and Hewlett-Packard StoreOnce disk targets.

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Acronis backup strategy: Protect any data, anywhere

  Acronis CEO Serguei Beloussov discusses streamlining Acronis Backup software products with 'data anywhere' strategy to cope with new data challenges.

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Why near-CDP is nudging true CDP from data protection landscape

  Over the past few years, "near CDP" has overtaken CDP for organizations dealing with very tight RTOs. And the reason why is pretty straightforward.

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  ExaGrid CEO: Cloud backups 'virtually disappeared' from our market

  ExaGrid CEO Bill Andrews talks about the state of cloud backups and the competition as a startup selling disk backup with deduplication.

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  LTFS-enabled products trickle out, video archiving still main use case

  Linear Tape File System products are emerging for enterprise data archiving use, but it's unclear whether LTFS will move past its current niche.

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  ESG study shows increasing convergence of backup and archive

  According to a recent study conducted by ESG's Jason Buffington, backup and archive are converging as backup products add archiving functionality.

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  As SaaS grows, so does cloud-to-cloud backup

  A handful of cloud-to-cloud backup companies are expanding the platforms they support to keep up with growth of cloud-hosted applications.

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Combo of cloud, virtual machine backups could facilitate DR plan

  Having to provide for 500 virtual machine backups, Bit9 re-architected its backup process to incorporate the cloud, which could lead to a new DR plan.

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  ISACA survey: BYOD trend has risks, but benefits, too

  A recent survey of ISACA members indicates that while the BYOD trend comes with risks, many IT pros are embracing it.

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Design firm re-engineers remote office backup; dumps servers, storage

  Nine-office design firm replaced servers and storage in its branch office with Riverbed devices to streamline remote office backup and save money.

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  NetIQ aims PlateSpin Recon at backup, DR analysis

  NetIQ's latest version of PlateSpin Recon sizes up backups and disaster recovery needs to help customers plan and optimize those processes.

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Riverbed Granite grows capacity, branch office support

  Riverbed sees larger implementations for its Granite branch office storage appliances, and gives them more capacity and storage array support.

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Quantum DXi refresh starts with pay-as-you-go, entry-level box

  Latest entry-level Quantum DXi deduplication backup target scales to higher capacity, but keeps the capacity pricing model of the previous version.

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Tardy Symantec NetBackup 7.6 focuses on performance, feature parity

  Symantec NetBackup 7.6 arrived late, but the vendor said backup and recovery performance will stand out in lieu of groundbreaking features.

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Nakivo adds multi-tenancy, dynamic licensing for VM backups

  Nakivo adds features to its virtual machine backup application that make it easier to manage backups from multiple clients.

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Financial firm coaxes more speed out of cloud backups with DataProtect

  Payment consultant Vizant Technologies found that cloud backup performance varies from one service provider to the next before choosing DataProtect.

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  Data backup 2013 news dominated by cloud and modern data protection

  Data backup news in 2013 was filled with vendors taking their technology to the cloud and quests to fix 'broken backup' with modern data protection.

• December 16, 2013 16 Dec'13

  Unitrends buys PHD Virtual to move into virtual backup, cloud DR

  Integrated backup appliance vendor Unitrends and virtual machine backup specialist PHD Virtual will combine forces to compete with Veeam Software.

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Backup Exec.cloud customers hunt for data protection alternatives

  Symantec's Backup Exec.cloud customers need another way to protect data, and many must pay for two services until migrating off Symantec's cloud.

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Waterbury Hospital turns to PHD Virtual for VM and tape support

  Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut needed diverse backup support, so it chose PHD Virtual because it offered support for virtual machines and tape.

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Mining company strikes remote office backup gold with Riverbed Granite

  Gold mining company uses Riverbed Granite devices to back up valuable data at bandwidth-starved remote offices to its Toronto data center.

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  EMC upgrades Mozy with eye on enterprise cloud backup

  EMC sees Mozy as its entrée to enterprise cloud backups and adds it to its Data Protection Suite alongside Avamar, NetWorker and Data Domain Boost.

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Quantum sells Arkivio software with Lattus file-archiving appliance

  Quantum signs reseller deal with Arkivio to add file-archiving application to Lattus object-based archiving appliance.

• November 15, 2013 15 Nov'13

  School district uses Actifio to tame copy data, manage data protection

  Palm Beach County school district uses Actifio to tame copy data and manage data protection of more than 1 PB of information.

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Highly Reliable Systems adds replication to backup appliances

  Highly Reliable Systems recently announced that it added NAS-to-NAS replication and SpeedSeed technology to its NetSwap systems.

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  EMC backup SVP: Backups need to go native, not as batch processes

  New EMC backup SVP discusses trends he sees for data protection over the next few years, including why BYOD isn't an IT priority and tape isn't dead.

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Asigra bundles cloud backup software on Cisco router

  Add Asigra Cloud Backup to Cisco's ISR G2 router, and you have the Asigra Cloud Backup Connector Appliance for remote offices and SMBs.

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  ExaGrid deduplication boxes get bigger, faster

  ExaGrid deduplication appliances inch toward the enterprise with the EX21000E, a system that can scale to 210 TB in a 10-unit grid.

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  InMage packages CDP, storage and compute into 'Magic Box'

  InMage's 4000 Series "Magic Box" places software, compute and storage capacity on a turnkey appliance for backup, disaster recovery.

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Acronis adds cloud backup software

  Acronis Storage is cloud backup software for service providers and enterprises who want to build private clouds.

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  VMware VDP and VDPA upgrades unlock more Avamar features

  VMware adds cloud backup and Data Domain support to vSphere Data Protection (VDP) and VDP Advanced (VDPA) apps, which use EMC Avamar under the hood.

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  Sepaton unveils VirtuoSO backup appliance with NAS interface

  No longer a VTL-only holdout, Sepaton launches VirtuoSO backup appliance with NAS interface and plans to add Fibre Channel support.

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  Spectra Logic digs into deep storage, pulls out BlackPearl

  Tape vendor Spectra Logic launches BlackPearl appliance with S3-like RESTful interface and LTFS support for 'deep storage' archives.

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Veeam ties backup monitoring into VMware management app

  Veeam Software integrates its virtual server backup with its Management Pack, enabling management of backup monitoring in Microsoft System Center.