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HP, HDS Beef Up Back-Up
In separate announcements, storage heavyweights HP and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) have expanded their data protection product line-ups. HP Data Protector Notebook Extension enables users to back up and recover data while working remotely and offline, while the HP Backup and Recovery Fast Track Services is a suite of scalable service engagements. At the same…
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Tandberg Data Targets SMB Tape Opportunity
Tandberg Data has had a tumultuous 2009 with a major reorganization under new ownership and an increased focus on the channel, but the data-protection vendor hopes its latest moves will position it for a much better 2010. The company has made a number of product announcements, including: a new entry-level tape backup solution for SMBs,…
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CA Channel Exec Wants Partners Back From Symantec
Adam Famularo wants his partners back. Plain and simple. As senior vice president and general manager for CA’s Recovery Management & Data Modeling business unit, Famularo didn’t mince words in a recent interview with Channel Insider when he discussed the renewed momentum he’s seeing around the company’s back-up and recovery products and just how badly…
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Quantum Offers Differentiated Tape Solution
The storage market is changing with new demands and technologies, but at $3.5 billion (2008), tape is still a large segment and Quantum is releasing an entry-level tape automation library that is channel-friendly. HP owns the biggest slice of the tape drive market, with 55 percent of all factory-out tape drive shipments in 2008 (IDC),…
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EMC Adds Desktop, Laptop and Virtualization Support to Avamar Deduplication Technology
While EMC’s biggest news in the deduplication arena may have been around its acquisition of Data Domain earlier this year, that doesn’t mean that the storage and security giant has stopped progress on its other deduplication technology. EMC is expanding its Avamar software—designed as backup software for servers in the enterprise, to officially support desktops…