Oracle Will Keep Sun's Storage, Tape Businesses The database giant revealed this week that it not only plans to keep Sun's disk storage business, but its tape business, too. Read the article
What Cloud Computing Can Learn From Grid A decade ago, grid computing began paving the way for cloud. Can cloud computing succeed where grid failed? Read the article
Symantec Backup Gets Deduplication Features The latest entry in the deduplication market is an old hand at security and system management. What does Symantec bring to the table? Read the article
More Linux Tips and Tricks we learn how easy it is to configure OpenSSH to use secure public key authentication instead of a password login. Read the article
Storage Players Forge Cloud Initiative CSI will lead the development of technical specifications and standards for the white-hot cloud storage industry. Read the article
How NetWisdom Helped Troubleshoot a SAN In a claim that sounds like something out of an H.G. Wells novel, Virtual Instruments says it has addressed SAN invisibility. Read the article
Linux Server Management: Five Signs You're Doing It Wrong Scaling IT systems either breeds high levels of automation to make the infrastructure manageable, or it ends up breeding a huge mess. Here are five signs that you need to mend your ways. Read the article
10 Reasons You Need to Look at ZFS Still dithering about Sun's high-performance filesystem? Here are ten reasons to give it a look today. Read the article
Terabytes of Storage for Pennies a Gigabyte One online backup provider took a hard look at data storage costs and decided to build its own storage servers for just pennies a gigabyte. Read the article
Head to the Cloud for Storage with Linux and DRDB While some say the cloud doesn't perform well enough and isn't stable enough, others say it is perfect for their usage model. Read the article
IBM Brings Deduplication to Mainframes Big Blue unveils a virtual tape library with deduplication capabilities for backing up z/OS environments. Read the article
Double-Take, Amazon Move Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Double-Take's backup software and Amazon EC2 give smaller businesses the equivalent of a disaster recovery site in the cloud. Read the article
Iron Mountain Acquires Email Archiving Firm Mimosa The information management giant is building a formidable data backup, recovery and archiving business. Read the article
NetApp Halts VTL Deduplication Development Six months after losing a bidding war for Data Domain to EMC, NetApp backs away from the market for VTL deduplication. Read the article
Continuity Software Ensures Disaster Recovery Preparedness Continuity Software says its disaster recovery monitoring software is the next best thing to extensive DR testing. Read the article
CommVault Moves Data Storage to the Cloud Storage management and backup software vendor CommVault is giving its Simpana software new cloud storage capabilities. Read the article
Symantec Adds Deduplication to Backup Software Backup Exec and NetBackup get new data dedupe features, along with better virtual machine protection and archiving and replication capabilities. Read the article
Quantum, Nexsan Expand Deduplication Offerings EMC partners Quantum and FalconStor have their own data deduplication offerings. Read the article
EMC Acquires Archer for IT Governance The data storage giant starts the new year with — what else? — an acquisition. Read the article
AMD Does RAID On a Chip AMD is using Dot Hill's software RAID technology to save server users the cost of hardware RAID adapters. Read the article
EMC Makes Recovery Work with Backup, Replication Reporting EMC claims that its Data Protection Advisor eliminates the need for disaster recovery testing. Read the article
EMC Makes Archiving, E-Discovery Go Further Centera gets new clustering abilities, and Data Domain gets indexing to help speed legal searches. Read the article
EMC, HP Back Up and Dedupe PCs After conquering the enterprise storage market, the IT giants have their eye on PCs. Read the article
Microsoft Adds E-mail Archiving to Exchange 2010 Despite a number of new data storage features, there's still room for storage vendors to support the latest version of Microsoft's e-mail platform. Read the article
Symantec Backs Up Linux Symantec is adding Linux support to its Backup Exec System Recovery software. Read the article