Monday, November 12, 2007

Easy online backups; Girl Scouts box up new IT flavor: Data de-duplication

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Storage News Alert




Network World's Storage News Alert, 11/12/07

Easy online backups, 11/06/07: You know you should back up your data. But whether it's the cost, the setup, or the hassle of swapping discs or shuttling around hard drives, most of us find a million excuses not to get the job done. So wouldn't it be great if you could click on a few buttons and ensure that your data was backed up regularly? Thanks to a new breed of online services, it's possible to copy files over the Internet easily and affordably, keeping your data secure at an off-site location.

Girl Scouts box up new IT flavor: Data de-duplication, 11/08/07: Set to celebrate its 100th anniversary in just five years, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America are already looking to the future and how they can better manage critical data growth by incorporating new de-duplication capabilities in their backup and recovery appliances.

Silver Peak unveils data correction capability, 11/08/07: Wide area acceleration vendor Silver Peak Systems has added several new optimization features to its appliances that overcome packet delivery issues on high-capacity WAN links.

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