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  • Storage overwhelms Aust CIOs

    Data overload is hitting Australian IT departments, as CIOs faced with shrinking budgets grapple with new ways to meet enterprise storage needs.

  • Environment dept makes outsourcing move

    The federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) is one step closer to replacing an eight-year-old IT outsourcing contract believed to be held by Commander after it today started briefing the industry on its requirements.

  • Cisco and RSA to offer SAN encryption

    Cisco and RSA have teamed up to develop encryption technology for data-at-rest on tapes and other types of storage media, combined with key management within storage area network infrastructure.

  • WebCentral arms itself for storage explosion

    Web hosting company WebCentral is investing AU$1 million in new SAN, virtualisation and blade server technology to steel itself for exponential growth in data storage requirements.

  • Storage networking getting Ethernet makeover

    IBM, Cisco Systems and other powerful computing companies have allied to create a version of the Fibre Channel storage networking technology that runs over more ordinary Ethernet networks.

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Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Will you manage in the exabyte era?

    Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Forget the flair, just make it work

    As data volumes rise and storage systems become networked as a matter of course, it seems almost inevitable that the management tactics needed to control those systems will also become more complex. Yet that doesn't mean that IT managers are happy with that state of affairs.

Features and Case Studies (125)

  • Storage overwhelms Aust CIOs

    Data overload is hitting Australian IT departments, as CIOs faced with shrinking budgets grapple with new ways to meet enterprise storage needs.

  • Who guards the guards: Storage

    Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.

  • Storage-starved SMBs get pampered

    Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.

  • How a SAN can help you cut costs

    Even though the upfront costs are likely to be steep, a SAN can actually save you money. Find out if it's the best long-term solution for your storage environment.

  • Bare NASessities in life

    Companies looking for ways to better leverage existing storage investments could turn to network attached storage (NAS) gateways rather than traditional NAS appliances.

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    IT challenges at Lucasfilm

    At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...

Reviews (53)

  • HP StorageWorks EVA4400

    The HP EVA4400 is a Storage Area Network (SAN) system that provides data storage and security on a much larger scale than a simple RAID or NAS system. We found it to be a reliable and scalable high-end data system.

  • NAS for the rest of us: 4 storage solutions

    We test and compare NAS devices designed to suit a specific set of medium-enterprise requirements.

  • Storage over IP: what is it good for?

    We've been hearing for a long time about storage over IP, particularly with the iSCSI protocol. We take a look at the technology, its applications, and the devices you can use.

  • Virtual stores

    Can virtualisation help you simplify your storage management? And when will it be ready?

  • Storage: The inside story

    Few managers consider it a sexy area, but well-planned storage systems are critical to the functioning of businesses of all sizes. How has storage technology evolved and how can you plan the right system at the right price?

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