Joe Austin

Data is the lifeblood of any organization and, in the last decade, increasing emphasis has been placed on protecting that data so organizations can recover the information that they need in the time frame they need it. Replication is now rapidly emerging as a viable form of data protection even for midsize organizations because of its lower costs, faster recovery times and the level of protection that it provides. However the process of selecting the right replication solution for the different data types that organizations need to protect is anything but an intuitive exercise. Replication in its simplest form is a copy of production data that is stored somewhere else on disk. Then if the production data becomes corrupted, destroyed or inaccessible, a copy of that data can be quickly accessed to minimize or even eliminate a disruption in service to the application or... (more)

Microsoft SharePoint Adoption Fuels Channel Opportunities for Archiving

Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today reported that its ecosystem of channel partners are experiencing tremendous interest and revenue upside when selling the Mimosa NearPointTM for SharePoint for archiving, discovery and recovery. The rapid and dramatic adoption of Microsoft SharePoint has resulted in many opportunities for SharePoint archiving and is fueling revenue growth for many of Mimosa’s value added resellers and system integrators focused on Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft SharePoint sales broke the $1 billi... (more)

RELDATA ANNOUNCES DISTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT WITH PROMARK

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey – January 27, 2010 – RELDATA Inc. (www.reldata.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, today announced a distribution agreement with Promark Technology, a value-added distributor of data storage and document imaging products and solutions. With this agreement, Promark is now offering the RELDATA Unified Storage Engine (USE™) platform, an open, software-centric architecture that delivers superior performance for consolidation of storage within complex multi-vendor and virtualized server environments.   Promark Te... (more)

DCIG Buyer’s Guide for 2010

By Jerome Wendt, Principal Analyst DCIG   Austin, TX – The Data Center Infrastructure Group (DCIG), a provider of IT storage analysis and guidance, today announced the industry’s most comprehensive midrange storage systems buyer’s guide, featuring detailed product comparisons across more than 20 storage vendors and 70+ storage arrays. New for 2010, the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide  provides product comparisons among the widest range of storage array options and identifies the winners and losers across five categories, including FC/iSCSI, FC only, iSCSI only, hardware and s... (more)

Advanced Data Virtualization: Function, Capability and Benefits

In this report, Queplix provides an overview of the functions and processes that enable advanced data virtualization to solve a wide range of data integration and data management challenges. The process of advanced data virtualization includes four major steps: discover and organize the data, virtualize and view the data structures, globalize the data, and then harmonize the data. Discover and organize enables intelligent software interfaces (Application Software BladesTM) to understand the structure of data sources and their related security and move information back (and forth)... (more)