Netapp in June re-stated its focus regarding strategy, priorities and outlook. Netapp’s messages revolves around virtualization & cloud and are permeated by its long term commitment to data centre solutions from medium size up to large scale IT. Conversely, Netapp wants to eradicate any perception that it is a midrange supplier or a mere provider [...]
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Netapp Strategy Update
Jul 1
HDS on April 19 announced its intention to develop and deliver an open, unified compute platform catering for servers, storage, network and applications. Other vendors have also articulated similar unified computing visions such as EMC/VMware/Cisco with Vblock and HP with Matrix. HDS at this early stage articulates a concept of a “Scalable, unified compute platform [...]
Overland’s SnapServer family is extended with iSCSI SAN arrays. By targeting the SMB segment with its new SAN functionality, Overland hopes to build on its appeal in the NAS space. The SnapServer line, has led a surprisingly unfulfilled life over many years with its different owners failing to capitalise on the SMB potential in the [...]
On January 25 2010, Symantec released new versions of both its main back-up families: Backup Exec and Netbackup. The new releases; Backup Exec 2010 as well as NetBackup 7 goes out on February 1; improved in the areas of de-duplication, server virtualisation and archiving. De-duplication: Based on the same de-duplication engine (PureDisk) both products offers [...]