The current economic crisis is affecting how organizations look at their IT. Existing systems are being stretched to increase their value, while investment in new systems is under greater scrutiny than ever before. For the channel, customers are demanding more from their spending. Whil...

VMware announced that Tropics Software Technologies (Tropics Software) has deployed VMware’s virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, as the foundation of a robust business-continuity solution. Headquartered in Sarasota, FL, Tropics Software offers workers’ com...

Specialty Bakers recently deployed IT backup and recovery software from Acronis resulting in uninterrupted customer service and protection of information that keeps the business running. To reduce downtime during system recovery, Specialty Bakers replaced its time-consuming, file-based...

SunGard Availability Services announced Virtual Server Replication Services, an AdvancedRecovery solution for organizations using virtualization technology to run their business applications. The offering provides companies an affordable way to implement a comprehensive second site rec...

3Leaf Systems announced the general availability of 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server version 2.0, a key component of 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment. The new software release delivers disaster recovery, streamlined management, and enhanced availability for large x86 server deployments...

SteelEye announced the general availability of SteelEye Protection Suite, a comprehensive solution that provides disaster protection of virtual machines running on Citrix XenServer. SteelEye Protection Suite delivers real-time LAN and WAN replication of XenServer virtual machines. It i...

DataCore Software announced that its SANmelody software is serving as the foundation of a replication and disaster recovery (DR) plan at Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) that was orchestrated by DataCore partner Entisys. The IT environment at ACMC was fundamentally based upon produ...

Hosting provider LeaseWeb has decided to use a FAS 3040HA mid-range platform by NetApp so that it will be able to offer its customers a complete storage-on-demand (SOD) solution. The platform will allow LeaseWeb to offer managed back-up and disaster recovery services.

For many years secondary sites have been a part of the enterprise computing equation. Recent natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina opened the eyes of many IT administrators to the devastation that can compromise primary and backup IT facilities. The widespread confusion that followe...

Mellanox Technologies and Galactic Computing announced that Mellanox's 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters provide the low-latency, high-performance storage interconnect for Galactic Computing's line of VSTOR storage systems and gateways, providing an adaptive and responsive infrastructure for ...

InMage Systems announced a partnership with Marathon Technologies. Marathon will offer InMage's flagship DR-Scout solution to its customer base. Marathon representatives will be fully trained in sales, service and support for DR-Scout. The combination of DR-Scout with Marathon's everRu...

Bay Microsystems announced that SOFTBANK TELECOM has deployed Bay Microsystems ABEx2020 Multi-Service Transport Gateway to deliver high- performance carrier Infiniband services as part of its Wide Area Virtualization infrastructure and to demonstrate its automated multi-site disaster r...

PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, announced new packaging options for PlateSpin Forge that make the innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance even more cost-effective for small and medium-sized enterprises that need to protect ten or more server workloads. PlateSpin Forge is a pur...

Double-Take Software will host the next stop of its Latin America-area disaster recovery seminar on June 11, 2008, in Santiago, Chile. The educational series focuses on the importance of protecting business critical data and applications, and ensuring the highest levels of recoverabili...

DataCore announced today that SoftBank Telecom has deployed DataCore SANmelody as the storage virtualization platform to build, verify and test its disaster recovery process over a wide-area virtual infrastructure. For the deployment and verification test, SoftBank Telecom established ...

In keeping with Dell's mission to simplify IT, Dell announced the seamless integration of Dell EqualLogic storage arrays with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), which automates disaster recovery (DR) management in virtual infrastructures. As one of VMware's largest resellers and Globa...

NetApp announced that the Hillsborough County Library Services (HCLS), located in Tampa, Florida, has solidified its disaster recovery capabilities and streamlined its overall storage environment thanks to its recent installation of the NetApp S500 storage solution.

This week you'll be able to order that disaster recovery pack that VMware has been promising since last September, Site Recovery Manager, but it'll take them another month to deliver it. It's supposed to let you set up, test and automate disaster recovery in a way that's not available ...

Acronis announced that the Small and Medium Business Technology Network has selected Acronis as a preferred provider of disaster recovery software for its national membership. Through this partnership, SMB Technology Network members will have direct access to the Acronis SMB Connect pa...

Alternative Technology announced an agreement to distribute Marathon Technologies everRun fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual server environments. Marathon's everRun software is for IT professionals at midsize companies and enterprises who want to preven...

NetApp announced support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, a product from VMware for disaster recovery management and automation. This support provides customers with a disaster recovery solution built with VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware Infrastructure, and NetApp FAS storage sys...

LeftHand Networks announced its support for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering product for disaster recovery management and automation. Part of VMware's suite of management and automation products for the data center, VMware Site Recovery Manager...

Successful businesses execute simultaneously on three fronts: sustained revenue growth, continuous cost control, and comprehensive risk management. Driven by a significant rise in public awareness of information security breaches, the discipline of risk management is under increased pr...

Every person who has ever been responsible for backing up data has had to ask themselves the same basic questions. They need to know what data has to be backed up, how frequently it changes, where to store the backups, and how quickly the data will have to be restored in case of disast...

Today's security threats have become increasingly sophisticated and often combine several types of technology to maximize their impact on organizations. Even though businesses can't always prevent hardware damage from disasters like fires and hurricanes, they can protect data and infor...

EMC is entering the SMB software market, acquiring Dantz Development Corporation in a $50M deal that brings it a well-regarded product platform, Retrospect, and what EMC software group EVP Dave DeWalt calls 'wide-reaching and deep channels to market.' The synergies between EMC and Dant...