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• TGA to implement new SAN solution

  The Theraputic Goods Administration (TGA) is to implement a new SAN solution in response to end of life storage issues and a forthcoming document management system.

• Data recovery should be part of disaster recovery

  IT managers should ensure their disaster recovery (DR) strategy also includes a chapter on data recovery, according to Kroll Ontrack general manager for Asia Pacific, Adrian Briscoe. “Too many businesses rely on their disaster recovery plans alone,” he said. “Typically, software is very good at doing everything automatically. It is the events where software has some sort of corruption and can’t understand what’s going on — that’s when you need the human intervention of a data recovery engineer behind the scenes.”

• Kroll Ontrack opens new cleanroom facility

  Data recovery services provider, Kroll Ontrack, has opened a new data recovery cleanroom facility in Queensland. The company established its original cleanroom on the West End site in 2005, but increased demand for data recovery services has allowed Kroll Ontrack to expand and add to existing services, including the data recovery techniques from storage media such as hard drives and solid state devices.

• Start-up claims its DVDs last 1,000 years

  If you really, really need to make sure those precious photos of yours last virtually forever - or at least longer than the average two- to five-year lifespan of consumer-grade DVDs, then start-up Cranberry LLC has the answer for you: a DVD that literally lasts a millennium.

• The week in storage

  Last week in storage garnered several announcements from SteelEye, 3PAR, Brocade and Thales.

• The week in storage: Part 1

  Last week was quiet in storage other than a few announcements from Emulex, Data Robotics and Rackspace.

• Intel pulls firmware for SSDs just a day after release

  Intel has pulled a firmware upgrade it released on Monday for its X25-M consumer solid-state drives as users complained that the software caused crashes.

• Brocade partners with Thales for network-based encryption appliance

  Data storage switch maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and Thales e-Security Inc. today announced the integration of the Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS) with the Brocade encryption SAN switches.

• Storage pros worry about putting data in the cloud

  Cloud storage platforms need to mature before they are enterprise-ready, particularly for customers in highly regulated industries, IT professionals attending Storage Networking World in Phoenix, Ariz. this week said.

• Sidekick fiasco highlights need for mobile backups

  The loss of personal data that Sidekick users in the U.S. have suffered is a shame, but it also shows how important data stored on mobile phones has become.

• IBM unveils disk archive system, cloud storage tools

  IBM this week unveiled a new private cloud storage service for enterprise-class companies at its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit conference here.

• Cheap SANs boast high-end features

  This is a good time to be buying a midrange storage-area network. Gigabytes per dollar is dropping, throughput per dollar is increasing and affordable systems are delivering sophisticated features that used to be reserved for the high end of the market.

• Suncorp overhauls storage

  Suncorp has overhauled its storage strategy rolling out a new consolidated its storage environment in conjunction with partner NetApp.

• Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive

  After 8 years of success the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first mainstream storage product based on 'SuperSpeed' USB 3.0.

• Flash reality sinks in at Diskcon

  Solid-state storage earned a hot technology's badge of honor -- a backlash -- on Wednesday at the Diskcon conference in Santa Clara, California.