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• Onstream’s implementation of CommVault Simpana reduces IT issues

  Trying to find data once was a nightmare for the IT department of Tasmanian-based shared services company, Onstream.

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  Cloud adoption in Australia not matching predictions: Index

  The adoption of Cloud computing by small to medium businesses (SMBs) in Australia has been slow and is not matching predictions, according to the second annual Acronis Global Disaster Recovery (DR) Index.

• Schiavello to build second Melbourne data centre

  Melbourne-based furniture manufacturer Schiavello is in the planning stages for a second data centre as it looks to improve disaster recovery capability.

• Tips for an effective disaster recovery plan

  According to some estimates, 2011 has become the year of billion-dollar natural disasters. With floods, storms and fires now a top-of-mind business risk concern, IBM has announced six tips that individuals, businesses and government agencies can use to help prepare their IT environments for natural disasters and a wide range of other threats.

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  Data backup problems still plaguing storage industry

  Businesses are struggling to backup their data quickly due to outdated infrastructure and slow systems, a storage industry leader has claimed.

• What the Gulf Oil Spill can teach CIOs about disasters

  While I'm by no means trying to take attention away from the horrific environmental and economic disaster that the now largest oil spill in U.S. history has caused, I can't help but see some lessons that I and other IT professionals can learn from it.

• Don't give up on tape yet

  DLT, SuperDLT, LTO, 3480, 3490e, 3590, 3570, TK50, 4mm-DDS, 8mm, AIT, QIC, and 9-track, these are a few of my favorite things. Not exactly how the old song goes, but rest assured that what you have on your old data tapes – regardless of the format – has more staying power and value than your old audio cassettes.

• F-Secure to introduce ‘Digital Vault’ storage

  F-Secure will soon launch its ‘Digital Vault’ concept in Australia, a repository for digital assets that is designed to act as a storage hub for individual digital devices.

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  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.

• Cloud primed for back up and recovery: IBM

  IBM is carrying out major renovation work on its Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) offering to encourage more enterprises and SMEs to move their back up and recovery systems onto the cloud.

• Backup goes peer-to-peer

  I’m still in the audience at the DEMOFall conference, and still taking in demonstrations of new products and services. One of the cooler ideas this morning is Symform, a small-business remote-backup service. Technically, it’s utterly unlike services such as Mozy and Carbonite: Those services store everything in massive server farms, but Symform is farm-free–it uses peer-to-peer technology to store backups on the PCs of other Symform users. If you wanna back up 10GB of data, for instance, you agree to devote 10GB of disk space to other folks’ backups–and to leave your computer on 80 percent of the time.

• Western Digital urges users: back up to ensure data security

  The amount of storage needed for increasing amounts of data will rise ten-fold in the next five years, yet only one in three users are actively backing up their files, data from a recent Western Digital study revealed recently.