• NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

  Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com this month launched a new category , with reviews and comparisons of the best cloudstorage services.

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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.

• Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

  Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

• Aussie firms lack disaster plans for IT

  Many Australian businesses have no plan for how they will start work again following a disaster, says flexible workspace provider Regus.

• CommVault to combine backup, archive functions

  NEW YORK -- CommVault plans to announce a significant upgrade to its flagship Simpana backup software in the next several weeks that will blur the lines between backup and archive.

• Seven strategies for keeping disaster recovery ON TARGET

  It was a normal Monday batch process at a well-respected global bank - until, that is, a critical back-office system failed. At first, IT administrators took it in stride. This wasn't the only time they'd had to recover lost data. But soon it became clear something more ominous was occurring: the bank's multi-terabyte database had become corrupted.

• Nimble's all-in-one storage combines primary and backup in one box

  Start-up Nimble Storage came out of the development stage this week with its first product -- an array that combines solid state drives (SSD) with high-capacity, cost and performance serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, acts as primary and backup storage and replicates offsite for disaster recovery.

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Yields ROI

  The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.

• DR a growing concern for A/NZ CIOs: Symantec

  CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec.

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  Swine Flu Prompts Aussie CIOs to Revisit Business Continuity Plans

  Australian health authorities may have given the all clear for two local suspected cases of the swine flu virus -- which has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 20 in the United States -- but concern over the spread of the potentially fatal disease has local CIOs revisiting their business continuity plans (BCP).

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  EMC Data Domain Archiver - A Detailed Review

  Many enterprises have been able to minimise tape for operational recovery by adopting deduplication storage systems. Howeverm customers with long-term retention requirements have continued to rely on tape-baed solutions due to perceived advantages in total cost of ownership, energy consumption, data portability and fault isolation. Read on.

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  HP Case Study: Streamlining archiving and data protection at Bon-Ton

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  What's New in HP Data Protector V6.2