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• Optus delays mobile storage lockers

  Optus is in preparations to launch its own version of popular storage locker service Dropbox, allowing mobile customers to back up their data to the telco’s storage infrastructure.

• Survey finds storage systems underutilized as companies add more capacity

  A survey of 1,165 IT managers found that the average company doesn't utilize 28% of storage capacity but nonetheless plans to increase storage capacity by 34% over the next year.

• Family Court of Australia to get new tape library

  The Family Court of Australia has moved to address its expanding data storage needs with the impending roll out of additional capacity to its Court backup system.

• Verizon, IBM team on cloud-based storage

  Verizon Business and IBM are now offering a joint service aimed at helping large businesses safely store large chunks of data within the Verizon cloud.

• 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.

• Dell, CommVault release bundled de-duplication appliance

  Dell Inc. and CommVault Systems Inc. today announced their first integrated data management appliance with embedded block-level deduplication - the Dell PowerVault DL2000.

• Quantum releases remote site backup, deduplication appliance

  Quantum Corp. today announced a new backup appliance for remote offices that combines data deduplication, replication and system-wide monitoring software for centralizing backup control.

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  Users set to ditch tape for online storage

  Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.

• Seagate's Replica: truly set and forget

  The scoop: Replica backup storage device, by Seagate, about $200 (for 500GB version; 250GB version costs $130)

• First 512GB SSD drive offered for sale

  Commercial solid state drives (SSDs) have finally started reaching the capacities found in the hard disk world, with the release of a new 512GB drive from US storage startup Super Talent.

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  EMC announces content archiving, e-discovery applications

  EMC Corp. Thursday announced a new family of e-mail archiving and e-discovery applications that can centrally manage multiple content types in order to apply consistent retention, disposition and overall life-cycle management regardless of the hardware platform.

• EMC updates storage management software

  In a bid to make backup and recovery easier for IT administrators to handle, EMC is updating several pieces of its storage management software portfolio.

• Dell's new backup system includes both hardware and software

  Dell is putting together hardware and software for backup and recovery in one system, with integrated software, for small and medium-size businesses.

• IBM commits $300 million to disaster recovery build-out

  IBM is investing US$300 million to build 13 new data centers that will help customers around the world recover from disaster by storing their data remotely in a cloud-based storage model.