Xiotech is to enhance backup, restore, and disaster recovery performance technologies over the next 12 to 18 months in South Africa.

Verbatim's Quad Interface External Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in a capacity of 1Tb, are now available from Drive Control Corporation (DCC).

Drive Control Corporation (DCC) will be delivering the latest SAN solution from Overland, the SnapServer SAN S2000: a feature rich, resource-efficient iSCSI SAN platform for businesses with growing data.

Research reports by leading analyst groups IDC and Forrester Research predict an upturn in IT spending in 2010.  One of the industries to lead the way is data storage solutions, which underscores Drive Control Corporation's (DCC) move to expand its storage solution offering to include all market segments, from entry-level to enterprise applications.

Western Digital (WD), together with official local distributor, Drive Control Corporation (DCC) reconfirmed their commitment to expanding business in South Africa with a recent national road show, in Johannesburg, Gauteng, Durban & Cape Town, which served as "roadmap" for the coming months.

Storage systems remain one of the most costly expenses within today’s modern IT environment.

We have all heard of "perfect storm" scenarios where a series of events lead to seemingly inconceivable disasters, writes Rajen Naicker, Overland product specialist at Drive Control Corporation (DCC).

It would seem that solid-state drive (SSD) technology is finally making its predicted inroads, writes Vassen Naicker, Western Digital product specialist at Drive Control Corporation (DCC). According to research group, Gartner, the storage technology is expected to grow to 5.1 million units by 2013 which is a significant jump from the estimated 59 000 units sold in 2008.

Protecting organisational data is one of the most vital components in any security policy. But there's no point locking down the data and locking out intruders if you cannot also, when calamity strikes, recover key data and applications and make them available in a reasonable period of time to drive the operations of the organisation.

Data de-duplication, the method of reducing data storage needs by eliminating redundant data from a device, is gaining attention because of its ability to reduce the size of the backup storage repository by an average of twenty-to-one.

Virtualisation is becoming a more and more common practise in the ICT space, with the virtualisation of server, the dividing of one physical server into two or more virtual server machines, the most common form of this. Virtual Machines, or VMs, which run as several dumb terminals off one server machine, are also becoming far more common, writes Rajen Naicker, Overland product specialist at Drive Control Corporation.

While the amount of corporate data that needs to be stored, archived and retrieved in a seamless and secure way continues to grow at an astounding rate, many cash-strapped IT departments are turning to more cost-effective – and less traditional - solutions as they battle to keep their heads above the data flood, writes John Hope-Bailie, technical director of Demand Data.