Soarsoft Africa has announced the release of Metalogix's StoragePoint 3.0 - SharePoint-based software that actively manages the entire storage lifecycle of content while dramatically decreasing storage costs.

The Overland SnapServer N2000, a unified block and file storage solution scalable up to 144 Terabytes in a compact 2U form factor is now available from official distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC).

Tourism group Tourvest has implemented Compellent, a scalable enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) that lowers storage costs, reduces administration time, improves utilisation, automates replication and speeds up data recovery.

Distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) is now delivering Huawei Symantec's S2600 range of storage products, the third-generation of products for small and medium-sized enterprises.

EMC has introduced a new, midrange deduplication storage system that drives continued price/performance increases into the Data Domain product line.

If you are looking for a reliable hard drive for multimedia streaming environments that also incorporates the benefits of low power green technology then look no further than Western Digital's (WD) new AV-25 SATA Hard Drive.

The amount of corporate data required to be stored and managed has been growing exponentially over the last three decades, writes John Hope-Bailie, technical director of Demand Data. The already-astonishing rate of growth shows no signs of slowing. Much of the data is semi- or unstructured content comprising documents, images, video and audio clips and other data.

As a result of events around the world in the last decade, and the recognition of the need for business continuity and sustainability, corporate governance legislation has abounded, with both local and international regulations coming into play that affect individual and corporate actions, writes Rajen Naicker, storage product specialist at Drive Control Corporation.

If storage systems represent the largest expected IT expense for an organisation, then the question that needs to be answered is whether the improvement of storage efficiency can boost your bottom line?

Cloud computing has become something of a buzzword of late, and is being billed as the ultimate solution to organisations' resource and storage challenges, providing a virtualised environment with unlimited capacity and resources available on demand on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Time was, tape media was commonly used for backing up data, with bulky spools of magnetic tape being stored in vast tape libraries in the data centre as well as in remote locations off-site.

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).