Nexsan has introduced a storage subsystem which it said could enable users to consolidate their long-term business-critical data stores into a single consolidated platform.

Storage specialist OnStor is looking to tap into the growing demand for networked storage by launching Cougar 6000, a scale beyond the company's existing Bobcat range.

Sun has released what it calls the storage industry's first one terabyte tape drive in an effort to satisfy the explosive demand for storage capacity in data centres.

MessageLabs, best known as a provider of email security services, last week introduced a managed email backup service that has as a selling point the same security features built into the company's other products.

Buffalo Technology has become the latest vendor to announce a USB hard drive featuring built-in, hardware-backed encryption. Almost as interesting is that is costs almost the same as the same drive without security.

GFT inboxx has developed a unified archive - a single repository which it claimed can store anything that an organisation needs to keep in digital form, whether it be email, ERP data, voice recordings, or faxes.

Virtualisation-enabled and hardware-assisted 8Gigabit Fibre Channel SAN adapters allow applications to run under Microsoft's Hyper-V at "near-native transaction performance", SAN specialist QLogic has claimed.

WildPackets this week introduced a highly extensible data recorder for 10 Gigabit (10Gig) Ethernet networks, the latest sign that 10Gig networks are gaining wider acceptance, even among medium-sized businesses.

Network storage developer Nirvanix has developed cloud-based NAS - a scheme which lets users connect systems to Internet-located storage nodes via NFS, CIFS or FTP.

Backup and recovery specialist Data Domain is moving into archiving, by adding file locking software to its de-duplicating storage systems. The software - called Retention Lock - is designed to deal with regulatory compliance and IT governance issues by protecting archived data from accidental or malicious deletion.

Tales abound of how best to destroy a hard drive. Some organisations remove the disk platters' magnetic coating with a power-sander, others use high-powered metal shredders, and PCs used on military operations may have explosive charges built in to prevent their analysis after capture.

Continuity Software has upgraded its RecoverGuard software, used to root out and fix disaster recovery (DR) problems at data centre sites.

Continuity Software has upgraded its RecoverGuard software, used to root out and fix disaster recovery (DR) problems at datacentre sites.

It's still a rumour at this point, but a plausible one. Western Digital is said to be working on a hard disk that can spin at 20,000rpm, thirty percent faster than today's fastest spinning drives.

NetApp has updated its midrange FAS3000 network storage family today with new systems claimed to serve files 40 percent faster, and introduced dedicated file caching appliances which it said are the first WAFS-type devices from a major storage company.

Tandberg Data is modestly claiming to have the fastest 2U tape library on the market after upgrading its StorageLibrary range with the latest half-height LTO-4 drives.

Nexsan claims to be the first supplier with an energy-efficient SAS storage system. The company has taken its AutoMAID technology, which throttles back the power usage of hard drives that are not currently being accessed, and applied it to a SAS array.

German software developer IT-Services Thomas Holz has claimed that its latest synchronisation tool for Microsoft Outlook can not only sync an Outlook database from one PC to another, it has also gained the ability to merge individual diary data into a shared calendar and can create Outlook backups.

US company Sans Digital has come up with a storage design that it claims can deliver many of the benefits of solid-state drives (SSDs) but at less than half the cost.

Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever - a box able to optimise, de-duplicate, compress and encrypt 1Gbit/s of WAN traffic.

Italian start-up Memopal has said it wants to make storage so cheap that "it will be cheaper to buy more storage space than delete unwanted files."

Adaptec has introduced two entry-level Unified Serial RAID controllers based on the dual-core silicon that it debuted earlier this year in its high-end Series 5 controllers.

Brocade has reaffirmed its commitment to Fibre Channel with a range of 8Gbit/s switches and server host bus adapters (HBAs).

Riverbed has done deals with several developers of network monitoring software to get them to add support for its Steelhead WAN appliances.

A UK storage security company has come up with an encryption-based hard drive that can be slotted into any laptop without additional hardware, software upgrades or BIOS modifications.