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Iomega has released its new fourth generation range of Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drives intended for home and small to medium business networks with up to 15 users. Storage capacity of the three new StorCenter models ranges from 500GB to 1TB. Iomega have incorporated popular home-network features like media and print serving.

All Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drives include:

• Active Directory support - gives the functionality to act as a client member in an Active Directory domain (allowing the drive to use the domain users and groups),
• a journaling file system - helps prevent data loss in the event of a power failure,
• UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) AV media server capability - allows users to enjoy photos, video, and music throughout the office or the home,
• EMC Retrospect Express backup and disaster recovery software.

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Western Digital’s (WD) My Book World Edition II, My Book Pro Edition II, My Book Premium Edition II external hard drive appliances now come with 2TB (terabyte) of storage. The announcement is further recognition of the explosion of storage capacity requirements due to multimedia content from devices like digital cameras, music players and video recorders.

Western Digital My Book World Edition II

WD’s My Book World Edition II is a remote-access storage system which can be accessed over a network. As a stand alone appliance it does not require a PC to be on. It’s an ideal solution for tasks such as backing up laptop data to one’s home while traveling. From any network (Internet) files on the World Edition II can be accessed for file transfer and files can even be remotely opened, edited and saved. The My Book World Edition II includes professional EMC Retrospect Express backup software for scheduled or on-demand file backup. Extra Data Protection can be provided by using half of the World Edition II’s capacity to mirror data in real time using RAID technology.

Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II and Premium Edition II

WD’s My Book Pro Edition II and Premium Edition II are external hard drive storage appliances for extra storage and data backup protection. The primary difference between the two My Book models is the EMC Retrospect Express backup software with the Pro Edition vs the WD Backup Software with the Premium Edition II. The Pro Edition also comes with a longer three year warranty. For installation flexibility, both units have three methods of connection - ultra-fast FireWire 800, as well as FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. A convenient feature is the capacity gauge allowing space available to be checked at a glance.

Equiinet’s recently launched BackupPilot is a backup product designed for SME and education and particularly to address problems with the backup of laptops which are rapidly overtaking desktop PCs. A suitable backup solution which does not rely on users to manually backup their mobile devices is an imperative for such organizations as revealed by a recent survey of schools by Equiinet. The survey uncovered that most schools do not have a robust policy to protect work data (which includes information such as lesson plans and students e-portfolios) on teachers laptops, relying instead on individuals to remember to manually backup.

With Equiinet’s BackupPilot system, client software is installed on each laptop to automatically perform backups whenever the laptop is connected to the internet. The BackupPilot system is fully automatic once the first full backup has been made (to a removable device which is physically transferred to a remote site), backup data identified and backup schedules created. Further backups which are only of smaller file amendments (compressed and encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption) are transmitted over a broadband connection. Conveniently, backup schedules can be configured and managed at one central location or locally if desired. Normal PC operation is possible while Equiinet’s BackupPilot is running.

On their website Consonus have a sobering quote from a recent Gartner report which found that 93% of organizations that experience a significant data loss are out of business within five years. And it is in this sort of environmental awareness of the seriousness of data loss that Consonus Technologies has launched its fully automated, online, remote backup, monitoring and management service.

The iBackup solution has been developed to provide data security and availability independent of company size. The turn key service is focused on the day-to-day activities required to keep a customer’s important data protected and recoverable. This type of service provides a solution for companies to satisfy their own and regulatory requirements for data availability, retention and compliance. Challenges to doing this in-house include skilled resource retention, increasing backup system complexity and of course costs.

After an independent SAS70 audit by Grant Thornton, Consonus announced in February that they had received a Type I SAS certification of the integrity of their facilities and data hosting solutions.

You’ve accidentally deleted music files from your music player and worse yet, managed to re-format the memory while attempting to find them! Most would think that this is no recovery situation however, they are wrong. DiskInternals newly released version of their Music Recovery Software might still be capable of recovering the missing media files.

DiskInternals Music Recovery Software is capable of restoring deleted or corrupted music files from any storage including hard drive, iPod, USB-flash, mp3 players, CD and DVD disk. The software supports most media formats and all file systems including Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

The software provides a “Music Slideshow” feature which shows the sequence of tags and album covers of media files. Meta tags for wma and mp3 media formats are supported. An integrated media player allows, for example, users to listen to detected deleted music files and assess their quality.

R1Soft has released a MySQL data protection add-on module. R1Soft believe that the new module is the first such product for MySQL, aimed at large or frequently changing databases that cannot tolerate downtime or performance decreases during backups. R1Soft use a granular backup approach, allowing databases to be backed up as often as four or five times an hour.

The MySQL add-on module is available as a premium add-on to R1Soft’s flagship CDP Server product for protection of data on both Linux and Windows platforms. Notable features include the ability to execute Bare-Metal restorations for an entire MySQL Server and the ability to back up busy MySQL Servers without interruptions. A user friendly Web interface is provided for administration of the module.