The downside is that disk-as-disk might require more configuration and management chores associated with the disk-based file systems.

Microsoft has completed production of System Center Data Protection Manager, its disk-based data backup and recovery system, and will release it to manufacturing in the next 30 days.

System-level recoveries are done by restoring volumes rather than individual files. The company claims that its product works with other vendor’s snapshot backup packages.

The ExaGrid system works alongside Gardner Trucking’s existing backup application, Symantec Backup Exec, and also backs up the company’s VMware server images. ExaGrid says its disk-based ...

Using Amazon S3 cloud storage is easier due to four file system services and software from SubCloud, Jungle Disk, Elastic Drive and PersistanFS.

City of Aurora, CO Replaces Tape Backups with Disk-based ExaGrid System; Data Restores Reduced from Days to Minutes ...

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Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and ...