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• Add 8TB storage to Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi 3 with external Seagate hub

  Seagate's packing an 8TB hard drive in its new external Backup Plus Hub, which can be hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 3 or Chromebooks for expanded storage.

• Kordia launches enterprise backup and recovery solution

  Hawkins Group, Honda and McConnell Dowell jump on board as launch customers.

• Ballance chooses Commvault to ensure data access

  NZ-based fertiliser manufacturer and distributor, Ballance Agri-Nutrients, has deployed CommVault’s Simpana 10 software to enhance data scalability and end-user efficiencies to support its increasing mobile workforce.

• Education New Zealand deploys private cloud for global employees

  Education New Zealand has deployed a Microsoft private cloud in the third and final phase of a programme of work that focused on improving the user experience of its staff who are spread in 20 global locations.

• Plan B launches colocation services under new brand

  Cloud backup and disaster recovery provider Plan B has launched a new brand, Southern Cross Data Centers (SXDC), under which it will offer data centre colocation services to regional integrators and large corporates in NZ.

• Veeam: Why backup is no longer enough

  "For global enterprises, employees, customers and partners expect to have access to the data centre anytime."

• Digital Spotlight: Disaster recovery – a strategic investment for NZ businesses

  In New Zealand, all businesses, regardless of their size or industry, know that disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) is not a luxury item to have, but a real necessity.

• Six ways to botch your backups

  Many of us were shocked last week that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could make such a rookie mistake by losing the data of T-Mobile's Sidekick customers. As a system administrator, if there is one thing you absolutely have to get right, it's backups. Here are six ways to botch them.

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  NetIQ Disaster Recovery High Performance or Affordable? Pick Two.

  Managing your data center means more than just keeping your server workloads running; it also means protecting these workloads. After all, servers are costly: You incur physical costs, such as capital, power and cooling costs, as well as software licensing and support costs. If your servers are worth all this expense, they’re worth protecting from unexpected downtime.

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  Multicolor Steel Protects its Business with PlateSpin Forge

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  Assessing the business value of EMC backup and recovery

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  Top 5 reasons why EMC for archiving