CommVault intros cloud storage

CommVault has recently introduced a disaster recovery- as-a-service offering for the mid-market segment, says Information Week.

The solution is an integration between the company's Simpana offering and Rackspace Cloud Hosting services. With the service, CommVault says joint customers can use its single console to move on-premise backup and archive data securely and reliably to Rackspace Cloud Files, for online storage.

The company claims further cost savings with the solution offering business continuity with Cloud DR, which will allow performing full or partial recoveries of Windows and Linux archives and backup data stored in Rackspace Cloud Servers.

If you have a spare hard drive lying around from an old computer and want to recycle it instead of spending $100 or so on a new backup or secondary drive, Cirago's CDD 2000 docking station might be for you, writes Computerworld.

It offers what is said to be an easy-to-use, attractive way of attaching a serial SATA drive to one's computer.

The CDD 2000 docking station comes in models that accommodate SATA I or SATA II 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives, but 2.5-inch drives can still fit in the 3.5-inch station.

Optus' first foray into the private cloud market will provide another option in a continually sparse landscape, but the telco has admitted the offering remains in its infancy, states Computerworld Australia.

Acting managing director of Optus Business, Rob Parcell, said the telco's new Optus Cloud Solutions suite, launching next month, was a play on the growth in demand for private cloud services within Australia on the back of its acquisition of Alphawest in 2004.

The suite would guarantee services are deployed on Optus' private data centres within Australian borders and provide low latency connections via cloud-enabled MPLS links. However, the number and type of services offered over the cloud at launch will remain limited.