Enterprises looking to radically change the way they have structured and run their data centres, says Oracle.
With regulations around data security tightening, the hard drive's 256-bit hardware encryption is an attractive proposition.
Local scientists develop new technology to deal with big data, thanks to knowledge gleaned from the "Big Bang" project in Switzerland.
South Africans store personal files on no fewer than 14 devices with 60% never backing up data, says WD.
Distributed storage networks outperform SANs in that virtual servers are able to write to a local disk, as opposed to a disk on the network, says Martin Bester, cloud integrations specialist at Oceanhost.
It pays to partner with a service provider that has experience with cross-platform messaging and archiving migrations, says Chris Hathaway, director at Soarsoft Africa.
Automation has long been heralded as a way to simplify IT management, and this trend is spreading to the storage market, says Brad Pulford, enterprise solutions group director at Dell.
New Converged Systems offerings reduce the amount of time taken for virtualisation deployments to realise business value, says HP.
The WD Blackdual drive combines a 2.5-inch 120GB solid state drive with a 1TB hard disk drive.
The company's new clients include South African Airways, Netcare, Tiger Brands, Virgin Active, Mediclinic, Waltons, Sasol, Adcorp, Old Mutual and Edcon.
The company says its improvement in the 'Enterprise Information Archiving Magic Quadrant' reflects sustained product innovation and customer adoption.