Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
April 11, 2012
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: April 11, 2012. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
IBM introduced PureSystems, a new family of "expert integrated systems," with built-in expertise based on IBM's decades of experience running IT operations for tens of thousands of clients in 170 countries. With the aim of integrating all IT elements, both physical and virtual, IBM says the new systems offer clients an alternative to today's enterprise computing model, where multiple and disparate systems require significant resources to set up and maintain. According to IBM, PureSystems is the result of $2 billion in R&D and acquisitions over 4 years.
Zetta.net, a provider of enterprise-grade online backup and disaster recovery solutions, has unveiled a new version of its flagship cloud service. According to the company, Zetta DataProtect 3.0 brings enterprise-grade cloud data protection for small and mid-size enterprises in a managed service that requires no appliances and can be deployed within minutes. The solution aims to simplify and automate backups of critical IT assets and enable businesses to access and instantly recover critical files, directories or entire file systems from anywhere via the web.