The AMS1000 provides up to 16GB of storage that can have up to 32 logical partitions, he said. Shipping now, the device starts at $80,000.

Symantec Corp. will be adding a remote-office disk-to-disk backup application to its flagship NetBackup product line. The company gained the new NetBackup PureDisk offering with its acquisition of Belgium-based DataCenter Technologies NV last year, said Kris Hagerman, senior vice president of Symantec's storage and server management group.

Symantec plans to charge $16,000 per terabyte of capacity on the Pure-Disk appliances. That capacity does not have to reside on a single appliance but can be spread among multiple offices, Hagerman added.

Fisher is a special correspondent for Computerworld.