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Keeping your dark data tapes in good standing requires a strategy beyond hope

Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Tape is not dead. The nearly 60-plus year old storage device is the media of choice for storing a company’s dark data, defined by Gartner as information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes. Tape archives contain dark data that could potentially be monetised through the harvesting and analysis of data; however, Kroll Ontrack, a leading provider of data recovery and ediscovery products and services,...

Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Fusion-io has announced that Michael Mendenhall has joined the company as executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer. Mendenhall formerly served as senior vice president and global chief marketing officer at Hewlett Packard. Before HP, Mendenhall spent 17 years at the Walt Disney Company, culminating in his positions as president of marketing and synergy for Walt Disney Studios and EVP of global marketing for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Riverbed Technology has announced Riverbed® SteelHead™ 8.6, bringing the number one application acceleration solution to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Already available in other leading public clouds, SteelHead, with the addition of Microsoft Azure, is now capable of optimising and accelerating the delivery of applications across 90% of public cloud deployments. Riverbed also introduced today, SteelHead CX 7055v, an enterprise-scale virtual solution delivering up to 1Gbps of optimised...

Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

The DCS Awards have become a key date in the international data centre calendar and last Thursday the industry’s great and good gathered at London’s Millennium Hotel, Mayfair for the 2014 event.

Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Pure Storage has announced the expansion of its flagship FA-400 Series product line, unveiling new entry-level and high-capacity FlashArrays, and the next generation release of its Purity Operating Environment, Purity 4.0. The new software features FlashRecover: a set of fully integrated, space-efficient replication, snapshot, and policy management services that offer comprehensive protection against disaster and data loss—both locally, and globally. With these advancements, the Pure...

Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

New DRaaS technology eliminates costs of off-site data centre replication.

Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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Storage + Servers

Keeping your dark data tapes in good standing requires a strategy beyond hope

Fusion-io appoints Michael Mendenhall Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Riverbed® SteelHead™ 8.6 adds support for Microsoft Azure

DCS Awards celebrate industry success stories

Pure Storage rolls out FlashArrays

Quorum launches UK’s 'first' hybrid-cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) for SMBs

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