On December 2nd 2014, Sphere 3D, manufacturer of the Glassware 2.0 application virtualization platform, completed the merger announced in May with longtime storage vendor Overland Storage, makers of the SnapServer NAS products, NEO tape libraries and RDX portable disk drives.…
Recently I wrote an article “Even if Disk were Free You’d Still Want Tape” which explained the advantages of using tape for cold backup storage and active archive storage. The economics behind tape are simply too compelling to ignore. The…
This morning I am flying to New York City to attend Fujifilm’s 6th Annual Global IT Executive Summit. The theme of this year’s event is, “into Tomorrow with Tape Technology, Preserving and Protecting Critical Data”. This is a data protection…
Unstructured data are consuming vast amounts of disk capacity in data centers, breaking IT budgets. The sheer number of files that make up the unstructured data also breaks the data protection process. Most of this data has not been accessed…
Data center planners tasked with lowering the cost of storage have an unenviable job. Several industry sources state that data is doubling every two years and the principal source of this growth is unstructured data (user files, PDFs, rich multimedia,…
One of the most mundane home cleanup tasks is re-organizing the sock drawer. Data Management has been the IT equivalent for years. It is an event that often requires someone from outside of the data center to come in and…
One of the fastest growing data types is video data and organizations of all kinds and sizes are having to deal with it. These organizations are not the traditional media and entertainment companies; now sports teams, public entities, mega-churches and…
Facebook recently put out a video showing their engineering manager with a new optical juke box Facebook has designed to hold BluRay DVDs that store “cold data”. According to the company, these are users’ oldest pictures and videos that are…
Dealing With the Unstructured Data Deluge in Higher Education Colleges and Universities have many of the same issues with efficiently protecting critical data archives as private corporations but arguably, their challenges are even greater. While IT budgets have typically remained…
Like death and taxes, growing backup windows seems to be an inevitable fact of life. To stave off the backup window, IT architects have resorted to a myriad of tactics to stay one step ahead. The most popular tactic in…
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