What’s so big about big data? Let’s start with a few stats… 1. IDC says 1.8 zettabytes of data were created and replicated in 2011, and 1.8 trillion gigabytes are expected to be created and replicated in 2012. This is
Yes, desktops and disaster recovery are now being used in the same sentence, or at least they should be. True, management and some other costs are decreased, but what about the infrastructure to support it? Assuming an average user consumes
A certain famous Beatle is letting go. According to CNET, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, his own media company, has partnered with HP to archive his personal media library hosted by HP. McCartney’s library is supported by HP’s Converged Infrastructure
On-demand IT service, increased efficiency, best-in-class technology and above all, a great reduction in IT costs and resources – to the decision makers, the benefits of utilizing the cloud for their firm’s IT needs are highly alluring. Despite all of
The best way to manage and support data is based on its importance to your business. It is vital and can save you loads of administrative time and money if the right kind of data is stored in the right
The main difference between primary and secondary storage requirements lies in their performance and redundancy requirements. Primary data is touched frequently and needs fast and easy access, but storage optimization processing introduces latency. As a result, the access latency requirements
Although many computer experts have joked about these massive computers, mainframes remain in use in today’s world. Despite the fact that most organizations turn to supercomputers for high performance computing, it has remained a 3.5 billion dollar investment over the
For those companies trying to manage their storage, the term deduplication may very well be in your present vocabulary. And for those thinking about making your storage more efficient, gaining an understanding of exactly what deduplication is, and how it
The amount of data we have access to grows exponentially. With this constant increase of information, it can be hard for companies to manage the mass amounts of data they come across daily. Now if we throw backup into the
Depending on the manufacturer and their implementation, the answers will vary. To retrieve a de-duplicated block, I must rehydrate. Do I have the space? Is that another daily storage management problem? Depending on how I compress, in-line or while at rest and whether the compression time is
Data is neither created nor accessed equally. Why then should data be stored and protected using the same technologies?
-A Visionary focused on the data block The pursuit of eliminating the concept of data backup without compromising restorability and online and always accessibility is my current focus.…
