PowerFile's
Archive Facilitator Picks Jukebox Hits
SANTA CLARA, Calif -
February 26, 2008 - PowerFile Inc. today introduced the Archive
Facilitator which automatically discovers, classifies and moves fixed content
to the company's (optical) Active Archive Appliance.
Typically unstructured data represents 70% of the information being
stored on expensive primary storage and up to 80% of that data has not been
accessed or modified in more than a year. As a result some organizations are
turning to active archiving to better align data with storage based on business
value. PowerFile’s
Archive
Facilitator is scalable and and manages tens of terabytes per appliance
and hundreds of terabytes per enterprise deployment. ...PowerFile profile
50% Growth in UDO Archive Appliance Sales
CAMBRIDGE,
England - August 29, 2007 - Plasmon today announced a 50%
year-on-year growth in the company's UDO Archive Appliance sales.
According
to Plasmon's CEO, Rod Powell this is as a result of corporate governance and
regulatory compliance standards, e-discovery and increasing demand for secure,
searchable, long-term archives.
Plasmon has also seen solid increases
in the overall market adoption of its UDO2 technology with the certification and
shipment of UDO2 by GE Healthcare, AGFA, IBM and Konica Minolta. ...Plasmon profile,
Storage Media,
article:- Bare Media
Exposed - Looking at the Contenders for Optical Media Archiving
PowerFile Introduces 500 Terabytes per Kilowatt
Archive
SANTA
CLARA, CA - August 27, 2007 - PowerFile today announced the Active
Archive Appliance Enterprise Edition, claimed to be the most energy efficient
system for online data storage.
PowerFile's 3rd generation
appliance incorporates Blu-ray Disc technology to give 70TB in a 42U rack
enclosure. This can scale to a fully configured 120TB appliance that consumes
less than 240W of power.
"This is a great example of 'Blu'
actually contributing to a 'green' product." said Robin Sweeten, Group
Manager, Strategic Marketing for
Panasonic who supply
the Blu-ray Disc technology.
PowerFile has developed patented and
patent-pending technologies that give the A3 Enterprise Edition industry-leading
data integrity that it claims is 1,000 times more reliable than enterprise
tape or disk-based
RAID. The A3 provides
10TB of archive capacity and 2TB of dynamic cache at an MSRP of $41,900, with
10TB Expansion Kits available at an MSRP of $27,900. ...PowerFile profile,
optical libraries,
Green Storage
Digistore Passes 100,000 CD Libraries Milestone
Wilmington, Del - July 9, 2007 -Digistore
Solutions today announced that it has reached a major milestone with the
shipment of its 100,000th unit in its Centurion line of CD storage
devices since the company's launch at the end of 2003.
The company's Centurion CD provides users with a 100-disc capacity
per unit. By stacking multiple CCD units, companies can manage as many as
127,000 discs from a single-user interface, enabling a safe and convenient
method of data storage and retrieval.
...Digistore
profile, optical
libraries
Call/Recall Aims Death Ray at UDO / Blu-ray
Optical Archiving
SAN
DIEGO - June 27, 2007 - Call/Recall Inc. today announced availability
of licensing for its patented optical storage technology that can provide 40x
the capacity of Blu-ray and over
200x the capacity of DVD technology.
Call/Recall's
innovative optical storage technology utilizes a 2-photon recording process to
record bits in a 3 dimensional volume in a disk. Multiple layers of information
can be stored with less than a 10-micron layer of separation, effectively
allowing the equivalent of 250 conventional DVD layers to be put onto one DVD.
Call/Recall's technology uses affordable, commercially available,
off-the-shelf components. This approach allows optical hardware manufacturers to
extend the roadmap of their existing technologies, such as DVD and Blu-ray while
maintaining backward compatibility with their installed base.
...Call/Recall
profile
Music Publisher Chooses SANmelody
READING, UK -
June 7, 2007 - The world's largest classical music publisher Boosey &
Hawkes is using
DataCore's SANmelody.
With 2
SANmelody
disk servers, the system provides virtualisation, synchronous mirroring and auto
failover for path and data, resulting in high availability.
Paul
Vernon, Head of IT, commented "We recognised that direct attached storage
had distinct limitations. Constantly resizing and reallocating disk space and
purchasing additional disk was becoming an ongoing challenge. We also knew that
we needed to engage a more effective business continuity solution, to allow us
to meet compliance and service agreements and allow 24x7 data exchange across
the globe." ...DataCore
profile,
...Boosey & Hawkes
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Privacy
and Security Regulations - How Do they Impact Storage Systems? - article by
ASNP
What are the legal regulations covering the type of
storage system, backup and disaster recovery and encryption mandated for
companies operating in the US?
This article answers those questions
and is a sound starting point for anyone having the duty of care and
responsibility for their corporate data. Because regulations change so quickly
it's worth considering the impact of these best practises on your own
organisation even if you think you are currently outside the scope of these
laws. That will reduce the level of panic when they creep up on you. ...read the article,,
...ASNP profile,
Backup software,
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has passed the test of time
"End users have become considerably more concerned about
their data and how to comply with the onslaught of regulations regarding that
data. Optical has passed the test of time and litigation and has proven itself
as the gold standard for data protection."
Quote from Roy
Slicker, Pegasus President and CEO
Pegasus Disk Technologies
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the Impact
of Compliance on Archival Storage Strategies - article by Plasmon
It's
difficult enough protecting and archiving your data so that it's available to
the right people at the right time (and cost). But now that's only part of the
problem. With so many new rules and regulations which prescribe how you should
destroy data records at the appropriate time - how do you guarantee that they
stay deleted?
Archiving data on the wrong kind of media could mean you
run the risk of breaking the law. Advances in the
data recovery
industry, and the future cohabitation of storage search-engines both mean that
Compliance Officers have to pay much more attention to the ways in which data is
dispersed and disposed of in different types of media.
This article
summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of currently available market
technologies. ...
read the article,
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Virtual
Tape: Can You Afford to Ignore It? - article by MaXXan Systems
Network
connected disk to disk backup systems for the enterprise have come a long way
since the first pioneering products started to appear in the pages of
STORAGEsearch.com in the late 1990s.
Some of the growing
sophistication in the market can be seen by the way that the marketing
terminology has morphed from the early D2d (let's kill tape backup), via D2D2T
(let's be friends with tape / peaceful coexistence) to the current VTL (Virtual
Tape Library - let's just see if they notice that it's more reliable and works
faster - and don't tell them that there isn't a tape in the box) type of
approaches.
But if you think that speed, reliability and cost are the
only things you need to know about the "virtual" versus "real"
tape library argument - take a look at this comprehensive article from MaXXan
Systems which shows there are a lot more benefits than that. ...read the article,
...MaXXan profile,
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