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2024 eNewsletters
February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the February eNewsletter from Storage magazine.We are delighted to be able to announce that nominations are now open for this year's Storage Awards. Unbelievably, this will be our 21st year, so you should of course expect various 'key of the door' related puns as we get closer to the big night
Would we have today's AI without flash?
Storage magazine gathered a selection of industry experts to discuss how flash storage and AI have impacted...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first Storage magazine eNewsletter of the New Year. It includes a reminder that, whatever the headlines, IT disasters are not always purely a result of malware/hackers or deliberate activity of any kind
It's not always malware!
Cybercrime incidents are not the only threat to data centres, and 'conventional' disasters can potentially be even...
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2023 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the final eNewsletter from Storage magazine for 2023, which includes a great piece on data portability from Veeam's Rick Vanover
Balancing cost and security
Data portability is key to managing IT workloads in the current climate, argues Rick Vanover, Senior...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the November eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes some thought-provoking research findings around compliance and cloud storage
80% of companies have compliance concerns
New survey from Hornetsecurity suggests growing impact of compliance concerns amid a lack...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the October eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes a roundtable discussion from across the industry on GDPR
A solid platform to build on
Norwegian company ZaveIT won the 'One to Watch - Vendor' category at this year's Storage Awards...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the September eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes a terrific piece from Quantum's Eric Bassier that has the...
Mastering modern data storage
Eric Bassier, Senior Director Products, Quantum, offers some useful strategies for navigating...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the August eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes a roundtable feature on a topic we just can't seem to stop discussing...
Is your backup strategy past its best-by date?
Industry experts from right across the sector discuss the importance of not just backup, but...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the July eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes some worrying research findings from Hitachi Vantara...
Towards a more cost-effective cloud
Boyan Ivanov, CEO at StorPool Storage, looks at how cloud providers can better manage costs...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June eNewsletter from Storage magazine, where the big news is that the extra-special 20th anniversary Storage Awards went off with a bang in London just a few days ago. We were very lucky that the event took place just before the current heatwave started in earnest, or there would have been a lot of very uncomfortable men...
Life, the metaverse and everything
Manfred Berger, Senior Manager of Business Development EMEAI at Western Digital, offers...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes an enlightening -and possibly controversial - opinion piece from Matillion's Molly Sandbo on the 'real' value of data. Molly argues that there is an increasing perception that the more data any given organisation has, the more successful that organisation must be - and clearly there's a lot more....
Form becomes the decisive factor
EDSFF makes SSDs fit for the future, argues Frederik Haak, Senior Marketing Manager for SSD...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the April eNewsletter from Storage magazine, where the big news is that voting is open right now for this year's Storage Awards. As happens almost every year, we decided to extend the nominations period slightly to allow companies to make sure they'd got their entries in - but now the finalists....
The old guard
In a recent blog post Rainer W. Kaese of Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH explained how...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes a thought-provoking article on sustainability and data centres - two things that, if you believed some of the recent press coverage...
Faster restores: clearing the bottleneck
George Axberg of VAST Data explains how affordable all-flash storage can be a game-changer for...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the February eNewsletter from Storage magazine, where our big news is that we can finally announce full details of this year's Storage...
Remote working creates 'data vulnerability gap'
New research published by Arcserve warns that the explosion in remote working is leaving...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our first Storage magazine eNewsletter for 2023, which includes a sobering piece that suggests that far too many organisations are relying on absurdly outdated infrastructure to protect their data from ever-evolving threats
Outdated infrastructure puts organisations at risk
A reliance on legacy backup and recovery technologies - some dating back to the 1990s - is undermining how UK organisations respond to ransomware
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2022 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the last Storage magazine eNewsletter for 2022, at the end of what has been a tumultuous year by any measure. Any of us who thought that the gradual lessening of Covid-19's impact would mean everything getting 'back to normal' will have been sorely disappointed
Most businesses 'unprepared' against ransomware
New research findings from Druva and IDC highlight the fact that the vast majority of organisations appear to be woefully unprepared for the increasingly inevitable fact of a ransomware attack
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the November eNewsletter from Storage magazine,which includes a fascinating opinion piece from Infinidat's Richard Bradbury that suggests that the main drivers for enterprise storage decisions
Who's inside your system?
A staggering 98% of UK businesses experienced a security incident in the last 12 months, according to recent research from Barracuda Networks
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Business leaders are apparently struggling not only to make sense of their data, but to locate and use it in the first place, with 42% of survey respondents saying at least half of their data was what the researchers describe as 'dark data'...
Organisations wrestling with staggering levels of 'dark data'
New report from Quest/ESG finds companies struggling with data quality, visibility and accessibility
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Cybercriminals have taken advantage of the growth in the last 2 years in remote and hybrid work to conduct increasingly sophisticated attacks, making it even more critical for businesses to assess their BCDR plans frequently.
A protective environment
Storage magazine editor David Tyler catches up with Simon Jelley, General Manager for SaaS Protection, Endpoint and Backup Exec at Veritas Technologies
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Brian Spanswick of Cohesity argues in the piece that too narrow a focus on backup in and of itself will no longer suffice: "Backup is a critical first step to data protection, but organisations must think strategically and strive for holistic cyber resilience, realising that backup is just one component of a much larger equation."
Better safe than sorry?
Is the data storage industry banging its head against a brick wall in its attempts to promote backup and data protection with initiatives such as the recent World Backup Day...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which comes to you in 'the calm after the storm' of this year's Storage Awards which took place in Central London on June 9th.
The top three user cases for object storage
Object storage has come of age and purports to be the go-to for handling large amounts of unstructured data whilst keeping you in control of both costs and the management...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which comes to you in 'the calm after the storm' of this year's Storage Awards which took place in Central London on June 9th.
High expectations
Backup solutions still have an important role to play in today's High Availability world, argues Jerome M. Wendt of DCIG
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May eNewsletter from Storage magazine, which includes - among lots of other not-to-be-missed content - a fascinating piece on the future of the hard disk drive.
Hard disk is here to stay
Rainer W. Kaese of Toshiba Electronics Europe discusses why the humble HDD, rather than disappearing into obsolescence, continues to occupy a central role in IT storage
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the April eNewsletter from Storage magazine, where it feels like we are at long last on the final straight as we head toward this year's Storage Awards.
New year revolutions
Our regular round-up of predictions and insights from all corners of the storage sector tries to second-guess the future in a highly unpredictable world
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March eNewsletter from Storage magazine. Once again I want to remind readers of the timeline for this year's Storage Awards, as we get ever closer to the big night itself in June.
The right backup can save your business
Sarah Doherty of iland highlights the importance of creating backup and recovery plans in all industries, and lays out some best practices
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our February eNewsletter, where the big news is that we have opened the nominations for the 2022 Storage Awards.
Keeping I.T. cool
Dieter Bodemer, Systems Solutions Manager at Supermicro, discusses the options available for liquid cooling in modern data centres
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our first eNewsletter of 2022! If you're anything like me, you're doubtless hoping that this year will feel like a progression from the last, in the sense that we need to be moving on
All-flash on the rise
The rapid emergence of transformational digital business initiatives such as AI, ML, automation, and analytics is the driver behind increasing adoption of all-flash object storage, according to new research
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2021 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our last Storage magazine eNewsletter for this year, where we finish 2021 with a plethora of thought-provoking content and news.
Covid plays 'key role' in adoption of cloud services
New research says the pandemic has made cloud essential - but businesses need to maximise its potential
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for November, which includes some eye-opening research findings from Veeam that suggests that backup issues are impacting the ability of organisations to progress their digital transformation plans.
As IoT expands, one size won't fit all
From medical wearables through search-and-rescue drones to smart cities, CheChung Lin, Director of Technical Product Marketing at Western Digital, describes ways to optimise the ever-growing volumes of IoT data using purpose-built storage
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for October, and we're all still slightly staggered at the success of our awards night earlier in the month - we can't quite say it was as if Covid-19 had never happened, but it came pretty close!
A DRaaS primer for SMBs
As more and more SMBs are attracted to Disaster Recovery as a Service, Florian Malecki of StorageCraft outlines the key components and requirements of a DRaaS solution - what is important, and why
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for September, which includes news of WD's new OptiNAND technology, which promises to bring new life to the HDD marketplace.
Surveillance: covering all the angles
David Friend, CEO and co-founder, Wasabi Technologies, discusses different approaches aimed at fixing the storage issues raised by putting surveillance data in the cloud
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for August, which includes a recent interview with backup guru Eric Siron (though he'll probably hate me for describing him as such!)...
"Everybody needs backup, but nobody pays attention to it..."
Eric Siron is a long-standing backup evangelist and the author of the recently published 'Backup Bible' eBook. Storage magazine editor David Tyler spoke...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for July, and as more of us look tentatively ahead to the possibility of holidays and other activities that have felt out-of-bounds for such a long time now....
Improving the user experience while reducing response times
Frank Lee, Senior Director of Product Planning at Infortrend, explains how to get the best out of a scale-out NAS solution using SSD caching and RDMA
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for June, which includes a timely piece from METCloud's Ian Vickers on the importance of DR/backup in a time of almost daily ransomware horror stories....
Hybrid cloud NAS: a three-way choice
Jerome Wendt, President and Founder of analyst firm DCIG, explains how to choose the right hybrid cloud NAS architecture
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for May. The 31st of March saw World Backup Day...
Fast file and fast object converge
Unified fast file and fast object storage (UFFO) represents a key milestone in the evolution of storage architecture, argues Wes van den Berg, VP & GM, Pure Storage UK&I
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our April eNewsletter, which is being produced as parts of the UK begin to awake from slumber and begin life anew...
Scale-out is in
Florian Malecki, International Product Marketing Senior Director, StorageCraft, breaks down why businesses should adopt a scale-out data storage approach
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March eNewsletter from Storage magazine. As we touched on last month, exploding data volumes, limited storage capacity, and the escalating cost of downtime are among the most pressing challenges faced by SMBs today...
PUTTING DATA FRONT AND CENTRE
Getting closer to their data is vital for SMB owners in an increasingly digital economy, argues Florian Malecki, International Product Marketing Senior Director at StorageCraft
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the February eNewsletter from Storage magazine. Among the articles that will hopefully inform and entertain you this month is a piece looking at recent research conducted...
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
COVID-19 is just one of the things impacting on how users consume video streaming services and Cloud DVR - which in turn will affect the storage strategies of the streaming platforms themselves, argues Christophe Vaissade, Sales Director EMEA at Western Digital
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first Storage Magazine eNewsletter of the new year, where we're all very much hoping for something of a fresh start!...
Backup to the future
Bill Andrews, President & CEO of ExaGrid, examines the journey from simple tape backups to tiered disk backups that use adaptive deduplication for fast, reliable and affordable backup and restore solutions
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2020 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the final Storage Magazine eNewsletter of the year, and what a strange year it's been...
POWER PLAY
Rainer Kaese, Senior Manager, Storage Products Division, Toshiba Electronics Europe, shares some insights from a recent experimental project undertaken at the company into the energy consumption of disk drives
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the November Storage Magazine eNewsletter, which includes a number of thought-provoking pieces on topics as varied as ransomware protection...
Backup: more than mere ransomware insurance
A backup is a vital tool when recovering from a ransomware attack, explains Andrew Fitzgerald, Sales Director, UK & Ireland, Cohesity, but as part of a more extensive data management solution, can also help stop this and other malware in its tracks
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the October Storage Magazine eNewsletter, where we find ourselves - at long last! - into the final straight of this year's Storage Awards....
Life after Coronavirus
Storage magazine asked experts from across the sector for their predictions for the storage industry in a post-pandemic world
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our September eNewsletter, which includes a timely reminder from Synology’s Jeremie Francois that there are many aspects to a backup strategy...
Backupmania: the essentials
As businesses progressively realise the value their data holds, best practices for managing and protecting data are gaining in popularity - But are they all worth the hype? Jeremie Francois of Synology shares some key experience and advice
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our August eNewsletter, which includes an interesting viewpoint on disaster recovery and data protection from KPMG’s Nick Amin...
The expert's guide to data recovery
Nick Amin, CIO Advisor at KPMG, shares professional insight into the necessities of preparing your business for a possible disaster
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our July eNewsletter, as Storage magazine continues to do its best to ‘keep calm and carry on’ in the face of the ever-increasing social...
Separation anxiety
Niraj Tolia, CEO and co-founder at Kasten, looks at storage and data management systems in today's Kubernetes environments, and argues that keeping these two systems separate can deliver significant benefits
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our June eNewsletter, which includes some thought-provoking research findings about how often organisations are backing up data...
Cloud: one size doesn't fit all
The future of hybrid cloud is bright, according to new research from Nutanix into enterprise cloud deployments
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, and as I write this we seem to be no nearer to any meaningful conclusion to the global lockdown that has seen the economies of pretty much every country in the world grind to a halt...
Better safe than sorry
Tom Lee, Technical Director, Nexstor, outlines the issues to consider when looking at cloud-based data protection
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:It is with great sadness that we have decided, after much consideration, to postpone this year's Storage Awards until later in the year, when - hopefully...
Paradoxes of the Edge
What the edge is not: three common myths that can cloud our understanding of the edge are debunked by Agnieszka Zielinska, senior editor and researcher focusing on edge use cases at Seagate
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the March edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, and I want to take your minds off the Coronavirus/Brexit/The Six Nations for a moment to remind you that there are more important issues to concern you....
Changing the landscape
Sara Lisamore, Senior EMEA Program Manager at Seagate, explains the thinking behind the company's Seagate Insider program, which won the Channel Partner Program of the Year category at this year's Storage Awards
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the February Storage magazine eNewsletter, where - unbelievable as it may seem - we are already at the point where we are talking about this year’s Storage Awards....
Planning for the agile data centre
Big data, analytics and machine learning, IoT applications, on-demand approaches, security and backup criteria - storage requirements are seemingly continuously expanding.
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first Storage magazine eNewsletter of 2020, and perhaps - depending on what calendar interpretation you prefer - the first of a new decade! A fascinating feature below focuses on the growing importance of storage...
Storage becomes critical for AI performance
In a recent blog post Wes Vaske, Principal Solutions Engineer at Micron, explained the growing importance of storage performance in today's AI and Machine Learning systems
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2019 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the last edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter for 2019, in what has been a strange and interesting year for the sector and indeed for the wider world.
Surviving the data explosion
Matt Eckersall, regional director, EMEA, SUSE, examines the rise of software-defined solutions to the challenges of modern-day storage
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the November edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes research from SUSE which could make worrying reading for the industry....
Time for a checkup?
Christo Conidaris, Vice President of Sales, EMEA, Curvature, discusses how a timely 'health check' appraisal can extend the life of storage systems
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the October edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter: our news items include some interesting research on how the responsibility for Business Continuity is shifting...
The heat is on
Nick Powling, General Manager at Exertis Hammer, examines two emerging technologies that look set to impact the hard drive marketplace
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the September edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes some troubling research findings from IDC and Zerto that suggests a ‘perception gap’ between IT and business decision makers...
HAMR: unlocking the next stage of data growth
Jason Feist, Managing Technologist at Seagate Technology, describes how a laser no bigger than a grain of salt is just one crucial element of the next generation of hard drive technologies
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the August edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a look at some recent research from Unitrends that suggests some worrying figures when it comes to loss of data
Greater than the sum of its parts
Matt Medeiros, CEO of StorageCraft, speaks to Storage magazine editor David Tyler about how current rates of data storage growth have created the need for a new approach to intelligent data management
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:The July edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter goes out as we all recover from some truly memorable recent events - no, not the thermometer-busting recent heatwave or Kylie’s Glastonbury performance
Tomorrow's world
What do crystals, glass and DNA have in common? They are all innovative new ways to potentially meet the growing demand to store vast amounts of data, explains Nick Powling from Exertis Hammer
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, and as Spring finally feels like it has sprung, a young man’s fancy turns as ever to - the Storage Awards, of course.
Keeping an eye on surveillance data growth
As CCTV and body-worn video systems proliferate, Florian Malecki of StorageCraft explains why law enforcement must invest strategically in storage solutions to make the most of video surveillance footage
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, and as Spring finally feels like it has sprung, a young man’s fancy turns as ever to - the Storage Awards, of course.
Time for a refresh?
Storage Hardware Refresh Cycles: four simple words that when combined together represent one of the most challenging tasks in the it schedule. Brett Denly, Regional Director of DataCore, asks if you really need to put yourself through this every three years
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the April edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a worrying news piece about UK businesses’ confidence in their DR planning.
Good as gold
Scientists from Australia and China have drawn on the durable power of gold to demonstrate a new type of high-capacity optical disk that can hold data securely for more than 600 years, addressing the growing issue of 'Long data'
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: It's hard to believe, but the Storage Awards has been going since 2003 and it seems like every year the event gets bigger. We've moved venues several times as we outgrew the space in various hotels and conference rooms around London.
Untangling backup strategies
Industry experts discuss why your business can't afford to lose data, and why the right storage solution - from infrastructure through training to automation - is key
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter contains an unusual case study that looks at how the Met Office disposed of a number of end-of-life tapes...
Going large
Faye Pairman, CEO and President of Panasas, explains how an approach that combines high performance, reliability and manageability is helping the company go from strength to strength in an increasingly commoditised market...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter for 2019. As we ramp up the new year, it seems that data protection is still on the minds of many and isn’t going away any time soon...
Just how transforming can hyperconverged be?
Brett Denly, Regional Director, DataCore Software, considers if hyperconverged systems can deliver a digital innovation...
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2018 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the September edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking piece on the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure...
Disaster zone?
New research from Barracuda Networks paints a worryingly disjointed picture of backup and disaster recovery strategies among organisations across Europe...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the November edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, in which Druva’s Rick Powles examines what the continuing move to cloud models means for the storage sector...
The right move
Rick Powles, Vice President EMEA at Druva, explains what the continuing move to cloud models will really mean for storage...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the October edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a timely article on the importance of boardroom level involvement in decisions around backup and DR...
Strictly boardroom
Alex Crowe, Regional Sales Executive at iland, outlines the reasons why choosing cloud-based backup and DR needs to be a strategic decision taken at board level...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the September edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking piece on the benefits of a hyperconverged infrastructure...
Beyond disasters: doing more with DR
Geographic redundancy and replicating critical workloads can keep businesses up and running during catastrophic events, but there are many more...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the August edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter. I have spent an unhealthy chunk of the Summer upgrading my home office setup, and having finally made the step up to Windows 10...
Third-party support: a logical choice
There are some very good reasons to consider an alternative to OEM support, suggests Simon Bitton, Director of Marketing (Europe), Park Place Technologies
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the July Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking piece of research from Fujitsu into how Finance Managers’ ...
Hard drives and microwaves are a good combination after all
Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) technologies hold the promise of 40TB+ hard drives by 2025, according to WD. Storage magazine takes a closer look
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the June Storage magazine eNewsletter, hastily cobbled together (not really!) as the team still recovers from the biggest night of the year, the Storage Awards...
Molecular technologies: over 200 terabits per square inch
Scientists at the University of Manchester have made a major leap towards storing data at the molecular level, which could have a huge impact on the storage industry
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May eNewsletter from Storage magazine, and as the country heats up, so does the anticipation for this year’s Storage Awards...
Try before you buy
There is an increasing need for application and infrastructure teams to collaborate to avoid performance problems, says new research from ESG: only 41% of I.T. professionals will profile workloads and test storage before their next storage purchase
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the April eNewsletter from Storage magazine. After unprecedented demand forced us to extend our deadlines...
The not-so-odd couple
In an article produced on behalf of the LTO Program, Laura Loredo (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Carlos Sandoval Castro (IBM) and Terry Cochran (Quantum), discuss what makes SSD and LTO tape 'the perfect storage pair'.
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Time is running out for you to get your nominations in for this year’s Storage Awards...
NVMe: why the fuss?
NVMe is being heralded as the key to unlocking the full potential of all-flash storage, says Tom O'Neill, International CTO, Kaminario - but there is more to a successful...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:I'm very excited to be able to announce that nominations are now open for this year's Storage Awards, with the big night itself already booked for June 14th...
Exacting change
Tony Howard, Enterprise Strategy and Operations Manager at Beta Distribution, argues that sometimes it's better if the channel community looks outside of the usual big names when making buying decisions...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to a new year and our first Storage magazine eNewsletter of 2018, as the Christmas decorations go back in the loft and we all start to conveniently forget those all-too-rash ...
Exacting change
Martin Cooper, Senior Director at NetApp, discusses microservices, containerisation, Flash and… Star Trek movies? ...
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2017 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our last Storage magazine eNewsletter for 2017; as the winter nights draw in our thoughts turn naturally to the year to come, and what it might bring for the storage sector and the IT industry in general...
A refreshing change
Glenn Fassett from Curvature argues the case for how Third Party Maintenance could offer realistic alternatives to your habitual storage refreshes ...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our November eNewsletter, which includes a thought-provoking piece that looks at the issues around erasing data and the ‘right to be forgotten’ that is to be introduced as part of next year’s EU GDPR...
Gone but not forgotten
Traditionally, getting rid of data from storage media has been limited to hard drives, old PCs and laptops once they reach the end of their useable lifespan. ...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to our October eNewsletter, which includes an interesting – and possibly controversial – discussion of the pros and cons of ‘always on’ deduplication...
Deduplication: not fit for purpose?
Mick Bradley, VP and General Manager, EMEA at Kaminario, argues that 'always-on' deduplication can put unnecessary pressure on storage infrastructures...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine eNewsletter for September which includes an eye-opening – and potentially controversial...
Throwing good money after bad
New research suggests that data protection policies are little more than a 'money pit' for many organisations ...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the August edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which might make it seem as though the only trend of any note in the industry at present is all-flash....
Changing the rules of the game
The all-flash array is altering the rules of storage, argues Troy Alexander, Systems Engineer at Tintri ...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the July edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, the first since our annual Storage Awards took place in London's glitzy Grand Connaught Rooms last month....
An accident waiting to happen?
Resource constraints at local authorities could be putting sensitive information at risk, according to new research from Iron Mountain...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the May edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, which includes a variety of news announcements and feature articles looking at technology developments in the HDD and SSD arenas...
Locked in?
There are good reasons not to lock your email archive up in the Cloud, argues Stefan Schachinger, Consulting System Engineer in Data Protection at Barracuda Networks...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue includes a thought-provoking piece looking at the growth of flash in the enterprise - and balancing that against a continuing reluctance to move towards an all-flash architecture...
What's on the cards for 2017?
The industry looks ahead to what next year might bring: what flavour of cloud will we prefer, is file sync and share on its way out, and even the future...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue includes a thought-provoking piece looking at the growth of flash in the enterprise - and balancing that against a continuing reluctance to move towards an all-flash architecture...
Flash into the mainstream
More and more enterprises are transitioning to Flash-based architectures, suggests a new study from 451 Research - but cost concerns linger over All-Flash Array technologies...
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2016 eNewsletters
November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:An opinion piece in this issue of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter looks in depth at the pros and cons of 'traditional' and cloud storage, from the perspective of business application requirements rather than technology feature comparisons....
Tape measures
Jon Toigo of Iron Mountain asks whether tape storage could save us from the 'Zettabyte Apocalypse'...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter includes a thought-provoking piece from Hammer's Gerard Marlow which looks at the potential impact on IT infrastructure of the much-heralded Internet of Things...
Hybrid to the rescue for SME sector
Hybrid cloud architecture has been a while maturing, but now offers businesses unparalleled flexibility, ROI and scalability. Andrew Stuart, MD for EMEA at Datto...
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter includes some research findings from NetApp which suggest that while enterprises require high performance...
DR in the cloud: read all about it
It is more important than ever that businesses understand the difference between DRaaS and backup, argues Lilac Schoenbeck, VP...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter includes a piece from Samsung Semiconductor’s Thomas Arenz that introduces yet another new technology...
Flash takes centre stage
Thomas Arenz of Samsung Semiconductor Europe predicts a future of flash-based data centres that exploit V-NAND and NVMe technologies...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Last month saw the 13th annual Storage Awards take place at London’s Grand Connaught Rooms – unlucky thirteen for some I suppose (i.e. those who didn’t win), but it has to be said that overall...
Flash in the pan
While flash continues to win over converts seeking high IOPS and low latency, there is...
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:An article in this issue of the Storage magazine e-newsletter addresses a topic we’ve covered countless times in the past (and will doubtless cover again in future) – the need for a comprehensive backup strategy, especially when upgrading operating systems or migrating data...
Drive for results
Despite some drops in demand, the HDD enterprise market remains buoyant, says Nick Powling of drive distributor Hammer...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the Storage magazine e-newsletter covers a lot of ground, even by our normal exacting standards: we look at migration strategies, Flash in the data centre, cloud and much more...
Flash to the rescue for SaaS providers
Flash technologies could turn out to be key to the future success - or otherwise - of SaaS...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:By the time you read this column, nominations will have closed for this year’s Storage Awards – and if you missed your chance to nominate, don’t blame me;...
Net benefits
Management tools have helped Young's Seafood to improve support and response...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As I write this column, there are only a few weeks left for nominations to this year’s Storage Awards: April 4th is the closing date, after...
Servers are the new storage
George Teixeira, CEO, DataCore Software, argues the case for unlocking the power...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: A recently released report from WD into storage purchasing trends suggests that reliability has become the key factor in buying decisions,...
Rethink your approach to data management
The challenges of Big Data and digital business could be best addressed by a Data...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In our first e-newsletter of 2016 we include a comprehensive and occasionally controversial round-up of industry predictions for the sector....
Futurology: what does 2016 hold for the storage industry?
We take a look ahead, courtesy of our expert panel of industry observers
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2015 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our last issue of 2015 includes an interview with Quantum's Christo Conidaris, in which he talks about the 'data tsunami' that threatens to engulf today's businesses; a scenario in which unstructured data...
How will you read your data in 100 years?
...or even 200 years? Nik Stanbridge, VP Marketing, Arkivum, examines some of the issues....
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of our eNewsletter includes a look at new LTO-7 specifications which set out the likely path for tape cartridge developments. The figures look impressive: up to 15TB per cartridge...
LTO-7: got it taped?
In September the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies - HP, IBM and Quantum....
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As this issue of our e-Newsletter goes out the story on everyone’s lips is the proposed takeover by Dell of EMC, in a deal reported to be worth some US$67bn. The PR from both....
Must big data mean big risk?
As companies deploy Hadoop for big data, they open critical information to compromise....
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As you receive this issue of the Storage magazine e-newsletter, we are rapidly approaching the IT industry's largest showcase event, IP Expo, and our feature includes a wealth....
Inheriting issues
There are a number of options available to an organisation looking to effectively manage....
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:For better or worse, we live these days in an increasingly surveillance-oriented society - the UK has more CCTV cameras per head of population than any other Western country. So it is not really any surprise....
Watching brief
We live an increasingly surveillance-heavy society, which brings with it challenges to storage technology....
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Our Opinion piece in this issue from Suse's Jason Phippen is likely to provoke strong reactions of one sort or another: some readers may agree and feel that his suggestions are an obvious development...
Enabling the next stage in VDI
Flash is playing a key role in the development of desktop virtualisation, says Marcos Burnett, Sales Director for Northern Europe, SanDisk
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This edition of our e-newsletter has something of a 'hard drive focus', featuring as it does a fascinating opinion piece from WD's Matt Rutledge on how disk drive technologies must evolve to keep up...
Hitting the hard drive 'sweet spot'
As the data centre evolves, so must the disk drives that populate it, explains Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of storage technology, WD
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This edition of the Storage magazine e-newsletter will arrive in your inbox just a week or two before the deadline for voting in this year's Storage Awards (see www.storage-awards.com...
At your service
NCE snapped up the 'Storage service company of the year' award at the 2014 Storage Awards. Storage magazine editor David Tyler visited the company's Wiltshire offices...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:It's over a year since Storage magazine interviewed FujiFilm's Roger Moore about their then newly-announced d:ternity offering - a long term archival service that got round the problems of what Moore described as 'cross-generation compatibility'...
Flash arrays - the good the bad and the ugly
Is everything rosy in the flash array garden? Nikhil Premanandan, Marketing Analyst at IT management specialist ManageEngine, puts the technology under the microscope...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of our e-Newsletter includes rare interviews with some of the industry's biggest brands, namely Quantum and Toshiba. Only Storage magazine is able to get this close...
Reading ahead
OCZ's recently announced Saber 1000 SSD Series is perfect for read-intensive applications, as well as being targeted squarely...
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:The big news as this edition of our newsletter is published is that once again it is time to put on your thinking caps and decide who are the biggest and best names...
Preservation order
Compliance, by its very nature, can only go one way, but some companies still falsely believe that they can demonstrate...
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the first Storage magazine eNewsletter of 2015 - and many thanks to the many readers who took the time to contact us after our last edition with their thoughts...
One tier at a time
Ken Oberman, VP of EMEA commercial sales at SanDisk, looks at the growth of flash in the data centre
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2014 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the December issue of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter, which as ever features a broad selection of editorial content covering the entire gamut of storage related technologies...
Storing up health problems
John Scaramuzzo of SanDisk offers a perspective on the changes affecting the Healthcare sector, how IT is helping to address those changes, and how Flash technology can make a difference for patients and medical care providers alike.
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Some fascinating content in the November edition of our eNewsletter, not least of which is the interview with Ash Ashutosh of Actifio...
Big data - no big deal
Geoffrey Noer, VP, Product Management at Panasas offers a guide to high-performance NAS in an increasingly data-centric world
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the Storage magazine e-Newsletter for October. If you've ever thought that no-one could possibly have it worse than you when it comes...
Mind your own business
Kate Baker of Custodian Data Centre offers 'a colocation perspective' on efficiencies and the role of Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
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September - Featuring
Editor's Comment:In this edition of the Storage magazine eNewsletter, you are sure to find content to hold your attention, whether your interest is in hard drive technologies....
Opportunity knocks for SSD
John Scaramuzzo, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Storage Solutions at SanDisk, argues that Cloud and Hyperscale environments offer a variety of applications that are highly suitable for SSD technologies
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome once again to the Storage magazine e-Newsletter, and an edition with some fascinating - and occasionally contradictory - ideas expressed in its content....
On host flash storage performance - advanced and accelerated
Scott Harlin of OCZ Storage Solutions discusses server-side storage focused on performance, application acceleration and virtualisation
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment:Welcome to the July edition of the Storage magazine e-newsletter, which as ever includes a wide range of features, opinions and case studies from all corners of the storage map........
Is it safe?
When it comes to error detection and correction technologies, not all SSD manufacturers are the same, according to SanDisk's Chris Smith.
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June - Featuring
Editor's Comment:In our last Storage magazine enewsletter I made much of the featured interview with FujiFilm about an entirely new offering from the company.......
The need for speed
Enterprise-ready SSDs can help to eliminate the costly 'one size fits all' approach to storage infrastructures, argues John Scaramuzzo, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Storage Solutions at SanDisk
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of our Storage magazine newsletter comes to you just a few short weeks before the annual Storage Awards ceremony – the biggest and best event for our industry.......
Under pressure to perform?
Scott Harlin of OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba Group Company, discusses ways to address sustained and predictable enterprise application performance with SSD devices
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment:I recently attended a global launch from one of the biggest names in the storage industry, at which (as well as promoting their latest product offering, of course).......
Adapting to change in a virtual world
Michiel von der Crone of CommVault examines the need for 'global class computing' - described by Gartner as "an approach to designing systems and architectures that extends computing processes outside the enterprise and into the cultures of the consumer, mobile worker and business partners"
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment:This issue of the Storage magazine newsletter includes an article from our last print edition......
The power of three
Growing businesses need to adopt three good habits: caching, tiering and automatically tuning their storage, argues Joe Disher, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Overland Storage
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February - Featuring
Editor's Comment:The arguments between vendors about which is better, hard disk or SSD, have been raging ever since flash first started to make its way into the data centre, and look set to continue for some time yet.
False economy
Nigel Houghton, Regional Sales Manager EMEA at Aptare, argues that monitoring and reporting on your storage infrastructure.....
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January - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first Storage magazine e-newsletter of 2014 - our New Year's resolution is to continue to grow our readership after a phenomenally successful first year!...
Tape: On a roll
Not for the first time, rumours of 'the death of tape' have been greatly exaggerated, suggests Mark O'Malley, strategic marketing manager, Quantum...
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2013 eNewsletters
December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the final edition of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter for 2013. As you’ll know, this newsletter is something of an experiment for us here at the magazine, and I’m delighted...
Virtually disaster-proof
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are hard enough to manage, without the added complexities of increased virtualisation and Big Data infrastructures. Storage magazine examines the issues...
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November - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the November edition of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter, which includes some exclusive feature content looking at disk drive technology developments and email archiving...
Drive for perfection
To listen to some experts in the industry would lead you to believe that the hard disk is dead or dying, battered into submission by the upstart SSD. Users in the real world though will know that this is not the case...
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October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the Octorber edition of the Storage magazine e-Newsletter, which has a very technology-oriented focus while still being all about business...
Analytics - time to get real
Michael Bradley, VP Operations & Technology Services EMEA, at Violin Memory examines how emerging storage technologies can support the increasing demand for Real-Time Analytics...
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August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In the features and interviews in this edition of the Storage magazine e-newsletter, there is a distinct emphasis on Cloud - despite the fact that, as I write this, the UK has almost forgotten what clouds look like...
Don't have data centre nightmares
There are all sorts of scenarios that data centre managers are right to fear, says Ralph Wynn, senior product marketing manager, FalconStor Software - but automated Disaster Recovery can help keep the nightmares at bay...
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July - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In the July edition of the Storage magazine e-newsletter, we are delighted to include a wide range of opinions and byline articles from right across the industry. NexSan offer some key considerations...
The recovery position
Gary Watson, Chief Technology Officer at Nexsan, offers some key considerations for backup and recovery planning, whatever the size of your business...
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May - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the May edition of the Storage Magazine Newsletter. Welcome to this, our second Storage magazine eNewsletter, and thank you to all the readers who took the time to compliment us on the first...
Time to change the channel?
As users look for ways to balance their needs for storage efficiency, reliability, performance and capacity with the drive for cost control, they are demanding more from channel partners than ever before. How is the channel responding to these...
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April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the April edition of the Storage Magazine Newsletter. Now in their tenth year, the Storage Awards (or 'Storries') have become a key part of the industry calendar, showcasing and rewarding...
Clouded Judgement
Many companies - especially SMEs - still view the cloud with caution. Storage magazine asks if the time is right to throw that caution to the wind...
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March - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the March edition of the Storage Magazine Newsletter. Now in their tenth year, the Storage Awards (or 'Storries') have become a key part of the industry calendar, showcasing and rewarding...
Building for the future
Building solutions company RDK has virtually eliminated backup windows across its multi-site operations, while still reducing data footprint and cutting costs...
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