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2024 Issues
January-February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first Storage magazine of 2024, which includes our now regular round-up of predictions, trends (and perhaps some downright guesswork) from industry experts...
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Back to basics for AI
Success with AI means going back to the basics of good IT management, says new research from the Cloud Industry Forum
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2023 Issues
November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the November/December issue of Storage magazine, which features not one, not two, but three surveys into ransomware/cyberattacks, and how prepared - or otherwise - organisations are for what increasingly feels like...
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Panasas announces four key leadership appointments
Driving global expansion across HPC and AI storage markets
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September-October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the September/October issue of Storage magazine. We are used to seeing stories in the mainstream press these days about data breaches and IT systems outages...
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As easy as 3-2-1
Scott Matey, COO of CDS, outlines the key considerations for managing the lifecycle of storage infrastructure
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July-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 in our pages, year after year - backup
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WD announces new storage solutions for data centre architecture
Enabling users to further improve storage performance, flexibility, and efficiencies
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: World’s first flash drive pending the new FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation scheme
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Spectra Logic teams up with Titan
Partnering to expand EMEA market footprint with innovative data management solutions
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The March/April issue of Storage really does cover a vast variety of topics, even by our own ever-eclectic standards. One article from Toshiba describes how indispensable HDDs are...
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Life, the metaverse and everything
Manfred Berger, Senior Manager of Business Development EMEAI at Western Digital, offers a data storage specialist's guide to the metaverse
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January-February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to our first issue of a new year, as we all look forward - more with hope than confidence, perhaps - that maybe, just maybe, things are starting to get better again in the world...
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Forecasting change
Our traditional start-of-year roundup of trends and predictions for the sector is bigger and better than ever, covering topics as diverse as data resiliency, cost management, sustainability...
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2022 Issues
November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The final issue of Storage magazine for 2022 includes an in-depth panel discussion around the impact of Open Source technologies on the storage sector, and as you'd expect there are some widely varying...
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Heading for an emergency?
Over three quarters of IT leaders see a worrying 'protection gap' between tolerable data loss and how IT is protecting their data, according to new Veeam research
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September-October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The Sep/Oct issue of Storage magazine comes to you, as usual, jam packed with articles, opinions and interviews from the very cutting edge of storage technology. But one recent news story...
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Measuring a changing world
Davide Villa, Western Digital's Head of Business Development EMEAI, explores the unsung hero of our world's biodiversity: research data
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the July/August issue of Storage magazine which - as well as several pages dedicated to the winners at the Storage awards in June - includes a fascinating variety...
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Rapid manoeuvres
Jerome M. Wendt of DCIG describes three options to make rapid recovery attainable and explains the pros and cons of each
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The May/June issue of Storage magazine includes, as ever, a satisfying selection of opinion and thought leadership articles, real life case studies, reviews and interviews...
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'Not if, but when': time to review your BCDR strategy
Backup your data - and help keep your business safe, says Joe Noonan, Product Executive, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Unitrends and Spanning
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to our March/April issue, which includes a veritable smorgasbord of content from research and case studies through interviews and bylined opinions to product reviews...
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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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January-February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The first issue of a new year is always a favourite for me because it affords me the opportunity to put feelers out across the industry and ask what people think is going to happen over the coming year...
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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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2021 Issues
November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As many of you will no doubt know, Storage has a number of sister titles focused on specific IT niche topics (document management - another one of mine! - and networking, among them). But perhaps...
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NVMe storage adoption: scalability & cost the main challenges
ATTO research suggests more innovation required to drive enterprise takeup
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September-October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Our last issue included a piece on the recent developments in the use of graphene in the HDD industry, and as if to try and go one better, in this issue we look at how DNA itself is being trialled as a data storage medium that could be exceptionally well suited to archival.
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A new twist on a long-standing issue
Could DNA offer a solution to the ever-accelerating growth in data? A recent white paper suggests it is a distinct possibility
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: I have been in IT journalism now for over 20 years, and it is fair to say that throughout all that time it has rarely, if ever, been boring. Almost every week I see a news release or announcement that makes me think "Cool - I really must find out more about that!"...
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Cloud storage - what's hot, what's not
Michael Del Castillo, Solutions Engineer at Komprise, looks at how to design a cloud storage strategy based on data type, age (hot versus cold) and user requirements
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Following on from last issue's thought-provoking and occasionally controversial interview with Eric Siron about backup, this time around we are pleased to feature an industry roundtable article developed in the weeks after World Backup Day.
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The future of shared storage? It has to be NAS
With the greater performance, functionality and ease of use of NAS, it is increasingly hard to justify the need for a SAN in modern creative workflows, argues Ben Pearce of GB Labs
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine features a particularly readable (and quotable!) interview with backup guru Eric Siron, whose thoughts - predominantly on why organisations just refuse to take backup as seriously as they should...
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Data: the beating heart of an organisation
Mark Radford, Director Enterprise Sales UK, Infinidat, discusses the various growing pains facing the modern I.T. leader
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January-February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the first issue of a new year, which features our usual round-up of predictions and crystal-ball gazing from across the sector....
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21? All bets are off…
Our annual industry roundtable yielded a surprisingly varied - and occasionally contentious - range of topics predicted to be on everyone's minds in the coming year when it comes to the data storage sector
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2020 Issues
November-December- Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to our final issue of Storage magazine for 2020; I suspect I'm not the only one thinking 'good riddance' to this year for so many reasons....
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Ransomware: new year, new threats
Veniamin Simonov, Director of Product Management at NAKIVO, sets out some of the ransomware trends to be aware of as we head into 2021
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September-October- Featuring
Editor's Comment: Our September issue includes a full list of all the finalists for this year's Storage Awards...
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SMBs TURN TO DATA TO ASSIST WITH POST-COVID PLANS
The world's SMBs are turning to data as they look to steer a course to COVID recovery, according to new Seagate research which spoke to 3,000 small and medium sized business decision-makers globally...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to the August issue of Storage magazine, where the usual Summer lull doesn't seem to have affected our contributors - in fact despite the ongoing disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic...
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Cloud: your flexible friend
What is a Cloud Data Warehouse and why is it important? Rob Mellor, VP and GM EMEA, WhereScape, shares some insights...
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: There Has been much talk as the coronavirus pandemice continues to ravage the world of a 'New Normal'; a hope that some kind of positives might eventually come out of what feels...
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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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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: It is with great sadness that I share the news that we have decided, after much consideration...
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From the 'cloud rush' to enlightenment
Adrian Moir, Senior Consultant at Quest Software, looks at the growing trend for 'cloud repatriation' and asks whether the cost and time...
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January-February - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As has become traditional since I've been editing Storage, our first issue of the year includes a round-up of predictions...
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2020 visions
Storage magazine takes its annual plunge into the future with a round-up of predictions and insight from industry experts across the sector
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2019 Issues
November-December - Featuring
Editor's Comment: According to IDC market analysis, worldwide data creation will grow to a staggering 163 zettabytes by 2025...
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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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September-October - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Data protection and disaster recovery continue to be priority areas for IT decision makers across every industry, and it sometimes feels as though technology providers are releasing new products and solutions just a bit slower than new threats are emerging...
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Open, for business
Paul Hampton, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Alfresco, explores a number of key advantages for businesses in using open source
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine includes some fascinating research findings from Veeam on the topic of data management, and more particularly the continuing growth...
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To the victors the spoils
Another extraordinary night was had by all at this year’s Storage Awards - see below for the full list of winners and runners-up
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: On pages 24 to 29 of this issue you can find an exhaustive - and possibly exhausting! - list of all the finalists in this year's Storage Awards...
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Cloud taking over
The modern data centre is increasingly becoming multi-cloud, says new research...
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March-April - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine includes an in-depth look at the recent 'Global Data Protection Index' research from Dell EMC, which highlights not just the continuing rapid growth in data worldwide...
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Is bigger better when it comes to storage
What does a 'Big Storage future' look like in HPC? Laurence Horrocks-Barlow, Lead Storage Consultant at OCF, shares some insights...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As we start a new year, it seems that data protection is still on the minds of many and isn't going away any time soon...
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Trading up
Over the past 2 years Talend has successfully worked on the migration of trading exchange Euronext's database - one of the largest in Europe...
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2018 Issues
November-December- Featuring
Editor's Comment: The children's commissioner for England has called on internet giants and toy-makers to be more transparent about the data they are collecting on children...
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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...
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September-October- Featuring
Editor's Comment: As Synology's Jeremie Francois says in an article in this issue, the importance of backup is almost a cliché for those of us who work in the storage industry...
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Stopping trouble before it starts
Evan Kenty, Managing Director EMEA, Park Place Technologies, describes some of the lessons learnt from the Visa data centre 'burnout' and how predictive maintenance technologies can help
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: A fascinating article in this issue looks at how researchers in Australia and China are working to resolve the problem of long term data retention...
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Eyes on the prize
Fifteenth annual Storage awards winners in full
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As this issue of Storage magazine goes to print, there are reports on the BBC and elsewhere that IBM has decreed that their staff are no longer allowed to use removable memory...
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Healthcare I.T. fine-tuned
Since deploying Tintri, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has benefited from increased performance and capacity, reduced management and guaranteed quality...
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Mar-Apr - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine includes a number of articles on the related topics of backup and Disaster Recovery...
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The right tools for the job
Victorinox has found the optimal storage solution for its VDI environment: Pure Storage all-flash arrays impressed with their quick installation...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As has become something of a tradition, our first issue of the year includes a round-up of predictions...
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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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2017 Issues
Nov-Dec - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Welcome to our last print edition for 2017, and an issue that covers the whole storage gamut from hard drive technologies through Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service to email archiving strategies - with a number of entertaining diversions along the way!...
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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 everyday use cases for DRaaS
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Sept-Oct - Featuring
Editor's Comment: The UK government's proposed new Data Protection legislation takes centre stage in this issue in a feature that examines why the changes are coming...
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Data protection: the House wins
New government proposals have been designed to overhaul UK data protection legislation. Storage magazine takes a closer look at the likely impact on businesses...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: New research from Spectra Logic (see our analysis on page 8) looks at the 'ever-changing landscape of data storage'...
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ILM makes a comeback
EASY Software's Howard Frear believes that data archiving disciplines we seem to have forgotten are of huge relevance to our cloud world
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As we go to press with this issue of Storage magazine there is almost exactly one year to go before the implementation of the EU GDPR...
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GDPR: time is running out
With almost exactly one year left until the EU enacts the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - one of the most stringent data privacy regulations ever to pass into law
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Mar-Apr - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine includes two articles discussing the impact of the European GDPR coming into effect in 2018, as the regulations look to affect the IT storage....
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Mind the gap
Timed to coincide with the recent World Backup Day, a new Acronis survey exposes a serious gap between security risks and user preparedness
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: it genuinely doesn't feel like a year since we last ran our regular 'what to expect from the industry over the coming year' feature, but here we are again...
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Big data gets bigger
Jason Beeson, Commercial Director at Hammer, looks at how the changing volumes - and types - of data will impact the storage sector
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2016 Issues
Nov-Dec - Featuring
Editor's Comment: it genuinely doesn't feel like a year since we last ran our regular 'what to expect from the industry over the coming year' feature...
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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...
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Sept-Oct - Featuring
Editor's Comment: One fair measure of how established a technology concept has become is to look at how often the buzzwords associated with it crop...
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Facing up to a virtual reality
Virtualisation can bring improve cost, performance and data management, says Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: if you've ever bemoaned the lack of performance of your smartphone, you're definitely not alone. As with most computing devices, we find ourselves...
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Flash into the mainstream
More and more enterprises are transitioning to Flash-based architectures, suggests a new study from 451 Research...
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: In the last issue of Storage magazine we included an opinion piece on the prospects for the HDD market, so this time it seems only fair that we focus on flash...
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A natural migration
Bill Strain, CTO at iomart, describes some common sense considerations for any business looking at a data migration exercise...
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Mar-Apr - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As I write this column, there is not very much time left at all for reader nominations to this year's Storage Awards: April 4th...
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Be prepared
Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh suggests six key questions that any business needs to ask about its Disaster Recovery readiness...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: Our first edition of 2016 includes a raft of opinion and analysis pieces from vendors and experts across the storage sector...
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Ahead in the cloud
Cloud storage and how to manage it effectively is a key challenge for many businesses, explains Jack Bedell-Pearce, Managing Director, 4D...
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2015 Issues
Nov-Dec - Featuring
Editor's Comment:As this is our last edition of the year, we have taken the chance to ask a selection of movers and shakers from the industry to share their thoughts and predictions for 2016...
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Safeguarding a city's data
The Open University's MK:Smart project required a scalable and versatile backup solution to help manage access to data sourced from a multitude of data stores across the city...
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Sept-Oct - Featuring
Editor's Comment: September saw the launch of the new LTO-7 specifications which set out the likely path for tape cartridge developments for the near future..
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How will you read your data in 100 years?
…or even 200 years? Nik Stanbridge, VP Marketing, Arkivum, examines some of the issues of true long term archival and retrieval...
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July-August - Featuring
Editor's Comment: As companies deploy Hadoop for big data, they open critical information to compromise. Tom Kemp of Centrify discusses some of the solutions that exist to solve the problem..
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EFD for mobiles
Available in capacities up to 128GB1, the iNAND 7232 from SanDisk is a new, advanced embedded flash drive (EFD) for mobile devices
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May-June - Featuring
Editor's Comment: This issue includes a couple of opinion/byline pieces around the topic of software-defined storage and its impact on the IT industry now and into the future...
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Backup cut right back
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has reduced backup time by 90+ percent while still ensuring business continuity...
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Mar-Apr - Featuring
Editor's Comment: It is sometimes easy to lose track of the fact that, for many IT buyers, there is little or no direct contact with most of the storage vendors who feature in our pages...
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Shaking things up
Beta Distribution has been around for over thirty years and remains Europe's largest distributor of LTO media - but there is much more to the business...
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Jan-Feb - Featuring
Editor's Comment: How long is a lifetime, exactly? I don't mean the traditional three-score years and ten that we all aspire to, rather the lifetime of a piece of data...
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Backup to the Future
Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Acronis, looks to the future of backup software, with specific focus on the lessons small businesses...
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