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User-generated content, unstructured data, video surveillance, low-latency trade data, and life sciences are some of the fastest data growth types, but it seems no industry is safe from massive file data growth. Across the board, file formats are richer and file sizes are growing exponentially. This massive data growth is ...
Published on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Steve Duplessie | Steve O'Donnell |
Through qualitative and observational research, ESG has uncovered a consistent problem within IT that has led to costly inefficiencies, protectionist behavior patterns, poor communications, lack of understanding, and increased business risk. Fortunately, fixing these issues has proven to be relatively easy, once the problems are acknowledged.
IT does not need expensive ...
Authors: Steve Duplessie | Steve O'Donnell |
Since its inception in the 1960s, commercial computing has gone through three distinctive periods. The Transactional Computing Era led to the Distributed Computing Era, which continued until the 1990s. The newest era, the Internet Computing Era, will dominate the next 50 years or more. Commercial computing capabilities and the people ...
Published on Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 1:02 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Babineau | Lauren Whitehouse |
IT executives barely have time to keep track of the technology in their own environments; finding the hours in the day to stay abreast of all the new technology solutions in the marketplace is next to impossible. At some point, however, those in the data center corner office are bound ...
Authors: Brian Babineau | Lauren Whitehouse |
Solid state storage seems to be going from 'zero to hero' almost overnight. Those steadfast providers that have been promoting some variant of the technology for years may be sighing as everyone else eventually 'finds religion,' but they are no doubt also cheering at the prospect of ...
Deduplication has been more popularly deployed in target storage hardware, including virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and storage appliances; however, recent introductions by backup vendors have shifted the spotlight. How do hardware and software approaches differ? What should be considered when evaluating solutions?
Introduction
Deduplication dramatically improves the value proposition of disk-based data ...
It's been over a decade since the first e-mail archive solution came to market. Over the past ten years, customers have utilized these purpose-built offerings to meet record retention compliance mandates, facilitate electronic discovery, and control message-related storage costs. Despite all of these benefits, many organizations ...
As a society, we are constantly increasing the capabilities and opportunities for people to create even more data at an even faster pace. Its growth naturally causes "sprawl" throughout the IT ecosystem. The primary means of gaining efficiency across the business and IT is realized by consolidating ...
Published on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 9:37 am | No Comments »
Authors: Steve Duplessie | Terri McClure |
The massive amount of rich file data generated by richer file formats and Internet Era computing is creating demand for new and innovative scale-out file storage solutions to economically scale bandwidth and performance to heretofore unheard of capacities. "Scale-out NAS" are systems designed from the ground up ...
Authors: Steve Duplessie | Terri McClure |
This reports investigates how metadata associated with records in a reference information archive has compelling benefits that can be realized today, and sets the stage for significant advances in data classification and search technology in the future.
