Archive
Archive – A storage repository for little-accessed data that needs to be retained for a long time. The key difference from a backup is that a backup is a copy of...
Coercivity
Coercivity - the amount of resistance in a ferromagnetic medium to having its magnetic direction (north or south pole) lost by exposure to an input magnetic field. A disk...
Storage news ticker – April 6
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Data protector Arcserve announced the availability of Arcserve Backup 19, an enhanced version of its tape air-gapping product. It delivers improved performance, security, and reliability over previous releases. Enhancements...
Quantum starts selling its custom hyperscaler tape library rigs
All those who said tape would soon be history can eat their words. Back in October Quantum revealed custom massive capacity modular scale-out tape libraries for hyperscaler customers. Now...
Storage news ticker – 1 March
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Ahana has added new security features to its Ahana Cloud for Presto managed service. These include multi-user support for Presto and Ahana, fine-grained access control for data lakes with...
Quantum’s revenues fall as savage supply chain issues ravage costs
Quantum saw a 2.8 per cent decline in revenues in its latest quarter as severe supply chain issues – some suppliers "holding it to ransom" – cost it $62...
Infinidat strengthens InfiniGuard with automated network fencing and more throughput
Infinidat has added automated fenced-in networks to its InfiniGuard data protection array to safeguard forensic analysis of malware attacks, and doubled throughput with new B4300 hardware. The resulting software...
Storage news ticker – January 20
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Datto intends to acquire Infocyte, a threat detection and response company, for an undisclosed amount. Datto will thus add endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies and managed detection and...
Amazon migrates offline tape data to Glacier with Snowball Edge VTL-in-a-box
Amazon Web Services suitcase-sized Snowball Edge box can now collect ingest data from tape cartridges and be shipped to an AWS centre for file import into Glacier object storage.
The...
DNA storage and science: archiving unreality
DNA storage researchers have devised a neat way to record events inside cells down to a one-minute granularity, but are wildly off-beam when predicting this could become useful as a...
StrongBox pivots to enterprise unstructured data management market, and a new name
StrongBox is looking likely to change its name to StrongLink as it pivots away from the high-end cross-silo file and object management market to pursue the broader enterprise market.
This...
Quantum grows revenue again – despite ongoing impact of supply chain issues
File management and tape system vendor Quantum recorded its second consecutive growth quarter with $93.2 million revenues for Q2 2022 ended September 30. Revenues would have been higher but for...