Helium HDDs help capture black hole data

Helping the world harness the power of data, HGST says that the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project is using HGST Ultrastar® HelioSeal™ hard disk drives (HDDs) to store imaging data from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. HGST’s HDDs are the first and only helium-filled HDDs in the world. The hermetically sealed Ultrastar HDDs being used by the EHT represent a breakthrough in storage technology, which results in higher capacity and lower power consumption when...

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Understanding the difference: Disaster Recovery and Data Backup

Backup Software and Disaster Recovery are often mistakenly placed in the same category. Harking to an early era when enterprises tended to run batch processing systems and the working day was 9 to 5, the notion of a data backup seems less relevant for a highly virtualised and always on modern IT environment. Yet, the lines are still blurred while a sea of marketing messages around cloud as-a-service further pitch the two concepts as bedfellows. Zerto’s Vice President EMEA, Pete Godden...

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Unitrends breaks the 100 TB barrier

Recovery-944S and 946S optimised for unmatched scalability, performance and recovery times; cloud enabled appliances cut capital and operating expenses.

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Flash for less than $1/GB

Kaminario has unveiled its K2 v5.5 all-flash primary storage array. In an industry-first move, K2 drops the average cost/GB usable less than $1/GB and introduces deployment of 3D TLC drives, building on the company’s earlier K2 and offering an even more cost-effective and scalable all-flash array to enterprises. Kaminario’s new system also includes native array-based replication and the company’s Perpetual Array™ program, enabling customers to seamlessly phase in new...

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Tintri launches all-Flash appliances

Tintri also introduces VMstack Converged Infrastructure along with qualified partners to offer best-of-breed compute and network with Tintri VM-Aware storage.

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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