Data storage professionals are under constant pressure to efficiently and safely manage data that is being generated at an exponential rate while keeping costs as low as possible. While there are many data management solutions, organizations that have implemented a hierarchical data management strategy have seen significant Cost Savings with Tiered Storage. When determining the data […]
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Typical Technology Used In Tiered Storage
Tiered storage, or hierarchical storage management (HSM), is a data storage technique, which automatically moves different categories of data data between high-cost and low-cost storage media to reduce total storage cost. Typical technology and data varies by tier and categories of data. Categories may be determined by performance requirements, levels of protection needed, frequency of […]
PRESS RELEASE: DataVaulting Now At PSI
New Incomparable Service Will Change The Way You Manage Vital Data DataVaulting is launched at Perpetual Storage, Inc. Sandy, UT: Perpetual Storage, Inc. (PSI), a maximum security, off-site data storage vault facility located inside a granite mountain, announced a new service today: DataVaulting. With DataVaulting clients can send back-up, disaster recovery (DR) and archival data to […]
Why You Need the Right Data in the Right Place: The Importance Of Utilizing Tape In Tiered Storage
Why Tiered Storage Data is Growing Exponentially According To The Fifth Annual IDC Digital Universe study, the amount of information created and replicated in 2011 surpassed 1.8 zettabytes (1.8 trillion gigabytes). Most of this data is unstructured, accounting for 90% of the digital universe. The best way to manage massively growing data is with a hierarchical […]
Tape’s Got Game by Quantum
by Jon Gacek, President and CEO of Quantum I read a good article in SearchDataBackup recently on an interview Sarah Wilson conducted with Jon Toigo on LTFS (Linear Tape File System). LTFS is an open standard technology that allows you to use tape like NAS – drag and drop files to and from the tape, […]