Archived Data

How to Expand Your Backup Windows with WAN Optimization

We all know the story: so little time so much data. Well instead of enlarging the "pipes", it may be far cheaper and more effective to focus on shrinking what's traveling through the pipes.

5 Questions to Ask Before Migrating Your Data.

Do you feel as if your backup vendor is holding your data hostage? Because many backup shops use proprietary file formats, they can effectively block their customers from migrating to another vendor. Organizations become reluctant to adopt another backup...

New Study Shows Tape Still a Good Choice for Archival Data.

The results of a study by Fujifilm have been released that show Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) tape can preserve data reliably for more than 30 years.

Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu

When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered...

Tape Takes a Licking but Keeps on Spinning

Rapping tape as a storage medium has become au courant. One storage company, EMC, has gone so far as to start a campaign to dump the medium with the tag line “Tape Sucks.” These aspersions, however, are more a...

The Dangers of Ignoring Social Media during Backups.

If you think you can ignore the social networking and social media content created by your organization in your storage plans, you’d better think about that again. Sure, there’s plenty of noise being generated at places like Facebook, LinkedIn...

Group Seeks to Enliven Archival Storage

As organizations try to cope with the spiraling growth of the data they create every day, more and more of that information is being sent to archives. A problem with archival storage is finding the archived data stored there...

Good Data Center Space Getting Hard to Find

Real estate in cyberspace may be infinite, but in metaspace it’s not, as one data center builder is finding out. Equinix, a data center operator based in Foster City, Calif., said at an earnings conference call this month that...

How to Smoothly Switch to a New Backup System.

 With so much new tech appearing every day, your old backup system may start to look like an old Toyota with 100,000 miles on it. Unlike dumping an old gas burner, though, moving to a new backup application can...

Most eDiscovery Costs Wasted on Extraneous Information.

 Most of the money spent on electronic discovery today is squandered on reviewing irrelevant documents, according to a white paper recently released by Forensics Consulting Solutions, of Phoenix, Ariz. According to the document authored by Mark G. Walker, Roland...