Data

The Volcker Rule: Will It Give Banks More Data to Manage?

There’s yet another new banking regulation on the table—and this one’s making some waves. This time, the FDIC, SEC and other regulators are taking aim at how banks conduct their trading activity. And this could mean Big Data in...

How Financial Services Can Seize the Big Data Opportunity

After the Great Recession in 2008, getting a handle on their data is a truly onerous task for banks and other financial institutions. But it turns out that it’s also a way to uncover some tremendous business opportunities.

When It Comes to Storage Tiering, Money Is Everything

Storing masses of data in a single tier would become unmanageable for most businesses, not to mention present legal and security risks no business wants to deal with. Plus, storing all of that data—both low-value, inactive data and mission-critical,...

Debunking the Myths about Tape Storage

Google they keywords “tape storage myths,” and you’ll turn up no less than 1,780,000 results. While certainly not all of these results are relevant, the sheer volume of listings speaks to the fact that there’s no shortage of myths...

The Future of Tape: The Short and the Long of It

As storage technologies evolve, so too will tape—a medium that, clearly, will remain alive and well in both the short and long term.

Why Tape Storage Helps—Not Hurts—Competitiveness

Despite claims to the contrary, the facts prove that incorporating tape into an enterprise storage strategy can help keep the organization running efficiently and effectively—enhancing, not reducing, its competitiveness.

Tape Management: A Necessary Nuisance

Tape is a fact of life for many companies, especially in the age of big data. And love or hate it, you still need to effectively manage it for backups, archival data, compliance audits, or a combination of the...

4 Best Practices for Automating Your Data Center

Reaping the value of automation isn’t automatic. There’s more to it than just implementing new software. Automating a convoluted process that isn’t working well to begin with is going to create more work for IT, not less; lower efficiency,...

How 9/11 Has Changed the Data Center

If you haven't rethought your data center disaster recovery strategy lately, maybe now is a good opportunity to revisit this important topic.

With Tape Storage, Everything Old is New Again

Somewhere in between the old days of tape’s dominance and the new world of peaceful storage media coexistence, tape-bashing came into vogue. But as we've said before, and we'll say again, tape is very much alive and the best...