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A revolution in data storage
Two European Managers from Fujifilm Recording Media - Richard Alderson, Head of Recording Media in the UK and Ireland and Franca Stevan, Head of Recording Media in Italy - discuss the current state of play for tape technology |  |
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Cyber-insanity
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Closing the detection gap
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Bare metal: contained
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The hacker crowd
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Network Computing Awards 2017: The Winners!
The results of the 2017 Network Computing Awards were revealed at an evening ceremony at the Grand Connaught rooms earlier this year. Here we profile some of this year’s winners:
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Welcome to the September 2017 Newsletter.
It doesn’t seem so very long ago that the death knell was being sounded for tape as a storage medium. Fast forward to 2017 and, thanks to the advancement of technologies such as LTO (Linear Tape-Open) it seems as if tape is now very much here to stay.
In fact, rather than being supplanted by newer storage technologies such as flash, tape solutions such as LTO-7 cartridges, which can store up to 15TB of compressed data, can actually work perfectly well in tandem with them. As Spectra Logic point out in their `Digital Data Storage Outlook 2017’ review of the storage industry, “Having the greatest potential for capacity improvements, tape technology fills a market need as an inexpensive storage medium, at $.01 per gigabyte,” adding that “… a long-term scenario for tape is to coexist with flash technology.”
These findings are echoed in a recent article from the LTO Program, which outlines how SSD and LTO tape could prove to be a perfect storage pairing: “High-performance servers, laptops, desktops or any application that needs to deliver information in real-time or near real-time can benefit from SSD technology. Eventually though, this data needs secure, low-cost, long-term preservation - which is where LTO technology comes in.”
To this end we’re taking a detailed look at the current state of play in tape this month in the form of an in-depth interview with two of Fujifilm’s European Managers, Richard Alderson, Head of Recording Media in the UK and Ireland and Franca Stevan, Head of Recording Media in Italy. Richard and Franca guide us through the latest innovations in tape technology, its current position in the storage market, and its future prospects in light of the worldwide data explosion. With IDC predicting that the global creation of data between 2016 and 2025 will grow by a factor of 10 it’s becoming increasingly clear that we won’t be hitting ‘pause’ on tape storage any time soon.
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