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Believe the hype about hyper-converged storage
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The future is guaranteed
Early last year we heard from Fujifilm about its move towards a service based storage solution offering, with d:ternity. Storage Editor David Tyler catches up with Roger Moore, Strategic Business Unit Manager at the company's recording media division.
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Rest Assured
Dot Hill arrays aim to deliver new level of performance for verticals and Internet of Things applications |
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SanDisk flashing the cache
Enhances FlashSoft caching software portfolio & introduces new bundled solutions for enterprise data centres |
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From customer to partner
IT solutions provider Ultima found the ideal partner for its enterprise cloud offering in Berkshire-based Pulsant
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Retro retailer with the futuristic business model
Retro clothing and gift specialist TruffleShuffle are able to focus on their core business - supplying weird and wonderful T-shirts, homewares and more - and leave the management of their e-commerce function to hosting company iomart
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Comment
It's over a year since Storage magazine interviewed FujiFilm's Roger Moore about their then newly-announced d:ternity offering - a long term archival service that got round the problems of what Moore described as 'cross-generation compatibility' - that sinking feeling you have when you realise that you have critical data stored on specific media but you haven't maintained the kit you need to read it. FujiFilm's d:ternity essentially outsources that archiving process, taking and storing your data offsite and returning it on demand.
But, as Moore explains in our update in this e-newsletter, perhaps the bigger issue is whether you need to be archiving that data in the first place: "An area that we tend to discuss early on with potential clients is: do they really need to archive all this data at all? There is a natural inclination to simply keep storing everything away, and sending data offsite appears cheap - the problem arises later with the cost of managing and recalling that data later on. That's the beauty of the d:ternity approach. Because everything is put into a neutral file format, it can be delivered back very simply and rapidly, and loaded back into the customer's current infrastructure in a totally non-disruptive way." Sometimes, it appears - even in the ever-changing technology sector - the simplest approach is the best.
David Tyler,
Editor
david.tyler@btc.co.uk
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