Posted on 17-10-2024, in Uncategorized by Stuart Humphrey
Symply, a leading name in Storage solutions, has expanded its 8-bay SPARK series with the highly anticipated 4-Bay SPARK and SPARK XT RAIDs. These systems are now more compact and lightweight, making them an even better fit for media professionals on the go.
Posted on 27-09-2023, in LTO Roadmap by Stuart Humphrey
The LTO Program’s latest technology roadmap details specifications for up to fourteen generations of tape technology. The LTO Program first released its LTO Ultrium standard in 2000 with a capacity of 200 GB per cartridge compressed. Two decades later, the LTO Program released LTO generation 9, which supports tape cartridge storage compressed capacity of up to 45 TB* and tape drive data transfer rates of up to 1,000 MB/second*. At less than...
Posted on 14-04-2023, in NAS Storage by Ash Mehta
As of January 27th, 2023, Drobo support and products are no longer available. Drobo products were well made and award winning. Photographers and digital creatives were snapping up Drobo's stylish range of products for a few years, but then things started to go wrong! StorCentric stepped in and acquired Drobo in 2018, however soon after this acquisition, supply and support issues continued to slide leading to terrible lead times, no...
Posted on 23-01-2023, in LTO Tape Growth by Stuart Humphrey
LTO Tape Market Long Term ForecastsBased on current information, the 2022 tape native capacity is forecast to rise 14% to 79.30EB (Exabytes) slightly less than the 17% growth projected earlier in 2022. For 2023, capacity shipment growth is forecast to rise 13% as slowing growth from on-premises customers is offset partially by expected cloud increases, discussed in the next section. While LTO-9 was released one year ago, adoption of this latest...
Posted on 17-11-2022, in NAS Storage by Ash Mehta
The TVS-H1688X-W1250-32G is without a shadow of doubt the most impressive desktop NAS out there right now. It's functionality, performance and features have all been designed with content creators in mind, with upto 5 Thunderbolt users simultaneously enjoying access to photo/video editing. I won't go into the tech specs of the H1688X, just take a look at the datasheet on our website, where you will also see our unbeatable price! These units...
Posted on 11-06-2019, in Data Storage by Ash Mehta
ImageStore are adding three new lines to our existing product portfolio.HPE Servers, Cisco Switches, APC Smart-UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supplies) ...
Posted on 21-02-2018, in Data Storage by Andy Humphrey
LTO-8 is the latest generation of the Ultrium LTO specification. The technology improvements for LTO-8 tape drives and media have increased capacity, performance, and reliability. The LTO-8 drive is available in two versions: full-height (FH) and half-height (HH) drive form factors. The LTO tape format has become the market-dominating standard for magnetic recording tape drives and media over the past years. The technology has progressed fr...
Posted on 02-08-2017, in Data Storage by Andy Humphrey
172% RISE IN RANSOMWARE ATTACKS IN THE LAST 2 YEARS Ransomware is malicious software that denies access to a user’s data by encrypting that data with a key known only to the hacker who deployed the ransomware. Until a ransom is paid a user cannot get access to their data. Some ransomware also destroys or transfers information to another system. HOW CAN YOUR CUSTOMERS AVOID RANSOMWARE ATTACKS? • Anti-Virus / Anti-Malwar...
Posted on 04-05-2017, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey
FujiFilm have written a good in-depth article on the future of LTO tape and it's major role in data storage for all business's : The Future of Tape Media ...
Posted on 08-03-2017, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey
Thunderbolt RAID and LTO-7 Tape Archiving Solution for Digital Workflows Finally a simple all-in-one solution for your digital workflow. 1. Copy your camera cards / data to the high speed RAID 2. Edit your data stored on the 6x 2.5" HDDs or SSDs 3. Archive your raw data and finished projects to LTO tape. That's it. You have moved your data from all the small SD cards etc over to a server for post production and editing and have sa...
