Tape Data Storage guide

Posted on 24-02-2015, in Uncategorized by Stuart Humphrey

It’s a foolish data storage professional who considers that tape isn’t worth paying attention to. The fact of the matter is that tape continues to be the medium of choice for the bulk of stored data and its usage is growing. As a sign of the health of tape, storage players such as, Oracle, IBM, Sony, Quantum, Fujifilm and HP have all announced new tape products in recent months. Here are some of the highlights. Oracle Oracle has released t...

Latest news from the Tape Storage Council

Posted on 30-01-2015, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey

The Tape Storage Council, which includes representatives of BDT, Crossroads Systems, Fujifilm, HP, IBM, Imation, Iron Mountain, Oracle, Overland Storage, Qualstar, Quantum, REB Storage Systems, Recall, Spectra Logic, Tandberg Data and XpresspaX has issued the following memo to highlight the current trends, usages and technology innovations occurring within the tape storage industry. Abstract For the past decade, the tape industry has been re-a...

RDX USB3+ – Get more with less

Posted on 29-01-2015, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey

The RDX® QuikStor™ removable disk system is an easy to use, well established and affordable storage system for backup, archiving and data exchange. Now is getting to its next stage. The new RDX USB3+ external drive technology doesn’t need an external power supply any more. This makes RDX more flexible and enables this system to be used for much more use cases and makes daily data storage tasks much easier and a lot more convenient. Just plug...

Disk Storage Solutions from Infortrend

Posted on 21-01-2015, in Uncategorized by Stuart Humphrey

Infotrend brings you reliability, performance, and cost efficiency. At ImageStore we have begun to move all our Broadcast and Media customers over to the Infortrend EonNAS.    We have seen a lot more block level unified use of NAS in the Media environment simply using the NAS as an iSCSI target often to store media files and films while sharing the data over the network allowing excellent integration and versatility as a unified platform...

Other World Computing

Posted on 11-12-2014, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey

The PCIe SSD drive built for the most demanding needs of video editing and creative professionals. Boot, Launch, Create, and Save Faster With its simultaneous internal and external storage performance, the Mercury Accelsior_E2 offers the best combination of speed, capacity, and connectivity available today. Stop waiting for I/O-intensive apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, or Avid Pro Tools to render, capture or process. Start working faste...

Thunderbolt LTO 6 mTape

Posted on 11-11-2014, in Uncategorized by Stuart Humphrey

Latest article in the Film & Video magazine : http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/189439/image_store_looking_at_long_term_data_archiving Image Store: Looking At Long-Term Data Archiving If you are storing data on hard disks for the long-term, you WILL lose data. You need a Plan B. In this article we look at LTO tape which is low cost, reliable and has a guaranteed life of over 30 years. Archiving with tape is not just about speed or...

A new NAS range from Seagate

Posted on 14-10-2014, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey

ImageStore has introduced a new range of NAS from Seagate to our product range. Seagate NAS offers : Hardware, software and hard drives are built by Seagate. 5 new products up to 30TB capacity from 1 to 50 employees. NAS HDDs engineered to run 24x7 , low vibration and power efficient. 3 years complete warranty (including HDDs and everything else) SimplyRAID feature (mix and match different HDDs, auto RAID migration). S...

LTO Roadmap extended to Ultrium 10

Posted on 15-09-2014, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey

Apple isn't the only one with big announcements. HP, IBM and Quantum have announced details of Generation 9 and 10 LTO Ultrium tape technology. This is an enormously significant development. Far from tape being in decline, its leaders are confident enough to publicly commit R&D investment into new tape technologies to meet the archival storage demands of our expanding digital universe. This is great news for customers because it protects th...

Long term data retention

Posted on 13-08-2014, in Data Storage by Stuart Humphrey

Businesses today face an ever increasing need to hold onto data for long periods. Not a straight forward additional challenge as technologies do not always favour retaining data for lengthy periods. What storage applications are available on the market place that you should be considering? Let's examine them including flash memory, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and optical discs. Flash Memory, when we are talking long term archiving. This...

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Posted on 11-06-2014, in Uncategorized by Stuart Humphrey

Growing business? More and more resources being used up with media files and other like minded data rich components. Is your IT structure out of date but the thought of replacing it confuses the IT guy, do you have one? and frightens the Finance manager. Then maybe it's time to take a look at a NAS solution for your business needs. NAS is all things good for a SMB and will meet your expectations. NAS is a shared storage on a network infrast...

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