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Join us for this week’s episode as we interview Spectra’s founder and CEO Nathan Thompson. During this conversation, we explore the early days of Spectra, the process of building a thriving technology company, as well as what it took to pivot and stay innovative over the lifespan of Spectra Logic.
Spectra Logic · Founding A Thriving Technology CompanySpectra Logic Named a Finalist in 2021-22 Cloud Awards
Spectra Vail Storage Software Recognized as Finalist in Cloud Migration Solution Category
BOULDER, Colo. – Jan. 11, 2022 – Spectra Logic a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that Spectra’s Vail solution, a distributed multi-cloud data management software, has been recognized as a finalist in the international cloud computing awards program, The Cloud Awards, for Best Cloud Migration Solution. Spectra’s Vail® is a pivotal addition to Spectra’s new data storage and management ecosystem and provides universal access and placement of data across multi-site and multi-cloud storage, enabling seamless hybrid and multi-cloud workflows.
BlackPearl Can Do That – Jan. 27, 2022, 9:30 a.m. MT.
From Intern to Full-Time: A Career Journey with Three Spectra Employees
Join us for this week’s pre-holiday edition of The Spectra Current, as we follow the journey from intern to full time with some of Spectra’s newer faces. Specifically, we are interviewing Kristen Coats, our Graphic Designer and Videographer, Mariana Menge Schuett, our Marketing Programs Manager, and Keaton Day, our Digital Marketing Manager, all three of whom have unique onboarding stories, and have been a joy to bring into the Spectra family.
Spectra Logic · Betsy Mariana Kristen Keaton Podcast V1.0Data Center Intelligence Group Report Validates Active Archive Solutions as Ransomware Defense
New White Paper Highlights Crucial Role of Active Archiving in Defeating Ransomware Attacks
Boulder, Colo., December 15, 2021 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced a new white paper by the Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG), “Mitigating Ransomware through Active Archive Solutions,” highlighting the importance of active archiving in defending against ransomware attacks. The white paper was commissioned by the Active Archive Alliance.
Cybersecurity software is the first line of defense against cyberattacks. But security software alone cannot guard against all types, especially ransomware. This form of malware often invades a network when a user innocently clicks on a malware-infested URL in an email. Because ransomware is cheap to develop and easy to spread, it has become today’s chief malware threat. Ransomware attacks can devastate an organization between lost revenue, lost time and lost reputation.
Customer Spotlight: Recent Spectra Logic Case Studies Featured in the Media
Spectra Logic has recently published a number of stories detailing customer use cases. These types of case studies are the perfect piece of content to give readers a true understanding of how Spectra drives results for data-driven organizations. So when there’s a use case that really showcases the breadth and depth of Spectra’s data storage and data management solutions, we can’t help but share it far and wide.
Below are highlights of recent media coverage that have helped tell these important stories.
Durham University’s DiRAC Memory Intensive Service preserves complex cosmological simulation data with the help of Spectra solution
Multi-Purpose Hybrid Storage: Get to Know the New BlackPearl Platform
BlackPearl is a multi-purpose hybrid storage platform that easily and cost effectively scales up as object and file volumes grow; adapts as operational requirements change; and enables easy synchronization of data between on-prem and cloud storage. The object-based BlackPearl, which has offered capacity NAS and Spectra DS3 to tape for over 10 years, was recently expanded to include a native S3 interface providing local on-premises S3-standard object storage using the same economical scale-up architecture. BlackPearl S3 enables bi-directional synchronization of data between public cloud and on-premises storage.George Trossell
Product Manager, BlackPearl Platform
“Spectra has encouraged me to push myself and step up the career ladder since I joined as an intern. Today, as a Solutions Architect, I work on amazing projects, ranging from being the lead designer on requests for proposals to writing programs that help my associates be more productive. I’m most proud of the script that I designed when I worked in Support in our UK office, which analyzes the logs from our flagship TFinity tape Library. Still in use today, it provides a snapshot of what happened to the tape library, allowing Spectra Support to diagnose an issue immediately rather than having to review every log entry.”
The Path to CTO with Matt Starr and Betsy Doughty
Spectra Logic · The Path to CTO with Matt Starr And Betsy Doughty
Join us for this week’s episode of The Spectra Current, as we jump into an exciting conversation with Spectra Logic’s Chief Technology Officer, Matt Starr. Matt has exciting stories from his travels around the world, seeing the cool things our customers do, as well as a unique set of hobbies like winemaking that he loves to “rub some math on”. We hope you’ll enjoy this installment of the Spectra Current, and thanks for joining.
Spectra’s Transition
Betsy Doughty, VP of Corporate Marketing for Spectra, shares how Spectra has transformed its solutions set to address customer challenges in a complex multi-cloud world.
"When we set out on our search to find a storage solution capable of preserving Imperial War Museums’ substantial digital archive, there were specific criteria on which we were not willing to compromise. Spectra met all of our requirements and then some, and now continues to deliver with StorCycle’s storage lifecycle management capabilities."
– Ian Crawford, Chief Information Officer, Imperial War Museums
– Eric Grau, Manager – Media Asset Management, Joyce Meyer Ministries
"We appreciate the collaborative relationship and Spectra’s attentiveness to incorporating our feedback and ideas into solution enhancements. Our continuing investment into Spectra technology on behalf of our organization has proven invaluable in helping us implement the next level architectural model taking us into the future."
– HPC Linux Systems Engineer, OLCF
"The new library has just shy of 14,000 slots for tapes. We were able to easily move all 70 petabytes of existing data into the new system and have grown to 104 petabytes in size and have plenty of room for at least a year or two before we have to start thinking about expanding."
– Jeffrey McDonald, director of IT, Hormel Institute at University of Minnesota
"We have to store a lot of data for long periods of time. A single microscope can capture 10TB of data in as little as a few hours, and a published breakthrough on cancer research can take anywhere from a few years to a couple of decades. The BlackPearl and tape solution from Spectra provides a scalable and cost-effective way to store multiple data workflows with varying retention requirements."
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