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On the seventh day….
Day seven brings us closer to the big day. I can feel the excitement build. And build is the right word, because in addition to roasting chestnuts, eating cookies and singing carols, we have the presents to deal with. I am sure you are in better shape than I am, and already have everything bought. How many toys did you get with the dreaded "some assembly required?" Wouldn’t it be great if there was 7/24 support to assemble these little nuggets of fun and excitement? (Here’s a tip, many toy companies have opened support centers for just such an emergency. Though I doubt the are open on Christmas Eve.) This car looks especially fun!
On the sixth day…
It’s the 6th day of storage Christmas and we’re half-way home. What better way to celebrate the holiday than with a ginormous gift under the tree? How about a gift that stores well over a petabyte of data in a single rack!
2010: The Year Vendors Get Smarter or Go Home
Hearing news about the difficulties currently being faced by Copan it struck me that the storage market has been a fairly tumultuous one in 2009. As disk prices have dropped over the last 2 or 3 years, and as virtualization has gained a foothold in enterprises, there has been a fair amount of innovation in the disk market with technologies such as deduplication and thin provisioning becoming hot topics. However, with the challenging economic environment shaping the decisions of investors and end-users, it has been a challenging time for any companies desperately trying to gain a foothold.
On the fifth day…
For some folks, Holidays Without Pain means the in-laws behaved and none of the kids got sick. For storage admins, Tape Without Pain means the backup jobs ran smoothly and there was no mad scramble to recover a tape or fix any gear at one in the morning. Ahhh, now that’s bliss!
On the fourth day…
Brother can ya spare a dime? How about sparing some time? Many storage administrators are hard pressed to spare either – especially when it comes to ensuring their archive and backup operations are always on.
On the third day…
The Grinch may have stolen Christmas from the Whos in Who-Ville, but theirs was still a happy ending. Dr. Seuss probably won’t write such a joyous postscript for your storage people if data is lost or stolen.
On the second day…
Tape houses nearly 70% of the world’s data. That being the case, what could be more useful to a storage admin than receiving media for Christmas? Certified Media from Spectra Logic, no less! Coupled with Spectra’s Media Lifecycle Management in every Spectra library, Spectra Certified Media helps ensure your backups complete successfully and your archived data is safe and healthy.
On the first day…
As we approach the holidays, it seemed like a fun idea to do the 12 Days of Christmas – Spectra Style. Look for an update everyday from the blog team.
Out-running the Bear
I just got back from the Gartner Data Center Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. It was a good show – then again, can you have a bad show in Vegas? I mean, it’s Vegas! Anyhow, there were lots of decision makers roaming around engaged in a plethora of interesting discussions and speaker sessions.
"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
"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."
– Eric Grau, Manager – Media Asset Management, Joyce Meyer Ministries
"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."
– HPC Linux Systems Engineer, OLCF
"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."
– Jeffrey McDonald, director of IT, Hormel Institute at University of Minnesota
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