By Betsy Doughty

VP, Corporate Marketing, Spectra Logic

The term ‘hybrid cloud’ can be interpreted in many different ways depending on whether you are talking about data, storage, applications, computing, or other cloud uses. In the world of data management and storage, hybrid cloud describes an ecosystem that incorporates a combination of on-premises networking, computing and storage with deployment across one or more clouds. The value we see with this approach is flexibility, scalability and efficiency as organizations can benefit from the best aspects of on-premises operations as well as cloud services. Read More

The new year is a time of personal renewal that often brings to light wishes for the future, new perspectives, and resolutions for change. Business operations and IT architectures can benefit from this same spirit. When it comes to data management and storage, a new year is ripe for reviewing past performance and renewing goals and objectives. Optimizing the use of data management software and data storage hardware are two components crucial to extracting the most value from your data in 2023. Read More

As we close out 2022, Spectra Logic has much to celebrate. Reflecting on the past year, we’ve accomplished a lot that makes us look forward to an even more successful 2023. Read More

SpectraLIVE, a virtual conference platform developed by Spectra Logic in 2020, has brought together a multitude of industry experts, Spectra Logic executives, and end users in data-driven market verticals like high performance computing and media and entertainment to explore topics such as ransomware preparedness, best practices in cloud storage, backup and archive, and data storage and data management insights. Below are highlights from a few 2022 SpectraLIVE webinars: Read More

In the last year, Spectra Logic’s solutions have won a number of prestigious industry awards. The coveted acknowledgements are extremely important for Spectra, as they recognize the new direction the company has recently taken with its product portfolio to help customers thrive in a multi-cloud world. Of note, the addition of Spectra Vail^® software, as well as Spectra’s enhanced BlackPearl Platform, enable customers to better manage, migrate, store and preserve their business data long-term, whether on-premises, in a single cloud, across multiple clouds, or in all locations at once.  Read More

According to the International Energy Agency[1], data centers in 2021 consumed 220-320 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity, or around 1% of global electricity demand. And while data center electric consumption globally has only grown moderately overall despite strong demand for data center services, countries with expanding data center markets are seeing rapid growth. Moreover, rapid growth in large data center workloads has resulted in a 10 to 30 percent increase in energy use in this segment over the past several years. Emerging services and technologies such as streaming, cloud, gaming, blockchain, machine learning and virtual reality are poised to further boost demand for data services. Read More

By Matt Starr
Chief Technology Officer, Spectra Logic

As supercomputing data sources become increasingly distributed, centralizing the management of data that may span multiple data centers, public cloud providers, and edge locations is key to accelerating research. Whether organizations are looking to expand information sharing for science teams, enhance data management practices across multiple clouds, or unlock data to be used in machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, multi-cloud data management addresses these challenges by seamlessly integrating multiple public clouds and on-premises object storage under a single namespace – allowing work to flow from on-prem to cloud and back again. Read More

By Matt Starr
Chief Technology Officer, Spectra Logic

Effective data and storage management are crucial for efficient HPC workflows and can accelerate research while achieving reproducibility and preserving data for future reference. Groundbreaking discoveries often come with their own unique data management challenges. The datasets associated with innovative scientific, medical and technological research initiatives are ever-growing and being stored forever. The importance of arriving at the right data management strategy becomes paramount as the size of HPC datasets continues its inexorable march towards zettabytes. Read More

Media and Entertainment workflows have been under tremendous pressure to offer instant accessing, sharing and archiving of media. As organizations are pushed even further into the cloud, new workflows must support a hybrid cloud data management model that unifies and simplifies content access and storage across on-premises and cloud using a single global namespace, seamlessly and without disruption. Doing so integrates public cloud services into a workflow with easy digital data movement capability, allowing M & E organizations to leverage existing on-premises applications and native cloud services, regardless of where the data is physically stored. Read More

Managing and safeguarding research data is important for replicating results, documenting collaborations, complying with governmental and institutional rules and regulations, planning future research, and ensuring published discovery is available to the public for the long term. So it’s not surprising that researchers, whether working within an HPC or general university environment, wished that it was possible to keep data forever, on a low-cost medium, with minimal risk of failure or data loss. Spectra Logic and the iRODS consortium recently announced an integration that will help researchers and organizations drive innovation and accelerate results. Read More