Computerweekly report that distressed data centre service provider, 2e2 who are currently in financial administration are requiring their customers to provide £1m (approx $1.5m) in funding to allow ‘uninterrupted access to their data’:
“While administrators have asked 2e2’s 20 enterprise-level users to pay most of the datacentre costs, smaller …
Continue reading »In this Rolling Stone article: “File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis” David Browne considers the lack of robustness of digital media assets as compared with analogue alternatives. As has increasingly been noted by a number of commentators, digital media tends to age more quickly and …
Continue reading »The ZyLab blog features an article on becoming “litigation ready” using eDiscovery tools and techniques. The basic premise of the post is that it is better to be proactive about potential litigation threats by having brining your eDiscovery process in-house. The author recommends marshalling all your data across email, SharePoint, …
Continue reading »Many organisations are considering moving their storage facilities to the Cloud to take advantage of the enhanced scalability opportunities. However, the problem is that the connectivity available to most companies is inadequate for this to be a usable alternative when compared with the performance of local storage that users are …
Continue reading »Ian Soboroff’s “Pseudo” Posterous blog entry considers the problem of big data, which he defines as “data that’s bigger than what you can comfortably store and process right now“. He offers a background to the ‘big data’ problem and considers various Cloud oriented techniques as well as using …
Continue reading »With the rise of high definition video formats, more and more videographers are turning to WD external hard drives to store their ever increasing volumes of video data.
“However the rise of high definition videos, 2K and 4K image resolution files that require huge storage space compel video makers to …
Continue reading »Last month, George Crump from Storage Switzerland, writing in the Information Week blog discussed the benefits of a strategy of retaining data permanently (as opposed to removing it when it ceases to have known utility for the business). The points raised are of particular significance to DAM solutions and …
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