The Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit (March 10-11, 2015) that took place in Santa Clara, CA showed that substantial progress is being made in the open-source hardware movement around OCP specifications, which began with the Summit in 2011. What began as a consortium...
Data encryption is clearly a best practice. However, according to an Informatica/Ponemon Survey of enterprises in 2014 showed that less than 50% of enterprises are doing any form of data encryption (Figure 1). But beyond encryption, what are the other techniques are...
With storage making up as much as 70% of enterprise capital IT investment budgets, there is a lot of attention being paid to what that storage capacity is actually storing, and what is the value of the data sitting on the storage system. Additional attention is paid...
making your data more valuable Data growth is not new. Data proliferation is not new. However, what has changed is the value of data. In the past, anything over a certain period of time was backed up and removed offsite to reclaim expensive data storage capacity. But...
SanDisk officially launched its InfiniFlash all-flash storage system on March 3, 2015, ending months of industry speculation about its specifications and capabilities. It is a data-dense, high-capacity system that is built on a modular, scale-out framework – that...
