External Disk Storage Systems market remains flat

The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) remained almost flat in 2Q13, growing by 0.5% year on year to $1.77 billion, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). The tracker also shows, however, that capacity jumped 28.3% to 1.7 exabytes. In euro terms, revenue reached €1.36 billion, a decrease of 1.2%.

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Oracle introduces StorageTek Linear Tape File System, Library Edition

Oracle’s StorageTek Linear Tape File System, Library Edition (LTFS LE) helps makes tape storage as easy to use and manage as disk at a lower cost, using a familiar “drag-and-drop” paradigm. It further broadens the appeal of tape storage in industries with large file assets, such as media and entertainment, enabling customers to take advantage of tape’s low cost per terabyte for backup, large-scale data retention, archive and preservation projects, while allowing...

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Object storage for advanced digital asset preservation

The Ark Post Production has implemented Quantum’s Lattus-M object storage and StorNext® appliances to manage, share and preserve its volumes of digital assets and provide a seamless and efficient end-to-end media workflow. Established in 2002, The Ark is one of London’s leading post production facilities with two sites in Soho that manage the duplication, conversion, encoding, transcoding and editing of digital media.

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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