Transforming Storage

Transforming Storage: If you take a look at the agenda topics of this year’s SNW held in Long Beach, CA, you’ll notice the blurring of the lines between private and public clouds. Perhaps it was inevitable. Many companies, like Intel, keep their most precious data such as microprocessor design on a private cloud where security […]

Transforming Storage: With huge numbers of users of a smart phone, tablet or laptop accessing the Internet and storing information there (especially pictures, music and video), the amount of data storage required to service all that activity is monumental. That does not include the massive amounts of data already being stored by large organizations before […]

Transforming Storage – Episode 3 – Gold iPhones couldn’t have been a bigger hit. Over the weekend Apple sold more than 9 million iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C models. But the iPhone, as well as every smart phone and tablet, would be just a simple device drawing on its own memory if it weren’t for […]

Transforming Storage – Episode 2 – The practices of data security professionals require the latest technologies and an understanding of human nature. Talk to anyone in security and they readily recount stories of breaches that were accomplished not with sophisticated hacking, but by simple human contact. Technologists are responding. The latest developments in security technologies […]

Transforming Storage – Episode 1 – When terrorists tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, Wall Street started to seriously worry about the safety of their financial data. The moment marks a shift in thinking about the capabilities of storage. Financial executives wanted their data mirrored in a distant location and available […]