2018 Issues |
March - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine includes a number of articles on the related topics of backup and Disaster Recovery, and specifically around the prospect of both functions... |
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The right tools for the job
Victorinox has found the optimal storage solution for its VDI environment: Pure Storage all-flash arrays impressed with their quick installation... |
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January - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: As has become something of a tradition, our first issue of the year includes a round-up of predictions... |
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The right move
Rick Powles, Vice President EMEA at Druva, explains what the continuing move to cloud models will really mean for storage |
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2017 Issues |
November - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: New research from Spectra Logic (see our analysis on page 8) looks at the 'ever-changing landscape of data storage'... |
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Beyond disasters: doing more with DR
Geographic redundancy and replicating critical workloads can keep businesses up and running during catastrophic events, but there are many more everyday use cases for DRaaS |
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September - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: The UK government's proposed new Data Protection legislation takes centre stage in this issue in a feature that examines why the changes are coming... |
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Data protection: the House wins
New government proposals have been designed to overhaul UK data protection legislation. Storage magazine takes a closer look at the likely impact on businesses... |
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July - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: New research from Spectra Logic (see our analysis on page 8) looks at the 'ever-changing landscape of data storage'... |
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ILM makes a comeback
EASY Software's Howard Frear believes that data archiving disciplines we seem to have forgotten are of huge relevance to our cloud world |
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May - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: As we go to press with this issue of Storage magazine there is almost exactly one
year to go before the implementation of the EU GDPR... |
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GDPR: time is running out
With almost exactly one year left until the EU enacts the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - one of the most stringent data privacy regulations ever to pass into law |
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March - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: This issue of Storage magazine includes two articles discussing the impact of the
European GDPR coming into effect in 2018, as the regulations look to affect the
IT storage.... |
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Mind the gap
Timed to coincide with the recent World Backup Day, a new Acronis survey exposes a serious gap between security risks and user preparedness |
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January - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: it genuinely doesn't feel like a year since we last ran our regular 'what to expect from
the industry over the coming year' feature, but here we are again... |
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Big data gets bigger
Jason Beeson, Commercial Director at Hammer, looks at how the changing volumes - and types - of data will impact the storage sector |
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2016 Issues |
November - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: it genuinely doesn't feel like a year since we last ran our regular 'what to expect from
the industry over the coming year' feature, but here we are again, all crystal balls and
tea-leaves.... |
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What's on the cards for 2017?
The industry looks ahead to what next year might bring: what flavour of cloud will we prefer, is file sync and share on its way out... |
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September - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: One fair measure of how established a technology concept has become is to
look at how often the buzzwords associated with it crop up in magazines such
as ours; in which case it is not unreasonable ... |
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Facing up to a virtual reality
Virtualisation can bring improve cost, performance and data management, says Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta... |
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August - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: if you've ever bemoaned the lack of performance of your smartphone, you're definitely
not alone. As with most computing devices, we find ourselves on a never-ending
upgrade cycle... |
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Flash into the mainstream
More and more enterprises are transitioning to Flash-based architectures, suggests a new study from 451 Research... |
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May - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: In the last issue of Storage magazine we included an opinion piece on the prospects for the HDD market, so this time it seems only fair that we focus on flash, seen by many as the nemesis of the hard drive vendor... |
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A natural migration
Bill Strain, CTO at iomart, describes some common sense considerations for any business looking at a data migration exercise... |
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March - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: As I write this column, there is not very much time left at all for reader nominations to this year's Storage Awards: April 4th is the closing date for our 13th massive event, after which the 'serious business' of online voting begins... |
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Be prepared
Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh suggests six key questions that any business needs to ask about its Disaster Recovery readiness... |
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January - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: Our first edition of 2016 includes a raft of opinion and analysis pieces from vendors and experts across the storage sector... |
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Ahead in the cloud
Cloud storage and how to manage it effectively is a key challenge for many businesses, explains Jack Bedell-Pearce, Managing Director, 4D... |
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2015 Issues |
November - Featuring |
Editor's Comment:As this is our last edition of the year, we have taken the chance to ask a selection of movers and shakers from the industry to share their thoughts and predictions for 2016... |
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Safeguarding a city's data
The Open University's MK:Smart project required a scalable and versatile backup solution to help manage access to data sourced from a multitude of data stores across the city... |
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September - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: September saw the launch of the new LTO-7 specifications which set out the likely path for tape cartridge developments for the near future.. |
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How will you read your data in 100 years?
…or even 200 years? Nik Stanbridge, VP Marketing, Arkivum, examines some of the issues of true long term archival and retrieval... |
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July - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: As companies deploy Hadoop for big data, they open critical information to compromise. Tom Kemp of Centrify discusses some of the solutions that exist to solve the problem.. |
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EFD for mobiles
Available in capacities up to 128GB1, the iNAND 7232 from SanDisk is a new, advanced embedded flash drive (EFD) for mobile devices |
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May - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: This issue includes a couple of opinion/byline pieces around the topic of software-defined storage and its impact on the IT industry now and into the future... |
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Backup cut right back
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has reduced backup time by 90+ percent while still ensuring business continuity... |
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March - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: It is sometimes easy to lose track of the fact that, for many IT buyers, there is little or no direct contact with most of the storage vendors who feature in our pages... |
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Shaking things up
Beta Distribution has been around for over thirty years and remains Europe's largest distributor of LTO media - but there is much more to the business... |
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January - Featuring |
Editor's Comment: How long is a lifetime, exactly? I don't mean the traditional three-score years and ten that we all aspire to, rather the lifetime of a piece of data... |
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Backup to the Future
Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Acronis, looks to the future of backup software, with specific focus on the lessons small businesses... |
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