Data laws set storage agenda
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IBM is the latest storage giant to step up efforts to woo IT buyers, promising partitioning capabilities cribbed from its mainframe heritage, as well as space-saving formats and better server connectivity.
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(Source: Symantec)  Classification, Retention, Filtering, and Search Adding intelligence to archiving policies can help organizations balance storage optimization, records retention, and fast discovery. This white paper discusses the development of intelligent classification, filtering, retention, and discovery policies and best practices that can assist in implementing an effective intelligent archiving solution for email.
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(Source: Plasmon)  In this white paper, Heidi Biggar of Enterprise Strategy Group discusses the ideal solution that creates a multi-tiered active archive for cost-effective, long-term accessibility to compliance data.   According to Biggar, organizations cannot continue keeping non-transactional data on primary storage systems. Archive platforms make better economic sense. Download this white paper to learn more!
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A novel method of optical data storage could soon be used to hold a terabyte of data on a disk the size of a normal DVD, say researchers at Imperial College London, UK.
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Analysts solid state drives, online storage gaining steam to deal with performance, energy and compliance issues.
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Every year, solid-state storage advances just a little bit further, often just enough to prompt analysts to ask yet again, when will it be time to declare spinning platters of magnetic data obsolete?
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Backup volumes in many organizations have grown so large that they are causing business disruption by tying up systems, storage, and network capacity and hogging valuable IT resources, according to a recent survey commissioned by storage management software vendor BridgeHead Software.More than half (59 percent) of IT executives said that the volume of data they are forced to backup is disrupting business operations or will do so eventually, according to a survey of 472 IT executives in the U.K. and North America. And the problem is not going away, with 93 percent saying that their routine backup volumes are continuing to increase.The problem is consuming IT resources for long periods with 37 percent admitting that daily backups of primary data now take them more than nine hours, while 19 percent said it took them more than 12 hours.More than two-thirds (84 percent) of those polled felt they could benefit by reducing the volume of data they routinely back up. Among the chief advantages highlighted were:* Less IT time devoted to backup and other business continuity processes (69 percent) * A reduction in the impact of backup and replication on network utilization and capacity (60 percent) * A reduction in disk resources devoted to data snapshotting, replication, and mirroring (58 percent) * Reduced disruption to the live application environment (45 percent)One of the most effective ways of reducing the pressure on backups is to take information that is static or seldom accessed and archive it off primary storage systems according to BridgeHead Software CEO Tony Cotterill."Sixty-one percent of organizations in our survey admit that between 30 to 50 percent of data on their primary disk is unlikely to be accessed ever again, yet they are squandering time and resources on backing up and replicating this big chunk of static data. It's a very poor use of resources," said Cotterill.BridgeHead said its research reveals that many organizations are starting to use archiving for specific types of data, such as e-mails, motivated by compliance and disaster recovery. According to the company, a lot of archiving activity is currently championed by finance and other business departments outside of IT's control.But to have a major impact on backup volumes, BridgeHead reckoned that there needs to be an IT-driven move away from point solutions or isolated archive appliances towards taking an organization-wide approach to archiving, allowing IT to retrieve control by archiving all data types across the organization from a single point."If you can take an organization-wide approach to archiving, then the volume of data you're taking off the primary store will start to reach a critical mass that will help call a halt to increasing backup volumes," said Cotterill.The survey was part of BridgeHead Software's Annual Information Lifecycle Management Audit, conducted by eMedia on behalf of BridgeHead Software during August 2007. eMedia surveyed 324 senior level executives, IT managers, system and network administrators and engineers from North America and 148 from the U.K.Techworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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New drive crams enormous storage capacity into standard 3.5-inch format, but it's not ready for delivery just yet.
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Storage management offerings on tap from Microsoft Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. aim to extend data replication, archiving and indexing capabilities to accelerate backup and recovery operations.
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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Higher-capacity hard drives will be available by the end of the year.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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The automated tools needed to specify the nature of data and how it should be classified in storage, or true Information Lifecycle Management, are still four years away.
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Plus: More DRM standards, and a self-encrypting hard drive.
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NEW YORK - Now that digital music players have evolved beyond the ability to store 20 gigabytes worth of music, storage capacity memory is no longer the only factor to consider before buying.
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An increasing number of firms are offering web storage for people with digital photo collections.