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According to Wikipedia carbon neutrality is a state of net zero carbon dioxide emissions. More often the term climate neutral tends to reflect the broader inclusiveness of other greenhouse gases outside of carbon dioxide, even though carbon dioxide is the...

Archival data may not require high performance computing, but it does need to stay accessible for productivity, legal, business value, analytics, and compliance. IT must secure that data against ransomware and other types of cyberattacks. And IT needs to do...

There are many discussions in the data storage industry and within cloud service providers about disk and tape technologies and where they each fit for data storage services use cases and particularly how to balance data accessibility with data storage...

Businesses in all sectors – healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, media and more – are generating more unstructured data than ever before. In fact, unstructured data is expected to make up 80-90% of all global data by 2025. Digital transformation of entire...

The Tape Storage Council, (TSC), released a new report “Tape to Play Critical Roles as the Zettabyte Era Takes Off,” which highlights the current trends, usages and technology innovations occurring within the tape storage industry.  The zettabyte era is in...

High-Performance Computing is a world where precious storage resources must be carefully managed. We should in fact use the plural form for "storages" as there are typically three storage tiers within each HPC infrastructure: High-end storage accessed by the compute...

Data volumes are growing beyond file systems, as they can only manage a limited number of files. Due to the uncontrolled growth of unstructured data, object and cloud-based storage technology continue to gain in popularity. This data is generated ever...

Members of the Active Archive Alliance recently shared their 2022 predictions for data storage and active archives. Here are some of the top trends to watch: Sustainability Metrics will Drive New Requirements in Data Storage In 2020 and 2021, we saw...

Members of the Active Archive Alliance recently shared their 2022 predictions for data storage and active archives. Here are some of the top trends to watch: Securing Health Information is a Top Priority The 2021 average security breach within the healthcare...

As we head into 2022, I recall a quote from an IT industry executive who said in his 2021 predictions: “Ransomware is just in its infancy”.  Indeed, ransomware reigns as today’s chief malware threat with no signs of subsiding anytime...