Having fun with super-fast storage drives

	Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth | Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage
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	Having fun with super-fast storage drives In my role as multimedia content editor for IDG Enterprise, I find myself with lots of video footage, which takes up a ton of storage capacity. Backing up that footage to external storage drives can take a long time, especially if you're using older transfer technologies, such as USB 2.0. Fortunately, there are some faster devices and transfer connections now available, here are two recent drives (and a docking station) that can help speed up your personal file storage transfer dilemmas. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: EMC EMC ViPR SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE Learn more about ViPR, the simple, extensible, and open software-defined storage platform, in this easy-to-use Interactive PDF. Access a rich set of media including videos, interviews with executives and engineers, customer quotes, white papers, blogs and much more. Click to continue In this Issue Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Jeff Baxter: Portability challenges for government agencies moving to hybrid clouds Lavabit briefly allows users to recover their data The unsung women of technology INSIDER The tricky balancing act of mobile security WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn More Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth Backup and recovery is starting to get some of the same capabilities as primary storage systems to handle the rising floods of data with less management overhead. Read More Building blocks are snapping together virtually to handle big storage Easy expansion, lower costs and cloud-like internal services are common themes in storage today, and startup Coho Data is playing all three with a "micro-array" architecture that it's introducing on Tuesday. Read More Jeff Baxter: Portability challenges for government agencies moving to hybrid clouds While overall cloud spending will accelerate, federal agencies in the near-term will continue to leverage different cloud types (private, hybrid, public) based on their specific agency needs and concerns. The leading category of government cloud service is private, but public clouds and hybrid clouds continue to gain traction. As a result, many federal agencies will be employing a multi-cloud architecture. Read More WHITE PAPER: Exablox Storage Switzerland: Unstructured Data Storage Unstructured data (data that's outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Read now! Lavabit briefly allows users to recover their data Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August are being temporarily allowed to change their passwords and download copies of their data. Read More The unsung women of technology Sure, you've heard of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. But how about Frances Allen, Deborah Estrin or Radia Perlman? Read More INSIDER The tricky balancing act of mobile security First came desktop security, then laptop security. But the next wave -- mobile -- throws new wrenches into the works, as IT is now supporting multiple types of devices and warding off sophisticated threats. Here's how IT leaders are coping. Insider (registration required) Read More
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