Keeping your dark data tapes in good standing requires a strategy beyond hope

Tape is not dead. The nearly 60-plus year old storage device is the media of choice for storing a company’s dark data, defined by Gartner as information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes. Tape archives contain dark data that could potentially be monetised through the harvesting and analysis of data; however, Kroll Ontrack, a leading provider of data recovery and ediscovery products and services,...

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Fusion-io appoints Michael Mendenhall Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Fusion-io has announced that Michael Mendenhall has joined the company as executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer. Mendenhall formerly served as senior vice president and global chief marketing officer at Hewlett Packard. Before HP, Mendenhall spent 17 years at the Walt Disney Company, culminating in his positions as president of marketing and synergy for Walt Disney Studios and EVP of global marketing for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

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Pure Storage rolls out FlashArrays

Pure Storage has announced the expansion of its flagship FA-400 Series product line, unveiling new entry-level and high-capacity FlashArrays, and the next generation release of its Purity Operating Environment, Purity 4.0. The new software features FlashRecover: a set of fully integrated, space-efficient replication, snapshot, and policy management services that offer comprehensive protection against disaster and data loss—both locally, and globally. With these advancements, the Pure...

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Hybrid Cloud Data Infrastructure That Enables New Use Cases

Learn how Pure Storage Cloud Block Store and Purity CloudSnap enable a hybrid data infrastructure to help enterprises unlock new hybrid cloud use cases for secondary storage, cloud backup and disaster recovery, and data and application mobility.

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