8TB drive for surveillance

Seagate Technology has launched what it says is the world’s first 8TB surveillance hard drive disk (HDD), the largest drive of its kind for surveillance applications in the industry. Targeting surveillance system integrators, end users and system installers, the Seagate® Surveillance HDD offers the highest capacity on the market, tailor made for surveillance storage to keep systems in the field longer and reduce post-deployment support.

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Cloud traffic to quadruple by 2019

The fifth annual Cisco® Global Cloud Index (2014-2019)  forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple by the end of 2019, from 2.1 to 8.6 zettabytes (ZB), outpacing the growth of total global data center traffic, which is forecast to triple during the same time frame (from 3.4 to 10.4 ZB).

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UK organisations have the second highest rate of ‘Dark’ Data in EMEA

Giant ‘Databerg’ of trivial and obsolete data estimated to cost European businesses ?576bn annually by 2020.

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Quantum unveils Xcellis high-performance workflow storage solution

Enables increased productivity, scale and collaboration in demanding data environments, through more simplified, cost-effective storage architecture.

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Object storage improvements

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has introduced new enhancements to the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) portfolio that extend the flexibility, security and content mobility breadth of its award-winning object storage platform, thus enabling robust, compliant and massively scalable private cloud storage solutions that have the economics of public cloud.

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Object storage promises simplicity and exabyte scale

Amazon Web Services S3 compatibility expands access to private data storage from any application.

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DataDirect Networks (DDN) has introduced what it says is the industry’s fastest and...
Business continuity leader expands support for Google Cloud Storage Standard and DRA offerings to...
15% contained personally identifiable information (PII), putting individuals at risk of becoming...
Hallmark Cards’ B2B arm replaces three-tier datacentre infrastructure with Nutanix to reduce...
Integration by OCF helps to analyse sequences of pathogen DNA samples to provide public service.
By J Michel Metz, FCIA Board of Directors, Cisco Systems.
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Modernising Oracle with converged infrastructure

Customers who adopt Dell EMC VxBlock technology experienced 99% less planned and unplanned downtime according to a study by IDC.

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