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What started out as a technology aimed at the financial industry, data encryption has since become the standard. Think about it: health records, social media accounts, state and local records all contain customers’ personal information. Security breaches are common and equally troublesome for these industries and verticals. Before encryption, data was stored on rotational hard...

How to right-size your storage environment

With your data needs constantly shifting, how can you possibly right-size your backup environment? And, while today’s lego-like storage systems make any sizing missteps recoverable, it generally means buying additional storage pieces. That means going to the board for additional funding and everyone knows you really want to ‘go...

Today, each of your enterprise application workloads has different capacity and performance requirements. While using hard disk drive (HDD) storage devices across the board may have worked years ago,  the performance of HDD technology has not kept pace with I/O requirements of today’s web, cloud, and virtualized applications. As a result, you are under pressure to balance...

Relax and just breathe. 2013 is your year friends. More efficient storage techniques will pump the brakes on storage investments required over the next few years, according to a June IDC report. The firm predicts that while annual sales of storage capacity will grow by more than 30 percent every year between 2013 and 2017, that growth rate will be slower than the pace logged a few...