Category: Permabit Technology Corporation

A frequently reiterated statistic is the high percentage of infrequently accessed or static data that resides on production storage systems – up to 80% according to some

WORM (Write Once Read Many) technology is often viewed by users as a ubiquitous technology. Though WORM is available on many types of storage systems

As previously discussed in a DCIG blog entry on the real impact of losing 1 bit in 100 trillion, non-recoverable bit errors on SATA disk drives have

As previously discussed in a  on the real impact of losing 1 bit in 100 trillion, non-recoverable bit errors on SATA disk drives have the potential

Last week’s announcement that yet another vendor has made adaptations to its deduplicating system to support archive retention as a new system feature can mislead companies into

One would think that at some point organizations would reach the tipping point for storage consumption and that year-over-year storage capacity growth rates of 30%,

The Computerworld column I wrote a few weeks ago on the topic of “A Bit of a Flaw with SATA disk drives” sparked quite a bit of

It’s 2008 and one would think that disk-based storage systems are beyond the point of catastrophic outages and/or data loss as a result of disk

In a previous blog entry, I took a look at some of the factors driving the need for a scalable architecture that meets today’s enterprise archiving

One can hardly have a conversation about storage management these days without the topic of archiving surfacing. Part of the reason that archiving is commanding