When to employ SSD or HDD?

As the world becomes increasingly connected, an increase in data consumption and storage requirements is inevitable. Changes in data consumption patterns have also led to the evolution of storage technology. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), there has...

Strengthen the organisation through cloud archiving

Cyber resilience expert at Mimecast Nick Saunders provides reasons why organisations need to see an archive as more than just an old storage box that’s an unwanted necessity, and rather as something they can get value out of. Archiving records has been...

Redstor delivers 150Tb scalable cloud backup

Founded in 1810, with its UK headquarters in Liverpool, Hill Dickinson is an international commercial law firm with more than 1050 people across its offices in the UK, mainland Europe and Asia. Servicing a wide range of clients including multinational companies, major...

Five common archiving mistakes

With the rise in ransomware, phishing and other cyberattacks, email archiving has never been more critical. A secure archive is the most important repository of corporate memory, and key insight and knowledge lies within it. It’s also an essential component of...

Backup, shift gears and change direction

There is an interesting quote by Andrea Mauro on a vinfrastructure.it blog, where he states, “We are in a new era where business is driving change within IT. Solutions must first match business needs and then technical needs.” This is especially true when...

Cloud archiving versus tape

Data management and specifically data archiving is critical to businesses in their quest to gain better control over their IT environments. There are two distinct ways to do this: tape archiving or cloud archiving, and the latter is gaining more prominence says...