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Everything you need to know about LTO Tape Technology

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) provides the highest levels of data storage capacity and performance. LTO tape is commonly used as a storage format for archival, long-term data storage, and financial information, in addition to using LTO for business-critical applications. The LTO Consortium, which oversees the development and coordinates license and certification of media and mechanism makers, is under […]

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What is SSD Storage

As business needs and expectations evolve, so too does the necessity for storage that can accommodate ever-changing workflows. Solid state drive (SSD) storage technology is purpose-built to handle demanding workloads and enable superior performance for data-intensive applications. Throughput bottlenecks are a thing of the past with SSD Storage, which offer significant speed and bandwidth advantages […]

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What is NVMe Flash Storage

The problems today are hard disk drives both SAS and SATA can only transfer data at 600MB/s, whereas the NVMe flash storage arrays can operate up to 2,000MB/s per lane. As the NVMe interface is so much faster than SAS or SATA using PCIe Gen 4 and 16 lanes can transfer data at 32,000MB/s or […]

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Everything you need to know about Object Storage

Object Storage is a method for storing millions of files and petabytes of data on storage nodes using a global namespace and file system. It is vastly more scalable than traditional file or block storage. It is estimated within the next 7 years 90% of the worlds data will be stored on object. Need additional disk capacity, just […]

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Everything you need to know about Green Data Storage

The need for Green Data Storage is greater now than it has ever been. With increasing electricity costs, the continual threat of power outages and global warming predictions, the whole area of data centre storage management needs to be addressed. We all know that our data storage requirements are doubling every 18 months and whilst disk capacities […]

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Everything you need to know about Fibre Channel Storage

Fibre channel storage has become the de facto standard for high-performance storage for connecting block storage using a fibre channel storage network as a SAN. Fibre channel storage replaced SCSI to provide a highly efficient way of moving data blocks around a network. Today fibre channel stoarge speeds are 64Gbps and allow the ability to connect […]

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Everything you need to know about Cloud Storage

We provide affordable storage for data, backup, archiving, DR, remote access or a second copy of your data with unlimited capacity and continuous uptime, it can store any type of data. All cloud data is located in a tier 4 UK data centre (one of 12 globally), is low cost, fast, reliable secure, scalable and […]

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Everything you need to know about CCTV Storage

CCTV storage is a critical component of any surveillance system, enabling the retention and retrieval of video footage for security purposes. The benefits of storing CCTV footage range from providing evidence for investigations to deterring criminal activities and enhancing employee safety. The types of storage solutions available, including DVRs, NVRs, cloud-based storage, hybrid solutions, and […]

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Everything you need to know about HCI

Building data centre infrastructures are increasingly complex, error-prone and time-consuming. The traditional approach of putting together best-in-class components is a complicated and cumbersome process; it requires a deep knowledge of all components involved and an understanding of their various dependencies on each other. Consequently, such a do-it-yourself approach would always present businesses with multiple risks.

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Everything you need to know about JBOD storage

JBOD enclosures are able to support both solid-state drives and disk drives within the same enclosure. To the host, a JBOD provides access over 6Gb/s or 12Gb/s SAS to each disk individually, making it ideal for software-defined applications or newer operating systems that can directly control the individual disk storage devices and can connect to […]

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