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Returning for duty

Editorial Type: Comment     Date: 09-2014    Views: 1402   




After last issue's focus on our recent awards winners, it's almost a relief to get back to focusing on some 'heavier-duty' storage industry-related editorial - and there's no denying we've plenty to offer in this issue

We've a piece on data preservation that explains why businesses can't 'do compliance retrospectively' - a must-read for any organisation that ever keeps and/or destroys data; and let's face it, that's all of us. As C2C's Rich Turner says: "The issue goes well beyond retaining a particular email: preservation is more than simply saving data, it is the act of saving that email as it was originally sent or received, and protecting it against tampering or deletion. How can a company prove that critical email communications in dispute were never altered? The simple answer is they can't if they're merely saved them to an archive or worse, left them in a mailbox. And what about sent messages? Or communications which have not been kept at all?"

You can also find out why flash memory wears, and what can be done about it. A year or two back, the general consensus seemed to be that SSD storage could never be suitable for 'serious' enterprise use because of its inevitable wear issues. Now though the tide has turned as technology vendors have developed ways to ensure that even as the devices get smaller, flash is now every bit as reliable and enduring as spinning disk - if not more so.

OCZ's Scott Harlin explains, "With a host of write-intensive and mission-critical applications driving the data centre, enterprise SSDs are expected to always be available for moving data to new locations based on need, for providing a performance boost to key applications, or simply for enabling 'real-time' data access. The life expectancy of an SSD is completely dependent on its flash wear so the endurance and reliability tools, techniques, algorithms and/or technologies implemented within the SSD will be the difference for extending NAND flash memory life as process geometries get smaller."

Elsewhere we speak to Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen. You may remember that at the time of our last interview the company was just launching into the UK on the back of a 'love your storage' guarantee: if you weren't entirely pleased with their product, they'd take it out and give you your money back. If you want to know how many people took them up on their offer, make sure you read the interview!

David Tyler
david.tyler@btc.co.uk

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