April 8, 2015, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Fredrik Forslund from Blancco described the techniques and requirements for data erasure. Even though there are needs to keep data, there are also incentives to delete those data completely. Software erasure has grown with the growth of computers. The drivers for complete and certifiable erasure to…
April 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mark McKinnon from Grand River Conservation Authority in Canada described the changes in their systems to address the data backup issues of TB-sized volumes. Fortunately, the systems change was coincident with a network upgrade. The Grand River Conservation Authority is responsible for flood control, recreation, nature…
April 22, 2014, Data Storage Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, CA—David Chapa from E Vault talked about some of the challenges facing IT managers with multiple data sites and configurations. Protection and recovery can be administered as a single entity independent of the data locations. One issue is how to define a cloud infrastructure. As virtualization…
January 6, 2013, Storage Visions Conference, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the challenges of security and protection for stored content. Michael Willett from Samsung and the Trusted Computing Group moderated. Speakers were Chris Bross from DriveSavers, Robert Day from Linuxworks, Bob Thibadeau from Wave Systems, and Dave Anderson from Seagate. Allison Boerum from Kroll Ontrack…
April 5, 2011, Storage Network World, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Fishman of EMC Corporation presented concepts of data protection in an era of shrinking time windows for data safety and recovery. Data protection is related to data availability and the ability to recover those data under any circumstances. Starting at the end, recovery is the ultimate…