Tiering RAID and LTO Data Tape for Video Surveillance Storage: Cost of Ownership
Now that high capacity LTO-8 data tape systems are shipping, we have received a lot of interest in using our combined RAID-LTO systems for video surveillance storage. Retaining infrequently accessed video on low cost LTO tape combined with caching the last few days of surveillance footage on RAID saves money and makes a lot of… Read more
Migrating Legacy Archives
Migration from legacy archives was a major theme at NAB this year. Many of the visitors to the XenData booth have large legacy LTO tape archives that they want to convert to the Cloud or to modern on-premises LTO-8 archives. In many cases, there is an urgency to convert, driven by escalating maintenance costs for… Read more
XenData: When a Windows Volume Suddenly gets Hybrid Towards an Azure Storage Account
Introduction Today I took the XenData Cloud File Gateway out for a spin… Why? This little piece of software allows a windows volume to be extended by an Azure Storage Account. And from a technical level, we are talking about blob storage here. So you can leverage hot & cold storage, and even archive storage in the… Read more