Georgiana Comsa

The record-breaking weather on the East Coast in October left an estimated three million homes and businesses without power. Those businesses had to continue running and access to critical data from databases, mail and file servers and ongoing employee access to their online business files were critical. Due to power outages and hazardous travel conditions, when a lot of people couldn’t get to work, and the IT infrastructure, including primary and secondary data centers, was often down, access to mission-critical data was not an easy task for IT administrators.  Even if there were backup copies of data stored on tapes, external disks or USBs, it could be very difficult to obtain them, and almost impossible to restore the data when the data centers are down. A recent blog post talks about the importance of online data backup and recovery services, such as Zetta, a f... (more)

Four Popular Offsite Data Backup Approaches

No matter what size an organization is, its data is vital for the business and its customers. A recent blog post by Gary Sevounts, Zetta VP of marketing, looked at various ways of backing up data offsite. 1. Tape Tape backups have been around for decades. Many companies already have the equipment, software and procedures in place for tape archiving. In those organizations where tape is working well, it is probably best to continue its usage. But for many, tape has drawbacks such as: High cost of hardware, backup software and tape cartridges The need to physically transport tapes ... (more)

Construction Company Makes Zetta Data Protect Its Home in the Clouds

Robert Bogucki, IT manager at Skender Construction, researched multiple solutions when he started the disaster recovery project at Skender. Then he found Zetta. Zetta has a much more reasonable cost model with no charge for the ZettaMirror agent software, no matter how many copies are installed. Skender Construction's almost four terabytes of data are now backed up in the cloud with Zetta Data ProtectTM. "Cost was an important factor, and paying $1.40 to $1.60 per gigabyte just didn't make sense after finding Zetta," said Bogucki. He installed the lightweight ZettaMirrorTM agent... (more)

Pivot3/Mirasys Bring Serverless Computing to European Surveillance Market

Pivot3 and Mirasys announced that they have joined forces to bring the benefits of their combined open-platform video solutions to the European market. The two companies will collaborate to simplify configuration, integration and support of large-scale surveillance systems, bringing the latest video management software combined with the most advanced integrated server and storage platform to their European users. “Mirasys has been recognized as a technology leader in high-resolution, high-definition video surveillance,” said Jukka Riivari, CEO of Mirasys. “This partnership with ... (more)

City of Trenton Uses Pivot3 High-Definition Storage for Their Security Needs

There have been more and more discussions in both IT and physical security publications around the use of storage technologies in the video surveillance market. The following is a great example of the use of clustered storage for video surveillance applications. It comes from Pivot3, a storage company with a strong customer base in public safety, homeland security, gaming, education, and transportation.  The City of Trenton and the Trenton Police Department in New Jersey are using Pivot3 clustered storage to support two different video surveillance projects.  The implementations ... (more)