National Geographic chooses tape archiving to store PBs of content

While many organizations want to eliminate tape, National Geographic Global Media (NG Global) embraces tape archiving to store between 5 and 10 TB of media content every day.

Kyle Knack, NG Global’s director of infrastructure systems, said his company has petabytes of data in his long-term tape archive and requires a highly available tape library to make sure the data is protected, searchable and retrievable.

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Control VDI costs for storage by careful configuration planning

Whether or not a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) requires a SAN is open to debate, but experts and administrators agree that if you do opt for a SAN for VDI storage, you’ll need to do a good deal of research and planning to find the right balance between performance and VDI costs.

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VDI implementation without boot storms for Ohio DoDD

The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DoDD) faced a big decision about its PC infrastructure 18 months ago. It either had to replace 80% of the agency’s desktops because they were between 4 and 7 years old, or move to VDI. Brian Brothers, DoDD’s network administrator manager, found a VDI implementation would be cheaper, and he went with VMware View because it is a VMware shop.

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