Centera

I was introduced to the world of object-based storage in 2003 when I joined the Centera team.  After spending a large part of my career building block-based technologies like CLARiiON, ...

I mentioned in a previous post that a paper I had written for the 4th Annual Digital Curation Conference in Scotland was accepted and presented in Edinburgh on December 3rd. ...

As reported yesterday, EMC's Centera development will be moving away from Belgium and the Mechelen development center will be closed. I certainly found this news to be disappointing, as the ...

When I think about the type of fixed content that is traditionally stored on a Centera there are several use cases that come to mind. Medical images. Scanned check images.…

Today's Captiva "intelligent capture" announce allows customers to put the full-court press on any document that tries to make its way into the enterprise. The announce describes even more ways ...

One of the requirements faced by digital archivists is the guarantee that archived content will still be accessible and available for years to come. SNIA has written a report on ...

East Carolina University's (ECU) data center had been experiencing two common problems: (a) explosive data growth, and (b) loooooong backup windows. They continue to experience explosive data growth.  Backups, however, ...

It may not occur to the average student of the storage industry that SAP and Centera go well together.  After all, SAP systems are highly transactional (e.g. frequent database changes), ...

The first version of EMC's XAM software developer kit (SDK) is now officially available.  In addition to Mark's post on the subject, here's another link to a site that puts ...