Write Once Read Many (WORM) storage solutions are now back in fashion, thanks to ransomware. Historically, WORM storage has been used to meet regulatory compliance requirements for data immutability; which means the data cannot be modified or deleted. This was driven by SEC 17a-4, FINRA, and Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) regulations. There are over 10,000 […]

More and more organizations are migrating Windows file storage to the private and public clouds to eliminate the hassle and reduce the costs of managing and backing up user data. The top 7 reasons organizations are migrating Windows File Server workloads to private and public cloud are:  1.  Windows Server 2008 End-of-Life The first and […]

Great job, you bought that software that inventories a file system and moves the old cold data to an object store. You actions saved money moving cold data from fast expensive disk to less expensive, but slower storage. Now that 5 TB research project that was finished a year ago and moved to object storage […]

Historically we have used very specific names for software applications. For instance “Migration Software for Centera” (MSC) is the name of our migration application that copies data off Centera to another storage system. Later we added Atmos and Hitachi HCP as source systems we kept the name the same and it did lead to some […]

Organizations realize the strategic importance of data and consider it to be a valuable corporate asset that must be managed and protected just like any other asset. IT is chartered with the task of managing and protecting the data. To hold people accountable IT is structured in a demarcated manner around specialized functions. Each department […]

There are many sporting analogies used for the complexities of running a business, my preference is yacht racing. Why is running a business like yacht racing? To me, it is an apt analogy because both are very challenging, require a strategy, need effective bi-directional communication, a skilled team, and the ability to read a changing […]

It is hard to believe that over a decade ago we started DataTrust Solutions with the mission to help organizations in regulated industries to modernize their data delivery by moving their data forward from proprietary legacy systems. At that time we were the only vendor using cryptographic hashes (digital fingerprints) to prove that the source […]