DXi-Series arrays switching to new v2.0 software will see their performance increased by up to 2X or more in open protocol systems, Quantum said. – A year ago, data backup,
recovery and archive provider Quantum updated its entire frontline DXi storage
hardware line.
On Jan. 26, the company followed up by rolling out faster software to run the
disk backup and deduplication products.
DXi-Series arrays switching over to the new v2.0 soft…
Business people know how useful and convenient computers are for their operations. Computers enhance productivity and manage information well, thereby increasing output.
Computers are indispensable in any business. Who can imagine operating a business without one? Business offices and computers are now synonymous with each other that many business owners think computers are the be all and end all of their operations.
StorNext 4.1, coming out in December, includes an archive conversion feature designed to simplify migration from legacy archive platforms. First target: Oracle. – Quantum is making no bones about which market it’s raiding with the new
archive conversation feature it unveiled Oct. 25 for the latest StorNext
system: All those companies that invested in Sun-StorageTek (now Oracle) tape
archives during the last two decades.
StorNext 4.1, coming out in
Dece…
Bond Girl Gemma Arteton’s granny has committed suicide by stabbing herself into heart, an inquest heard. Helen Sarfas, 69, who suffered from manic depression, was distressed over what she saw as a lack of psychiatric care and used a kitchen knife to stab herself several times while in bed. Husband Rodney Peacock, 85, discovered her [...]
The entry-level RDX system includes a removable cartridges and Quantum GoProtect backup software for Microsofts Windows operating system. – Quantum, a specialist in backup, recovery and archiving
solutions, announced worldwide availability of Quantum RDX, a removable
disk-based data protection system that leverages data reduction
technology to decrease cartridge requirements by up to 20:1. Aimed at
SMBs (small to medium-sized busine…
UPDATE: A team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to crack quantum cryptography using bright light. – A team of researchers has uncovered a new way to crack the security of quantum cryptography.
The researchers hailed from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway as well as the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. Their fi…
Not a leap, perhaps, but two important steps on the way to making quantum computing practical
SOME technologies seem a long time coming. Their story has a familiar script: a breakthrough is hailed; overblown expectations are aroused; disappointment follows. Away from the public’s impatient gaze, however, tinkering scientists turn out incremental improvements, furtively catching up with the revolutionary rhetoric of yore. This appears to have been the case with the sequencing of the human genome. It also illustrates the recent history of quantum computing.
An ordinary computer stores and processes information using bits, which take the value of either one or zero (physically represented by different voltages of electric current). In the bizarre world of quantum mechanics, however, subatomic particles can exist in several states at once. Such “superposition” means, for instance, that the property of an electron known as its spin can be not only “up” (representing, say, one) or “down” (representing zero) but also some combination of the two. In quantum computing, such superposed values are named qubits. …
UPDATED: Aimed at cost-conscious businesses, Quantum’s Dxi4500 deduplication appliances offer RAID 6 protection with up to 400GB per hour data ingest performance, and both models support encrypted and compressed replication streams.
– Quantum, a specialist in backup, recovery and archive, announced
availability of its DXi4500 disk backup appliances. The turnkey DXi4510
and DXi4520 work with backup software packages to provide
non-disruptive deduplication. The company said the appliances, aimed at
helping SMBs (small to medium…
Here are two reports from the Department of the Really Weird.Initially, a series of experiments showed that measurements an observer makes can influence events that have already happened in the past.One experiment, reported by the Science Journal in 20…
Actress Talulah Riley may be dubbed as the ‘world’’s sexiest quantum physicist’ after pursuing an alternate career in science.
The 24-year-old Pride and Prejudice star, who stars with Leonardo DiCaprio in her next movie Inception, is studying quantum science at the California Institute of Technology.
“I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended [...]
An old thought experiment may soon be realised
ONE of the most famous unperformed experiments in science is Schrodinger’s cat. In 1935 Erwin Schrodinger (pictured), who was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, imagined putting a cat, a flask of Prussic acid, a radioactive atom, a Geiger counter, an electric relay and a hammer in a sealed box. If the atom decays, the Geiger counter detects the radiation and sends a signal that trips the relay, which releases the hammer, which smashes the flask and poisons the cat.
The point of the experiment is that radioactive decay is a quantum process. The chance of the atom decaying in any given period is known. Whether it has actually decayed (and thus whether the cat is alive or dead) is not—at least until the box is opened. The animal exists, in the argot of the subject, in a “superposition” in which it is both alive and dead at the same time. …
Quantum CEO Rick Belluzzo sees a competitor wiped off the marketshare chart and possible new opportunities in the channel for his company, which may eventually get less attention from the storage giant for its deduplication software.
– The news July 20 that EMC had taken over 82 percent of Data Domain’s outstanding stock shares only eight days after outbidding NetApp has some people’s heads spinning.
We’re not talking about a small transaction here. EMC is ponying up $33.50 a pop per share in cash; the deal ultimately will be …
