In this week's Technically News: Obama Orders Agencies to Make Data Open, Machine-Readable; Fixing Flaws in Federal Government IT Security; Hearing Set to Probe Data Center Progress; Amazon Web Services Leading Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service App Development; Driving Better Governance with Open Source; The Fully-Secure Quantum Internet System.

Today, I would like to give kudos to Quantum. I recently had the luxury of sitting in a hands-on demonstration for a feature called “Dxi Advanced Reporting.” This is a reporting feature for all Quantum DXi-series backup targets. This is what I learned:

Finally, a company has seen the light and offered an affordable, entry-level data deduplication offering that doesn’t have IT Managers counting pennies or Systems Administrators pulling their hair out!  Quantum is one of the storage industry leaders in data deduplication, having helped pioneer the technology in their disk based DXi offerings (see dedupe 101 video here).  Now they have presented a disk-based deduplication offering that focuses on the SMB a

With many of us experiencing explosive growth, companies niched in broadcast, media, and entertainment are left trying to figure out how to improve data availability while minimizing cost.  Here at DLT we are helping customers:

• Eliminate wasteful copies
• Create centralized repository
• Simplify management
• Move data to the right storage tier automatically

How do we do this?  We at DLT have partnered with the industries best of breed vendors and forged them together to create a powerful solution.  The