Compass Promotes VTL Functionality to First Class Data Protection

Interest in virtual tape libraries (VTLs) has been fading in recent months. In fact, if you do an Internet search on virtual tape libraries you won’t find many hits in the last 12-24 months. Why is...

November 27, 2018

Features

Modern Data Protection for Work and Profit

If I had to pick the two most popular IT initiatives that I hear most about today they would be automation and modernization. I find these two initiatives holding the top of the list in almost all...

November 6, 2018

Modernization

The Winner’s Problem – Technical Legacies and Legacy Technology

When a business is deemed successful it’s often because of great people doing awesome things with the latest technologies. Yet there is always a built-in problem for long-time winners that follows...

October 23, 2018

Legacy Challenges

Can You Really Afford Reliable Data Protection?

In IT there are well-known (and never 100% avoidable) risks that justify rock solid data protection – component failures, operator mistakes, application bugs, network outages and the like. Yet the...

October 9, 2018

Cost Overruns

Protecting All Data in a Complex World

Are you actually protecting all your important data today? Not “almost,” “just about”, or “we have plans,” but all of it?

October 2, 2018

Operational Complexity

Opening a New Chapter

Welcome! Cobalt Iron is a fast-growing tech startup in a cosmopolitan nook in the Midwest, where basketball, live music, and technology rule the day. We deliver multi-cloud backup for enterprise...

September 18, 2018

New Beginning