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John Hope-Bailie

John Hope-Bailie

Technical director of Demand Data

John Hope-Bailie, technical director at Channel Data, has more than 26 years of experience in the IT industry in technical management and leadership roles. He has a wealth of experience gained within the data storage, archiving and retrieval sector. Demand Data provides consulting, management and systems integration services to corporate clients.

Articles

Sept 3, 2010

Disk vs tape?

New answers to an age-old question.

John Hope-Bailie

Aug 2, 2010

Get real

The real-world value of a vendor-neutral data centre is the avoidance of conflicts of interest.

John Hope-Bailie

Jun 21, 2010

Active archiving

The next step in storage allows archived data to be quickly accessed or restored.

John Hope-Bailie

May 7, 2010

An inconvenient necessity

Computer users should invest in a backup solution as a long-term requirement.

John Hope-Bailie

Apr 7, 2010

Small, smaller, smallest

Storage devices compress further as storage needs grow.

John Hope-Bailie

Cloud Computing

Mar 10, 2010

Cloud-cuckoo land?

Cloud computing represents a new way in which IT services are delivered.

John Hope-Bailie

Feb 1, 2010

Storage gets solid

Companies are turning to solid state disk drive technology for high-end data storage applications.

John Hope-Bailie

Nov 5, 2009

Archiving to the cloud

The landscape of data storage is changing.

John Hope-Bailie

Oct 16, 2009

More than hype

De-duplication reaches 'plateau of high adoption'.

John Hope-Bailie

Sept 2, 2009

The great de-duplication debate

Should de-duplication occur before the data is sent to the backup target device, or at the device itself?

John Hope-Bailie