Data Storage

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• Massive leap in nano-storage within a decade
  250 DVDs fitting on a coin.
• Emulex touts do-it-all 10Gig Ethernet card
  'We don't just do storage any more.'
• Veeam expands VMware back-up
  Offering new levels of support.
• Pick up virtualisation hints
  Webinar to provide helpful guidance.
• Digital time machine to save old data
  Academics plan universal software emulator.
• Sensitive data found on eBay hard drives
  Foot fetishism exposed by forensics firm...
• Iomega throws more terabytes at NAS device
  More storage than you can shake a stick at.
• Sun doubles performance of mid-range disk arrays
  New models have more capacity, more cache and more speed.

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• Vendors look to tap into new storage trends
  Companies are having to cope with an ever-increasing volume of data: a rate of growth that is playing havoc with storage plans. The leading vendors have been jostling for position as they look to snatch a lead in the technologies that are set to play a part in the future.
• Which operating system is best for SSDs?
  It might be hard for the purists to take, but according to recent tests, Microsoft's ageing Windows 2000 manages to wrest the best performance out of SSDs
• Time to stop treating removable disks like tape drives
  Disks do more - they blend archiving, online backup and CDP, argues Tandberg Data, as it gives Backup Exec the push from its RDX line in favour of Yosemite's Filekeeper.

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• Box reduction
  Server virtualisation and a variety of storage technologies can help to significantly reduce the number of boxes in your datacentre. There is less scope in the networking area, apart from port consolidation. Any strategy needs to take a long-term view of information processing and storage growth, otherwise you'll arrive back at square one.
• How to kill data centre costs while saving your sanity (part 2)
  Simple process improvement can yield big results even in test and development. And since everyone has T&D; operations, here's how to save a ton of money.
• How to kill data centre costs while saving your sanity (part 1)
  Simple process improvement can yield big results even in test and development. And since everyone has T&D; operations, here's how to save a ton of money.

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• Extreme Savings
  

  This paper explores how enterprises can use Wide Area Data Services to cut hard costs and make the most of their existing infrastructure, without negatively impacting their operations.

• Accelerating Virtualised Environments
  

  Discover how wide-area data services help deliver the benefits of virtualisation and IT consolidation while addressing the challenges of performance and availability.

• The Evolving Role of the CIO
  

  This whitepaper looks at the findings of a recent survey of successful CIOs from a number of industries, and examines what's needed for the role of the CIO to evolve.

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• Is FCoE the emperor's new trousers?
  Everyone involved is saying such nice things about it that a cynic might start to wonder where the catch is...
• Sun's ZFS is close to perfect, but widely misunderstood
  With the NetApp-vs-Sun lawsuit and Apple's use of ZFS this new filesystem is getting a lot of attention.
• Reldata changes management gears and location
  Boris Anderer, Reldata's founder, president and CEO has stepped back to chairman to let fresh blood take on the CEO and presidential role.

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Data Storage topics pages

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• Lordy, lordy EMC 
  Look what you have unleashed
• IBM's SVC = HDS's USP 
  No, really.
• IBM DS8000 to get flash SSD 
  Hint, hint, hint, hint

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• SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise New
  The USB ‘thumb' drive started life as a simple way to move files around without company admins knowing anything about it, a sort of sneakernet for the 21st Century. This period of naïve technological glow lasted about a year. But now we're in the post-naivety phase and the drives are changing.
• Memeo Backup Premium 3.5
  Ever since the makers of external hard drives realised that bundling a backup program with their products was a sensible idea, programs like Memeo Backup have been on the rise. Are they worth the outlay?
• GoodSync Pro 7.2
  Synchronisation is the alternative to backup, but it is also a much more complex world. Does this program keep life simple enough?
• Buffalo TeraStation Pro II Rackmount
  A lovely rack with up to 4 Terabytes of storage in one SAN would once have cost and arm and both legs, but not any more. As ever, we hunt for the economies.
• Synology Cube Station NAS
  The size of a paint can, the CS407 houses 4TB of RAID 5 storage, speaks almost any file sharing protocol you might think of using, and its embedded Linux OS is open to additions; on the downside, its breadth of capabilities will tempt you to overload its somewhat meager system resources

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• Server virtualisation rings iSCSI vendor's bell
  IP-based SANs are on the up - and it's all thanks to server virtualisation, argues Larry Cormier, of iSCSI storage developer LeftHand Networks.
• MAID to store - persistently
  Copan boss Mark Ward explains why hard disks are getting smaller, how persistent data differs from transactional data - and how his company can save storage space and power as a result.
• Isilon seeing healthy demand for clustered storage
  Isilon Systems has made a name for itself as a pioneer in the field of clustered storage systems. Now, the company feels that 2008 will be the year when unstructured data becomes a pressing issue for most enterprises.

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• Water-cooled servers gaining steam
  Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency.
• On the ball
  Asigra is now used by the Saints, a well-known rugby football club in Northampton. After a previous mishap an earlier tape-based backup scheme has been ruled offside.
• Protecting sensitive information in transit
  The City of London Police use biometric security-enabled Stealth MXP USB storage devices for sensitive information transfer, HMRC could learn from this.

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