Data Storage
How UST Global Achieved the Double Benefits of Extra Storage and Low Power Consumption
UST Global's expansion plans were threatened by a datacenter that had hit its power ceiling. Until IT came up with a two-pronged strategy and saved the day.
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Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication
Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware.
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Storage administrators demand simplicity
IT staffers at all levels are now tasked with managing data storage. They demand simplicity (but want power, too). Insider (registration required)
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New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge
Enterprise storage demands are reaching a critical point, and vendors are scrambling to develop new products to deal with the data deluge. We look at how these technologies will help manage the major pain points for storage administrators.
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CommVault: We are Displacing Competition Across Enterprises in India
Vikas Pradhan, Country Director-- India, CommVault, shares his unabashed take of the competition and the company's India strategy.
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Apple leads consumer cloud storage wars
Apple is dominating the cloud storage wars, followed by Dropbox, Amazon and Google according to Strategy Analytics "Cloud Media Services" survey.
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QLogic promises speed, simplicity with first Mt. Rainier cache-on-adapter products
QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards.
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Oracle's storage business falters as market slows in Q4, says Gartner
Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner.
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How big is the sound of music?
Music fans and major recording artists are adopting lossless audio file formats to keep copies of their music that are as close to master recordings as possible, leading to multi-terabyte-sized home music storage systems.
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You only live twice
With an ever-increasing data volume but by no means an ever-increasing IT budget, businesses are facing a tough task in optimising their storage. Most believe that deduplicating redundant copies was the storage saviour.A CNMEA investigates the trend of eliminating cloned data.
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EMC donates Vatican storage of biblical proportions
EMC is donating a 2.8 petabyte storage system to the Vatican, which will use it to store digitized images of printed works, some of which are more than 1,000 years old.
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Microsoft has access issues with Hotmail, Outlook, SkyDrive services
Microsoft experienced disruptions for several hours to its online suite of mail, calendar and storage services, leaving many users unable to access their accounts.
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Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Small, Simple and Affordable
Small businesses looking for network attached storage would be wise to look at the Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2. Administrators will find this appliance easy to manage and will appreciate its support for third-party add-ons.
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NIST, Stanford team to rescue early Tetris from digital oblivion
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University have partnered to save for posterity over 15,000 software programs created in the early days of microcomputing.
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Schools test 'app store' for learning through Gates-funded project
Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right learning materials.
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Prices of DRAM expected to stabilize, NAND to fall
After multiple years of double-digit drops, prices for DRAM could stabilize as demand exceeds supply and the number of memory makers dwindles, a research analyst for IC Insights said this week.
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Create a local file server with Kanex's meDrive
Kanex'sA meDrive is supposed to make it easy to set up a file server on your home network. It's a small device that you plug into your network router after you've attached your own USB storage device. But a few little quirks made using meDrive more trouble than it should've been.
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Adaptec shows 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI
The arrival of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) at 12Gbps will be a boon for demanding applications such as databases, according to Adaptec by PMC, which is demonstrating the technology at Cebit.
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Seagate upgrades hybrid drive family, adds desktop model
Seagate announced new models of its 2.5-in. hybrid laptop drives with 40% better performance, as well as its first 3.5-in. desktop hybrid drive.
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Western Digital claims HDD capacity doubled with nanotech breakthrough
Western Digital's HGST Labs announced a breakthrough in the ability to double HDD capacity through two innovative nantechnologies -- self-assembling molecules and nanoimprinting.
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