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News and Analysis
5 Data Center Trends For 2013
Energy efficiency will continue to be a major focus of data center operations over the coming year, but that's not all we'll see.
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- Dell Boosts Storage Portfolio With New Hardware, Software
- NetApp Launches New Mid-Tier Storage Arrays
- Hurricane Sandy Delivers Tricks, No Treats, to Tech Infrastructure
- 9 Data Centers: Unexpected Beauty And Creativity
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Architectures
School District Optimizes Virtual Machine Archiving
Server virtualization separates operating systems and applications from the physical hardware, letting organizations consolidate infrastructure and pool application and communications resources. Organizations of all sizes are adopting virtualization to reduce the number physical servers they need. The El Dorado County Office of Education (EDCOE), located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Placerville, Calif., has been leveraging virtualization for several years to support 70 schools.
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- Hard Rock Cafe Replaces Tape Backup With Disk
- Including Internet Load Balancing And Redundancy In DR Strategies
- Storage Pipeline: Hold Everything
- Storage Pipeline: Hold Everything
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Reviews & Workshops
Data Center Consolidation Sparks Converged Infrastructure Deployment
SIRVA, an international relocation and moving solutions provider, determined that acquisitions are a good way to grow a business. However, one repercussion from the strategy was inefficiency: Duplicate business functions were performed in various offices scattered across the United States. In streamlining its IT infrastructure, the corporation found itself at the forefront of the movement to consolidate data center products, a position that, to date, has paid dividends for the corporation.
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Blogs
Cloud Storage and Sync: A Bubble Destined to Burst
February 22, 2013 12:28 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
The proliferation of cloud file sharing services is out of control. It can only end badly for most of these companies—and their users.
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EMC Merges High Availability, Disaster Recovery into One
February 15, 2013 12:52 PM
Posted by David Hill
EMC is combining products and services to turn high availability and disaster recovery into a single concept it calls Continuous Availability.
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VMware Acquires Virsto To Enhance Virtual Storage Performance
February 12, 2013 05:11 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
VMware is acquiring Virsto, which provides software to accelerate virtual machine I/O and improve overall storage performance in virtual environments.
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HP, Quantum Update Tape Portfolios to LTO-6
February 07, 2013 12:10 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
HP and Quantum have updated their tape storage to LTO-6, the most recent generation of the Linear-Tape Open standard. LTO-6 promises to store more data more quickly, though newly promised compression rates need independent verification.
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EMC's Storage Strategy
December 27, 2012 01:06 PM
Posted by David Hill
The rise of non-structured data and the demand for flash-based storage have rattled the storage market. I’ll look at how EMC has responded to these trends.
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Hot Flash: Researchers Use Heat to Counter NAND Flash Wear-n-Tear
December 10, 2012 11:40 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Engineers have announced a new technique using heat to extend flash write/erase cycles from 10,000 to 100 million or more. But while tech breakthroughs are great, prudent management may be a better solution to flash’s lack of endurance.
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Best of the Web
VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
