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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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Object Storage's Path to the Enterprise
December 05, 2012 10:42 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Object storage is a smart fit for enterprise use cases such as backup, but the need to write to custom APIs impedes adoption.
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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.
