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Disaster Recovery Lessons You Might Have Missed
November 27, 2012 11:45 AM
Posted by David Greenfield
Hurricane Sandy had a lot to teach technology professionals about disaster recovery and business continuity. It certainly reinforced the basics—back up your data and test your DR systems—but there are other lessons to learn. Here are five.
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Storage QoS: The Next Frontier?
November 12, 2012 03:33 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Storage quality of service (QoS) aims to make storage performance more predictable without the need to over-allocate resources. We’ll look at the ins and outs of this emerging concept.
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DataCore's Storage Hypervisor: An Overview
November 06, 2012 01:15 PM
Posted by David Hill
DataCore's SANsymphony-V software provides a host of storage features, including auto-tiering, replication, and the ability to remove physical disks without disruption, that can be run on a variety of storage hardware.
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Amazon's Glacier Cloud Service Puts Data in the Storage Deep Freeze
September 14, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by David Hill
The new cloud storage-as-a-service option from Amazon should bring attention to the too-often neglected area of "cold" storage. Learn why it's a good option for data you won't need right away.
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Is Amazon's Glacier Cloud Storage a Good Deal?
August 28, 2012 12:53 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Amazon's new cloud storage service, Glacier, looks like a deal--1 cent per gigabit per month. But can you wait three to five hours to access your data? Learn what other factors you should be aware of when it comes to Amazon's latest storage offering.
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Clouds, Cloud Storage and EMC
May 22, 2012 12:57 PM
Posted by Mike Fratto
EMC's definition of cloud computing may not be the same as yours. Here's what the company means, and a look at its cloud storage offerings.
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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.
