Storage & Mgmt Channel
News and Analysis
4 Ways $50K Of Flash Can Boost Performance
You want to use solid state storage to boost your network's performance. Here's advice on adding SSDs without breaking the company.
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- VMware Launches New VDI Software, Updates VDI Suite
- Dell Doubles Down On Integrated Systems, Targets SAP HANA
- Best of Interop 2013 Nominations Open
- News Roundup: Absolute Software Launches ITSM Product
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Architectures
LV 1871: Taking Virtualization to the Next Level
German insurance Firm LV 1871 boosted its data center, IT and storage capabilities through the use of "next gen" virtualization, which goes beyond servers and works to eliminate costly NAS storage by creating a virtualized storage SAN backbone.
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- A New SAN Improves Application Performance And Saves Paydays
- Two Companies Cope With Storage And Transfer Of Large Files
- School District Optimizes Virtual Machine Archiving
- Expanding Role Of Data Deduplication
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Reviews & Workshops
Rackspace Open Cloud Takes on Amazon AWS
The vendor rolls out three Open Cloud offerings--Cloud Servers, Control Panel and Cloud Databases--based on the OpenStack cloud project. Can Rackspace turn OpenStack into the de facto standard? What does Open Cloud have that AWS doesn't? Find out.
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Blogs
IBM Turns IT into Storage Service Provider
February 25, 2013 02:01 PM
Posted by David Hill
IBM's SmartCloud Storage Access turns premises storage into a service that IT can offer to internal users via a service catalog.
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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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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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Best Use of Encryption You Never Considered
December 04, 2012 03:03 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Got e-discovery, data destruction or outdated hardware woes? Digital shredding may be the solution — and it can bolster the business case for encrypting data.
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Superstorm Sandy Lessons: 100% Uptime Isn't Always Worth It
October 31, 2012 10:53 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
Sandy brought out the worst in some tech pundits who were ready to pounce on companies that went offline in the face of a 100-year catastrophe. But in cases like Sandy, continuous uptime is the wrong goal.
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Microsoft Buys Cloud Gateway Provider StorSimple
October 18, 2012 06:12 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Microsoft’s acquisition validates the market for premises-based storage that also links to the cloud, and inaugurates the software giant as a provider of IT hardware.
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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.
