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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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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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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

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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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Tags: IBM, storage a service, private cloud

Channel: Tapes and Disks, Storage & Mgmt, Private Cloud

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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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Tags: cloud storage, cloud synchronization, Dropbox, Google, Amazon

Channel: Public Cloud, Content Management, Cloud Computing, Storage & Mgmt, Backup & Recovery

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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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Tags: HP, StoreEver, Quantum Scalar i6000, LTO-6, tape storage

Channel: Storage & Mgmt, Content Management, Data Center, Backup & Recovery

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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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Tags: encryption, digital shredding, key management, e-discovery, records management, security

Channel: Cloud Storage, Content Management, Data Protection, Tapes and Disks, Storage & Mgmt, Backup & Recovery

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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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Tags: Sandy, disaster recovery, storm, 100-year event, VMware, data center, generators, backup, outage, uptime

Channel: Storage & Mgmt, Data Center, Data Protection, Cloud Computing

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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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Tags: Microsoft, StorSimple, cloud, Windows Azure, Azure, TwinStrata, Amazon, S3

Channel: Servers & Storage, Storage & Mgmt, Cloud Computing, Backup & Recovery, Data Protection, Public Cloud

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