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Tape Rules for Long-Term Storage
October 09, 2012 05:21 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
A common knock against the use of tape for long-term archives is that data has to be migrated every few years as tape formats change. Not so. With good management, you can go 10 years between tape migrations. Here's why and how.
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Remote Backup Replication Continues to Gain Momentum
October 05, 2012 10:59 AM
Posted by David Hill
A recent survey shows increasing adoption of network-based replication of backup data, which is key to a robust data protection and disaster recovery strategy.
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Of IOPS and RAID: How Raid Affects Application Performance
September 24, 2012 10:58 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
We conclude our look at storage performance metrics with RAID. Learn how a theoretical RAID controller behaves while reading and writing to some common RAID configurations, and how that affects performance.
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Fill Your Drives With Helium: HGST Fits Seven Platters Into 3.5 Inches
September 21, 2012 11:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
HGST has announced that it has put seven platters onto a 3.5-inch form factor, thanks in part to replacing the air in the drive with helium. Find out what this could mean.
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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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Hyperconverged Stacks from SimpliVity and Scale
September 13, 2012 11:56 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
SimpliVity's OmniCube "might be too good to be true," thanks to inline deduplication and a host of other features, while Scale Computing is aiming at SMBs with more modest budgets with its HC3. Find out more about both offerings.
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Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
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On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
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