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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

Hard Rock Cafe Replaces Tape Backup With Disk

Since opening its doors in 1995, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has been on a growth spurt. It expanded in 1999 and is now undergoing another expansion that will more than triple its current size. But it's not just the Hard Rock's footprint that has grown substantially. So has its data, and the time it takes to back it all up. In fact, it was taking Hard Rock's IT department more than 24 hours to do full backups, which had to be done once a week. The rest of the week was spent doing incremental backups, which was also time-consuming.

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Reviews & Workshops

Digital Hoarding: Do We Have a Problem?

Approximately 2.8 zettabytes of data were created and stored in 2012, and that number is expected to increase 50-fold by the end of the decade. When does data storage turn into data hoarding, and what are the consequences?

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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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Virident Unlocks PCIe Flash From a Single Server

February 22, 2013 11:20 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Virident is releasing software that makes PCIe flash behave more like a SAN or distributed cache, expanding the performance boost of PCIe flash across multiple servers.

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Tags: Virident, PCIe, FlashMAX, Fuision-io, cache

Channel: Tapes and Disks, Servers & Storage

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Server-Side Caching Gets Smarter Via Startup PernixData

February 20, 2013 03:25 PM
Posted by Howard Marks

Startup PernixData uses a distributed, replicated write-back cache to take full advantage of SSDs in server-side caching while addressing the risks of server failure and data loss.

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Tags: server-side caching, SSD, PernixData, write-back cache, Interop

Channel: Virtualization, Content Management, Tapes and Disks, Data Center, Servers & Storage, Interop

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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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Tags: EMC, Continuous Availability, VPLEX, high availability, disaster recovery

Channel: Servers & Storage, Data Center, Tapes and Disks, Backup & Recovery

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SSD/Hard Disk Hybrids Bridge Storage Divide

January 30, 2013 08:03 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko

Solid-state is creeping into every nook of the storage ecosystem. The next frontier could be the rebirth of hybrids. Case in point is a startup that combines SSDs and traditional disks to maximize both performance and capacity.

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Tags: SSD, hard disk, Enmotus, hybrid

Channel: Next Gen Network, Tapes and Disks, Servers & Storage, Data Center

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Seagate Flashes $40 Million for Virident PCIe Cards

January 29, 2013 09:53 AM
Posted by Howard Marks

Seagate announced a $40 million investment in Virident, which makes flash-based PCIe cards for servers. The move underlines the broad expansion of flash storage into multiple sectors of the enterprise market.

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Tags: Seagate, Virident, flash, PCIe, SSD, Intel, Fusion-io

Channel: Tapes and Disks, Content Management, Servers & Storage, Data Protection

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