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SANDirect: July 2009
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Thursday, July 9, 2009. Who's Who on the SSD-Tuned Array Bandwagon. This year has seen practically all of the major storage manufacturers hopping aboard the solid state bandwagon—and for good reason, given the improvements in performance, capacity, cost of ownership, lower energy consumption, and the ability to realize those benefits while utilizing existing storage area disk arrays. They’re all approaching SSD a little differently, and here are the salient details on the big three:. The Performance Acce...
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SANDirect: Infiniband VS 10GB Ethernet--Which Does What?
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Thursday, August 6, 2009. Infiniband VS 10GB Ethernet- Which Does What? There’s no doubt that speed and performance are hot topics among data storage and retrieval users and manufacturers today. But for consumers, the question of where to invest can be daunting, especially when it comes to interconnectivity protocols. Mellanox and QLogic (with the purchase of NetXen) offer Infiniband products, and organizations like the National Institute for Health are using it. August 6, 2009 at 5:08 PM. Believes the b...
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SANDirect: The Hidden Costs of Unreliable Disk Drives
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. The Hidden Costs of Unreliable Disk Drives. The Dirty Little Secret of Managing RAID Storage. By Jerome Wendt, President and Lead Analyst at DCIG Inc. 8226; Open a trouble ticket in my organization's change control system. 8226; Open a trouble ticket with the vendor to replace the disk drive. 8226; Determine the urgency of replacing the failed disk drive. 8226; Schedule a time for the HDD replacement. Organizations obviously do not want to lose data on their SATA storage syst...
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SANDirect: Tech gurus know how to party too
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Thursday, August 13, 2009. Tech gurus know how to party too. Upscale BlackFinn Saloon and Restaurant in the Charlotte epicenter was hopping with happening tech gurus last night. XO Communications hosted about 50 attendees over drinks and apps (no, they weren’t giving out free software for mobile devices—just very tasty edibles) in the lux environment of Blackfinn’s wood-paneled second floor. September 23, 2009 at 4:32 PM. Mark, thank you for the shout out. That was an awesome event. Right now, or leave a...
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SANDirect: Who's Who on the SSD-Tuned Array Bandwagon
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Thursday, July 9, 2009. Who's Who on the SSD-Tuned Array Bandwagon. This year has seen practically all of the major storage manufacturers hopping aboard the solid state bandwagon—and for good reason, given the improvements in performance, capacity, cost of ownership, lower energy consumption, and the ability to realize those benefits while utilizing existing storage area disk arrays. They’re all approaching SSD a little differently, and here are the salient details on the big three:. The Performance Acce...
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SANDirect: Too Good to be True: Green AV $&^&^%@)(*&^%$
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Thursday, September 3, 2009. Too Good to be True: Green AV $& & %@)(*& %$. Too Good to be True: Save your Computer—and the Environment—with Green AV. Debbie stares at the pop-up window in dismay: “Windows defender warning: review harmful unwanted software Trojan:win32/Fake xpa severe.” This is the fifth attack detected in five minutes. She’s very annoyed. A bright green button flashes: “Do you want to block the attack? Mail site—and she became infected. What’s amazing about the whole thing is that ...
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SANDirect: August 2009
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Thursday, August 27, 2009. Go Green With Nexsan. Green is hot this year, and for good reason. At last, companies can be environmentally friendly while still watching their bottom line, thanks to new technologies that combine high performance and cost savings with environmental benefits. One company that is riding on that wave is Nexsan. With their AutoMAID technology built into all of their storage disk array products (including SATABoy. Besides AutoMAID, what else is your company doing for Green? Adopti...
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SANDirect: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. The Hidden Costs of Unreliable Disk Drives. The Dirty Little Secret of Managing RAID Storage. By Jerome Wendt, President and Lead Analyst at DCIG Inc. 8226; Open a trouble ticket in my organization's change control system. 8226; Open a trouble ticket with the vendor to replace the disk drive. 8226; Determine the urgency of replacing the failed disk drive. 8226; Schedule a time for the HDD replacement. Organizations obviously do not want to lose data on their SATA storage syst...
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SANDirect: Go Green With Nexsan
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Thursday, August 27, 2009. Go Green With Nexsan. Green is hot this year, and for good reason. At last, companies can be environmentally friendly while still watching their bottom line, thanks to new technologies that combine high performance and cost savings with environmental benefits. One company that is riding on that wave is Nexsan. With their AutoMAID technology built into all of their storage disk array products (including SATABoy. Besides AutoMAID, what else is your company doing for Green? Adopti...
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