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| Why IBM should IBM buy EMC? |
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| A fellow storage analyst was once chided for making the following prediction: Dell buys EMC. Hand me a crosscut saw as I' m about to go out on the same tree, different limb. IBM buys EMC.
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| Addressing VMware's problem |
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| Conventional data protection methods don't work, you' ll retain e-mail longer than you think and you will need fast, reliable search tools.
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| The Changing Face of Data Protection |
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| The explosion of corporate data in the 1990s, coupled with new data storage technology such as networked storage, has made the accumulation and management of large amounts of data a corporate priority.
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| ILM Not Quite Ready for Prime Time |
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| If sessions at this week' s Storage Decisions conference are any indication, information lifecycle management (ILM) technology is a long way from fulfilling its promise.
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| Symantec Releases First Veritas Products |
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| Symantec this week issued the first joint products since acquiring Veritas in a $10.5 billion deal last month, focusing on e-mail security and archiving and Linux-based storage management
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| Cisco's Year of Storage Acquisitions |
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| In the twelve months that passed between the start of summer 2004 and last week' s departure of several storage networking execs, Cisco made a series of acquisitions that furthered its storage aims
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| Storage Software Stays Hot |
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| Driven by compliance, data protection and management needs, storage software continues to grow more than twice as fast as the storage hardware market.
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| Hospital Tackles Data Growth |
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| With its data storage needs soaring nearly 10-fold in less than five years, Baptist Memorial Health Care (BMHC) knew the time had come to address storage challenges such as backup, disaster recovery and archiving applications.
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| Seagate Hits 160G For Notebooks |
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| Hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology (Quote, Chart) plans to ship the first notebook drives using perpendicular recording technology, officials said Wednesday.
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| Tape Losses Loom Large at Storage World |
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| User concerns were front and center at this week' s Storage World Conference — not the least of which were worries about data tapes after recent high-profile backup tape losses.
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| Pillar Hopes to Stand Out in Storage Hardware |
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| There's a consensus that storage hardware has become a commodity in the last few years.
Many analysts have said new players intent on selling systems that preserve data won' t be able to penetrate a market saturated by products from EMC, Hitachi Data Systems and IBM.
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| Bank Gives TagmaStore Thumbs Up |
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| When Pacific Capital Bancorp looked ahead, it banked its competitive future on a new SAN architecture to serve its network of community banks. The financial institution came up a winner
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| Clustered network storage: part two; An evolution in storage |
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| The first part of clustered network storage discussed the general principles of this compelling architecture. Clustered network storage systems are an evolution of the two-way active-active architectures found with traditional midrange storage systems. Clustered network designs extend the number of intelligent controllers beyond just two controllers while appearing to the applications, users and system administrators as a single logical system. This article will analyze at a high-level what some of the potential capabilities customers can take advantage of with clustered network storage systems. In this article I refer to a controller as the intelligent head of the storage system that has processors, memory and most, if not all of the software that runs the entire storage system. A two-way active-active storage system as two controllers, a three-way has three controllers, etc.
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| Big Blue Embraces Online Backup |
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| IBM will launch new services next month to help businesses backup and retrieve critical data for faster recovery from a disaster or outage.
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| Little Yosemite Goes For Big |
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| Back-up storage provider Yosemite Technologies has decided to focus on the enterprise space, unveiling a software application and throwing its hat into a competitive ring led by Veritas
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| New Storage Equipment Lets Nets Share Capacity |
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| Despite the maturity of network file servers and network-attached storage and their ubiquity in corporate storage infrastructures, file-share management continues to be a great challenge for virtually every corporate IT manager.
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| Sarbanes-Oxley: Driving the Storage Compliance Boom |
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| No government or agency regulation has refocused the energies of IT administrators and storage professionals like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Broad in its reach, short on implementation specifics, and bristling with teeth, the act has sent IT departments scrambling to get a handle on the compliant storage of business data almost from its enactment in 2002.
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| New Storage Technologies Hit The Market |
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| They' ve been talked about and written about for years. Standards groups have fussed over every last detail, industry associations have sponsored endless interoperability demos, and vendors have jockeyed for position with competing prototype announcements.
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| Storage Security Apps Struggle To Gain Traction |
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| Storage and data security are important factors in achieving regulatory compliance. One solution to the storage security problem is to insert an encryption appliance between the servers and the storage farm. Minimum security levels (such as FIPS 140 compliance), policy controlled encryption with auditing and reporting capabilities, and minimal performance or capacity impact are all basic requirements. Beyond that, simplicity in installing and maintaining the storage security appliance, clustering for failover, and compatibility with existing operations, such as backup and archive, should be critical decision factors.
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| Storage Proves A Seasonal Gift To Overstock.com |
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| Infrastructure performing below par is never a good thing. So imagine the frustration of online retailer Overstock.com when database lookups and response times slowed a year ago during the acid test of the December shopping rush.
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| Shared File Systems, Part 2: Why Pay More? |
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| If you are running streaming video at 500 Kb/second, that is a far different performance requirement than if multiple people are editing digital high definition video. Running 500 Kb/sec with NAS and current technology, a standard gigabit ethernet NIC can easily meet your needs, but with high-definition video editing, you might need as much as 40 MB/sec per user, which is almost 82 times greater performance.
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| Hope for the Storage Starved |
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| You can never have too much storage and researchers are developing new technology to allow users to store over 100 times more data than currently possible.
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| Lights Out |
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| Do catastrophic power failures have something to teach us about keeping the data center up and running?
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| Next on the Menu: A New SCSI Standard |
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| Previous advances in small computer system interface (SCSI) technology have often been yawners for all but the purest storage afficionados: a little bandwidth boost here, a few extra gigabytes there, a tad more performance every now and again.
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| Storage Essentials |
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| For many companies, storage has been an out of sight, out of mind thing. But efficiencies and cost savings abound for CIOs willing to take the necessary steps toward a rational storage plan.
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| Sleuthing Out Data |
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| More and more, the problems that earn CIOs their paychecks revolve around making it easier for users to explore huge volumes of data.
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| Disaster Recovery with IPStor |
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| The disaster recovery (DR) perspective on business continuity goes beyond individual storage or network components failing or files being corrupted or accidentally deleted. Disaster recovery (DR) planning deals with massive site failure.
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| Data Storage: Time to Look for Newer Options |
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| Two crucial questions related to the investment required to protect data assets and the ability of companies to provide this information to employees, customers and suppliers, face top company executives.
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| RAID and Data Storage |
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| Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) system implementations have become common place, even on desktop systems
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| Understanding Storage Area Network |
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| Driven by the expansion of e-commerce applications and increase in traffic over the local-area network (LAN), the market for networked storage is poised to see substantial growth in the next few years.
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| Emerging SAN Technologies And The Future |
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| In the realm of Storage Area Network (SAN), there are several technologies that will extend SAN capabilities into more flexible data storage solutions, data storage security, business continuity and disaster recovery functions
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| Fibre Channel Enabled Storage Area Networks |
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| Fibre Channel technology is finally delivering its promise of a reliable and effective solution for today's communications bottlenecks, particularly in the data storage marketplace
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| Implementing a SAN |
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| When an organization wants to implement a SAN, it needs to consider the following questions concerning its existing storage infrastructure
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| How to Build a 1.5 Terabyte SAN for Less than $35,000 |
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| LEW GOLDSTEIN IS a sound supervisor editor for C5 Inc. in New York City. C5 does postproduction audio for major motion pictures—which means it creates or embellishes every sound you hear in a movie from a dog bark to every spoken word.
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| Are You Sure You Want to Save That? |
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| THINK YOU HAVE A GOOD electronic records management strategy? Think again. Sure, you back up your data rigorously. You save everything you can, whether it' s product specs or sales reports, in case the original files are damaged. But such practices, say electronic records experts, can be dangerous.
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| Hope for the Storage Starved |
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| BELIEVING THAT you can never be too rich, too thin or have enough storage, IBM researchers have created a new class of magnetic materials that could pave the way for hard drives and other data storage systems to store over 100 times more data than existing technologies.
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