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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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