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  • EMC: Flash could spell end for Fibre Channel

    Last year, EMC addressed criticism that its storage arrays force administrators to manually move data from tier to tier by introducing software called FAST, or Fully Automated Storage Tiering.But the first version of the product didn't go far…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Tier • Ssd • Fibre Channel • Executives • Disk Drives • Automated

  • SAN accelerator appliance coming from FalconStor and Violin

    There are no other solutions on the market today that can yield as much performance enhancement out of a modest investment in a solid state tier of a virtualised SAN," Fadi Albatal, vice president of marketing for FalconStor, said in a statement…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Gateway • Fibre Channel • Cache • Attached • Array • Appliance

  • VMware acquires software products from Ionix

    The transaction is expected to close between April and June.Specifically, VMware will take control of EMC software products FastScale, Application Discovery Manager, Server Configuration Manager and Service manager, and take on some engineering…
    26 February 2010
    Tags: Transaction • Subsidiary • Software Products • Greene • Executive • Diane

  • Aster jazzes up nCluster data warehousing database

    This follows closely on the heels of similar moves by ParAccel, which released a Fusion I/O-based data warehousing appliance earlier this month, and Oracle, whose Exadata Version 2 Database Appliance also uses PCIe-based cards, while Teradata has…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Gartner • Fusion • Express • Analytics • Analysts • Adoption

  • Seagate doubles capacity of data centre hard drive

    Seagate Technology released a fourth generation Savvio 2.5-inch drive, its highest capacity, enterprise-class hard disk drive, doubling the previous storage limit if its high-end systems.Savvio10.4K doubles the amount of capacity over previous…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: Suited • Seagate • Reliability • Modes • Fibre Channel • Consumption

  • Energy Star rating for green data centres to launch

    The variability is much more dependent on energy management practices than it is on characteristics.The tier level might not be important because many data centres operate multiple tiers within a single facility, she said.
    08 February 2010
    Tags: Supplies • Redundancy • Facility • Centres • Agency • Account

Latest Features

  • Flash storage fixes data centre bottlenecks, for a price

    Rather than targeting specific functions like business analytics or web caching, as previous data appliances have, Schooner incorporates flash in an appliance that aims to improve performance of the entire data access tier of the data centre…
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Tier • Struggling • Storing • Hard Drives • Data Center • Accessed

  • Microsoft SharePoint addons reveal exciting features

    Uses can move content that is not mission critical off to second or third tier storage" that is less expensive.The only thing stored in the SQL Server database is metadata, which ensures that indexing and other functions are not interrupted.D'Oria…
    16 December 2009
    Tags: Studio • Folders • Repository • Sql Server • Administrator • Structure

  • The new shape of data centres

    You can build a pod on Tier 4 space and another pod on Tier 1 and 2, for example. Industry veteran Mike Manos describes how the data centre of the future will look. As the world's eyes turn to Copenhagen for the climate change summit, there will no…
    09 December 2009
    Tags: Audience • Shape • Data Centres • Carbon • Interest • Governments

  • Five questions for prospective storage vendors

    Sure, the specs are important, but when you're building a primary storage tier, it's all about the relationship As an unapologetic technologist, I typically tell people to cut through the sales speak, ignore the glossies, and pay attention to the…
    24 November 2009
    Tags: Questions • Acquire • Road • Storage Vendors • References • Addon

  • Eleven HDTV trends from CES 2009

    Only the lower tier manufacturers, like RCA and Polaroid, said they were still looking at 120Hz as a step up. With that in mind here are eleven HDTV trends I spotted on the show floor. Some of the biggest news last CES came from HDTV manufacturers…
    19 November 2009
    Tags: Premium • Announcements • Talked • Ubiquitous • Lcd • Bluray

  • Four tips for deploying SSDs

    When SSD is integrated as the top tier in a persistent storage environment, users can purchase only the number of solid state drives required to house the active blocks for their applications. However, the biggest drawback to implementing SSDs as…
    02 November 2009
    Tags: Cache • Tier • Provisioning • Balance • Balancing • Highperformance

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How-Tos

  • Case Study: The sweet smell of WAN acceleration

    Whiteley said Riverbed is in the top tier of WAN optimisation vendors, along with Cisco, Blue Coat Systems, Juniper Networks and Silver Peak Systems. Global perfumer Coty used WAN appliances to improve its download speeds and remove the need for…
    15 August 2008
    Tags: Multimedia • Optimisation • Wan • Appliances • Remove • Orange

  • Case Study: Fauchier Partners hedges its storage bets on EqualLogic

    The ability to tier its SAN allows Fauchier Partners to prioritise applications by placing them on separate pools of storage, each optimally configured for the required service level of the application.
    25 November 2007
    Tags: Implemented • Institutions • Asset • Attached • Arrays • Sata

  • Case Study: Five MAIDs on the spine

    The Copan MAID arrays function as a fourth tier of storage on the spine. In the brave new world of the NHS with its modernised IT infrastructure there is a central data spine connecting five clusters of regional systems.
    24 October 2007
    Tags: Professionals • Responsibility • Storage Systems • Microsystems • Care • Data Storage

  • Case Study: Server and storage virtualisation go hand-in-hand

    As a result, gm2 Logistics can now process critical just-in-time' data from high-performance Tier 1 Fibre Channel storage and once that data becomes inactive, it is automatically moved to lower-cost mid-tier drives.
    01 October 2007
    Tags: Modular • High Performance • Tier • Business Continuity • Replication • Distribution

  • Case Study: Linux and open source software pay off for PayPal

    The generic Linux Lego-block-style servers that make up the company's Web tier can be easily shifted around for a variety of tasks.For example, every day at 0100 PST, PayPal runs its batch processing for reconciling payments.
    24 September 2007
    Tags: Struggle • Mainframes • Cto • Source Code • Data Centre • Wait

  • Case Study: Putting your datacentre on an energy diet

    For the highest level of redundancy and reliability - a Tier 4 datacentre - for every kilowatt used for processing, the Uptime Institute says that some $22,000 is spent on power and cooling infrastructure.In order to cut down on costs and ensure…
    31 August 2007
    Tags: Supplies • Electricity • Datacentres • Ups • Institute • American

Reviews

  • Symantec Norton Antivirus 2010 review

    That's a good showing, but other apps did even better, leaving Symantec's entry in a middle tier sixth place in this category.Norton dropped toward the bottom in heuristic tests designed to simulate a security program's ability to ward off new and…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Scans • Antivirus • Saved • User Interface • Detection • App

  • Ci Design iStoragePro iT1 Dock 2TB review

    The lower tier companies in the hard drive market are often forgotten. The Ci Designs iStoragePro iT1 Dock, has a 2TB capacity, a three-year limited warranty, and is possibly the fastest desktop drive weve ever tested.
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Wave • Designs • Hard Drive • Mac Os • Mechanism • Ssd

  • Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600

    A variety of application profiles are included with the system, and more specialised ones are available from the Pillar Data support site.Rather than specifying a storage tier (SSD, 15K, 10K, SATA), you specify a performance class (premium, high…
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Volume • Image • Availability • Provisioning • Vmware • Usability

  • Firemint Real Racing for iPhone review

    While $10 (about £6) would be a bargain for a console game or a DS or PSP title, the price puts Real Racing at the very top tier of entertainment software for the iPhone and iPod touch. In some ways, watching the developing Apple iPhone gaming…
    22 June 2009
    Tags: Connectivity • Playing • Console • Controls • Motion • Gaming

  • Olympus Stylus 7000 camera

    The camera barely broke through to the top tier in colour quality; meanwhile, in our sharpness test, the camera scored in the lower tier of our testing.A few of the Olympus Stylus 7000's special features are truly useful.
    21 May 2009
    Tags: Output • Automatic • Shot • Tier • Exposure • Lcd

  • Sony HDR-CX12 HD camcorder

    Sony's HDR-CX12 HD camcorder is in the top tier of the company's consumer camcorders lineup. Recording to a SDHC memory card, the Sony HDR-CX12 HD sports a 1/3-inch imaging sensor - a rather large size for a consumer HD camcorder - and HDMI output.
    24 March 2009
    Tags: Audio • Resolution • Capture • Mike • Recorded • Sensor

White Papers

  • Tata Communications: The making of a global data centre leader

    The goal: a robust, integrated infrastructure that will support the companys growing portfolio of managed services and future cloud computing services.In this whitepaper, Stratecast looks at Tata Communications recent expansion and how the company…
    21 September 2009
    Tags: Provider • North America • Data Center • Tata Communications

  • How to Get to the Numbers that Matter in Retail

    Many of these are common to retailers of all sizes, but some are specific to mid to small tier businesses and many cautionary notes are given. Many of these are common to retailers of all sizes, but some are specific to mid to small tier businesses…
    28 September 2007
    Tags: Aspects • White Paper • Retail • Notes • Addresses

  • Capacity Planning for Adobes Macromedia Flex 1.5

    Those familiar with the ASP/JSP model understand that in order to produce an HTML page, the server side code must first gather the necessary data from the business tier, and then embellish that data with HTML tags which determine how the data is…
    16 May 2007
    Tags: Cycles • Cpu • Macromedia • Capacity Planning • Flex • Transferred

  • SANscreen Replication Assurance Technical Overview

    These reports must document the total cost of the storage service including production storage, replicated storage and tier. Data replication is vital to the success of any storage strategy. Widely used throughout the data center, replicated data…
    09 March 2007
    Tags: Business Continuity • Replication • Production • Assurance • Sanscreen • Replicated

  • Enterprise Manager 10gR2/R3 Backup, Recovery and Disaster Recovery Considerations

    Enterprise Manager 10gR2/R3 Backup, Recovery and Disaster Recovery Considerations Oracle Different strategies when practical for each tier of Enterprise Manager.whitepaper The newest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control presents a…
    01 March 2007
    Tags: Backups • Tier • Grid • Management Service • Baseline • Enterprise Manager

  • Protected, Portable, Price/Performance for Permanent Online Archive

    PowerFile offers an interesting alternative approach to digital archiving worth evaluating….The PowerFile PSA actually provides customers with four tiers, including high performance NAS-based disk storage (Tier One), in-library DVD for lower cost…
    15 February 2007
    Tags: Archive • Dvd • Storage Systems • Archiving • Disk Storage • Tiers

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