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Flash storage should be a top data center priority, Gartner says
Flash is 25 to 30 times more expensive than hard disk drives, but the price is worth it, Gartner says.
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Diskeeper launches app to eliminate fragmentation
Diskeeper today unveiled its latest software for eliminating up to 85% of fragmentation, increasing performance and reducing the need for scheduled or manual defragmentation tasks.
Data Robotics ships Drobo iSCSI SAN
Data Robotics today released its first iSCSI iteration of its self-monitoring, automated disk array for small- to mid-sized businesses.
Mitch Betts: IDC: Expect IBM, Dell and Oracle to acquire more vendors in 2010
The acquisition targets: Juniper, CA, Compuware, BMC, Novell and Symantec. Others say the brands Motorola and Palm may disappear, too.
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DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess
EMC brings Avamar backup to PCs, Macs
EMC is extending its Avamar backup software to all parts of an enterprise’s infrastructure with clients for PC and Mac desktops and laptops.
Chris Poelker: The slow death of Fibre Channel?
I’m not sure if you have noticed, but slowly over the last year or so storage vendors have begun changing over their top tier offerings from Fibre Channel (FC) drives to either Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Solid State Disk (SSD) drives in their arrays.
Micron announces its fastest notebook, desktop SSD
Micron Technology announced it is preparing to release its highest-performing solid state drive for notebook and desktop PCs, with data transfer rates of up to 355MB/sec., vastly outshining any of today’s consumer-grade SSD products.
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College puts entire courses on USB drives
Thomas Edison State College plans to offer all 17,000 of its students complete courses on USB flash drives.
Switching to a Solid-State Drive
Prices on solid-state drives are dropping, and operating systems (particularly Windows 7) are beginning to take advantage of the potential higher speeds of SSDs, so it’s a good time to consider slapping one in your computer.
Securely Wipe a Dead Hard Drive
Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the manufacturer, and asked the Answer Line forum for a way to first remove sensitive data.
Chris Poelker: Is tape really dead?
With all the industry buzz around disk based data protection and deduplication, many companies are rethinking their current investments in tape infrastructure. The problem is, many have spent years perfecting that tried and true method of data protection, and have invested substantial sums in people, training, and money in doing so.
Review: Imation’s wireless drive is a great concept but needs bandwidth
Imation today announced what it called the world’s first wireless external backup drive. Testing found that the drive meets all the specs the company pitches, it is indeed easy to use, and convenient, but it lacks throughput and carries a high price tag.
When the Backup Drive Gets Full
Rat74136’s external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.
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