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A gigabyte (GB) is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation. The term is pronounced with two hard Gs. The prefix, "giga" comes from a Greek word meaning "giant."
Also see gigabit, megabyte, terabyte, and exabyte.
Despite technological advances, unacceptable I/O performance could hold the entire industry back. Here are some solutions that have materialized.
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SAS 2.0 increases interface speed to 6 Gbps, improves connectivity and facilitates better signal-to-noise ratio, which will propel the shift to SAS drives over next five years.
CommVault enhances Simpana 9 with remote laptop data backup and a better way of backing up ‘big data’ repositories.
CoreVault Inc. promised faster tablet and smartphone backup this week with CoreVault v11, the latest version of its cloud backup product.
Brien Posey shows how to perform an Active Directory restore using authoritative and non-authoritative techniques.
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Paul Kirvan discusses the importance of using a business impact analysis questionnaire in this Expert Response.
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Frequent TechTarget contributor and Microsoft MVP Brien Posey introduces some of the storage features and changes in Windows Server 8 in this video.
Headlines: Amazon’s AWS Storage Gateway may be creating 'co-opetition' with other cloud appliances, but appears to be lacking in enterprise features.
Headlines: To deal with its file data storage needs, UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education bought BlueArc Titans to boost performance and Panasas ActiveStor to tackle bandwidth.
Find out why tape archiving -- for both large customers and small ones -- is worth another look by VARs who might have lost interest in tape in favor of disk-based or cloud-based archiving.
Read about one type of virtual storage appliance, the optimizing VSA, which improve the performance of storage access either via large caching mechanisms or via customized file systems.
Learn about storage virtualization technology at the server-, or host, level, including info on products from Virsto, VMware, DataCore, LeftHand and FalconStor.
Virsto launches Virsto for vSphere to improve VMware storage performance, two years after it launched with a similar product for Micrsoft Hyper-V.
Find out why choosing a data protection solution is so important in this Expert Response from Paul Kirvan.
Paul Kirvan discusses the importance of using a business impact analysis questionnaire in this Expert Response.
A risk assessment must identify external and internal risks and threats to your organization. Paul Kirvan discusses this important issue in his Expert Response.
Are you considering archiving in the cloud? Learn the crucial questions to ask a cloud storage provider and how USC has implemented a massive cloud archive.
Amazon’s AWS Storage Gateway may be creating 'co-opetition' with other cloud appliances, but appears to be lacking in enterprise features.
Worried about keeping up with data growth? Cleversafe Inc. unveils model for a 10 exabyte storage system using geographically dispersed objects.