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Use 3D printing to build your own data storage array. Or get a 3D printer and watch your storage array fill up with data. Jon Toigo provides his thoughts on the subject. A while back I read an article in a tech publication that discussed the concerns of toy companies regarding knock-offs of their popular toys being made by do-it-yourselfers using 3D printing. The article detailed how an increasingly inexpensive 3D printer -- capable of converting a computer-aided design (CAD) model of an object into a physical (three-dimensional) version of the object by depositing layer upon layer of hardening plastic material -- was being used to "print" things like Lego building blocks and Hasbro Transformers characters. I kept the article in my file folder of topics to track just in case I ever needed another Optimus Prime figure. I was reminded of this clipping when my dear wife told me recently that she wanted one (a 3D printer, not a Transformers figure) as a holiday or birthday present. It shouldn't have surprised me that she was already expert on the processes for "... Access >>>
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Best data storage products: 2012 Products of the Year
Find out the 14 best data storage products in Storage magazine's/SearchStorage.com's 2012 Products of the Year competition.
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The state of network storage technologies
by Dennis Martin
While often overlooked, there's a lot happening with network storage technologies to keep up with the ever-increasing I/O demands coming from virtualized servers and storage.
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Best data storage products: 2012 Products of the Year
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Storage for virtual environments
by Jacob Gsoedl
Despite the benefits of virtualizing servers and desktops, admins often struggle to support storage for virtual environments. Here's what vendors are doing to address the problem.
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Use of cloud-based backup services expanding
by Rich Castagna
Our most recent Storage magazine survey finds that 35% of respondents use multiple cloud-based backup services and have an overall average of 13 TB of data in the cloud.
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Storage for virtual environments
by Jacob Gsoedl
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Take a hybrid approach to data storage protection
by Rich Castagna
The old fundamentals of data storage protection that required separate processes for backup, DR and archive can't keep up with today's data capacities.
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The dangers of 3D printing
by Jon William Toigo
Use 3D printing to build your own storage array. Or get a 3D printer and watch your storage array fill up with data.
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We need a backup data deduplication layer
by Jason Buffington
As backup dedupe matures, it's still very much a proprietary technology. We need standardization to eliminate some of today's software-hardware headaches.
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Cloud has a silver lining for ROBO storage
by Mike Matchett
Providing and managing storage for remote and branch offices can be a challenge, but a hybrid approach using local and cloud-based storage may be the best solution.
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Take a hybrid approach to data storage protection
by Rich Castagna
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