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Washington University cuts VMware provisioning time, digitizes records with disk array upgrades
Xiotech's loyal customer base is happy with the upgrade to Emprise 7000 self-healing disk arrays from the end-of-lifed Magnitude, but analysts are looking for the vendor to spread its wings further in the data storage market. Article
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DataDirect Networks helps Australian transport authority process petabytes of video surveillance
DataDirect Networks' DDNS2A9900 disk array helps Australian transport authority support large sequential I/O. Block-based storage helps with latency issues. Article
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Coraid EtherDrive SRX Series goes upscale with support for SSDs and 10 GbE
Coraid EtherDrive SRX Series improves performance of its ATA over Ethernet (AoE) storage systems by supporting solid-state drives (SSDs) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE). But can it challenge Fibre Channel and iSCSI as a mainstream block-based storag... Article
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Data deduplication and compression on primary storage can reduce data footprint
Data deduplication and compression on primary storage may not produce the data reduction seen with backups, but various techniques produce significant results with unstructured data. FAQ
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Hitachi Data Systems' Yoshida talks Sun/Oracle, USP refresh and storage virtualization
Hitachi Data Systems' Hu Yoshida talks about what's next for HDS and its storage virtualization products, including the next version of its USP enterprise array. Article
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3PAR adds SSDs, sub-volume automated tiered storage to InServ arrays
3PAR's Adaptive Optimization software will automatically move granular chunks of data between tiers of Fibre Channel, SATA and 3PAR's newly supported 50 GB STEC solid-state drives (SSDs). Article
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Atrato self-healing disk arrays support DOE's server virtualization project
The Department of Energy (DOE) chose Atrato's V1000 self-healing disk arrays because of their density, Fibre Channel connections and parallelization of I/O to boost performance while saving power in the department's VMware environment. Article
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Data storage priorities 2010: data backup, capacity growth and disaster recovery
Our Storage Priorities for 2010 survey finds adding data backup, keeping up with capacity growth and disaster recovery as the most urgent considerations of data storage managers. Solid-state storage, cloud storage and continuous data protection are a... Article
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Use MAID, intelligent power management as green storage options to control energy consumption
MAID and intelligent power management (IPM) are green storage options that align enterprise data storage performance and energy consumption levels. Learn what you should look for in a product with MAID or IPM-enabled capabilities. Tip
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Pillar rolls out speedier Axiom 600 disk array
Pillar adds a new controller to its Axiom 600 disk array as traditional lines between high-end and midrange disk arrays blur; will it be enough to survive after Pillar financial backer Larry Ellison's Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems? Article