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CIO interview: Data backups must run on time at DFW Airport
SearchStorage.com | 25 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport CIO William Flowers discusses keeping his SAN, NAS, backup, and disaster recovery process in flying shape.
Electronic medical records present challenge to healthcare industry
SearchStorage.com | 09 Jun 2009 ARTICLE - The healthcare industry is struggling with vendor offerings, records-retention policies and other technologies needed to implement electronic medical records.
Server virtualization may have big disaster recovery payoff
Submitted By: Howard Marks | 20 Feb 2008 TIP - The biggest impact of server virtualization may be in disaster recovery, specifically in improving the recovery time of applications that you wouldn't dedicate a standby server to.
How to make your storage greener
Submitted By: Rick Cook | 06 Feb 2008 TIP - Rick Cook explains how to evaluate your storage energy demands and reduce the cost of power consumption.
How to increase your storage energy efficiency
Submitted By: Greg Schulz | 17 Jul 2007 TIP - You can improve storage energy efficiency by spinning down and powering off disk drives not in use, putting drives into a slower mode and using RAID levels and tiered storage.
Content-addressed storage (CAS) explained
Carol Sliwa, Features Editor | 14 Oct 2008 CAS EXPLAINED - CAS is used for long-term retention of content for compliance purposes, and archiving vast amounts of unchanging data. But some vendors are aiming at the volume storage market.
carrier hotel
11 Nov 2006 WORD - A carrier hotel, also called a colocation center, is a secure physical site or building where data communications media converge and are interconnected. It is common for numerous service providers to share the facilities of a ...
storage consolidation
05 Oct 2004 WORD - Storage consolidation, also called storage convergence is a method of centralizing data storage among multiple servers. The objective is to facilitate data backup and archiving for all subscribers in an enterprise, while ...
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A dynamic four-tier storage design
Storage Magazine | 01 May 2009 FEATURES - A comprehensive revamping of the storage environment at a major government agency shows how a tiered storage design can meet operational expectations without busting the budget.
The glass is half full
Storage Magazine | 01 May 2009 COLUMNS - You can wring your hands over a shrinking storage budget or you can do something creative about it.
Power-smart disk systems
Storage Magazine | 01 Apr 2009 FEATURES - Disk drive systems use more power than just about any other data center gear, but storage vendors are addressing this problem with a variety of technologies.
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