Can it really be true? Can your database drive your sales? One software vendor would like you to believe so. Salesforce.com has released a webcast that explains how you can use your existing customer...
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How can you cut your three email servers down to one? Can it be done? You bet. If you're like most people, your data storage has outgrown its current parameters. You deploy more servers - you need...
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The Blog of Ben Rockwood: Cheap Ass Storage: How Low Can You Go Ben rockwood runs the numbers on cheap, whitebox storage solutions.......
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Size Matters: Use The Right Tool: Your tools should amplify your productivity, not rob it. Whatever you choose think ROI. A great couple of (pseudo?) Real Life stories over at the Lone Sysaadmin....
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Allow me to point you towards the first three parts of what appears to be an ongoing series on StorageMojo. Architecting Internet Data Centers - Pt. I: Architecting The Internet Data Center: Pt II...
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The Lone Sysadmin » The Problem With I/O: It used to be troublesome when someone needed 200 GB of disk space. It was this big Negotiation between a system administrator or storage administrator and...
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Storage-server hybrids coming into vogue | CNET News.com: When designing a data center, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data....
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Herding CA(T)S Caringo Launches Software-Only CAS Solution: EMC, with the help of software from the Belgian company FilePool that they acquired the previous year, sought to apply an indexing scheme...
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The Lone Sysadmin » VMware I/O Problems: The Lone Sysadmin had some IO problems with his VMWare ESX installation - and the solution is rather interesting from a storage point of view.......
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TechRepublic Blog: 50 ways to leave your lover: Breaking up is hard to do - your friends and their friends, your stuff and their stuff, all that shared history of broken promises to get over -...
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Storage vendors rewrite the rules of the game | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-05-11 | By Mario Apicella: It seems inevitable, like death and taxes. Every year, storage vendors renew their portfolios,...
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Hu Yoshida's Blog: What is on a CIO's mind?: While the easy (cheap?) answer is "Golf, expensive scotch, and a new BMW 7 series" I think we all know that that's probably not...
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The Blog of Ben Rockwood - My Server Room Is On Fire: "The horrible truth, we tend to avoid things untill they are unavoidable. In many cases our threshold for putting up with something broken...
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Insecure about Security: Here's the reality, plain and simple. Since the ChoicePoint breach in February 2005 there have been 9 publicly-disclosed data breach incidents involving tape loss...
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DrunkenData.com » Blog Archive » Want to get a better deal on storage?: Ahhh, the time-honoured technique of dropping a competitor's name to get your vendor's sales guy to drop the price a...
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PC World Review of 1TB Arrays If you're looking for something a bit more comprehensive for home, or some sort of external storage for a small satellite office, this review of 8 trabyte storage...
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Securing Data When Data Is Everywhere - Computerworld: A security manager's Nightmare... "When it comes down to it, a security manager's job is about protecting information assets. But...
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Hu Yoshida's Blog: Misunderstandings About Storage Virtualization: Hu Yoshida weighs in with his viewpoint on vendor-lockin on Storage Virtualisation systems. *phew*. Interesting view, and makes...
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DrunkenData.com » Blog Archive » Un-ingestion: I'm a big fan of open standards - if for no reason other than to avoid this sort of scenario. Our dev team at work is doing some work customizing...
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David Merrill's Blog: Jumping into Storage Economics: Like it or not, we need, as systems/storage admins to be more aware of the monetary aspects of business as they relate to our parts of work,...
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Using Data We Have to Improve Data We Get - Computerworld: While the linked article is about leveraging your existing reported information to enhance your request for more budget to allow you to...
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Storage Advisors » Living Loving MAID: MAID? You sure you didn't terminally typo RAID? MAID stands for Massive Arrays of Idle Disks. The term was first coined in the January 2002 whitepaper of...
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