Why IBM should IBM buy EMC? - Computerworld: It seems that no matter what Tucci does, EMC's stock price remains stuck somewhere between $11 and $15 per share, where has been for the past four...
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Storage Insider: Getting to know Serial SCSI - Computerworld: SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is moving from the drawing board into real life products - Mario over at Computer World shares some info about...
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Turning information into gold: All of the data in the world isn't a lot of use to you, unless you can extract those precious nuggets of relevant information from it. IBM is investing $1 billion...
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Filed in archive Vendor
by Andrew Garrett on February 22, 2006
the lone sysadmin » Beating People Up: "As a sysadmin I see this a lot from coworkers and vendors, where someone will walk up to me and tell me that I should be doing something in a specific...
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Filed in archive NAS
by Andrew Garrett on February 22, 2006
Adaptec adds Opteron-based NAS | InfoWorld | News | 2006-02-21 | By Shelley Solheim, IDG News Service: "The new 1U (1.75-inch) Snap Servers are Adaptec's first powered by Advanced Micro...
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Vista's encryption could vex investigators | InfoWorld | "Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering, told Members of Parliament on Tuesday that TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chipsets...
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Server room menu: Server virtualization in four styles: "...any user entertaining the idea of moving servers into a virtual world are best served by avoiding the urge to get caught up in the...
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Remote backup in the spotlight | Computerworld Blogs: Sixty to 70% of mission-critical data is off-site - and the bulk of that is likely unprotected. And these numbers don't factor in all the data...
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Who is Afraid of Microsoft? | Computerworld Blogs: We all have our fun and bash Microsoft but WSS 2003 supports two of the most important technologies that I have been touting for the last year or...
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Addicted to data - Computerworld: "Unlike oil, the problem [with data] isn't a shrinking supply -- quite the opposite. We are smothering in its abundance. Data storage continues double-digit...
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These two articles combine to make me (with my security admin hat on) very, very nervous. Seagate plans 12GB music player/cell-phone drive Back up your PC -- to your phone? laptops are bad enough -...
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An iSCSI primer: I believe it [iSCSI] to have a very bright future, especially with 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisition costs between a complete iSCSI installation...
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Hi folks. I'd like to welcome our new sponsor Backup Platinum to these pages. Backup Platinum 2.0 can create a reserve copy of critical data to just about any type of storage media: hard or USB...
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HP to enhance storage arrays, software | InfoWorld | News HP is expected to announce on Feb. 21 a variety of enhancements to its high-end and mid-range storage arrays and storage software that will...
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Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies - Computerworld: Users continue to avoid network-based block virtualization like the plague. Yet what I can't understand is why you would implement a...
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Buying from resellers has its rewards: Buying storage gear from the channel needn't be as dicey as you might imagine as long as you know what to look out for. Aaron D. Sawchuk, co-founder and...
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SAS Disks: The Next Generation of Something: Serial Attached SCSI. What's the hurry? If SAS goes commodity cheap, competing with ATA, I won't trust the pricing stability until it is a...
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the lone sysadmin: When to Cluster, When to Build Big: When you're building a medium-large sized service there's a Fundamental choice you have to make: do you build it on one big machine or...
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Do we really care about storage security? - Computerworld: In the past month, we've learned of yet another bank sending unencrypted tapes with sensitive data via UPS as well as a health care...
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Fast Guide: Advanced SAN: From techtarget.com: Now that you're beyond the basics of SAN and into more complex configuration solutions, troubleshooting performance issues, strategies and...
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A couple of potentially useful white-papers from computerworld - probably not a whole lot of new information in there for most of you, but I find this sort of thing to be useful when presenting...
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Sick of Storage | Computerworld Blogs: Y'know, I could live with this guy's job. I have discussions with storage vendors of every size, from the "two guys in a garage" to the...
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Incipient secures Round D funding: Incipient, Inc, a leading provider of intelligent switch storage software, announced today that it has raised $24 million in Series D financing bringing the total...
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Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks. - DaveBlog A Sun employee, an EMC employee and a NetApp employee are all at the funeral of a mutual friend. The Sun employee says, "We have a tradition...
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ISCSI vs. FC performance: A closer look: What weighs more: one pound of bricks or one pound of Feathers? Which is faster: 2 Gb FC or 1 Gb Ethernet? Hint: Both questions have the same answer. A very...
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