© Jef Poskanzer From the IDG News Service, Seagate will be introducing a solid-state drive next year. Definition from Wiki: A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state...
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by James Koopmann on May 31, 2008
When businesses or new initiatives begin, may companies often forget to build their database infrastructures efficiently. They either over build or under build. Both of which waste resources and...
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How often do you work offline without an Internet connection? We are becoming more tightly coupled to the Internet than ever before as the use of web applications continue to proliferate our lives....
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© casey.marshall Do you get confused when talking data transfer rate. Do you want to compare disk drives, whether they be USB, Firewire, CD-ROM, SATA, or something else and can't relate them....
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If you have some time on your hands, or you've just been working a bit too hard these last 6-10 hours please take a break. You do owe yourself that much. Actually, let someone else use their...
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© pedrosimoes7 In the last post we took at look at what data de-duplication was. As there might be a few issues in your head as to how one might implement data de-duplication I thought I would make...
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© Sam UL Durring the process of data backup we can question the validity of backing up everything or performing some form of selective backup. Duplication of data in the backup stream can be a...
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© Orin Optiglot Now I'm not the biggest pack rat around but I do have both emails and business documents stored on my computers that are over 25 years old. Recently, I have started to scan most...
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© e-strategyblog.com What would you do if you knew a major catastrophe was on its way and threatened to totally destroy your data center? I venture to say you really couldn't do anything today...
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© Charles & Clint I am really torn between wanting 3TB in my laptop and the fact I would have to spend 10K for it! One the one hand this would be really cool for those of us that like......
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Why do you want to virtualize your hardware infrastructure? Do you even know what virtualization is? Do you know how virtualization software can help you? This video is not real vmware specific as it...
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© Credit: Charles Babbage Institute Thought I would just take a little trip down memory lane. Now I wasn't even born when this picture was taken but there are plenty of ancient historical images...
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Going to and from the office you just realize you left your USB drive on the desk. Thoughts of theft by the cleaning crew quickly rush through your head. So you turn around in traffic and when you...
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© Ralph Hockens Anyone ever get off their duff and go to one of these? I would enjoy hearing your comments. It somewhat amazes me to read in the opening line for this particular show that...
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© Sister72 In the last couple of posts I pointed you to some very useful on-line demos. I personally enjoy demos because I can sit back, have a cup of coffee, and let someone else do the typing. They...
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Another quick little demo showing the self healing feature with ZFS. In this demo you are quickly taken through how ZFS can recover from data corruption in mirrored volumes. The demo first starts by...
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Want to see ZFS in a 5 minute demo? The following demo by Dan Price will show you some of the basics in using ZFS. This video will take you through using some ZFS commands with regard to:...
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© ARTS How about a completely new approach to file system / data management? I am always excited when the old is thrown away and something new is built in its place. The ZFS file system is just such...
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© mio_pls 2008 IT Skills and Salary Report A Joint Study by Global Knowledge and TechRepublic Are you secure in your job? I have looked at quite a few salary surveys in my day, you probably have too,...
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What is the best storage system for your needs? Do you even know where to start? Do you have time to search through all the specifications? Let's face it, it isn't easy to figuring out...
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© laurenatclemson I have found what seems to be a super jumping off page for the OpenSolaris Storage initiative. This site is an "umbrella for the OpenSolaris storage and data management related...
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