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At least it wasn't as bad as.... On Storage

Four infamous IT meltdowns | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-01-30 | By Dan Tynan: It's never going to be a good excuse for blowing a budget, but at least it might make you feel a little better about missing that vital little ($10,000 worth of) product off your initial estimates... Of course, these are all government contracts - if a company did this, it would end up going under. Maybe I should [...] Read More


Storage for the Little Guys On Storage

Thanks to two companies teaming up for a good cause, small and midsize companies will now have access to sensibly sized storage systems. Dell and EMC have announced the release of the CX3-10, an entry-level storage area network (SAN) that promises multi-fabric connectivity, flexibility in how it can be configured, beefed-up data protection and easier installation. At $22,000, it's a much less expensive solution for companies with smaller data storage [...] Read More


Charting New Storage Territory On Storage

Data centers have long fought the fight between storing and maintaining the workflow. Storage networks simply aren't set up to understand, or even to be aware of applications, workflow and data access patterns. Even the so-called fixes - the general block-based storage arrays - fall short. While they do run any number of varied workloads, they aren't optimized for any specific workload function, nor do they understand any particular data [...] Read More


Wise use of SAN Storage technology Tech Intelligence

In the old days, the data produced by customers was hardly ever more than what you could put inside a generic unix server, and in cases where it wasn't enough we could make use of disk cabinets for storage. Today, all is different. Storage has become something we can't do without, and we need it to be flexible and fast. There is nothing wrong with that. As a result, diskspace has [...] Read More


The Epson P-4000 Multimedia Storage Viewer Offers 80GB Hard Drive Digital Shot

The Epson P-4000 Multimedia Storage Viewer Offers 80GB Hard Drive You know, this looks rather nice. 3.8" LCD, 80 gig of storage, able to display RAW images as well as JPEG - plays movies (MPEG 4 and Motion JPEG). You can connect it to your TV or projector, your PC/Mac over USB 2, and it can print directly to Epsom printers. If it played more video formats, I'd be tempted - I [...] Read More