Jul 19 2008

Are you leaking data from secure storage

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Do you encrypt data on your hard disk?
Have you ever tried to decrypt or hack that data?
I already know the answer to those questions. I too take for granted and trust that our software vendors know …

Jul 15 2008

Hot Storage Trends

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From the StorageIO Group comes author of the book Resilient storage networks – Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures. Greg Sculz has over 25 yars experience in a slew of operating systems a…

Jul 12 2008

MacBook Air’s price cut by 16%

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The first price tag on trhe MacBook Air back in January, with a solid-state drive, costed just over $3,000. Last week the MacBook hit the shelves at just over $2,500! A price slashing of $500. Much o…

Jul 02 2008

Roundtable Discussion on File Management & FANs

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A File Area network (FAN) is an approach to organizing various file-related technologies within an organization. Proper implementation supples a scalable, flexible, and intelligence driven data manag…

Jun 21 2008

Top 5 Storage Trends

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An interesting write up on the top five current trends in storage: The Five Biggest Storage Trends. I don't know if these are in any particular order but the list consisted of:

Virtualization – …

Jun 14 2008

The Virtual Data Center – Switches and Routers

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As a key component to the backend storage systems within a data center, switches and routers play an important role in consolidation and virtualization. This document provides a great explanation of …

Jun 07 2008

SanDisk Corporation introduces line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs)

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The demand for smaller yet storage rich devices have lured chip makers into into a frenzy. SanDisk this week introduced a line of SSDs that will be available in 4, 8, and 16 GB capacity with READs up …

Jun 04 2008

D-Link Upgrade to enable BitTorrent Downloads free from PC

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This is really cool! For those of us who use BitTorrent to access, store, and share data through the Internet, D-Link is giving away a free upgrade for its NAS device that includes the BitTorrent SDK…

May 31 2008

Solid-state drive coming soon from Seagate

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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 memory to store…

May 30 2008

A Thicker and Storage Hungry Browser?

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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. Wh…