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• New Western Digital WDS25 Ultra Reliable and High Performance Hard Drive

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 440
  WD today announced its entry into the traditional enterprise market segment with volume production shipments of its first 10,000 RPM, 2.5-inch, small form factor, SAS interface hard drives. The WD S25 provides up to 300 GB of high-performance storage suitable for both mission-critical enterprise server and enterprise ...
  4 days ago

• The razors edge on vBlocks

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Nate at Techopsguys.com posted his first impressions of the new Cisco / EMC / VMware vBlock.   Hes got a lot of knowledge and a lot of opinions and hes not shy about sharing either of them.  Heres a quote: Third you get the sense that these aren’t really blocks at all. Thefirst tier is composed of rack mount ...
  4 days ago

• Symantec Backs Up Linux

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  Enterprise Storage Forum: "Symantec is adding Linux support to its Backup Exec System Recovery solution for small businesses."
  4 days ago

• EMC trips and kicks their supplier, STEC

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Its all over the news today. STECs stock is getting hammered because their largest customer, EMC, is delaying orders.   I feel for the folks at STEC, its difficult being a supplier to industry behemoths like EMC.  When realities dont meet expectations, things can crater in a hurry.  There is nothing wrong with ...
  5 days ago

• Game on! The rapid rise of bundled infrastructure products

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Although I work for 3PAR, which is an EMC competitor, I admit there is something very intriguing about the vBlock concept - and that is the concept of buying pre-fabricated, pre-integrated, information systems. Its like the old LAN in a can or SAN in a can, but vBlock is a much more sophisticated bundle with a much ...
  5 days ago

• Persistent Cache - Part 2 (no mask)

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  The Halloween video was fun to make and talk about, but I wanted to give people something a bit less frivolous to watch.  So here is Persistent Cache, part 2 ,which describes how data is copied from memory to memory across our Mesh Active fabric following the removal of a controller from an InServ storage cluster.
  6 days ago

• 3PAR Halloween Tool Talk: Persistent Cache

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Happy Halloween everybo dy !  In this video, Marc Farley in costume as the Storage Anarchist , places I/O data (M&M candies) into controller cache (skeleton cups) showing the distribution of cache data in an InServ mesh active, clustered storage system and how 3PARs new Persistent Cache re-levels data in ...
  1 week ago

• 3PAR Tool Talk: Vish Mulchand on Synchronous Long Distance Remote Copy

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Earlier this week, we announced our new Synchronous Long Distance Remote Copy software .  It lowers the cost of long distance disaster recovery two ways: Reduces communications costs by using lower cost asynchronous communications to a far away DR site while using a high-speed local or metropolitan link for ...
  1 week ago

• 3PAR Countdown: Resiliency with performance

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  All systems need contingencies - all the better if they can be built in. Unfortunately, failure mode and disaster operations usually means performance is sacrificed.  In todays world - especially if you are providing cloud services - degraded storage performance means you are going to have serious business issues to ...
  1 week ago

• What EMC thinks of as ease of use

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Scott Lowe had an interesting post on Friday about creating metaLUNs that has attracted some interesting comments, which is where the best parts are.  Giventodays computing power, there is no need for stupid softwarecontraptions like metaLUNs, they are a side effect of a dullarchitecture that puts the onus on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zetta Cloud Storage Goes Live

  
  MSPmentor — Authority: 525
  Zetta , an enterprise-level cloud storage service available to managed service providers and VARs, finally leaves a long closed beta phase and becomes available to the channel at large today. Sure, online storage is an increasingly crowded market, but Zetta claims to have licked a few challenges that plague their ...
  2 weeks ago

• 3Ps Greatest Hits (reruns) strikes again! I need an F Class!

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  3PARs F Class systems are mid-range storage arrays with enterprise features, including such new enterprise class features as Thin Persistence , Thin Conversion and Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation . StorageRap author should be back from the wild tomorrow (Thursday).
  2 weeks ago

• Micron Introduces New Line of 34nm Multi-Level Cell NAND for Enterprise Storage Systems

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 440
  When designing solid-state storage for enterprise applications, standard SLC NAND has been the technology of choice because of its reliability and endurance. But customers are often challenged on how to cost-effectively reach their capacity requirements. Micron Technology, Inc. is meeting customers’ requirements by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flush Time

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 110
  Single-parity RAID is under attack. Caching is the hottest trend in storage. The end of the high-performance disk drive is imminent. What happened? Increasing areal bit density has caused disk capacity to grow much faster than disk performance . A presentation at Storage Networking World by Ronald Bianchini of ...
  3 weeks ago

• 3Ps Greatest Hits - a rerun!

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  While StorageRap is away, let the reruns roll!
  3 weeks ago

• Columbus, OH Event: 3 Enterprise Storage Problems You Can Solve Today

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 110
  This summer, I presented three use cases for public cloud storage at the Nth Generation Symposium in LA. I will reprise this presentation next Wednesday (October 21) in Columbus, OH within the excellent confines of TechColumbus . This is a free lunch-time event (sponsored by Nirvanix) and all are welcome to attend. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chalk talk on Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Watch a discussion on 3PARs new Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation.  Comments are being held until StorageRap returns next week.
  3 weeks ago

• Staying thin - a new storage lifecycle choice

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 425
  Another way to understand what 3PAR announced yesterday is to think of the life cycle of storage. 3PAR clustered arrays now offer new methods for removing wasted capacity from storage and recycling it so you can make use of it again for more pressing needs. First, lets start with Thin Provisioning , which is a way ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Dumb Disk Fallacy

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 110
  I am spending a few weeks examining the truths and fictions that bind our industry together. Let’s start with one of my favorite old canards: That enterprise storage must be overpriced because bare disk drives are so cheap . I have seen this straw man argument set up by so many throughout my career that it has ...
  3 weeks ago

• In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl

  
  Tech Broiler — Authority: 569
  T-Mobile’s Sidekick/Danger Wireless meltdown has far-reaching implications for wireless carrier data integrity responsibilities way beyond any immediate remediation the company may need to offer its customers.Yesterday, T-Mobile notified all of its Sidekick/Danger device customers that a failure which occurred at ...
  3 weeks ago

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