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For HP servers, what a difference a drive makes!

As I was perusing some HP server benchmarks recently, I was struck by how integral disk drives are to server performance – and not just IOPS.   Disk drives are a quiet but essential part of what makes a server fast, energy efficient or just do whatever it was born to do. Take for example…

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Financial data centers must grow and cut costs at the same time

“The markets aren’t stopping.” Data Center Knowledge found this video summarizing a panel discussion at the Waters Power:09 Conference on financial firms’ data center trends.  Emily Fraser’s interview with moderator Kevin McPartland from Tabb Group points to a…

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Finding your true spin speed

Whether its hard disks or fast cars, when it comes to speed, it’s all about revolutions per minute or RPM. Critically important (to the tune of $3M) to Helio Castroneves, 2009 winner of the Indy 500  this past weekend, RPM represents the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a…

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HP servers and storage: an interview with Jimmy Daley

  Jimmy Daley and I talked server storage the other day.  Jimmy’s the Server Options guy at HP, kind of a front-row seat for what’s happening on the storage front for servers. Some highlights: Server trends are particularly ”storage-friendly” these days. Virtualization is driving a significant increase in server storage capacity. Drive count per server is increasing [...]

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Sustainability in an ever-changing world

While en route from Minnesota to Iowa this past weekend, I noticed that the fields traditionally steep in corn or soybeans are now expanding their charter and becoming wind farms as well. With miles and miles of wind turbines, sustainability is obviously in the air here in the midwest. Even…

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Seagate speaks out on SSDs

In an interview with BSN, Seagate’s SSD guru Rich Vignes provided the latest on Seagate’s SSD plans. Highlights: Seagate hasn’t missed the SSD market window, and will enter with more than a “me too” product Enterprise SSD requirements go beyond what today’s SSD…

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Seagate Savvio runs faster than a Cheetah

Rarely seen in the wild, a relatively new species of hard disk drive called a Savvio has been observed outrunning a Cheetah.  This has surprised some storage naturalists, who have long held that the Cheetah is the fastest land-based organism of its kind. The Savvio is smaller in stature than a…

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The three legs of the virtualization stool

Virtualizing servers, I/O and storage creates a truly on-demand data center Giovanni Oteri has gone “all in” with virtualization, and it’s paying off for his data center at Iper Montebello. He followed a recipe I talked about in an earlier post: virtualize everything with…

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The nine lives of DAS

Just when it looks like networked storage has become the default storage architecture, DAS is showing signs of life. It shouldn’t really surprise anyone.  One constant of storage is the unpredictability of how it is best applied.  For decades, EMC and others have said “Tape is…

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The Benefits of moving to 2.5″ HDDs

Energy and performance often go hand in hand. The higher the performance, the more energy required to deliver it. Leading us to the great compromise. To save power you have to reduce performance. Or do you? 2.5” HDDs are lighter, more reliable, use less power, and are less expensive to run. And…

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