Reducing data center power consumption is good for the planet and good for IT budgets. It can also mean extra cash. PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) awarded Fortune Data Centers $900,000 for their energy efficiency enhancements in a San Jose, California data center. This is stark evidence…
Despite the difficult economic times, storage needs keep growing. IT managers are looking for ways to optimize the investments they must make to keep up with these ever-increasing storage demands. Here are 5 options to consider: 1. Tier Your Storage – Use lower cost Nearline storage, like Seagate Constellation™ drives for high capacity reference data, [...]
Robin Harris talks about capacity growth in 2.5″ notebook drives, and wonders what it portends for the enterprise. No doubt that 1 TB ‘mobile’ drives, available from Seagate later this quarter, are interesting. But the enterprise is affected in a way not discussed by…
Beth Pariseau reported on two big storage announcements from HP: HP will move its entire storage line to six Gbps small form factor SAS, starting with the D2000 in the fall. That’s two valuable transitions in one: moving from 4Gbps FC to 6 Gbps SAS, and moving from 3.5″…
Not so long ago the future of storage device interfaces was considered to be a three-way race. Forecasts projected about 30% share for FC, SAS and SATA. The latest IDC projections show that the game will change dramatically to become all about SAS. Fibre Channel’s future as a drive…
Chris Mellor at The Register heard from Gary Veale, HP’s new StorageWorks EMEA VP on HP’s storage future – and it looks a lot like HP’s current servers. Veale says HP will decouple storage management, processors and storage with a modular blade approach. Processor blades…
Dell’s new PowerVault® MD1120 storage array is built for efficiency! Providing up to 12 TB of storage in a single 2U enclosure, it uses the new Seagate Constellation™ HDDs which only takes 2.4 Watts of energy for each drive in the system. Best used in space-constrained environments, its modular…
The guys over at sacklun.ch must’ve spend a month spinning Seagate drives to generate this thoughtful and incredibly thorough review. Their focus was documenting the difference between 2.5″ and 3.5″ enterprise drives using just about every imaginable scale. Consider it a handy…
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…
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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