The fall 2011 Storage Networking World (SNW) show is just around the corner and will be held next week at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. SNW is the world’s largest storage, data center, and IT infrastructure conference and brings together top information from information technology executives, leading product and service providers, and [...]
Each year at the annual Flash Memory Summit, flash designers, system engineers, and OEMs converge to discuss the latest trends and updates within the growing solid state memory market. The Flash Memory Summit hosted more than 1,500 participants this year at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where…
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, [...]
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″…
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…
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…
Dot Hill announced a couple of RAID arrays using 2.5″ SAS drives. Xyratex has been in the 2.5″ array business for awhile now. HP‘s also in the game. The list goes on and on. 2.5″ enterprise drives are ready for storage system prime time. These small drives are now big from a…
Kessler International recently bought 100 PC disk drives in bulk on eBay. Using the forensic equivalent of dumpster diving, they were able to recover private information, including corporate financial data, from 40 of them. That’s right – 40% of the drives contained sensitive information…
If you’re looking for a safety net for your data, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the way to go. As SAS moves data to and from disks or tape, it depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that uses the standard SCSI command set. While SATA has all but replaced the legacy ATA (retroactively renamed Parallel [...]
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