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…
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…
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…
SSD is a hot topic for enterprise storage, with announcements of SSD options from numerous storage vendors. Despite the hype and headlines, there is open debate in the industry whether or not SSD is ready for the enterprise. The advice from many storage experts is “look before you leap”.…
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…
Data de-duplication is one of those topics that can be confusing. The technology itself is pretty straightforward, but many people are talking about it in different contexts, sometimes spun a bit to advantage their solution or approach to storage. InfoStor’s special report on de-duplication provides a fairly objective overview on the topic, penned by SNIA [...]
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…
I’ve been noticing a lot of traffic on Seagate’s website on anything related to India. There are more tag searches on that country than any other. At first I was puzzled. Then I recalled my trip to Asia last year. I wasn’t in India, but I did spend a couple of days with Seagate…
InfoStor captured the gist of Needham & Company’s recent Enterprise Storage/DataCenter report: asset optimization. Per Needham, after a relatively decent 2008 in which storage spending held up amazingly well, 2009 won’t be as pretty. Why? Asset optimization. In both years,…
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