Tag Archives: savvio

All 6Gb/s SAS, all the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s like HDTV. 

First we had HD televisions without any content.  Then we had some HD broadcasts, and some HD DVDs in the stores.

Then – inflection point! – all the pieces were there.  [....]

Avoid data spills with encryption

TechGadgets created an arresting visual image in my mind as they described the problem being solved by Seagate’s new self-encrypting enterprise drives:

“There isn’t an organization, large or small, [....]

Data center encryption for the masses

Seagate took a big step in the history of disk drives yesterday, although it may take a while for it to be seen as such.

Seagate announced the availability [....]

Data center nightmare captured on video

Reliable enterprise-class disk drives are critical for any trustworthy data center.

Redundant storage system designs are necessary.

Failover power and cooling is essential.

But sometimes none of that matters.  This video from [....]

Supermicro serves up several SAS 6G servers

Supermicro has launched a series of SAS 6G-ready server components called Building Block Solutions that have all the latest shtuff:

Onboard 6 Gb/s SAS technology
1U, 2U, 3U and 4U rackmount, tower [....]

Self-encrypting drives: destroy the data, not the drive

 

SearchStorage is reporting today on the lengths to which companies go to destroy their old data. It’s not as easy as you might think.

They quote an Enterprise Strategy Group [....]

Data centers are facing an Electricity Ceiling

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 [....]

Storage Budgeting Tips during Tough Times

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 [....]

HP blades: what’s good for servers is good for storage

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 [....]

Disk drives prove to be greener than SSDs in servers

 

Ideas International compared a disk-based server to an SSD-based server using the new Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1/E efficiency benchmark for some very interesting results. 

The disk-based server used 300 [....]