Storage
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Data Robotics DroboPro
Reviews DroboPro is a business-class RAID storage array that accepts virtually any SATA disk on the market, supports iSCSI and pretty much looks after itself. What more could you want?
Tags: Robotics, Storage, USB, RAID, NAS, storage array, disk, Ethernet, Serial ATA, iSCSI
HDS: 'Clean up' before hitting cloud
News update Firms moving storage onto cloud must first get their "house in order", or existing problems will be transferred into new business model, urges CTO Hu Yoshida.
Tags: Storage, Investments, Hitachi Ltd., Google Inc., International Data Corp., De-duplication, provisioning, Singapore, Storage, Amazon.com Inc.
Toshiba to join Blu-ray club
News Its rival format long since gone, Toshiba will move on with a new range of DVD players, HDTVs and laptops that support multiple storage devices.
Tags: Home entertainment, Storage, Blu-ray, Video, Storage, HDTV, DVD, HD-DVD, Sony PlayStation 3, DVD player
IBM moves into cloud storage
News Smart Business Storage Cloud pulls together IBM technologies to allow businesses to set up private clouds where they can store and archive petabytes of data.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data Management, Authentication, IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Archiving, Storage, storage system, Cloud computing, Consulting
File Server Capacity Tool helps scale file server sizing
Techguide Rick Vanover reminds Windows administrators that Microsoft's new File Server Capacity Tool isn't a storage silver bullet.
Tags: Storage software, Microsoft Windows, File servers, Server platforms, File Server, Microsoft Corp., Common Internet File System, Server platforms, Storage software, File servers
HDS delivers 2PB in mid-range network storage
News Hitachi Data Systems launches two new NAS devices built on BlueArc hardware, offering a maximum capacity of up to 2 petabytes.
Tags: Components, Processors, Disaster Recovery, File System, Storage, network storage, NAS, Hardware, Components, Processors
Cisco, EMC, and VMware make alliance official
News The three companies are forming a joint venture that will provide unified data center products to big corporate customers.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, networking equipment, Virtualization, partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Storage, VMware Inc., Wall Street Journal
Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array
News F5100 Flash Array will deliver a low-power performance boost to transaction-heavy database operations, while cutting power usage, says Sun Microsystems.
Tags: Components, Memory, Intel Corp., F5100, Archiving, Storage, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, I/O
Reduce hardware needs and ease administration with Exchange 2010
Techguide Exchange 2007 was widely considered to be a revolutionary change in the Exchange line. Exchange 2010 builds on many of the good aspects of Exchange 2007, and organizations migrating to Exchange 2010 will be able to do so with less hardware.
Tags: E-mail servers, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Database, Exchange 2010, Scott Lowe, Microsoft Corp., Storage, clustering, high availability
HP tailors data center tools for Oracle apps
News New templates allow companies to automatically provision and deploy Oracle applications using HP's BladeSystem Matrix all-in-one data center package.
Tags: Components, Data centers, Data Management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., BladeSystem Matrix, Cisco Systems Inc., HP StorageWorks, Tool, Storage
Storage goes through the looking glass
Techguide Almost overnight, storage has evolved from being rather limited and expensive to something remarkably cheap and virtually without limit.
Tags: Storage, Storage software, Backup, Storage, Apple Macintosh, Storage software, performance, hard drive, disk
Disabling automatic drive letter assignment
Techguide Advanced storage configurations in Windows may require you to disable the automatic drive enumeration. Rick Vanover outlines this advanced configuration area of Windows storage.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Storage software, Virtualization, Storage, storage environment, Ohio, Storage software, Rick Vanover, Environment
Configure iSCSI CHAP security through Windows Group Policy
Techguide Admins can configure Group Policy to require security for connecting iSCSI storage devices to Windows systems. Find out how it is done.
Tags: Storage, Server platforms, Authentication and encryption, Security, Storage, group policy, Microsoft Windows Server, network, Microsoft Windows, Authentication and encryption
Cloud storage in cloud requires different mindset
Techguide One of the fundamental requirements for any IT professional deciding whether to embrace or dismiss cloud computing is to first understand it. An expert highlights big picture offerings of storage in the cloud.
Tags: Storage, Web services, Cloud computing, provisioning, Storage, Web Service, Rick, data management, Cloud computing, Rick Vanover
Oracle sends out update to Database 11g
News Oracle Database 11g Release 2 focuses on consolidating hardware and virtualization, and arrives two years after the database software was originally launched.
Tags: Databases, Database management, Storage Management, Tool, Storage, Server, data warehouse, Oracle Corp., Databases, Database management
