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Spotlight Article: F5 ARX2000 File Virtualization Appliance

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:04:02 -0600

As discussed in our article “What is File Virtualization?” this technology replaces the static mapping of files between clients and storage resources. It abstracts the physical location of data from the user, eliminating the need for the user to know where it’s actually stored. This enables a number of benefits for IT in their day-in and day-out job of making needed information available, keeping it protected, expanding the capacity as needed and maintaining the health of the infrastructure - all while reducing disruption to their end users.

Enterprise Vault enhances Exchange 2010

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:25:18 -0600

Exchange and SharePoint are growing at >30% per year. Overall storage growth is estimated at 50% annually, with email as the primary driver and average users sending and receiving ~20MB per day. With this much data increase, it’s not surprising that archive numbers are also skyrocketing. One estimate puts the amount of data that corporations are expected to archive over the next four years at 200,000 petabytes.

Caringo CAStor Cloud Storage

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:33:21 -0600

Cloud storage was supposed to simplify various aspects of enterprise storage, whether it be getting backups off-site, providing an archive for reference data or creating a distributed storage infrastructure that multiple locations could access. Instead, it seems to create confusion. The term ‘cloud storage’ is currently used to describe a number of different things.

The Ultimate MacBook Recovery Method

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:29 -0600

I hate downtime, but I hate losing data even more. So when Apple’s Time Machine was first included in MAC OS X, I thought it was worth the trials and tribulations of using an early version to get a backup every hour. Even as Time Machine has matured it’s still not great for fast, full-system recoveries. So I developed the Ultimate MacBook Recovery Method. With this process you can recover a MacBook within about 5 minutes and suffer virtually zero data loss.

DataDirect Networks Web Object Scaler Cloud Storage System

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:07:15 -0600

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a leader in high performance computing (HPC) storage systems, counting 8 out of the top 10 HPC systems worldwide as customers. Their systems deliver remarkable performance, storage density and overall capacity: 10GB/s, 1M IOPs and up to 1200 disk drives (HDD or SSD) in two frames. With additional frames these numbers can grow significantly. They have customers with dozens of PBs in a single file system, getting over 240GB/s out of a single namespace.