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The economic downturn caught many organizations in the middle of disaster recovery (DR) projects, leaving them to continue fleshing out those plans with limited resources. Completing advanced disaster recovery and high-availability projects can be a tall order for organizations with budget restrictions. Franklin and Marshall College, a small liberal arts college located in Lancaster, Penn., has been [...] By Alan Earls In the 1980s and early 1990s, IT managers, accustomed to centralized computing operations, fretted about the loss of control inherent in the proliferation of the PC and of non-sanctioned applications like Lotus 1-2-3. Nowadays, the latest consumer-driven IT phenomenon is cheap, easy online data backup. More and more individuals are migrating to services like [...] By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer A move to the clouds appears to be “on tap” from NetApp Inc., one of several major enterprise data storage vendors preparing a cloud storage push. According to one if its corporate bloggers, NetApp is working with Cisco Systems Inc. and VMware Inc. to develop a secure multi-tenancy application for private clouds [...] By Kevin Komiega August 3, 2009 — With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 just a few months away, questions about its storage impact abound. In this interview with InfoStor, Astrid McClean, senior Exchange technical product manager with Microsoft’s Exchange Server team, explains the ins-and-outs of Exchange 2010 storage, addresses rumors of a move to SQL Server [...] The SSD world waited with bated breath on Tuesday as Intel announced the specs and pricing of its next-generation X25-M drives. The performance improved, sometimes heartily, but the pricing was the real story. Once these things get out there, Intel is expecting the 80GB drive to sell for $225 and the 160GB drive to sell for [...] Toshiba has introduced its first external 3.5-inch format disk product, and it probably uses a third-party drive. It holds up to 1TB of data and comes with USB 2.0 and eSATA connectivity. Bundled software backs up and restores files, and also the entire attached PC system. The drive comes with a USB cable and an AC adaptor [...] Intel’s latest brace of solid state drives has been pulled from the market while a firmware bug gets fixed.Once the firmware bug has been fixed, the drives will go back onsale by etailers and, no doubt, a firmware upgrade will be madeavailable to existing customers. Seagate is closing a hard disk drive facility in Singapore, making up to 2,000 redundancies as it strives to reduce costs. The one-million-square-foot site at Ang Mo Kio became operational in 1997. Seagate says it makes all of the company’s mission-critical hard drives – understood to mean enterprise drives. There are about 4,000 employees at the plant. Seagate [...] The biggest, baddest flash clustered drive on the market has been launched by Texas Memory Systems, the 100TB RamSan-6200. This monster offers more than 5 million sustained I/Os per second and 60GB/sec of sustained bandwith. Individual read and write I/O performance isn’t revealed. These are huge numbers, achieved by a scale-out approach of clustering twenty RamSan-620 flash SSDs [...] By January 2010 we should be seeing 620GB 2.5-inch and 2.5TB 3.5-inch hard disk drives, according to head manufacturer TDK Corporation. A presentation to financial analysts, including Stifel Nicolaus’ Aaron Rakers, contained a roadmap for hard disk drive (HDD) read/write heads which TDK manufactures for some HDD suppliers. The current highest density read/write heads it is mass [...] |
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