data storage
data storage
| 02/06/2012 06:53 AM |
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers
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Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks. Called Storage Spaces, the feature sets aside a designated storage area -- known as a space -- for a defined category of data within the entire available disk capacity -- called a pool.
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The future of data storage (infographic)
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In this infographic, IBM demonstrates how the efficiency of data storage is progressing rapidly.
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Dell sprays hot fluid data across storage products
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Delivers 4 from Texas â Backup, SharePoint and SAN storage get the focusDell's fluid data is travelling faster and further, with its first Data Domain replacement box, a SharePoint object storage system, and more capable Compellent SANs that better support VMware and have faster network links.⦠Read More (New Window) >> |
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Using Amazon S3 from Perl
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Amazon's Simple Storage Service provides a simple, flexible, and inexpensive way to manage online data storage. Amazon's S3 modules for Perl make storing and retrieving data in your own programs almost trivial, leaving Amazon to worry about hosting, scaling, and backups. Abel Lin shows how to store, retrieve, and store data with Amazon S3.
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Hospitals snap up cloudy storage as disk space runs out
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Overwhelmed with patient data, NHS trust runs into EMC's armsWith an HP system nearing the end of its usefulness and a thirst for more storage, St Helens and Knowsley teaching hospitals trust decided to switch to a cloud array for its patient data.⦠Read More (New Window) >> |
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Xyratex to Ship HPC File Appliance
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The company claims its Lustre-based storage system will let users store petabytes of data and retrieve them at blazing speeds.
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Xyratex to Ship HPC File Appliance
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The company claims its Lustre-based storage system will let users store petabytes of data and retrieve them at blazing speeds.
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Texas Storage Company Proguard Storage Promotes Options for Parents of Newborns
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Texas storage provider Proguard Storage is promoting its range of options for families with newborn infants who suddenly find themselves running out of space around the home.
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Windows 8 Server Gets New File System: ReFS
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Along with Storage Spaces coming in Windows 8, ReFS forms the foundation of storage on Windows for the next decade or more. Key features of the two when used together include: metadata integrity with checksums; integrity streams providing optional user data integrity; allocate on write transactional model for robust disk updates; large volume, file and directory sizes; storage pooling and virtualization making file system creation and management easy; data striping for performance and redundancy for fault tolerance; disk scrubbing for protection against latent disk errors; resiliency to corruptions with "salvage" for maximum volume availability in all cases; and shared storage pools across machines for additional failure tolerance and load balancing.
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Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays
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Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else. Nimbus's new E-Class (enterprise-class) Memory System is a fully redundant solid-state storage system that scales from 10TB to 440TB in capacity in a single file system and a single rack and costs about $10 per gigabyte.
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Dell launches dedupe appliance, VMware integration
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Dell Wednesday unveiled a new disk-based backup appliance that can perform data deduplication and replication tasks. The company today also launched the next generation of its Compellent Storage Center software, which adds support 64-bit technology and more tightly integrates with VMware vSphere's storage APIs.
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Peeking up the skirt of Microsoft's hardy ReFS
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As reported this past fortnight, Microsoft's new Storage Spaces for Windows 8 is only half the story; the operating system builder is also throwing in a new Resilient File System (ReFS) while retaining most NTFS features and semantics.
Storage Spaces is a Windows 8 feature that enables a PC user to aggregate physical disk drives into a storage pool from which virtual drives are carved out; these imaginary disks then benefit from self-healing data integrity features. Storage Spaces is aimed at client PCs using NTFS. ReFS is designed for servers, but will be adapted for clients so it can be ultimately used across both system classes.
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IBM creates data storage at the atomic level
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A new discovery by Big Blue researchers suggests that it's possible to store a bit of information in as little as 12 magnetic atoms. Today's disk drives require a million atoms to store a bit.
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Iomega announces StorCenter ix2 network storage
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Iomega (http://www.iomega.com) has announced the Iomega StorCenter ix2 Network Storage, a two-bay desktop network storage device available in multiple configurations and designed specifically for content sharing and data protection as well as cloud computing and video surveillance applications at small businesses, work groups, remote offices and distributed enterprises.  Read More (New Window) >> |
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IBM smashes Moore's Law, cuts bit size to 12 atoms
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IBM announced Thursday that after five years of work, its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data. The breakthrough may someday allow data storage hardware manufacturers to produce products with capacities that are orders of magnitude greater than today's hard disk and flash drives.
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IBM achieves breakthrough in data storage technology, creates world's smallest storage device
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Digital Trends - There has been some pretty neat stuff coming out of the IBM camp as of late. Earlier this week we got a glimpse of the companyâs plans to further develop battery technology in electric cars. Now it looks like another research and development division at IBM is hard at work pushing the envelope, and expanding computer storage space on an atomic level.
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Automatic IO Filtering for Optimizing Cloud Analytics
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Network bandwidth is often the bottleneck resource for large-scale data analytics. Cloud-based analytics platforms such as Amazonâs Elastic Map Reduce provide high bandwidth within a compute cluster but limited bandwidth to storage resources such as S3 servers. If data is accessed from another public cloud or a private cloud, then the network is not only a performance bottleneck but also causes egress bandwidth charges. This paper describes Rhea, a system to reduce traffic between storage and compute nodes for Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Rhea filters data read from storage by removing input rows, and column values within rows. Filters are job-specific and are automatically generated from static analysis of the mapperâs byte code. Filters are stateless, side effect free, and do not change the output of the MapReduce computation. Filtering is transparent to both the compute and storage nodes and is best-effort, allowing it to opportunistically use spare CPU cycles when available. Our evaluation shows that Rhea filters significantly reduce the amount of bytes transferred (e.g. by a factor >5 for some of our jobs), and correspondingly reduce egress bandwidth charges and overall execution time by similar factors.
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Using Amazon S3 from Perl
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Abel Lin: "Data management is a critical and challenging aspect for any online resource. With exponentially growing data sizes and popularity of rich media, even small online resources must effectively manage and distribute a significant amount of data. Moreover, the peace of mind associated with an additional offsite data storage resource is invaluable to everyone involved..."
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Windows 8: Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency
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In this post, we are going to dive into a feature in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Storage Spaces are going to dramatically improve how you manage large volumes of storage at home (and work). Weâve all tried the gamut of storage solutionsâfrom JBOD arrays, to RAID boxes, or NAS boxes. Many of us have been using Windows Home Server Drive Extender and have been hoping for an approach architected more closely as part of NTFS and integrated with Windows more directly. In building the Windows 8 storage improvements, we set out to do just that and developed Storage Spaces. Of course, the existing solutions you already use will continue to work fine in Windows 8, but we think you will appreciate this new feature and the flexible architecture. As we talk all about consumer electronics next week, thinking about all the media we all have in photos (especially huge digital negatives) and videos, this feature is sure to come in handy. In this post, Rajeev Nagar, a group program manager on our Storage and File System team, details this new feature.
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COWs Mobile Storage Containers Now Available In Richmond County North Carolina
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COWs - Container on Wheels announces the opening of their 30th dealership. COWs will be partnering with Martin Mini Storage and Rentals to bring COWs mobile storage containers to Richmond County North Carolina and the surrounding areas.
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