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IBM unveils new tiered storage products
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IBM today announced several new storage products that are designed to automate the movement of data to appropriate storage media and make it easier for users to use analytics to gain insight from the data. 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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Survey of MySQL Storage Engines
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<b>Database Journal:</b> "MySQL has an interesting architecture that sets it apart from some other enterprise database systems. It allows you to plug in different modules to handle storage. What that means to end users is that it is quite flexible, offering an interesting array of different storage engines with different features, strengths, and tradeoffs."
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HyperDrive Album - World's Most Advanced Portable Photo Storage And Viewer
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At PMA 2010 last week Sanho Corporation introduced the HyperDrive Album, a portable photo backup device designed with the viewing of high resolution photos in mind, for professional and casual digital photographers alike. With a whooping 640GB storage capacity, it is capable of downloading 2GB per minute with full data verification. It is also the only storage device in the market that can decode and display true RAW images from any camera on its 4.8" high resolution widescreen VGA (800 x 480 pixels), 16 million colors LCD screen. New data management, security and advance image viewing features round up what is arguably the most advanced portable photo storage on the market. The HyperDrive Album is available now at the following manufacturer's suggested retail price: 0GB ($299), 160GB ($349), 250GB ($399), 320GB ($449), 500GB ($549), 640GB ($599).
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Disaster Proof Storage
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Practical Example of csSQLi Using (Google) Gears Via XSS
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"Yesterday, at the Blackhat DC security conference, I spoke about the dangers of persistent web browser storage. Part of the talk focused on how emerging web browser storage solutions such as Gears (formerly Google Gears) and the Database Storage functionality included in the emerging HTML 5 specification, could be attacked on...
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Convenience Store With Rented Apartment
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Convenience store on Rockland's main street with rented apartment. Both have approximately 922 sq ft. It sits on a corner lot 66x87 ft. It includes a basement for storage (24x22 ft), a shed for storage (25x16 ft), and a single car garage. Sale by owner. Asking...
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Microchip Tech raises bid for Silicon Storage
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AP - Microchip Technology Inc. on Monday raised its purchase price for Silicon Storage Inc. a second time, competing with a private-equity firm for the maker of flash memory cards used in digital cameras and MP3 players.
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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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Data Locker 1TB AES-encrypted external hard drive
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Lock up your datas...Review How much pr0n can a fellow accumulate during a lifetime? Data Locker's Data Locker hard drive provides a whole terabyte of encrypted, password-protected storage for the files you want to keep from prying eyes.⦠Read More (New Window) >> |
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StorPlex 2U 8-Bay iSCSI Appliance
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 Feature rich, high-density iSCSI storage solution designed for small businesses and remote offices looking for a cost effective shared storage solution.
Enables the transport of block-level storage traffic over IP networks.
Builds on two widely used technologies - SCSI commands for storage and IP protocols for networking.
Uses standard Ethernet switches and routers to move the data from server to storage.
Allows system administrators and integrators to develop Storage Area Networks (SANs) using cost-effective Gigabit Ethernet Networks in the data center.
Enables IP and Ethernet infrastructure to be used for expanding access to SAN storage and extending SAN connectivity across any distance.
Reduces SAN management training requirements.
Provides high data throughput, with support for 10 GbE, TOE, Intel® I/O AT, Fibre Channel and multi-CPU.
Supports clustering, IPsec, Snapshot with scheduling, OS on USB-DOM, minimize down time, CHAP Authentication and Network UPS Support, shadow copy of OS.
Supports all leading SCSI, Serial SCSI, Serial ATA and IDE controllers, FC HBAs, NICs and networking chipsets, iSCSI HBAs, and software initiators.
Web-based, password-protected user interface, console tool and an integrated volume manager.
Up to 8TB (8,000 GB) and larger hot swap Serial ATA storage capacity.
RAID level support: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 Single Disk, JBOD.
Ideal for a variety of storage applications, including video streaming, rich media archives and near-line storage. 
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Podcast: Storage Company Quantum Acquires ADIC, Battles Sun, HP, and IBM
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Storage and Enterprise IT Analyst Marc Farley comments on the newly announced Quantum acquisition of ADIC. The $770 million acquisition can be viewed as a defensive move, but it also strengthens Quantum's story while competing against major enterprise IT vendors Sun Microsystems, HP, and IBM, Farley says in this exclusive podcast.
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Bandwidth vs Storage
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My discussion on the bandwidth versus storage versus quality debate on PaidContent.org. Read More (New Window) >> |
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WD intros My Passport AV drive geared for media storage
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<img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1002/wdsml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Western Digital has expanded its line of storage products with the My Passport AV. The portable drive is geared for video storage and playback, with support for a variety of game consoles, TVs, Blu-ray players, or other devices that can directly connect to a USB drive.... Read More (New Window) >> |
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Intel® 2U 12-Bay Storage Server SSR212MC2
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 The Intel® Storage Server SSR212MC2 is a flexible hardware platform that can be coupled with one of a number of different industry software solutions to create an application server with internal storage (DAS) or used as a dedicated network storage appliance (NAS or SAN). Built to support Intel® dual-core and quad-core CPU technologies, the SSR212MC2 offers performance and flexibility. The SSR212MC2 is a 2U rackmount storage server that supports 12 enterprise-class Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) HDDs. This PCI Express*-based platform supports up to 32 GB of fully buffered DIMMs and up to two high-performance dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors. Flexible network connectivity will include quad port Gb Ethernet, 10 Gb Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or Infiniband via add-in cards.
An Increasing Need for Storage
Businesses today are being inundated with digital data, from the growth in existing applications like e-mail and databases to emerging rich-media applications such as digital video. New government regulatory requirements, corporate business continuity, and corporate disaster recovery plans are adding to the explosive growth of storage needs. All of these factors contribute to an ever-increasing need for storage in small and medium business as well as larger enterprises. The Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2 addresses this growing storage demand by supporting up to 12 enterprise-class SAS or high-capacity SATA hard drives. It features hardware support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5,10, and 50, making data more reliable and faster to access.
Lower Storage Costs with Enterprise-Class Reliability
The Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2 features support for high-capacity, 7,200 RPM SATA hard disk drives (HDD), which are less expensive than Fibre Channel or SCSI drives and simplify cabling. Additionally, SATA drives offer software transparency and scalability to help lower upgrade costs. The SSR212MC2 also supports SAS HDDs, which offer enterprise-class reliability. With spindle speeds of 10,000 RPM and 15,000 RPM, and an architecture that enables a point-to-point connection and full-duplex, or bi-directional, data transfers, SAS HDDs offer performance and reliability similar to SCSI or Fibre Channel HDDs.
Flexible Software Solutions
Intel has engaged with storage software providers to ensure the availability of a variety of software solutions. These include applications that allow the Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2 to be configured as a SAN or a NAS system. To see the growing list of industry software solutions optimized for the Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2, visit www.intel.com/design/servers/ storage/ssr212mc2/index.htm.
Flexible Connectivity Options
Intel is enabling a robust set of hardware options to provide high bandwidth storage and server connectivity. Dual- and quad-port Intel® PRO server adapters provide an option for increased bandwidth through bonding of ports, or reliability via failover. Additional options will include, 10 Gb Ethernet, 4 Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity, and 20 Gbps Infiniband connectivity.
Environments ranging from high-performance computing to the growing compute, networking, and storage needs of small and medium businesses can all benefit from the flexible network connectivity options available, via add-in cards, with the SSR212MC2. To learn more, visit the SSR212MC2 Website.
Operating Systems Support
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4.0
• Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003*
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition*1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition*1
• Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003*
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DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Amounts of Performance Data on Commodity Servers
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Contemporary datacenters house tens of thousands of servers. The servers are closely monitored for operating conditions and utilizations by collecting their performance data (e.g., CPU utilization). In this paper, we show that existing database and file-system solutions are not suitable for warehousing performance data collected from a large number of servers because of the scale and the complexity of performance data. We describe the design and implementation of DataGarage, a performance data warehousing system that we have developed at Microsoft. DataGarage is a hybrid solution that combines benefits of DBMSs, file-systems, and MapReduce systems to address unique requirements of warehousing performance data. We describe how DataGarage allows efficient storage and analysis of years of historical performance data collected from hundreds of thousands of servers---on commodity servers. We also report DataGarage's performance on a real dataset and a 32-node, 256-core shared-nothing cluster and our experience of using DataGarage at Microsoft for the last nine months.
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Sun Shows that Innovation Isn't Just for Startups
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We can all picture the scene: A couple of guys toiling away in a cluttered garage, perfecting the next innovation that will shake an entire industry. Meanwhile, the big corporate players in the market stand oblivious -- fat, dumb, happy, and too bogged down by bureaucracy and conservatism to be innovative themselves.
It's a great image -- one that has long persisted. There's just one problem with it: It's false. "The all but universal belief that large businesses do not and cannot innovate is not even a half-truth," Peter Drucker wrote in his 1985 classic Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Yet what is true, Drucker added, is that "it takes special effort for the existing business" to get beyond the temptation "to feed yesterday and to starve tomorrow." I was reminded recently of the wisdom in Drucker's words when I had a chance to chat with Mike Shapiro, engineering director and chief technology officer for Sun Microsystem's Open Storage operation. As much as any story I've heard, Shapiro's demonstrates that, as Drucker put it, "innovation can be achieved by any business" -- even the largest. But what Shapiro and his colleagues have accomplished also serves as a textbook example of Drucker's other insight: A major company must follow specific practices if it's to convert breakthrough ideas into real results.
Shapiro, his partner, Bryan Cantrill, and their small team are the brains behind a family of data-storage systems -- the 7000 line -- that Sun introduced late last year. It features oodles of capacity, a "killer app" that uses real-time graphics so that customers can observe and understand what their storage system is doing, and a pricing model that appears to blow away the competition. I'm more of a Luddite than a techie myself, but I can tell you that reviews in the trade press have...
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Even High-Riding EMC Facing Layoffs
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EMC, the world's largest seller of enterprise data storage hardware and software, says it will trim about 2,400 jobs or about 6 percent of its staff over the next 12 to 15 months. - EMC, the world's largest seller of enterprise data storage hardware and software, said Jan. 7 that it will trim about 2,400 jobs or about 6 percent of its staff over the next 12 to 15 months in light of the global recession. In filing its preliminary quarterly financial report to the SEC, EMC... Read More (New Window) >> |
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The world's tiniest workshop?
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Apple: MobileMe Backup v3.2
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"...improves the reliability of backup restore and uses space more efficiently on your iDisk or local storage (e.g. external hard drive or DVD)."
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