Storage Hardware
I/O Bottlenecks: Biggest Threat to Data Storage
Data storage has become the weak link in enterprise applications, and without a concerted effort on the part of storage vendors, the technology is...
Sun Layoffs Hit Open Source Projects
Sun Microsystems will soon lay off thousands of employees, many associated with its open source programs, according to an InternetNews.com report published today. Among...
The Future of Data Storage: FCoE, SSD...
As I wrote a year ago, the data storage market was going to be tough to predict this year because of the economy,...
Seagate Unveils First Solid State Drives
Seagate this week entered the solid state drive (SSD) market with new high-performance SSDs aimed at the server market — but the hard drive...
Error Correction: An Urgent Need for Files
I was at a preservation archive workshop hosted by a U.S. government agency recently — these are installations that must preserve information in a...
Solid State Drives Take Out the Garbage
The growing use of solid state drive (SSD) technology in data storage applications is shedding light on the way SSDs cope with performance degradation...
10 Reasons Why ZFS Rocks
Sun's (NASDAQ: JAVA) open-source ZFS file system has some amazing features. It was originally designed for Solaris and unveiled in 2005, but you'll also...
Saving Money with Solid State Drives
Solid state (SSD) and flash drives are everywhere, thanks to high performance and falling prices.
SSD prices are still an order of magnitude or two...
Why NAS Might Overtake SAN Storage
The following words were written on this site back in 2002, when Drew Bird was writing about the basics of storage area networks (SANs)."Many...
Analysts Expect Strong Earnings from NetApp, Brocade
A couple of Wall Street analysts had good things to say about NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) this week — and one...
EMC, Cisco and VMware Unveil ‘Vblock’
EMC (NYSE: EMC), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) officially unveiled their long-awaited data center partnership today, a coalition first reported by Enterprise...
Apple Drops ZFS Plans Amid Licensing Issues
A three-year effort to add Sun's (NASDAQ: JAVA) ZFS file system to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) Mac OS appears to be dead.A notice appeared late...
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