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Storage industry takes steps to avoid PCIe SSD fragmentation

The Storage Networking Industry Association is forming a task force to tackle interoperability issues related to PCIe-based solid-state drives. So far, 50 industry representatives have agreed to participate.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci warns disk storage shortages will continue

EMC CEO Joe Tucci offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap yesterday, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.
Windows 8 to tame storage hassle with 'Spaces' technology

Windows 8 will tame data loss and storage bloat on PCs by offering a simple form of the thin provisioning and virtualisation technology more commonly found tin data centres, Microsoft has said.
IBM to roll out new clustered storage, iSCSI SANs

IBM plans to roll out software on its midrange and high end clustered storage arrays that allows policy-based migration, backups and data deletion. The company also will announce that its V7000 series array can perform both file and block-based data transfers.
OCZ's Synapse SSD to boost hard drive performance by auto-caching

OCZ's latest SSD, the Synapse, works in conjunction with a computer's regular hard drive to boost performance.
We're walking on sunshine: IBM's 120 petabyte drive could help better predict weather

The development of the world's largest single-file name data repository could help predict weather and prevent overhyping of hurricanes like Irene.
Iomega targets virtual servers with 12 bay rackmount NAS array

EMC's Iomega subsidiary this week announced a new top-of-the-line network storage array, which ratchets up the power and performance.
Dell launches new EqualLogic storage array range

Dell has announced a refresh of its midrange line of EqualLogic storage arrays, which are aimed at small-to-midsize businesses and remote corporate offices.
Dell 'anti-breach' encryption system arrives in the UK

Dell has launched its ?anti-breach? Data Protection encryption product in the UK, which the company is pitching as offering businesses a way of securing all data-carrying drives in one fell swoop without the complexity and unreliability that has caused slow uptake of the technology to date.
D-Link ships DNS-320 NAS device

D-Link has started shipping the DNS-320, a 2-bay network-attached storage (NAS) device.

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The tyranny of terrible tech support

I stumbled across this nonsense while setting up a new toy, er, product here in the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker.
Top 12 most popular green IT products

IT managers are thinking green from the desktop monitor to the recycling bin to the copy machine. Here are the dozen most popular tools and technologies that cut energy costs, boost data centre efficiency and promote green IT practices.
Macbook Air could foretell death of hard drives

Apple's decision to use SSD technology rather than a hard drive in the new Macbook Air - and Steve Jobs' pronouncement that it represents the future of notebooks - could hasten the replacement of traditional drives with NAND flash technology.
A simple guide to RAID

What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for "redundant array of independent disks," and you may or may not need it depending on your data-storage requirements.
In Depth: SATA 6 Gbits/sec

Those of us in the business of keeping an eye on new technologies wonder why the buzz about SATA 6Gbit/sec. (a.k.a. Serial ATA Revision 3) hasn't been louder than it is.
Best and worst of Microsoft Exchange 2010

Microsoft Exchange 2010 officially ships today, offering enterprises a bigger, better, faster messaging platform. Here are the most interesting features in the upgrade.
Four tips for deploying SSDs

While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data centre is balancing that performance against cost.
Smart array may signal storage shift

The storage industry is fast turning evolution into revolution in rethinking its approach to disk drives.
Why disk statistics can fail to satisfy

Vendor hard drive failure rates: Myth or metric?
Hulk and Maui - a recap

Within the next five months EMC will announce its cloud computing storage products, code-named Hulk and Maui. What do we know so far about them?

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Maximize SATA Value with SAS Controllers

Remarkable cost-effectiveness has always been the hallmark of Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives, and recent improvements in performance (3Gb/s) and available capacity (up to 750GB) have only reinforced SATA?s stature as the unrivalled leader in storage efficiency. Of course, SATA drives don?t exist in a vacuum, and deploying them within the optimal infrastructure is key to achieving maximum SATA value. The Adaptec Unified Serial? Architecture storage model enables enterprises to significantly boost the scalability, performance and reliability of their SATA disk drive-based solutions. By leveraging Serial Attached SCSI?s (SAS) compatibility with SATA, the comprehensive line of Adaptec SAS RAID controllers set new standards for SATA storage value.
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The Benefits of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) for External Subsystems

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the follow-on to parallel SCSI, is designed for high-performance enterprise requirements and offers both the benefits of backward compatibility with SCSI and interoperability with Serial ATA (SATA), bringing enterprises a flexibility and cost savings previously not possible. SAS provides significant benefits to external storage subsystems and offers users ?one-stop-shopping.? An external subsystem with a SAS midplane will support both high performance, reliable SAS drives ideal for transaction data, and cost-effective, highcapacity SATA drives ideal for reference and throughput data. Now customers can use one platform instead of two to support both drive types and satisfy all three application segments (illustrated in Figure 1). SAS-based external storage arrays provide benefits in five areas: performance, availability, flexibility, scalability, and cost of ownership.
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External serial ATA protocol

External SATA-connected disks could speed up disk-to-disk backup by nearly doubling data transfer speeds.
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Serial ATA: Hits and Misses

Why has serial ATA developed the way it has? Is it suitable for replacing SCSI interconnects?
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