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A tour of DreamWorks Studios' data center

Posted October 20, 2012 - 7:20 am

DreamWorks Studios is busy producing eight to 10 films at any given time, and each film produces 120,000 frames of film and uses 200TB of storage. In recent years, 150 engineers have been working on creating software that can take advantage of 25,000 CPUs in a parallel fashion.
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Citrix ShareFile upgrade allows IT department to control personal cloud-based storage

Posted October 17, 2012 - 11:21 am

Citrix Systems is giving back to IT departments some control over personal cloud-based storage with ShareFile StorageZones, which allows user content to be stored in enterprises' own data centers, the company announced at the Synergy conference in Barcelona.
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Facebook prepares to use 'cold storage' to deal with vast amounts of data

Posted October 17, 2012 - 9:28 am

Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the 7 petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows, Facebook needs find cheaper, less power-hungry ways to store them all, according to the company's vice-president of infrastructure engineering.
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Microsoft to acquire cloud-integrated storage provider StorSimple

Posted October 16, 2012 - 9:25 pm

Microsoft has reached a deal to acquire cloud-integrated storage company, StorSimple.
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Seagate unveils three enterprise-class hard drives

Posted October 16, 2012 - 4:42 pm

Seagate today announced three new enterprise-class hard disk drives aimed at traditional data centers and emerging private and public cloud infrastructures.
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Microsoft to acquire StorSimple for integrated cloud storage

Posted October 16, 2012 - 3:06 pm

To augment its own Azure cloud service, Microsoft is acquiring StorSimple, a company that provides appliances that back up enterprise data to cloud storage services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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NetApp adds clustering technology to OpenStack

Posted October 16, 2012 - 8:30 am

NetApp has contributed Data ONTAP 8 Clustering drivers to OpenStack, giving service providers and enterprises better resources when building private and public clouds based on the platform, it said on Monday.
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Explaining the Anonymous and WikiLeaks split

Posted October 15, 2012 - 11:51 am

Confused (and saddened) by the recent split between Anonymous and WikiLeaks? Allow us to help explain it all so even your mom will understand
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Solid-state drives: 10 questions, 10 solid answers

Posted October 15, 2012 - 7:44 am

As solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming more and more mainstream, with 64GB-128GB models well below the $100 price point, it's time to go behind the scenes, solve some mysteries, and give you some answers on how to treat SSDs right. Here, in no particular order, are answers to your burning questions around flash storage.
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Akitio Cloud Hybrid: Convenient NAS and USB storage in one

Posted October 14, 2012 - 9:42 pm

It's nice to be versatile, and the $105 Akitio Cloud Hybrid is just that. You can use this single-bay drive box either for network-attached storage (NAS) via the unit's ethernet jack, or for direct-attached storage (DAS) on a PC or Mac via the box's USB 3.0 port.
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Cisco, NetApp announce pre-configured platform for SMBs

Posted October 14, 2012 - 9:25 pm

NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod, a new, converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized organizations based on its predecessor, FlexPod.
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Iomega launches new flagship network storage array

Posted October 13, 2012 - 9:15 pm

One of the challenges facing businesses of all sizes today is how to corral the terabytes upon terabytes of data that is generated and archived every day. Iomega--a respected name in data storage--has a new tool that just might help meet that challenge, though. The new StorCenter px12-450r Network Storage Array.
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Apache Lucene/Solr expands across many servers

Posted October 11, 2012 - 2:03 pm

The Apache Software Foundation's widely used open source Lucene/Solr search engine package has been upgraded to accommodate its users' seemingly insatiable need to collect and use ever-larger amounts of data.
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Webcast

Extend the Virtual Edge of the Data Center to the Branch

Posted October 10, 2012 - 5:30 pm
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Box takes 'best of breed' approach to compete with single stacks from Oracle, IBM, HP

Posted October 10, 2012 - 10:44 am

Looking to broaden its scope in the enterprise market, Box Tuesday rolled out a "point and click" ability for third parties to integrate the Box cloud sharing platform directly into their applications.
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HDS releases converged infrastructure platform

Posted October 9, 2012 - 11:12 am

Hitachi Data Systems said that it is offering a pre-tested architecture that combines storage, servers, networking switches and virtualization software
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Box Adds HTML5 framework, embeds cloud content management in 3rd-party apps

Posted October 9, 2012 - 10:43 am

Box Embed is designed to allow developers to embed Box's content management and collaboration features into business applications, providing unified content governance without the need for expensive integration efforts or a unified software stack.
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Box seeks broad integration with third-party web apps, sites

Posted October 9, 2012 - 10:06 am

Box announced on Tuesday an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications.
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IBM, AT&T; team on cloud services

Posted October 9, 2012 - 2:13 am

IBM has teamed with AT&T to offer secure shared cloud services to customers over private networks rather than the public Internet, the companies said Tuesday.
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Apple extends iCloud storage upgrades

Posted October 8, 2012 - 2:48 pm

If you had a MobileMe account for online storage, Apple has good news for you: The complimentary extension of storage services that was supposed to end on September 30, 2012 has been extended by one year, according to an Apple KnowledgeBase document.
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Creating cohesive storage management

Posted October 8, 2012 - 2:43 pm

Vendors of storage management tools are moving toward a 'single pane of glass' product that can automatically provision, resize, back up and recover storage across multiple public and private clouds, across systems from different vendors and for virtual machines running hypervisors from multiple vendors.
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How to free up iCloud storage space

Posted October 6, 2012 - 7:15 am

When Apple introduced iCloud in 2011, it announced that every customer with an Apple ID would receive 5GB of iCloud storage space for free. You can add more storage at a rate of $2 per gigabyte per year, in 10GB, 20GB, or 50GB increments. But if you're not interested in ponying up extra cash for iCloud storage, that 5GB can quickly get tight.
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White Paper

ESG Lab Validation Report: Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease using NetApp FAS2240

Posted October 5, 2012 - 4:30 pm

This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system.
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IDC White Paper: Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization and Consolidation in Midsized Firms with Network Storage

Posted October 5, 2012 - 4:30 pm

The twin concepts of virtualization and consolidation in IT environments are increasingly being applied by midsized firms to improve performance and gain efficiency. Improvement in the coordination of resources can result in greater competitiveness and lower costs.
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Wikibon ROI Study: Business Case for Unified Storage Consolidation for Microsoft Windows Installations

Posted October 5, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Unified storage is infrastructure that supports multiple types of storage within a single management framework.
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StorageWhite Papers & Webcasts

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Extend the Virtual Edge of the Data Center to the Branch

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PSTOrganizations today are faced with the challenge of satisfying both end-users and IT. While end-users require flexible and reliable access to their data and applications, IT organizations need to meet those demands while keeping budgets under control and company assets secure.

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Baldwin Wallace College Case Study: 194% ROI with Virtualized NetApp and VMware Platform

To attract a new generation of tech-savvy students and faculty, Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, has made IT a top priority. But like most colleges, Baldwin-Wallace is facing tighter budgets, forcing administrators to find ways to stretch the college's IT dollars.

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IDC Report: Increasing IT Infrastructure Performance in Midsized Firms Through Virtualization and Consolidation: Key Steps for Success

Midsized firms - those with about 100 to 1,000 or even 2,000 employees - are under more competitive pressure than ever before. Independent of the region or industry in which a firm operates, the economic environment has become ever more challenging, which makes improvements in operating efficiencies all the more important.

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IDC White Paper: Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization and Consolidation in Midsized Firms with Network Storage

The twin concepts of virtualization and consolidation in IT environments are increasingly being applied by midsized firms to improve performance and gain efficiency. Improvement in the coordination of resources can result in greater competitiveness and lower costs.

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