Storage Goes Green With Utilities DealOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by BINK.domeshot 119 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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User group brokers energy rebate deal between the storage and utility industries. Industry group Wikibon is bringing the utility and storage industries together in an attempt to drive down users` spiraling energy costs. read more »
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The one terabyte disk: Is it reliable?Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by sajid 123 days ago (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
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About a year ago, when major manufacturers made their first terabyte disk drives available to the public, a storage capacity barrier had been broken. Is it reliable? read more »
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Quantum Takes Q1 Revenue HitOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 124 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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James Rogers reports that Quantum missed analyst's financial projections for Q1 revenues. Apparently Quantum is going through a large refocusing. CEO Rick Belluzzo sees a positive future and blames most of the profit losses on tape sale decreases. read more »
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An outage: Lessons learnedOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by tg01 124 days ago (http://feeds.feedburner.com)
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Westminster College does not currently have a backup generator protecting its data center and telephone system. That is about to change. Backup generators are no longer optional. That--and other l read more »
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WD Launches 2.5-inch 10,000 RPM Enterprise HDD.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by Lifeofpurpose87 129 days ago (http://www.insidetech.com)
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Western Digital still holds the record for the fastest hard drive with their Velociraptor that functions at 10,000 RPM's and 3GB/s with a 16MB cache. Now they've taken things a step further with a read more »
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Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud CustomersOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 129 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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Questions are being raised as to the reliability of the Amazon S3 as a result of the recent eight hour service failure. This caused problems for online companies that were relying on the S3 for file storage. Amazon is researching to perfect the system and prevent any future failures. read more »
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Slideshow: D-Link DNS-343 4-Bay Network Storage EnclosureOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 131 days ago (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com)
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"D-Link's DNS-343 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure four-drive NAS shares many features with its dual-drive siblings." read more »
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SanDisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid-state drivesOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 131 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
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Brooke Crothers reports that CEO Eli Harari of SanDisk is claiming Windows Vista is the culprit behind issues with SSD drives - that it isn't optimized for these drives. read more »
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