DataDirect Scopes Out SSDsOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 143 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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James Rogers reports, "SAN specialist DataDirect Networks is planning to add solid state disk (SSD) technology to its S2A hardware later this year, and, despite a tough economic climate, is still working toward its IPO." read more »
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Streamload/MediaMax/The Linkup Closes.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 143 days ago (http://informednetworker.com)
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Dave Mackey talks about the closing of Streamload/MediaMax/The Linkup and its relation to a new business-oriented service called Nirvanix. read more »
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Sun's expanded storage lineup takes on data boomOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 144 days ago (http://www.infoworld.com)
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Stephen Lawson reports, "Sun Storage J4000 arrays can cost just $1 per gigabyte for bulk storage, with significant savings resulting from free software..." read more »
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For those "oops" moments: ext3undelOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 144 days ago (http://www.linux.com)
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"The rm command can be a powerful tool for deleting data -- until you delete the wrong files or directories. Thankfully, the ext3undel utility can recover accidently removed data on ext3 filesystems." read more »
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Sun Bangs 'Thumper' DrumOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 145 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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James Rogers reports on Sun's latest releases of storage in their Thumper series. The units compete with HP's MSA's and are essentially JBOD's which Sun hopes will be used with OpenSolaris and ZFS. read more »
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Pioneer Develops Ultra-High Capacity Optical DiscOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 146 days ago (http://www.byteandswitch.com)
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Antone Gonsalves reports on an announcement from Pioneer of new optical discs that can contain over 400 GB of data using 16 layers and can be read by Blu-Ray drives. read more »
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IOzone for filesystem performance benchmarkingOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 151 days ago (http://www.linux.com)
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Ben Martin reviews IOzone, an application for benchmarking IO performance on Linux systems - specifically openSUSE and Ubuntu Hardy. read more »
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Save disk space - use compFUSEd to transparently compress filesystemsOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 174 days ago (http://www.linux.com)
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Ben Martin writes about using compFUSE, an application that allows for the compression of files on FUSE filesystems. read more »
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