Storage

eBay Bets On Flash

Solid state drives move to data center in one of the largest deployments of flash memory to date.

Storage Area Network Management

Best practices for managing storage area networks include developing a disaster recovery program and implementing storage virtualization, tiers and clustering options.

IBM`s Watson Supercomputer Goes to Work for You: 11 Personal Apps

Jeopardy! Man vs. Machine. Machine won. Now that IBM supercomputer Watson has bested the quiz show’s two most famous human champions, we wondered, what else could the fancy circuitry do? To achieve its victory, Watson was fed by researchers some 200 million pages of text – about 1 million books worth – ranging from encyclopedias to movie scripts to newspapers to children’s book abstracts. Beyond its ability to store all that data, Watson is able to mine it in order to formulate contextual relationships. Puns and wordplay? No problem. Obscure trivia? Combining random facts? Elementary, my dear….er, well, you know who (or what). IBM says Watson’s Deep Q&A technology could be applied in diverse fields such as health care, legal, education and government. So, assuming you could afford the hardware and information resources, imagine if you had your own personal Watson to help make you healthy, fabulously wealthy, well-dressed, well-adjusted, a great conversationalist at parties and perhaps even happy.

Open Data Center Alliance Charts Future

Big users hope to influence the direction of technology and the marketplace.

Jets, Giants, Video

The New Meadowlands Stadium is one enterprise using digital media to manage workloads and enhance customers experiences.

Virtualized Storage Controls Data Flood

A better way of storaging data ensures high availability for customers and employees of the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority.

Storage Solution Controls Data Flood

Virtualized storage ensures high availability for customers and employees of the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority.

Seagate: World's First 3TB Storage Device Now Shipping

Only a few weeks ago, Seagate was touting its 2GB GoFlex drives. It had to happen sooner or later, and in this case it happened sooner than the industry expected.

New Data Center Wares Unveiled by Dell

The Round Rock, Texas-based hardware and software maker unveiled two new Dell EqualLogic storage arrays, two PowerVault storage arrays, two PowerEdge blade servers, a PowerEdge rack-mount server, and a new series of Juniper Networks-built PowerConnect switching/routing gateways.

Getting Started With VDI

The idea of running some of your desktops inside a secure data center has a lot of appeal, but the costs for building the right infrastructure can consume the savings that VDI promises to generate. Here are some guidelines for dealing with these challenges. See also: Best Practices for Desktop Virtualization

Building a Data Center for the Future

ROEL Construction implemented Virtualization and storage solutions that improved data center operations and would scale to meet its future needs, while providing the eco-friendly and cost-saving benefits of reduced power and energy consumption.

Disaster-Proofing IT After Katrina

Gulfport Municipal Court streamlined its infrastructure after Hurricane Katrina destroyed numerous court documents, investing in a digital imaging solution and storing data in multiple sites to prevent such a disastrous loss from ever happening again.

Trends for 2010

Our research shows 10 business and technology trends that will help define the IT landscape in 2010.

Mainframes Still Important to the Enterprise

CA recently polled 100 technology executives at companies that use IBM System z mainframes. They reported that their loyalty to mainframe technology stems from its ability to meet requirements for reliability, resilience, security, management, and compliance. See also: The Mainframe Career Option.

Managing Virtual Storage on Your SAN

How can you keep your virtualized storage area network properly maintained? Try following these best practices.

 

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