Opinion
Virtualize Top to Bottom – Or Suffer the Pitfalls of Going Halfway
Did the lure of server virtualization unwittingly lead to virtual machine sprawl and some other surprises?[more...]
Simple Storage Stutters
There was a six to eight hour outage of Amazon's S3 - Simple Storage Service - at the weekend. It's not the first and suggests that Amazon just hasn't got its service's basic infrastructure sorted out. Reliability for a cloud service is everything and here is Amazon demonstrating - again - that S3 cannot be relied upon.[more...]
SanDisk pans Vista
Microsoft's Vista O/S has been criticized by SanDisk's CEO for not making good use of solid state disk drives (SSDs).[more...]
NetApp on flash
Jay Kidd, NetApp;s chief technology officer, blogs: "NetApp is in the process of certifying enterprise-grade SSDs that you can use in our existing storage shelves."[more...]
DRAM Market Update
Despite significant quality differences between memory components traded around the world, DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chips are very often considered commodities.[more...]
Using imaging & virtualisation technology to create an efficient SME disaster recovery strategy
Murphy’s law, “whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way,” should be the adage by which IT managers working within an SME environment plan their data recovery strategies. Sadly, “that could never happen to me,” seems more appropriate. As a result, most consider the practice of carrying out a daily data backup – usually straight to tape or a network attached device – at the close of play sufficient to protect their company from potential data loss or downtime. [more...]
Power Efficiency: MAID Vs Spin down
Steve Willson, Solutions Manager, International, for COPAN Systems, writes:-[more...]
Fujitsu Siemens Computers' tenth birthday in 2009
There has been no official response from Siemens about the reports concerning the possible abandonment of its Fujitsu Siemens Computers joint venture with Fujitsu.[more...]
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Virtualize Top to Bottom – Or Suffer the Pitfalls of Going Halfway
Using imaging & virtualisation technology to create an efficient SME disaster recovery strategy
Power Efficiency: MAID Vs Spin down
Fujitsu Siemens Computers' tenth birthday in 2009