storage management

Ultimate hoarding: Study finds mankind could store 295 exabytes of data

Posted February 12, 2011 - 10:31 pm

University of Southern California researchers have put a number on how much information humans can store, communicate and compute: 295 exabytes, give or a take a zettabyte.
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How to deal with a storage capacity crisis

Posted November 16, 2010 - 4:15 pm

Sometimes, despite best-laid plans, storage capacity hits the wall and creates an emergency situation. Don't panic -- fix it right.
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Virtualization Management: 5 Tools That Matter Most

Posted September 21, 2010 - 1:28 pm

Long ago, when servers still came one to a box, "sysadmins" spent all their time running from one machine to another, with boxes of tools and utilities designed to squeeze out every bit of performance and stability from physical servers.
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EMC to acquire data warehouse vendor Greenplum

Posted July 6, 2010 - 7:53 pm

EMC announced on Tuesday that it intends to buy Greenplum, Inc., a data warehouse software vendor whose product is based on a massively parallel processing architecture able to scale to petabytes of capacity.
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EMC inks deal to acquire Configuresoft

Posted May 27, 2009 - 9:32 pm

EMC Wednesday announced plans to acquire Configuresoft, a maker of server configuration, change and compliance management software.
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EMC inks deal to acquire Configuresoft

Posted May 27, 2009 - 9:32 pm

EMC Wednesday announced plans to acquire Configuresoft, a maker of server configuration, change and compliance management software.
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VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads, Burton Group says

Posted May 27, 2009 - 9:15 pm

VMware is still the only virtualization vendor whose hypervisor meets every enterprise requirement, but rivals Citrix, Microsoft and Virtual Iron are closing in on that goal, according to research by the Burton Group.
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Why IT should start throwing data away

Posted May 6, 2009 - 3:37 pm

Storage sprawl is unsustainable, and keeping it all is risky. Data-retention policies let users delete data with less risk.
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The State of Today’s Data Center: Challenges and Opportunities

Posted February 26, 2009 - 12:17 pm

A growing number of creative data center managers are using a variety of cost-containment strategies that capitalize on heterogeneity to increase IT efficiency and maximize existing resources while keeping costs under control.
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