Appreciate the Past to Predict the Future – Data Storage Milestones
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – always. The same applies to technological progress – It begins with the simplest solutions, if you look at ...
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The Evolution of Technology: Ten Prophecies from Literature
Mass data storage – you think it is boring. Am I right? If you believe so, let me change your point of view. We would like to present a list ...
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Rebuilds and Replication Against Hardware Failure Consequences
Hardware failure can be a show stopper for any shop without proper backups and hardware reserves. It can be very costly to send hard drives for data recovery. Even with ...
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The biggest or the Geekiest? Data centers of our dreams
When we were younger, we had dreams – dreams about the future and technology. We remember science-fiction movies with all the flashing little bulbs hypnotizing us. Buttons have concealed mysteries, ...
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Slow Network and It’s Impact on Business Processes
While you are using WAN network you may face the problem of slow connections. It may cause various difficulties – i.e. during replication process. Open-E Data Storage Software – as ...
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Backup it, lose it, restore it and stay calm – 10 basic rules for the wary
Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is ...
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Random vs. Sequential explained.
Very often, storage product users do not know what kind of performance numbers to expect in real operations. Why do storage vendors claim such great performance when measured by an ...
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How Much Storage Can You Squeeze to 4U?
Last week I visited WHD2011 (World Hosting Day) in Rust, Germany. As usual there was plenty of interesting news and lots of ideas on how computing is going to develop ...
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