Data Storage Blog


Events

WHD2012.global highlights: 190 Virtual Machines running on 178 TB with HA Storage

Last week I was visiting the World Hosting Day Event in Germany as usual and I’ve wanted to provide...

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Data recycling
Data Protection, Hardware

How to recycle data

What to do with old hard disks? What to do if your company is going to upgrade its equipment?...

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Open-E DSS V6 volume replication (DRBD)
Data Protection, Hardware

A few words about DSS V6 volume replication (DRBD)

We are sure some of you have thought about DRBD – about its use and operation. Here is some...

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iSCSI, Open-E Legacy Products

Public cloud hosting: how do they do it?

Recently we’ve seen an explosion of new ideas based on the ‘cloud computing’ concept, and the chances are that...

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Iometer
iSCSI, RAID

Random vs. Sequential explained.

Very often, storage product users do not know what kind of performance numbers to expect in real operations. Why...

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Hardware

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...

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Open-E logo
Hardware, iSCSI

Shared storage for Linux servers – quickly and painlessly

How to provide access to shared data using Linux based servers and cluster file system? In this post we...

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Tips & Tricks

A Few practical tips about IOmeter

There are plenty of benchmarking tools available but storage professionals mostly use IOmeter. Unfortunately IOmeter is a little tricky...

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