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How to recycle data
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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Appreciate the Past to Predict the Future – Data Storage Milestones
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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Random vs. Sequential explained.
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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How Much Storage Can You Squeeze to 4U?
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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Shared storage for Linux servers - quickly and painlessly
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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A Few practical tips about IOmeter
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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