IDC Warn of high cost to cool storage June 25, 2008
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Businesses last year spent approximately $1.3 billion to make sure that spinning hard disk drives did not overheat and kept running despite being squeezed to near-capacity limits, according to IDC.
In a report released last week, IDC forecast that IT spending required to cool and power spinning disk drives will reach $1.8 billion by the end of this year and over $2 billion in 2009, increasing pressure on executives to create more energy-efficient data centers.
KM Conf 21-23 July, 2008 Melbourne
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Drawing on the input of the knowledge, content and information management communities, Ark Group has developed KM Australia 2008, held between July 21st to 23rd 2008, at the Melbourne Convention Centre (Australia).
Knowledge Management (KM) Australia is an even which focuses on the specific needs of KM, IM and CM practitioners in mind.
Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard June 23, 2008
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Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS. As if Grand Central weren’t enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn’t have years to respond. The formal announcement is for Snow Leopard server, which is how Apple introduces new file systems. HFS+ first arrived on a server version as well.
Directory of Online Storage Services April 7, 2008
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Web based services are now more than ever taking off, adoption of them is booming and rightly so, from image hosting like Flikr, to online web based office apps like Thin Office and GDocs, word processors and spreadsheets. As a result, the online storage industry is experiencing positive growth.
WD shipping Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5in HD’s March 26, 2008
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Western Digital announced today that it is now shipping in volume its WD Caviar® SE16 640 GB 3.5-inch hard drives based on 320 GB-per-platter technology — a platform that it has been shipping since January 2008 and is serving as the foundation of all of the company’s 3.5-inch drive families.
Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption March 1, 2008
Posted by the Editor in : Hard Drives, Filesystems, Encryption, Security , add a commentWindows Vista, BitLocker, MacOS XFileVault, and Linux dm-crypt disk encryption have been beaten by Ed Felten and eight colleagues and they released a significant new research results documenting it.
Enterprises creating storage nightmare November 6, 2007
Posted by the Editor in : Compliance, Disaster Recovery, ILM , 3 commentsThere are very few organizations managing information content well, it is still an ad hoc affair creating “the storage nightmare of the future” according to Phil Sargeant, a vice president at research firm Gartner Inc.
DOD rolls out massive storage network
Posted by the Editor in : SAN, Filesystems , add a commentThe U.S. Department of Defense is finishing the deployment of a storage backbone with more than 17,000 Fibre Channel switch ports to link disparate storage-area networks (SAN) and increase security and resiliency while lowering costs.
EMC acquires Voyence
Posted by the Editor in : EMC, Managed Services , add a commentEMC this week acquired Voyence in a brilliant move intended to broaden the company’s impact on managing the server, storage and network infrastructure.
Seagate Releases Hybrid Drives October 31, 2007
Posted by the Editor in : Seagate, Hard Drives , 2 commentsAfter a long wait, Seagate has finally begun rolling out its new line of hyrbrid flash and magnetic disk hard drives, promising both performance increases and power savings for notebooks.