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Data Tape: Dying a Slow Death or Already Dead? » Data Center.

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Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape. I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. Data tape is not dead; however, its purpose has changed. Yet today, there are few backup administrators using this technique.

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HP Refreshes 3PAR Storage Line

Data Center Knowledge

Gives users ability to mix flash and hard disk drives in one array, improves management and backup software Read More. Hewlett-Packard Storage'

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5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. 5 Insights Into the Data Center Industry. This week’s Industry Perspectives represented an intersection of top-of-mind topics for data center professionals and executives. Industry Perspectives: HP, Intel, Fieldview. Modular Data Centers.

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Hybrid Cloud Computing : spf13.com

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Recently many e-commerce companies (including OpenSky) have begun to implement a hybrid approach to infrastructure mixing traditional data centers with cloud offerings to achieve a best of both worlds solution. For certain operations operating directly on servers in your own data centers still makes sense. t critical.

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VMworld 2013 Vmware, server, storage I/O and networking update (Day 1)

Storage IO Blog

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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Steve Duplessie on information infrastructure and shifts in data storage

Trends in the Living Networks

Currently all data is stored equally. Having metadata allows you to take different approaches to how you store and backup data depending on its value. For IBM and HP, while storage is important, it will never dominate. The only reason to use a mechanical disk in the data center is cost. Backup is broken.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.) Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.