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Cloud Storage: Benefits of Better Provisioning and Better Data Protection

By Dick Weisinger

Two of the biggest advantages of Cloud Storage are better provisioning and data protection.  Those are the results from a recent survey from cloud computing company Twin Strata. The Twin Strata report said that “While more than a third of

Storage: Virtualization Benefits Threatened by Storage Issues

By Dick Weisinger

Server virtualization is now a reality for most companies.  80 percent of companies report that they’ve virtualized more than 50 percent of all of their servers.  And only 5 percent of companies report not having used virtualization at all.  

Storage: Architecting an Hadoop Storage Platform for Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

The convergence of massive amounts of cheap storage, fast processors, and software algorithms like MapReduce are fueling the growth of Big Data technoogy.  MapReduce is a computing framework that can distribute the processing of a problem described by very large

Storage: Strong Demand Drives Record Sales and Record Capacities

By Dick Weisinger

Disk Storage systems generated $8.5 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 3.5 percent increase over 2010’s fourth quarter results, according to research company IDC.  The actual storage systems capacity shipped though jumped a healthy 22.4 percent

Storage: Organizations Struggle to Slow the Rising Tide of Data

By Dick Weisinger

IDC’s annual report on the growing size of the digital universe has been snowballing in recent years.  Digital photos, video and sensor technologies account for a sizable amount of that growth.  In the business world, companies are collecting big data