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Storage: Flash is the Future

By Dick Weisinger

Not Adobe’s Flash, but Flash solid state storage devices. EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci says that flash solid state drives (SSDs) are ready to revolutionize the storage business. Current single-level cell SSDs are on the market now, but expensive. In the

Storage: Sun Applies Open Source to Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Since 2004 Sun has pursued a strategy that has been highlighted by Open Source products: the OpenSolaris Operating System, the GlassFish Application Server, the MySQL database, Java as GPL, and now their attempt to apply Open Source to storage. Like

Storage:Companies See Big Benefits with Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

Storage Virtualization is poised to grow from 21 percent to 47 percent over the next few years. That’s the finding of an online survey made by F5 Networks. Virtualization of storage helps achieve location independence by abstracting the physical location

Storage: Data Consolidation Cuts Costs

By Dick Weisinger

Companies can be more efficient in spending money on data management. A Gartner study identified nine areas in which organizations could reduce costs related to data managment and integration. An area ripe for cost savings is consolidation of data among

Storage: Usage of Data Archiving Spreads

By Dick Weisinger

The concept of data archiving has most frequently been applied to email. But archiving applications are now broadening their focus. In fact, data archiving is becoming a key component of almost every information management initiative, and very frequently managers and