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Storage: Sun's Open Source Archiving with Project Honeycomb

By Dick Weisinger

Sun has Open-Sourced their Project Honeycomb software, the software that powers their StorageTek 5800 Archive System. The software will run on any standard x86 system and can be downloaded here. The source code is archived at the OpenSolaris storage and

Storage: HIPAA Drives Health Care Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like Multiscan CT and 3D MRI machines are revolutionizing the practice of medicine, but these technologies can churn out gigabytes of data in seconds. A single multiscan CT image can be one gigabyte. HIPAA requirements are that adult medical

SOA: Service Oriented Storage

By Dick Weisinger

Services Oriented Architecture and storage technologies are converging into something that people are beginning to dub Services Oriented Storage (SOS), one component of a Service Oriented Infrastructure. A proliferation of proprietary technology storage solutions in the marketplace is confusing customers.

ECM: Virtual File Systems Target Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data, the documents, files, audio and video that don’t fit well into structured database rows and columns, is growing at an incredible pace across enterprises. In a recent report from the Taneja Group consulting firm titled “Next Generation File

Storage: Commercial Benefits from War Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

The DoD is planning to spend $679 billion in fiscal year 2008 on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in money allocated from the Defense Authorization Bill. That’s more than an 8 percent increase over the funding in 2007. In a