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Hybrid Hard Drives Are Not Ready for Data Centers
The recent release by hard disk maker Seagate of it’s Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive—a disk drive that combines platter and flash memory storage in the same box—holds a lot of promise, but don’t expect to see its... -
Tape Takes a Licking but Keeps on Spinning
Rapping tape as a storage medium has become au courant. One storage company, EMC, has gone so far as to start a campaign to dump the medium with the tag line “Tape Sucks.” These aspersions, however, are more a... -
Can Cabling Really Contribute to Greening Your Data Center?
Discussions about greening data centers typically focus on cooling systems and managing the power requirements of servers. Often left out of those planning sessions is the role cabling can play in contributing to making a data center more environmentally... -
How the Cloud Cuts Costs
Anyone with even the faintest brush with economics knows about the magic of scale. Actually, there’s noting magic about it at all. The principle is simple: the more of something you produce, the less it costs to produce it.... -
Should the cloud be more regulated?
Should the federal government regulate the cloud? Apparently, Microsoft thinks so. Softzilla is asking Congress to pass legislation to regulate cloud computing. -
RFID duels with bar codes for data center dominance.
Tracking assets in the data center has largely been the domain of the bar code, but RFID has begun to make inroads into the striped label’s territory. -
How to Run a Leaner, Greener Data Center.
Deadbeat servers can impose needless expenses on a data center. Decommissioning a single dead, or “ghost” server, can save as much $560 a year, although some analysts put that figure upwards of $2,000. For large server farms—farms with 100,000 servers a... -
Development & Testing May Be a Rich Area for the Cloud
It’s been estimated that 50 percent of the typical enterprise’s technology infrastructure is reserved for development and testing. Thing is, 90 percent of the time those reserved resources are idle. If that sounds to you like a problem dying... -
Five Future Developments for Greener IT
For years many corporations have been content to pick the low-hanging fruit when it comes to green computing. Now the time has come to move the process to the next level. What does that mean? Here are five... -
Disaster Recovery Testing Is Becoming a Dying Art
Many companies have disaster recovery systems in place. Relatively few, though, know if they’ll work when disaster strikes. Speaking at a video briefing sponsored by Accela Communications, Gartner Research Vice President David Russell maintained that disaster recovery testing is...