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NetApp doing well in virtualisation market

May 27, 2010
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As covered on theregister.com this morning, J P Morgan analyst Mark Moscowitz has published a report showing that NetApp is creating clear water between itself and its nearest rivals in the virtualisation market thanks to better integration with Cisco, VMware & Microsoft.
It’s a trend that’s set to grow, though probably not to such an [...]

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New id-7 on-location ingest station range

May 19, 2010
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EACS Media has been working with id7 Media Solutions on a small footprint, location-based ingest station. It’s a self-contained, transportable touch-screen device, accessible via Ethernet – CIFS or NFS – from a Mac or a Windows PC. There are several variants in the range, with useable capacities of 2TB to 10TB and the option [...]

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Public clouds & the viability of media StaaS

May 19, 2010
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Although you probably wouldn’t consider using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) ‘public cloud’ to back up your professional media projects, Amazon’s explanation of how the service works, and even the pricing to some extent, is a decent guide to how clouds can fit into a business’s storage, backup and archiving strategy. Here’s an extract [...]

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SSHD hybrid drives coming from Toshiba?

May 17, 2010
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Despite opinions that they’re destined to fail, Toshiba is considering producing hybrid 2.5-inch solid state / hard disk drives, reports The Register. In the opinion of Zsolt Kerekes of StorageSearch:
“the volume market for these would be in enterprise arrays – but you get much better results by mixing and matching genuine SSDs and genuine HDDs [...]

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Digital Universe storage hits 1.2 zettabytes

May 4, 2010
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As revealed in this item on the datacenterknowledge.com website, the volume of digital information created and duplicated around the world will hit a staggering 1.2 zettabytes in 2010 (that’s 1.2 million petabytes), exceeding forecasts, and is set to grow to 35 zettabytes by 2020. This is according to research conducted by IDC.
Over 75% of what [...]

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