De-duplication Helps IT Manage Data Growth
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Some attendees at the Storage Networking World conference say they're combining backup software and de-duplication technology with virtual systems in an effort to manage ever increasing data stores.
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The benchmark consists of three workloads designed to demonstrate the performance of a storage configuration during the execution of business-critical applications that require large-scale, sequential movement of data. The
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Over the next few years, corporations will face tough decisions on how to store growing amounts of data and find information.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
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Sorting the real growth stories from the flashes in the pan.
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By Kimberly Pierceall, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Feb. 18--When data backup programs try to share shelf space with  better-known, sexier software titles, economics usually favors the latter.
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Photocopying wallet information pays off.
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Perl is so good at handling plain text files that it's seductively easy to use them when you need something better. Yet sometimes using a full-fledged database is just Too Much Work. If only Dave Baker had written an article on using complex, persistent data structures with MLDBM.
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Imperial College London researchers in the UK are developing a new way of storing data that could lead to discs capable of holding 1,000 gigabytes.
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Storage appliance maker EqualLogic Inc. says its newest product improves performance by doing a better job of balancing the data load between storage arrays in a network.
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Every year, solid-state storage advances just a little bit further, often just enough to prompt analysts to ask yet again, when will it be time to declare spinning platters of magnetic data obsolete?
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Bigger and brawnier isn't necessarily better for everyone. FileMaker's new desktop database adheres to the Apple division's credo that ease of installation and use is more important to its user community than whizzy new features that add bulk and complexity.
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Soon on sale: hardware and software from a start-up whose software with a new approach for protecting data by dispersing it across several servers--and maybe even continents.
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EMC, NetApp lurk in their corners Tape survivor Quantum today ramped up its efforts in disk storage with the release of kit aimed at the primed market for de-duplication.â¦
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Adam Bosworth complains  about the current lack of quality and scalable databases in our industry.  "About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted."  "It is this. Users of databases tend to ask for three very simple things:"  "1) Dynamic schema so that as the business model/description of goods or    services changes and evolves, this evolution can be handled seamlessly in a    system running 24 by 7, 365 days a year ..."  "2) Dynamic partitioning of data across large dynamic numbers of machines. A    lot people people track a lot of data these days. ..."  "3) Modern indexing. ...
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If the load of application relies on incoming events, you may eventually face the happy curse of popularity: too much work to do with your available resources. If you set a limit on how many events you can process within a time period, you can avoid the flood. Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski explains the algorithm and demonstrates working code.
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Company introduces a lower-cost way to keep up with data growth without the need for IT expertise.