Hidden Jewel for Data Centers - Atlantic Canada
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(Source: Atlantic Canada)  Atlantic Canada is one of the most successful back office and IT support centers in North America. The region boasts a highly competitive cost environment, a pool of skilled technicians, the largest installed electricity production capacity in North America and is one of the safest geographic locations in the world.
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With the price of disk storage plummeting, the storage capacity administrators find themselves managing is set to explode. But, the simple introduction of network block virtualization permits the use of underutilized storage management technologies such as mirroring, snapshots and replication on a much broader scale.
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When Microsoft made what appeared to be a minor announcement last week that it would expand its Canadian operations with the creation of the Microsoft Canada Development Centre for software development based in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia area, it went mostly unnoticed.
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As energy consumption by data centers climbs, energy efficiency becomes a priority.
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SAS, iSCSI and even InfiniBand offer alternative ways to connect servers to storage and are starting to steal some of Fibre Channel's thunder. But while they are, respectively, cheaper and faster than Fibre Channel for direct-attached storage, that doesn't mean the technology is doomed.
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A serial entrepeneur, Roy Caro has launched a handful of flourishing business on three continents. For his latest endeavor, Caro revisited his familyâs heritage when he launched the Celadon Collection, an elegant furniture boutique in downtown Montreal, Canada. And his thriving business runs completely on an elegant collection of Mac computers. âA revelation, crucial to our rapid success and development,â Caro attributes that success to the accessibility of the Mac, the availability of such excellent business tools as the intutive Xsilva Lightspeed POS software, and âall the Apple software I now use in every single aspect of my business.â
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With today's announcement of EMC's MozyEnterprise, you can now encrypt, back up, and store your laptop or desktop PC data in a high security data center for not much more than $5 per month.
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Disk freeze EMC refuses to let server makers get all the low-power data center attention. The storage vendor this week rolled out a new set of services meant to help customers gauge and then lower their energy consumption.â¦
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InfoWorld - I've never visited your server room, but I'd wager that behind every rack resides a cobweb of cables. This tangled mass isn't just unsightly; it's indicative of how IT admins are stretching the architectural limits of conventional, standalone servers and storage devices and facing more complicated troubleshooting and maintenance activities.
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Datacenter design is undergoing a significant transformation. The fundamentals of the datacenter -- servers, cooling systems, UPSes -- remain the same, but their implementations are rapidly changing, thanks in large part to the one variable cost in the server room: energy.
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'We're in the moving business' Data protection specialist Acronis has jumped on the virtualization bandwagon with a product aimed at handling data backups for physical and virtual servers.â¦
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Big Blue is the latest to embrace iSCSI, a protocol increasingly being used to build low-cost storage area networks.
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Meanwhile, Dell plants some trees... IBM has beefed up its data output while apparently watching its carbon footprint step by adding a new $86m "green data centre" space to its Boulder site in Colorado, USA.â¦
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New initiatives aim to help businesses create server clusters for high-performance computing tasks.
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(Source: Network Appliance)  This paper takes a look at using data virtualization to provide end-to-end data reduction efficiencies. It features three user case studies on how users were able to have a significant impact on bottom-line expenses through data virtualization, as they relate to the storage acquisition and ongoing data storage management costs.
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid
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(Source: Lefthand Networks)  This white paper details the true cost of storage and server sprawl, proven approaches to virtualizing servers and storage, and how to maximize ROI using virtual machines on iSCSI SANs.