Stories about: Evaluator Group

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How reliable are the top turnkey SANs? 19 March, 2007 13:31

Jeff Pieper's marketing design business runs on data, and he doesn't mind swapping out a server or fiddling with cabling here and there.
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Raid array market disturbed by SAS 28 September, 2005 09:34

Infortrend has launched what it claims is the market's first serial-attached SCSI (SAS) RAID array. The EonStor ES 512F-R1420 has a 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel link to the outside world and up to 64 drives are supported in 12 bays. It has redundancy features such as dual Fibre Channel and RAID controllers. System throughput is greater than 1GB/s.
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Sun, StorageTek about to start life as merged firm 25 August, 2005 08:16

Sun Microsystems is likely to close its acquisition of Storage Technology (StorageTek) on August 31, pending a special meeting of StorageTek shareholders Tuesday when they are expected to approve the deal, according to a Sun executive.
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Sun to announce storage exec appointments 16 August, 2005 07:47

Sun is expected to announce as early as next week that a former storage analyst will join the company as vice president of strategy and planning under Mark Canepa, executive vice president of Sun's Network Storage Products Group.
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Hitachi Unveils High-End, Midrange Array Updates 21 July, 2005 08:31

Hitachi Data Systems last week brought out new versions of its high-end and midrange storage arrays with upgrades that include RAID 6 features allowing for the failure of up to two disk drives without a loss of data.
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The future looks bright for object-based storage systems 07 July, 2005 10:06

Although object-based storage systems have been on the market for only a few years, they have been relatively successful, in terms of total number of sales and overall capacity sold. Customers as well as the press have shown significant interest in these products.
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EMC, HP drive storage agendas 18 May, 2005 07:18

EMC will let the good times roll this week while Hewlett-Packard will roll the dice as both companies hold conferences for users of their storage systems.
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Ellison-backed Pillar Data readies for debut 27 April, 2005 12:00

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's US$100-million baby -- storage start-up Pillar Data Systems -- is expected to deliver as early as June what analysts are calling a unique storage subsystem that stores data on disk based on its importance to a customer's business.
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Storage service provider revival? 23 March, 2005 10:18

Do you remember all the promotional hype about storage service providers (SSP)? Several years ago, some start-ups attempted to develop a new business practice by allowing companies to outsource their storage requirements. The SSPs would either provide the connections for remote storage services or deliver on-site storage operations managed by them. The idea was that storage could be provided and managed more economically by the SSP than by the customer.
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Grid Storage Vision Appeals to IT Managers 10 November, 2004 10:28

Storage vendors are taking a cue from the server world of grid computing and building modular array systems that can nondisruptively grow processing power along with capacity.
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Storage as utility 02 June, 2004 10:33

One of the hallmarks of the new data center is flexibility, moving away from the confines of dedicated, paid-for, but nearly always underutilized or unused, resources. When it comes to storage, that flexibility means tapping into capacity on an automated, on-demand, pay-as-you-go basis.