Eric Slack, LTFS, LTO-5, Storage Channel, tapeLTO-5 came out earlier...
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Business continuity, Disaster recovery, Eric Slack, Storage Channel
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Data storage management, Eric Slack, Storage Channel, storage resource management (SRM)My father was in artillery in the Marine Corps, and as a kid I was fascinated by how they shot howitzers. Essentially, it’s a huge trial-and-error exercise -- at least it was during the...
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Data deduplication, Eric Slack, primary storage, Storage ChannelDedupe has been with us for the better part of 10 years. Because of the percentage of duplicated data in the backup space, it was deployed there first. But risk also played a part in its appearance...
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Eric Slack, Optical storage, Storage Channel, WORMFor years, companies have used optical...
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Eric Slack, FCoE, Storage Channel, Storage networking, TRILLSpanning Tree Protocol (STP) was...
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backup, Eric Slack, Storage ChannelIn the last post, I talked about a couple of interesting storage alternatives for VARs who maybe weren’t thrilled with their existing disk vendors. As a VAR, having alternatives to show is your stock...
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Eric Slack, Storage Channel, Storage vendors, vendor partner business issuesI was talking with a storage VAR at VMworld last week and realized how little has changed even in the midst of so much change. First the change: Technology marches on, and that march is...
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Eric Slack, SSD, Storage ChannelThe term “SSD” has usually been a mnemonic for “solid-state disk” drives, as in flash memory modules that are put into traditional disk drive form-factor packages. This format is perhaps the...
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Eric Slack, NAS performance, Storage ChannelIn the ongoing effort to improve application performance, tiered storage -- especially using SSDs -- is a tool vendors often use. The concept is simple: Move the files supporting these applications to...
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