Another article on EMC I was quoted in: http://www.crn.com/storage/197006487?pgno=2
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Practical ILM
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The amount of data used by Small Businesses is on target to rise 30% to 35% in 2006. Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA and SEC Rule 17a-4 have introduced new regulations on the length of time data must be kept and in what format. Not only must data be kept, it must be backed up and secured. These factors have the cost of data storage for the Small Business increasing exponentially. Corporations valued at more than 75 million dollars are generating 1.6 billion gigabytes of data per year. Small and medium sized companies can reap the benefits of developments being made with larger corporations. Different methods and…
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The Anatomy of a RAID
Originally posted at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The acronym for RAID can often be misleading as it has had multiple meanings over the years. RAID originally stood for a redundant array of inexpensive disks. The acronym RAID is now also known as a redundant array of independent disks as not all RAID disks are inexpensive. RAID refers to a hard drive storage mechanism using multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. In some cases this can mean having data that is written to a single logical drive stored on multiple drives so there is redundancy of the data or RAID can be used to maximize throughput to drives by…