Before starting benchmarks get familiar with your environment. Even small missed detail can make your benchmark invalid. For example, there is no point in testing performance of Cloud Disk Array from ...

Fed up with slow tape backup systems and under pressure by regulators and auditors to keep data online and readily available, large and midsize businesses are making disk-to-disk backup technology a ...

What is Cloud Disk Array? Cloud Disk Array (CDA) is a private, dedicated (on disk level) storage system powered by Ceph. During development and testing it was known as Ceph-as-a-Service. CDA gives you ...

Quantum, which stopped selling hard disks in 2000 but continues to sell networked storage systems, will begin selling hard disk-based backup systems, the company said this week. The DX30 acts like the ...

Large disk arrays are everywhere, even if we, as end users of computer services, rarely notice them. When we shop at an Internet retailer, the product and account data come from a disk array in a data ...

In most enterprises, disk is looked to as a cure for all your backup woes. The goal of adding disk to the process is to reduce backup windows, improve recovery windows and make the whole process more ...

(For archive systems, I usually add a 16 disk extension box at a time, and configure RAID6 and two hot spares, plus two to four cold spares; which gives me 4 disks overhead in a 16 disk system.) The ...

What you will learn from this tip: The limitations of disk-to-disk backup and how to overcome them by using D2D in combination with other media. Disk-to-disk backup has become increasingly popular, ...

Fujitsu Limited today announced the release of the ETERNUS2000 series, an entry-level addition to its existing line of disk arrays. The new series comes in three compact, power-saving models that ...