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2013 shaping up to be a 'decent' year for IT data storage spending
IT data storage is always a struggle, but storage managers should have a little more money in 2013 to spend on techs that can help ease the crunch of growing capacity demands.
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Data storage 2011 Products of the Year finalists
Find out which enterprise data storage products are in the running for a 2011...
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Storage managers poised to tap new technologies
As budgetary constraints ease, storage shops are looking to emerging techs an...
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Storage budget picture brightens
Our storage Purchasing Intentions survey finds storage budgets are recovering...
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I/O contention (input/output contention)
I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compet...
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erasure coding
Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken in...
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pNFS (Parallel NFS)
The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) is part of the NFS v4.1 protocol that...
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Cloud Storage
The Cloud Storage topics page provides news articles, tips, tutorials, guides, special reports and podcasts for data storage professionals looking for cloud storage best practic... More about Cloud Storage
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Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed caching service. ElastiCache is protocol-compliant with Memcached, an open source, high-performance, distributed... -
object storage
- Object storage, also called object-based storage, is a generic term that describes an approach to addressing and manipulating discrete units of storage call... -
cloud file storage
- Cloud file storage is a storage service that is delivered over the Internet, billed on a pay-per-use basis and has an architecture based on common fil...
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Storage and Virtualization
The Storage and Virtualization topics page provides news articles, tips, tutorials, guides, special reports and podcasts for data storage professionals who manage storage hardwa... More about Storage and Virtualization
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N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)
- N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) is a technology that allows a single host bus adaptor (HBA) called an "N_Port" to register multipl...
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SAN (storage area network)
SAN (storage area network) technologies cover Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SAN planning, switches, SAN routing and partitioning, SAN protocols, HBAs and RAID configuration. Find the la... More about SAN (storage area network)
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software-defined storage
- Software-defined storage (SDS) is a data storage approach in which all the programming that controls storage-related tasks exists solely in s... -
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
- FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a storage protocol that enable Fibre Channel communications to run directly over Etherne... -
cluster quorum disk
- A cluster quorum disk is the storage medium on which the configuration database is stored for a cluster computing network. The cluster configuration...
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NAS (network attached storage)
Find information on network attached storage (NAS) clusters, NAS hardware or appliances, NAS management and NAS virtualization. More about NAS (network attached storage)
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Object Storage Glossary - Words2Go
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clustered storage
- Clustered storage is the use of two or more storage servers working together to increase performance, capacity, or reliability. Clustering distributes ... -
pNFS (Parallel NFS)
- The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) is part of the NFS v4.1 protocol that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in paral...
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Primary Storage or Storage Hardware
Primary storage refers to storage that is in active use, in contrast to storage used for backup purposes. Find resources about primary storage and storage hardware, including RA... More about Primary Storage or Storage Hardware
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active/active array
- Active/active (also called dual active) is a storage array configuration in which two (or more) storage controllers work together to process inputs/... -
P/E cycle
- A solid-state-storage program-erase cycle is a sequence of events in which data is written to solid-state NAND flash memory cell (such as the type found in a so-ca... -
resistive RAM (RRAM)
- Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is a form of nonvolatile storage that operates by changing the resistance of a specially formulated solid die...
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Data Backup
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host-based replication
- Host-based replication is the processes of using servers to copy data from one site to another.
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Data Protection
Storage professionals now have the responsibility of keeping corporate data safe through disaster recovery planning, remote data protection and other security measures. News and... More about Data Protection
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disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a predetermined set of processes offered by a third-party vendor to help an en... -
write through
- Write through is a storage method in which data is written into the cache and the corresponding main memory location at the same time. The cached data allows... -
failback
- Failback is the process of restoring operations to a primary machine or facility after they have been shifted to a secondary machine or facility during failover.
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Data Storage Management
Data storage management consists of tiered storage initiatives, data storage compliance, data archiving, remote and offiste data storage, storage virtualization and having the r... More about Data Storage Management
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Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed caching service. ElastiCache is protocol-compliant with Memcached, an open source, high-performance, distributed... -
erasure coding
- Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces, and stored acros... -
bidirectional replication
- Bidirectional replication is a method of replication between storage media such as hard disks or virtual disks in different locations, in w...
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Storage Strategy
Storage strategies for the data center, outsourcing storage, small business storage, jobs and salaries, and storage vendors are all topics that you'll find covered in this section. More about Storage Strategy
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capacity sprawl
- Capacity sprawl, in a storage context, is a situation in which multiple, under-utilized or badly managed storage media occupy more overall space than can ... -
shared storage
- Shared storage is a medium accessible by all of the subscribers in a network, intended for file storage and allowing simultaneous access by multiple subscri... -
I/O contention (input/output contention)
- I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources because there is a l...
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