storage

Blog Posts

How SAS and SATA fit in with the iSCSI array

February 16, 2012 9:00am PST

Scott Lowe answers a reader question about the relationship between certain types of storage transport protocols and disk types.

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Blog Posts

VMware vSphere 5: Storage DRS

February 8, 2012 8:26am PST

Lauren Malhoit talks about some vSphere 5 features that can help admins manage their storage more efficiently, and maybe even optimize performance at the same time.

Blog Posts

Storage vMotion virtual disk format options with vSphere 5

January 31, 2012 6:00am PST

New disk options make Storage vMotion tasks give vSphere administrators more control over virtual machine disk formats. Rickatron shows how in this blog post.

Blog Posts

How to make backup files that never exceed a predefined size

February 7, 2012 12:20pm PST

Marco Fioretti offers a script that you can use to create backups that don't exceed a certain file size, making it easier to spread backups across various storage media or services.

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Blog Posts

Rackspace online cloud storage options

February 1, 2012 6:00am PST

Steven Trippe goes over the features and options of Rackspace's Cloud Drive storage.

Discussion Threads

Windows Server 8 Virtual Fibre Channel with Hyper-V overview

January 3, 2012 1:10pm PST

Windows Server 8 Virtual Fibre Channel with Hyper-V overview article root NPIV This is the useful feature for the people who has a requirement of different storage then the one used for vmdk and...

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Discussion Threads

intel rapid storage

January 17, 2012 11:49pm PST

intel rapid storage hello I'm having a problem with my raid 0 drive, so when i log on to windows i find the drive is missing and the Intel rapid utility is giving me that one of the two volumes...

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Q&A

intel rapid storage

January 18, 2012 12:34am PST

intel rapid storage hello I'm having a problem with my raid 0 drive, so when i log on to windows i find the drive is missing and the Intel rapid utility is giving me that one of the two volumes...

2 Started by hass_hm@...  |  Latest comment by OH Smeg

Q&A

Does a disk with only an extended partition needs alignment ?

January 19, 2012 8:59am PST

Does a disk with only an extended partition needs alignment ? We all (storage freaks) know that for better performances, partitions need to be aligned to disk sector boundaries in order to avoid...

2 Started by Superkikim  |  Latest comment by robo_dev

Discussion Threads

Review: FilesAnywhere offsite file storage

January 19, 2012 1:32pm PST

Review: FilesAnywhere offsite file storage article root waste of time Filesanywhere.com is a huge waste of time, bandwidth, and money. They make it next to impossible to share files, even for...

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Discussion Threads

IBM shows data storage at the atomic level (images)

January 16, 2012 12:47pm PST

IBM shows data storage at the atomic level (images) article root Amazing ! I will have to take their word for it :) glad to see progress these have been around for a while ...

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Discussion Threads

Dell or HP

January 24, 2012 1:44pm PST

Dell or HP Hi All I got a question I got a Dell LT2000 already in place working for the backups, but we need a second unit for disaster recovery. My question is stay with DELL or add a HP...

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Discussion Threads

VDI: Check your expectations before moving ahead

January 25, 2012 5:53am PST

VDI: Check your expectations before moving ahead article root Be prepared before you go VDI Scott has some very good points that need to be taken under consideration, and is right to warn you...

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Discussion Threads

storage solution

February 2, 2012 9:36am PST

storage solution hello can you please give me an suggestion for my storage problem I've video and data total about 5TB and I'm increasing 2TB/year what can do the job, knowing that i use the data...

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Discussion Threads

iSCSI Performance on ESXi5 and different OS for iSCSI hosts.

February 3, 2012 12:34pm PST

iSCSI Performance on ESXi5 and different OS for iSCSI hosts. Well after working with ESXI from version 3.5 onwards in our environment and using different storage options like SCSI drives in raid...

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Q&A

Why are my Microsoft Outlook 2010 folders and contacts gone?

February 9, 2012 12:39pm PST

Why are my Microsoft Outlook 2010 folders and contacts gone? One day my Microsoft Outlook 2010 email is fine (I use it everyday in my office) and the next day I come in and all of my named/created...

4 Started by bnolan4u  |  Latest comment by Kenone

Discussion Threads

Storage Server 2003 Image File Issues with restore

February 18, 2012 4:20am PST

Storage Server 2003 Image File Issues with restore Hi All, I have a Windows Storage Server 2003 setup ive got all the disks and ive found the image files it uses (.PQI) now the problem im having...

2 Started by roodie1986  |  Latest comment by HAL 9000

Discussion Threads

Five apps to hit the ground running with your new Android tablet

February 1, 2012 11:38am PST

Five apps to hit the ground running with your new Android tablet article root Box is Incorrect I use Dropbox for storage in the cloud but after reading this I looked into Box. You only get 5GB...

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Discussion Threads

The 10 most important things to teach your Outlook users

February 13, 2012 1:38am PST

Don't confuse OST and PST storage. Beside item #6 (the obsolate 2 GB size limit of the personal folder files), I'd also comment on item #5 (Email is stored locally). It would need a bit more...

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Case Studies

Ille Accelerates Archive Access Thanks to HP Storage Systems

October 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Ille has consolidated its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) storage and archiving system. Ille Papier Service GmbH was no longer sufficient for its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application...

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