When a small company is in a business that leverages online interactions with their customers they’re committing themselves to providing the kind of uptime, accuracy and responsiveness that the general public is used to. For many small to medium-sized businesses…
Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The cloud is an attractive option for small to medium-sized businesses because it allows a company…
Flash has made its way into enterprise data centers, replacing or augmenting hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more servers. But many users seem to fixate on one characteristic of NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs), the fact that…
LSI has recently released the Nytro MegaRAID (NMR) 8140-8e8i, the latest generation of the company’s PCIe flash acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Like the previous NMR versions, this product integrates PCIe flash, caching software and LSI’s MegaRAID technology into…
It’s true that the concept of the Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) was born in the cloud provider space as a way to describe the infrastructure these companies need to meet their often extreme resource requirements. Cloud providers have to…
The DS5100/6100 is a compact, network attached storage (NAS) system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world today. Although designed for the small- to medium-sized business, it features Windows Storage Server 2012…
Watch Now On Demand “Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash” to get an exclusive white paper Everything we use wears out and eventually falls apart, especially in mechanical systems like hard disk drives (HDDs). These marvels of modern…
What do companies expect from a VDI project? In the long run they expect more flexible device deployment, lower desktop support costs, and better protection from device and data loss. But short term, a VDI deployment can’t make things worse…
Watch the On Demand Webinar “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash” Maintaining storage performance is something IT has to do and there are a lot of ways to do it. Some are easy, some are complicated, some are affordable,…
OCZ recently released the latest generation of their Z-Drive PCIe flash SSD. This product builds on the Z-Drive R4’s performance and virtualization technology by adding new form factors and improving drive management. OCZ has also improved drive robustness and stability…
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