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Achieving Maximum SSD Efficiency

Posted on January 25, 2012 by George Crump

There are two well-known facts about solid state disk (SSD). First, SSD is fast and second, SSD is expensive—compared with traditional disk drives. There are also two well-known facts about the data center. First, almost every data center needs more…

Dell Brings Advanced Backup and Disaster Recovery To The SMB Market

Posted on January 11, 2012 by George Crump

Dell today announced its first entrance into the disk backup target appliance market in the form of the new Dell DR4000. Targeted directly at the medium-size business, the DR4000 comes with built-in deduplication, compression and replication as part of a…

Dedupe Benefits Mainframes as it does Open Systems

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Eric Slack

Historically, tape as a storage medium in the open systems world has had issues with performance, complexity, reliability and cost, compared with disk systems. The mainframe market has encountered many of these same issues with tape as a backup solution,…