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Will SSD Improve Your Database Performance?

The fog around solid state storage is lifting. Most storage and database administrators are convinced that solid state technology is the most practical next step in storage performance. The challenge is that solid state performs so well that now there’s

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Integrating Disk Backup With Backup Software

Modern disk backup systems can deduplicate data, replicate data and validate that data’s integrity without involving the backup application in the process. This is beneficial, as it allows the software application to not waste resources that may be better handled

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Backup Virtualization

Virtualization has changed the way many data centers operate today. Server virtualization has increased server resource efficiency, flexibility and reliability. Storage virtualization has had a similar effect on storage resources and storage management. Interestingly, the backup and data protection processes

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What is Cloud Storage?

The IT industry (manufacturers) sometimes gets ahead of itself. Time and again it’s guilty of introducing a technology, generating an enormous amount of discussion, and then moving on before the real implementors, IT professionals, get a chance to really understand

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