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Advertised IOP Numbers Are Not Indicators Of Actual Work Capacity

One thing that seems invariable is that all vendors flaunt IO numbers, in some cases numbers that are almost impossible to believe, out to prospective customers. As customers though, we…

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The Right Cloud Architecture, Hardware, and Operations Plan

Several days ago a cloud provider in Australia, Dimension Data, had an outage lasting over 24 hours that was deemed to have been caused by multiple issues with their EMC storage. It's…

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What to Do When Not Enough Server Storage is Available

It could be that you are just out of space and need to delete records to create storage space but it would be more helpful to take a systematic approach…

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What is a NAS and why should I care about it?

What is NAS? NAS or Network Attached Storage is the most popular way of sharing storage among users in an organization or group.  NAS is a suitable storage solution for…

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Top 3 Reasons Why ZFS is the Best Storage Operating System

Reason #1 ZFS is the Best – Copy on Write File System The copy on write architecture is the foundation of what makes

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SSD vs. HDD

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