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Beyond the Headlines of Disaster Preparedness
Hurricanes such as this year’s Ike and 2005’s Katrina are natural disasters that unfurl in slow-motion. Ike entered the inner Caribbean on Sept. 1 but didn’t make landfall in Galveston, Texas, for nearly two weeks. This gave tens of thousands of coastal residents time to evacuate to safer areas. But two weeks of preparation wasn’t enough to…
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Oracle, HP Team Up on Data Warehousing Hardware
Oracle is taking a hard stance against data warehouse competitors Teradata and Netezza by teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to market an integrated hardware database appliance. Unveiled at Oracle World this week, the HP Oracle Database Machine’s Exadata Storage Server supports up to 12 terabytes of raw storage data and leverages InfiniBand connectivity. Oracle CEO Charles…
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Oracle and EMC: Improve Database Performance in a Flash (Drive)
SAN FRANCISCO — IT solution providers and IT consultants will find that EMC’s Symmetrix DMX-4 storage systems are showing much faster I/O speeds running Oracle database applications when they are outfitted with new enterprise-class flash drives. The storage systems had a reputation for slowing down as they loaded up more and more data. The improvement…
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Flash: Samsung Makes Play for SanDisk
A stalwart of the Silicon Valley storage market may soon be gone in a flash. SanDisk, the maker of flash memory cards for consumer and enterprise devises, is renewing talks with Samsung to be acquired for $5.85 billion. According to published reports, Samsung made the unsolicited offer in August. The initial overture was rejected by SanDisk…
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Intel Unveils Solid-State SATA Storage Drives
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel has been developing solid-state flash memory processors for as long as flash has been around (20 years). But only on Aug. 19 at the Intel Developer Forum here did the world’s largest chip maker announce its first-ever flash-based SATA drives for data storage. Intel’s High-Performance SATA (Serial ATA) solid-state drives are data storage devices…
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Storage Virtualization: Help or Hype?
By now, the arguments for increased storage capacity and for virtualization are rote. Everyone understands that data is piling up at an alarming rate. Business intelligence efforts, swelling databases, and regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act conspire to keep storage space at a premium. Meanwhile, server virtualization…