Kaminario releases survey results on application performance

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	Kaminario releases survey results on application performance Kaminario, manufacturer of the K2 DRAM-based storage acceleration appliance, released the results of surveys regarding applications performance taken at two recent high-performance computing events. Attendees of the Microsoft SQL PASS Summit and Supercomputing 2010 conferences were surveyed regarding the impact of slow application performance on businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Virtualization: Maximize Efficiency and Performance In virtualized server environments, the selection of the storage environment (such as direct attached storage versus storage area network) and choice of the storage system, itself, are critical. The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family provides unsurpassed reliability, performance and ease of use for VMware environments. Learn more. Read Now In this Issue Lexar doubles SD storage capacity with 128GB SDXC card Defragging: Why, How, and Whether Gauging the volume Computer History Museum to highlight storage WEBCAST: Iron Mountain Secure, automatic protection for all your server data Your data is valuable—too valuable to risk losing through unreliable backup methods. Iron Mountain's LiveVault offers secure, easy, automated online backup for servers throughout your organization. Watch this webcast to learn how to eliminate the risks of tape-based backup while gaining scalability and fast, reliable recovery. View now Lexar doubles SD storage capacity with 128GB SDXC card Lexar Media on Monday announced the first 128GB SDXC secure digital memory card, which could help products like digital cameras store more video and images. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Application Upgrades and Service Oriented Architecture A study by SOA Industry Analyst Zapthink shows that maintenance and change costs of SOA-based integrations, architected properly, are dramatically lower than traditional integration approaches. Read this whitepaper to understand why and how SOA-enablement will reduce cost and risk of Application upgrades for your organization. Learn More Today! Defragging: Why, How, and Whether Rasha1997 asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if he should use Windows' own defragging tool, a third-party defragger, or just not bother. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control. Consolidation project examples that demonstrate potential savings are also included. Learn More Today! Gauging the volume The hockey stick growth projections for data storage and network traffic don't look like they will level off anytime soon. So plan to stock up on disks (or get smarter about data management) and get ready to install fatter network pipes (or get more serious about WAN optimization). Read More Computer History Museum to highlight storage Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. Read More
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