Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers

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	Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centers Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical storage reservoir and ensures resiliency by backing up data on at least two physical disks. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Growing Your Business Without a Crystal Ball Learn how an upgrade at Opus Interactive allows scalable storage growth with 40 percent less upfront cost. Read Now! In this Issue Windows 8 Gains Storage Intelligence With Storage Spaces Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices Marvell unveils first PCIe scalable NAND flash controller The downside of flash memory innovation 2012 tech startups to watch product sampler WHITE PAPER: NetApp Market Overview: Midrange Storage, Q3 2011 Infrastructure and operations execs know that to achieve cloud flexibility and economics, the storage architectures in place needed to change. This document will walk you through key drivers for storage, the criteria that should be considered and a summary of the top solutions in the space. Read now! Windows 8 Gains Storage Intelligence With Storage Spaces Steven Sinofsky is back with a lengthy blog update that shows there will be a lot more to Windows 8 than just a pretty interface, thankfully. The way you store data is about to change. Microsoft is working on a new back-end infrastructure called Storage Spaces that will pool physical disks, which are then carved up into spaces. Sounds like RAID, you say? Well, RAID was never this versatile. Read... Read More Fusion-io to cut flash storage latency again Fusion-io previewed a technology on Thursday that gives server CPUs more direct access to stored data, apparently achieving I/O performance far beyond that found in typical data centers. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetGear Server Virtualization - A Game-Changer For SMB Customers The switching infrastructure on a physical external network must be fast enough to handle virtualization's increase in network traffic. Learn how to get: • 10GE connection and link aggregation for higher throughput/performance • Failover port configuration for reliability • VLANs to help separate backup, NAS of SAN traffic Read Now NetApp becomes latest vendor to raise disk drive prices NetApp announced it will raise the price of disk drives in its storage systems from 5% to 15% in the wake of Thailand's flooding, which affected the world hard drive supply. Read More Marvell unveils first PCIe scalable NAND flash controller Marvell today unveiled a new solid state storage controller that can be used to create PCIe-based flash cards that scale up in performance and capacity using commodity hardware. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ Streamlining IT Operations with Business Service Management This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the benefits of a business service management practice and tools in response to IT environments becoming more dynamic and complex due to the increased use of virtualization, cloud, SOA, and n-tier application architectures. Learn More The downside of flash memory innovation Attention K-Mart shoppers (and others): Falling prices for NAND flash memory can be expected to bring a major surge of electronic advertising to retail store aisles that will have consumers longing for the days of the occasional blue-light special. Read More 2012 tech startups to watch product sampler Read More
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