Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks

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	Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks We pinpoint the cloud storage services with the best attributes for accomplishing specific tasks, and offer advice on how to use the cloud most effectively. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Benefits of Solid State Storage PCI Express solid state storage (PCIe-SSS) is a type of storage device that connects directly to the server's PCIe bus. This technical white paper offers a primer on PCIe-SSS, explains the differences between SAS or SATA SSDs and PCIe-SSS, and highlights the performance advantages of PCIe-SSS. Learn More In this Issue Pixorial leads with Google Drive: will developers follow? Up next for the cloud: Big data analytics? Oracle tweaks storage options for virtual desktop infrastructure Is Azure a dirty word because it means cloud? Microsoft revamps chkdsk tool in Windows 8 to minimize downtime Don't count on an iPhone 5 announcement June 11 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Pixorial leads with Google Drive: will developers follow? When Pixorial updated its video-sharing iOS app last month, the company added a feature its competitors couldn't yet match: Integration with the new Google Drive cloud storage service. Read More Up next for the cloud: Big data analytics? In an effort to diversify its cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the cloud. Read More WEBCAST: Dell The Evolution of NAS Storage Traditional NAS systems don't scale beyond fixed limits. Proliferation of NAS systems leads to management challenges. Many organizations also use traditional block-based SAN solutions for transactional systems like databases and email. Having separate block and file storage also adds to management challenges. Learn More Oracle tweaks storage options for virtual desktop infrastructure Oracle's virtual desktop infrastructure is no longer reliant solely on the company's own storage infrastructure, giving customers a range of new options that won't tie customers into one vendor. Read More Is Azure a dirty word because it means cloud? Microsoft has sent its Windows Azure customers an email that says the word Azure will be dropped from the usage portal for the cloud services they buy. So, for example, Windows Azure Storage will appear simply as Storage on the bills, according to a ZDNet story about the change. WAGES: Who are tech's highest paid CEOs? Read More WHITE PAPER: AppSense Remove User Complexity With User Virtualization Wouldn't it be great to manage thousands of users with the effort it takes to manage just one? With the inevitable migration to windows 7 and adoption of cloud computing to consider, user virtualization is what IT managers have been dreaming of. Learn More Microsoft revamps chkdsk tool in Windows 8 to minimize downtime In a recent post on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Senior Program Manager, Windows Core Storage and File Systems, Kiran Bangalore, discusses a new NTFS health model and redesigned chkdsk (check disk) tool coming with Windows 8 that can detect and fix data corruption issues much more quickly than Windows 7, and presumably older versions of Windows. Read More Don't count on an iPhone 5 announcement June 11 A key tenet of Apple rumormongering is that Apple history repeats itself repeatedly: If Apple has done X, Y and 42 so much as twice consecutively, pundits posit that Apple will do X, Y and 42 a third time. Read More
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