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E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E by Dope’n'Stack – a “fresher” enterprise

“OpenStack has the momentum to win, and it can thank this young group of developers and feisty systems gurus for making it happen.” – Alex Williams on TechCrunch Granted, open source is nothing new. Linux  is proof of that, but you cannot argue the sheer velocity this movement has…

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Open Compute sneak peak – is this a cool storage design or what?

A glimpse at the Open Compute Project chassis design from the Openstack Summit this week.  Ignore the 2 “other hard drives” mixed in with all of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 SAS drives More from the Openstack Summit: The cheaper storage is, the more it will be consumed… Open…

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Over-paying for over-performance?

. “SME and enterprise users are increasingly turning to solid state storage, but in the process 99% of them will overpay in 2013 for performance they don’t need and sacrifice capacity, according to industry experts at Tegile Systems.” – via the Wall Street Journal If this is…

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The cheaper storage is, the more it will be consumed…

. Quote of the day:  “We want God in a box for a dollar and the dollar is negotiable!” This one was c/o our friend Mikey Butler, Vice President Research & Development, IaaS, at EVault in his latest post, “EVault at OpenStack Summit.” If you haven’t read his post yet, I…

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The underlying message in the quest for big storage

 . The quest for storage dominance in the SMB space has been evident for years, and now it appears many are vying for a piece of the action in the enterprise and cloud data center space.  It’s all about cramming as much storage capacity in the smallest physical space, with the highest level…

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Open for business makes BYOS (Build your own servers) a reality

We all know, or at least have heard of BYOD (Bring your own device), but what about this trend around cloud companies building their own servers, or perhaps, BYOS? Is the open source movement making this a reality? Backblaze is a prime example, and in this post by Nathaniel Mott on pandodaily.com,…

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Time to play: “Name that storage device”

. What is it?

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The hidden but healthy TCO of tablets

Total Cost of Ownership once again raises its head. This time it’s not about cloud, but instead – Tablets courtesy of Dell. What’s interesting is that this focuses on the concerns of healthcare IT given the security regulations and compliance issues, but when it comes to IT in…

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Should you buy or rent (software) in this market?

The age old question of buying or renting applies to housing as well as enterprise IT.  We can thank the cloud for that. When considering purchasing a home, purchasing on-premise IT solutions (hardware and software), or purchasing anything for that matter, one must take into consideration the Total…

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“I wish I could utilize the full capacity of my brain!”

“In an article entitled “What Is the Memory Capacity of the Human Brain?” Paul Reber mentioned that the human brain has a capacity of around 2.5 petabytes of binary data, enough to store three million hours of TV shows. One has to let the TV run continuously for more than 300 years to use…

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