This is one of a series of posts discussing the new features in Windows Server 2012, now shipping and previously in public beta as Windows Server 8. You can find references to other related posts at the end of this article. This post reviews the storage feature – data de-duplication.
Background
Everyone wants to reduce [...]
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Over the last couple of years I’ve moved away from personal physical disk media to using technologies like Dropbox as my method of carrying around files. This is a pretty obvious migration; Dropbox, Google Drive and others provide additional features, including the most obvious one; they keep all your data [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is one of a series of posts discussing the new features in Windows Server 2012, due to be shipped this year and currently in public beta as Windows Server 8. You can find references to other related posts at the end of this article. This post reviews the new file system format known as [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is one of a series of posts discussing the new features in Windows Server 2012, due to be shipped this year and currently in public beta release as Windows Server “8″. You can find references to other related posts at the end of this article. This post reviews the new Storage Spaces feature.
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Infortrend have been producing storage products since 1993. In this post we will look at one of their desktop SOHO products, the 2-drive EonNAS Pro 200, which I’ve recently had on short review for a couple of weeks.
Hardware
The box itself is a smart, matt-black unit, with minimal buttons and external lights. It feels [...]
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One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare [...]
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A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say can be delivered at the same cost or [...]
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