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The company I work for does some neat things with backup and failover using the Cloud. But… I am not here to sell or promote that. That just goes against our little community here that Tim has built. We use two main Cloud vendors – Amazon and Terremark with a 3rd – RackSpace.

If you haven’t yet tuned into the weekly podcast known as Infosmack on community site Storage Monkeys, you’re missing out. Every Monday, hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley bring on guests to dish about the latest storage industry news–and they do so in a very entertaining and informative way.

Today I will be connecting our newly bought EMC CLARiiON CX4-480, fully equipped with 1TB SATA disks. We installed the other one this week on our secondary site. They will host our primary online media for our media management and production system and replica of the same data on our secondary site

Who better than a bunch of storage monkeys to determine which vendors lead the market in Data DeDuplication, iSCSI storage and Tape Libraries?  And what is better than a free cup of coffee to entice you to share your wisdom?   This month, InfoStor Magazine will feature survey results from storage professionals who participate in the latest IT Brand Leader survey from IRead More..

Blog readers have asked for podcast-ready versions of StorageRap videos that they can download and play on their iPods, iPhones, Blackberry's or other portable devices. So now there is a new StorageRap Podcast site on Podbean as well as a podcast feed for StorageRap on iTunes

Do storage managers have a “pack rat” mentality? Yes – if you ask the folks over at Symantec, according to their recent “Symantec Top 9 storage trends for 2010″ published recently. Well, I beg to differ

One of the things I’ve learned, having been in more traditional “Enterprise” environments and “Internet” companies is that the latter have much larger scale issues, with respect to storage, by an order of magnitude or two, than the former.   Fortunately, there’s also a difference in the nature of the data, such that the most voluminous (and, arguably, most valuable) data, web access logs, are highly compressible (5-10x) with the right algorithm. Compression is important atRead More…

Want to know the storage news from Australia and New Zealand over the last week? Here goes. First up:we have a bit of a scoop that details the specs of four Open Storage devices that Sun will release next year. Read about ‘em here.

Although myself and others here at Storage Monkeys have been railing about the need for transparency and honesty among bloggers, surprisingly few have adopted any ethical standards for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. The lack of disclosure is bad for the storage industry, it’s bad for vendors,  it’s bad for the bloggers and it’s real bad for the commercial publications that refuse to develop any standard for disclosure.   One of the regular offenders of tRead More..

The title of this post was my first thought when I received the invitation to join the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day. To start off from the beginning, I’m a regular reader over at Gestalt IT. “So what is Gestalt IT” you may wonder now. Well, on their website you will find the following: We are collecting the best analysis and commentary from leaders in the fields of virtualization, networking, storage, and desktop engineering.