How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data

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	How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data Managing the petabyte-scale and larger data stores that are a fact of life with Big Data is a different beast than managing traditional large-scale data infrastructures. Online photo site Shutterfly--which manages more than 30 petabytes of data--shares its strategy for taming the storage beast. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Leveraging EMC Solutions for Backup and Long-term Retention In this white paper, ESG discusses how EMC's Data Domain data deduplication technology can be optimized for backup, recovery, and long-term information retention to effectively manage data growth on tight budgets. Read now. In this Issue What to consider before signing up for Google Drive INSIDER Your cloud contract needs to look beyond renewal time HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity G-RAID with Thunderbolt an impressive performer Quantum releases LTFS appliance that makes tape like NAS Intel ships new SSD 330 series, limits it to 180GB storage Should I Scan an External Drive for Malware? Barbara Krasnoff: Springpad review: A new, more sharing data collector Amazon cloud accessed daily by a third of all 'Net users How to Use Hadoop to Overcome Storage Limitations Darragh Delaney: Packet capture made simple WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how What to consider before signing up for Google Drive With Google reportedly looking to launch its GDrive service soon, would-be customers of cloud storage providers should consider several important questions about any service and their needs. Read More INSIDER Your cloud contract needs to look beyond renewal time Use your contract to keep from being surprised when it's time to renew. (Insider; registration required) Read More HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity Start-up hVault announced it plans to begin shipping a holographic disc library later this year that will enable companies to store petabytes of data for at least 50 years without any degradation. Read More G-RAID with Thunderbolt an impressive performer G-Technology's G-RAID with Thunderbolt is a preconfigured RAID 0 storage device that houses two 7200-rpm Hitachi drives in an all-aluminum enclosure. While it's configured as a striped RAID (RAID 0), it can be reconfigured to a mirrored RAID (RAID 1) for data protection by using the Mac OS X Disk Utility. Read More Quantum releases LTFS appliance that makes tape like NAS Quantum today announced an LTFS appliance that allows tape drives to act like network-attached storage where data can be accessed as simple, open file formats. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Driving Storage Efficiencies with Automated Tiering Storage management has become a huge issue for IT managers, and it's not going to subside, according to market researchers. New research conducted by IDG Research Services reveals that IT managers are considering tiered storage as an essential tool. Download this white paper to learn more about the survey results. Learn More! Intel ships new SSD 330 series, limits it to 180GB storage Intel's streak of solid-state drive announcements continued on Monday, when the company announced a new line of SSD 330 drives for mainstream computers but with maximum storage capacity of only 180GB. Read More Should I Scan an External Drive for Malware? 1gynRat258 asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if one should scan a flash drive or an external hard drive for malware--such as a virus or Trojan. Read More Barbara Krasnoff: Springpad review: A new, more sharing data collector Springpad's radically revamped version makes it obvious that the company wants to further distinguish itself by emphasizing its social networking capabilities.   Read More Amazon cloud accessed daily by a third of all 'Net users DeepField Networks, a cloud intelligence company operating in semi-stealth mode, offered up some eye-popping findings Wednesday about the breadth of Internet activity Amazon is now responsible for. Read More How to Use Hadoop to Overcome Storage Limitations Big data is all about storing and accessing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, where to put that data and how to access it have become the biggest challenges for enterprises looking to leverage the information. If you haven't yet considererd the open source Hadoop platform, now's the time. Read More Darragh Delaney: Packet capture made simple Capturing packets from computer networks can sometimes sound like an activity reserved for hackers and geeks. Looking at a stream of raw packets is not for the fainthearted, but thankfully there are a number of technologies out there that can make the task easier.   Read More
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