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- What is a Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive? - by Submitted on May 16, 2013 from Stephanie RoseIf you have been using computers for virtually any amount of time, you're likely familiar with traditional hard disks drives. They are mechanical devices consisting of a spinning magnetic platter or "disk" and read/write heads that read and record data to the disk. Hard disks have come a long ...
Views: 1034 - Is a Solid State Hybrid Drive Right for You? - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2013 from Stephanie RoseIn the 1980s, personal computers rarely had hard drives. They stored data on removable floppy disks. The five inch floppies really were floppy. Those were soon replaced by smaller removable floppies encased in a hard plastic shell. Later, PCs came equipped with hard disks for both the operating ...
Views: 963(2 votes) - An Introduction to Storage Virtualization - by Submitted on May 07, 2013 from Stephanie RoseVirtualization is a broad technical term that applies to desktops, servers, and storage. It involves abstraction where aspects of a system, whether it's a desktop, server, or hard disk, are no longer needed when the system has been virtualized. Various layers are added to handle transactions ...
Views: 955 - Desktop Virtualization 101: A Primer for Growing Businesses - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2013 from Stephanie RoseAs your company grows, its technology needs increase. While maintaining an office network of five to fifteen computers may be as simple as calling your local computer company for help as needed, the process becomes far more complex – and costly – as your company grows. The Old Way of Adding ...
Views: 1027(1 vote) - Storage Planning Tips for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2013 from Stephanie RoseIf you're planning a virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, one crucial component is storage. Storage is often blamed for a virtual desktop infrastructure's ultimate failure or cited for its success. In addition to driving the success of the VDI, storage has a significant impact on the VDI's ...
Views: 960(1 vote) - Top Five Advantages of Hybrid Storage - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2013 from Stephanie RoseOne of the hottest innovations in enterprise data storage is the arrival of hybrid storage systems. Using a blend of HDD and SSD, hybrid storage offers both performance and capacity. It successfully resides in the middle ground between traditional and all flash data storage. While the middle ...
Views: 1637(2 votes) - Managing the Virtual Storage Needs of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2013 from Stephanie RoseMoving from a physical desktop environment to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) brings with it a number of advantages and a few challenges. Advantages include reduced costs and improvements in performance, reliability, data protection, and administration. However, all is not perfect in a ...
Views: 1050(2 votes) - Disk Array Storage: Performance vs. Capacity - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2013 from Stephanie RoseAs with other areas of IT, disk array storage has changed dramatically in recent years. Just over 20 years ago, personal computers came with huge spinning disks the size of dinner plates with capacities of just a few megabytes. That's right, megabytes. Today, a PC may have a smaller disk encased ...
Views: 1373(2 votes) - Understanding Storage Virtualization - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2012 from Stephanie RoseIn the early days of the personal computer, data was saved to floppy disks and enterprise data stored to reels of magnetic tape. A lot has changed since then. Today, personal computers and laptops come with a tremendous amount of disk space on traditional or solid state disk drives. In network ...
Views: 900(2 votes) - Tips on Data Storage - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2012 from Stephanie RoseMost small businesses are able to go about their day-to-day tasks without having to really worry about the data that they are accumulating. A personal computer is typically enough to handle the data that you are going to typically throw at it, but what happens when you are a larger company that ...
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