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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

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Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication. Uptime and resiliency. Featured Cloud Articles.

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EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio » Data Center Knowledge

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At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. In addition, the new systems support up to 540 data streams, a 3 times increase that further enables complete consolidation of backup and/or archive data.

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Data Tape: Dying a Slow Death or Already Dead? » Data Center.

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Yet today, there are few backup administrators using this technique. Today, many customers are using tape as a duplicate backup. They run quicker to disk within their backup windows and can be duplicated or archived to tape for off-site storage. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. The Future of Data Tape.

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'Catastrophic' Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks » Data.

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The delay caused backups in the Oregon Employment Department’s processing of unemployment insurance payments and claims, state officials said. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). August 2012 (166).

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO Business Intelligence

For instance, the power consumption of the world’s fastest supercomputer rose from 7.9MW in 2012 to 29.9MW in 2022. Dollars are moving to purchasing new energy-efficient hardware or devoting resources to optimization efforts or changing where HPC workloads are run.

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In Disaster Recovery Planning, Don't Neglect Home Site Restoration.

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Michelle Ziperstein is the Marketing Communications Specialist at Cervalis LLC , which provides data backup and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical data. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. July 2012 (134).

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8 billion or $11.7

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