How to upgrade your external hard drive to USB 3.0
Ready for an unconventional upgrade? How about this: You can turn an old, pokey external hard drive into a blazingly fast one with about 10 minutes of your time and $15 of your money.
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STORAGE HARDWARE NEWS
Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive
HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.
Read more...Improve performance with a hard drive upgrade
Alloystory asked the Laptops forum about speeding up a PC by replacing the hard drive with something faster.
Read more...BLOG: A conversation with Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Nimble Storage
How he is changing storage
Read more...Fujitsu signs Dicker Data
Fujitsu has inked a deal with Dicker Data to distribute the full range of server and storage products in a bid to increase SMB focus and get access to the larger reseller network.
Read more...The proper care and feeding of SSD storage
Your solid-state drive sits there in silence. It's sleek. Elegant. More than a little mysterious.The hard drive it replaced was easy to understand: A soft hum assured you that its platters were spinning. A quiet mechanical click informed you of its read/write operations. You'd groom it with the occasional defrag. Times were good.
Read more...Western Digital and SanDisk deliver their first hybrid drive
Western Digital has unveiled more information on its first hybrid solid-state drive, revealing that it worked with SanDisk to create the 500GB drive.
Read more...BLOGS AND OPINIONS
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Why Real-Time Replication Is Better Than Periodic Replication
Replication technology enables information sharing between primary and backup servers. This whitepaper discusses different replication methodologies and how they pair up with multi-tiered computing environments.
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What to Consider When Choosing Virtual Machine Protection
IT administrators are faced with number of important considerations when weighing data protection methodologies for virtual machines. This Paper explores several different approaches that will provide the right kind of coverage for your virtual machine workloads.
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Suitability of Category 7A/Class FA As A "Future Proofing" Media for 40 Gbps Applications
This whitepaper shares the future 40Gbps twisted-pair options with an overview of recent developments in cabling industry standards, transceiver chipset that implement physical layer specifications, capacity considerations based on 10GBASE-T.
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How to Migrate Without Downtime: An Executive Overview
Migrating applications, systems and data has always been a challenge for IT staff; most have just gotten used to the pain that comes with migrations. To properly migrate applications and data to new platforms involves risk and takes time to complete.
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Load factor: performance testing for Web applications
This paper discusses the importance of measuring application performance, and explores best practices for load and performance testing.
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Mobile load: Performance testing for mobile applications
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What to Consider When Choosing Virtual Machine Protection
IT administrators are faced with number of important considerations when weighing data protection methodologies for virtual machines. This Paper explores several different approaches that will provide the right kind of coverage for your virtual machine workloads.
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The World Quality Report
The World Quality Report - the current state of enterprise application quality and testing practices around the world, according to 1,550 senior information executives (including CFOs, CIOs, IT directors and quality assurance directors).
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CASE STUDY: Australian Red Cross
How the Australian Red Cross Blood Service enhanced the performance of its mission-critical applications.
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