OCZ Technology Group is introducing a new SATA III-based solid-state drive (SSD) that delivers 80,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS), 30,000 more IOPS than its predecessor. OCZ says the Deneva 2 line of SSDs is targeted at mission-critical enterprise applications, where fast reading and writing of data to and from storage is essential.
Viridity Tools Up For Emerging DCIM Market
Next month, Viridity Software will start shipping EnergyCenter 2.0, its data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software that has been enhanced to help customers connect equipment utilization and business value to power consumption, which the company says can reduce power and cooling costs by up to 50%.
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Sanbolic Update Helps Rein In Storage Costs
The latest release of Sanbolic’s Melio (v3.5) clustered file system and volume management software, improves availability and scalability for physical, virtual and cloud environments, says co-founder and CEO Momchil Michailov.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 20: Editing and Making Movies
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 20
After spending a few days in the weeds looking under the hood at more technical stuff like comparing file systems, and diving into the command line interface, we’re going to bring the focus of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux back to more common usage. Today, I am taking a look at editing and creating movies in Ubuntu Linux.
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Nexenta Namespace Cluster Upgrade Cuts Storage Limitations
Nexenta Systems’ revamped Namespace Cluster will virtually eliminate technical limitations on scalability and allow users to connect thousands of nodes to work together as one file system. The vendor of OpenStorage solutions, which is also announcing the latest release of its enterprise-class storage platform (NexentaStor 3.1), says the new offering dynamically scales out storage capacity and performance, while consolidating and reducing the complexities of managing petabyte-scale storage deployments.
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Former CA Security Business Emerges As Standalone Company
CA technologies sold off its Internet security business unit to the venture capital firm Updata Partners, which formed a new company called Total Defense that officially opens its doors Monday. Total Defense will focus on selling malware protection and intrusion prevention technology to both the consumer and business markets.
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Panasas Stages HPC Jailbreak
Panasas, Inc. is busting out of its HPC (high-performance computing) parallel storage niche to assault the broader storage market. ActiveStor 11 scales to 6PB of capacity and 115GB/s of throughput from a single global namespace, and should expand the company’s addressable market from computationally intensive application environments to a variety of markets, whether deployed as part of a dedicated research cluster or a multi-tenant private cloud platform.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 19: Using ‘man’ and ‘grep’
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 19
Carrying over from yesterday’s examination of the Ubuntu command line, today’s installment of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux is dedicated to ‘man’ and ‘grep’. These commands wield significant power, and seem to be two of the most commonly used commands for the Ubuntu Linux command line.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 17: Exploring the Top Panel
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 17
So far in the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series, there have been a number of things about the OS that I have struggled with as a Linux novice. One of the aspects of Ubuntu that I appreciate most, though, is the functionality of the top panel.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 18: What Is This ‘sudo’ You Speak Of?
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 18
From the beginning of the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series I have had readers suggest solutions for various issues that involve the command line. In general, I prefer to work with the graphical interface, but it is worthwhile to be familiar with the command line interface so today I decided to poke around on it.
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