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Data Centers

A Great Decade For Tape

George Crump
May 25, 2010
As I wrote about in my most recent entry, LTO-5 adds some capabilities that will lead to this being a great decade for tape. This time, the latest generation of LTO is bringing more to the...
Data Centers

File Systems 2.0

George Crump
May 17, 2010
Storage management challenges are often being addressed by either storage hardware vendors or storage software developers. It is time for file systems to step up and offer a little help to...
Data Centers

Ethernet Keeps Winning

George Crump
May 05, 2010
In my early days in this industry, there was a topology battle between Ethernet and Token Ring. Token Ring was just about to release an amazingly fast 16MB/s version. It was interesting to...
Data Centers

SNW Summary

George Crump
April 15, 2010
What were the key themes of the Spring 2010 Storage Networking World? Well there are two sides of SNW. There is my side, where I spend all day in briefings with suppliers of the technology...