http://textpattern.com/?v=4.0.8 S3 Blog http://blog.s3.co.uk/ Information Management Solutions Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:51:59 GMT s3-bloghttp://feedburner.google.comDoing More With Less – Handling storage growth in recessionary times According to International Data Corp’s (IDC) Annual European Storage Survey companies are continuing to invest in growing their storage capacity despite the credit crunch squeezing many IT departments.

]]> http://blog.s3.co.uk/article/doing-more-with-less-handling-storage-growth-in-recessionary-times Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:27:26 GMT Barry Jones tag:blog.s3.co.uk,2009-03-04:cb409a3efba123b891b8f2b9b05611c5/1a6e43ab64ca42bcd918536b9d5992ab Doing More With Less - Thin Provisioning The concept of thin provisioning is really very simple; by being smarter in the way disk space is allocated less disk drives are needed. Consequently less power and space are needed, significant cost reductions are made and the corporate social responsibility requirement to produce a lower carbon footprint is satisfied. It looks like an all round winner!

]]> http://blog.s3.co.uk/article/doing-more-with-less-thin-provisioning Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:47:06 GMT Barry Jones tag:blog.s3.co.uk,2008-12-09:cb409a3efba123b891b8f2b9b05611c5/c8e7b448be31e2013a158bb325ed27d9 S3 Technology Note - Doing More With Less, Using Real-time data compression to reduce data volumes According to The Storage IO Group “the combination of growing demand for electricity by data centres, density of power usage per square foot, rising energy costs, strained electricity generating and transmission (G&T) infrastructure and environmental awareness prompted the passage of a new law in The United States that instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to Congress on the state of IT data centres energy usage in the United States.”

]]> http://blog.s3.co.uk/article/s3-technology-note-doing-more-with-less-using-real-time-data-compression-to-reduce-data-volumes Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:09:34 GMT Barry Jones tag:blog.s3.co.uk,2008-10-24:cb409a3efba123b891b8f2b9b05611c5/d4c050e96079e890653e99ea2ad5d94f Doing More With Less - Approaches to de-duplication Symantec note that “As companies integrate disk and discover its benefits as a more active component of their back up environments, they soon realize that they cannot keep all of their backup data on disk. Despite declines in the cost of disk storage, they still lack the available capacity to recover most data from disk locally in the data centre. Data de duplication is a disk-based technology that enables companies to eliminate duplicate backup data and significantly decrease the storage, and in some cases bandwidth, consumption.”

]]> http://blog.s3.co.uk/article/doing-more-with-less-approaches-to-de-duplication Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:13:19 GMT Barry Jones tag:blog.s3.co.uk,2008-10-10:cb409a3efba123b891b8f2b9b05611c5/1ed9b2ed14e6741f0f3e575908726c68 NetApp Notes Accelerated Adoption of 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Storage Applications On 8th August 2008 a NetApp release noted the accelerated adoption of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) storage connectivity by customers who want to optimize their virtual environments and improve power efficiencies in the data centre. Since launching 10GbE in 2006, NetApp has shipped more than 3,000 array ports. In fact, 54% of this total was delivered in 2008 alone, exemplifying the technology’s growing popularity and NetApp’s continued leadership in Ethernet storage.

]]> http://blog.s3.co.uk/article/netapp-notes-accelerated-adoption-of-10-gigabit-ethernet-for-storage-applications Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:47:43 GMT Barry Jones tag:blog.s3.co.uk,2008-09-09:cb409a3efba123b891b8f2b9b05611c5/362d521f49198aa420ea12bf7e106343