Storage expectations in high profile or mission-critical environments command continuous and uncompromised performance with at least 99% uptime (i.e., less than 1% downtime) irrespective of all the ...

Greg Schulz, author of several books on storage, is founder of the StorageIO Group, an IT industry analyst consultancy whose blog can be found at storageioblog.com ...

Storage system availability has become an increasing concern as very high capacity drives have come to market in recent years. While availability has not traditionally been a chief concern in HPC, it ...

Additionally, user expectations surrounding the availability of data and applications are continuing to increase, challenging IT staff to deliver often very high levels of service at a time when IT ...

LSI will use next week's Microsoft TechEd conference to unveil a new solution that allows high-availability storage clusters to be built with commodity hardware and Microsoft's Windows Server 2012.

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved. High Availability (HA) is a topic with a great deal of history. Different ...

HowtoForge – This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, ...

Like overburdened clerks a hundred years ago who stuffed every cubbyhole and file cabinet in their offices with copies of forms and documents, state and local IT managers these days scramble to store ...

Today Fraunhofer ITWM and ThinkParQ announced a new major release of the BeeGFS parallel file system. Now available as a free download, BeeGFS version 2015.03-r1 comes with enterprise features ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zadara™ Storage, the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS), today announced expanded high-availability and data protection options for its award-winning ...