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1. Six Wikibon experts break down EMC's recent analyst event (23 Mins)
2. Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009. (20 Mins)
WikitipDemartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI WarpDrive PerformanceDemartek announces its evaluation of the LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card in an access-intensive Web server environment. The LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card is a solid state storage implementation that plugs into the PCI Express® (PCIe) bus in a server. “We achieved tremendous Web server performance, very quick response time and low power consumption with the LSI WarpDrive card,” said Dennis Martin, Demartek president. “We had to move to our 10GbE network to get the full performance of the WarpDrive, achieving more than 100 million Web hits in 90 minutes.” The Demartek evaluation of the LSI WarpDrive Acceleration Card is available here or by following the links on the Demartek Web site. Additional Demartek SSD resources are available in the Demartek SSD Zone.
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Featured Case Study
Financial giant goes greenThe corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems. |
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Planning a Green Storage InitiativeFluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012. | |||
