4TB-Festplatten bringen RAID 6 an seine Grenzen - Höhere Rebuild-Zeiten erfordern Triple Parity von Heiko Wüst, Nexenta Systems

4TB-Festplatten werden zunehmend gängig und erschwinglich, aber viele Administratoren haben Zweifel, ob sie diese wirklich einsetzen sollten. Das Problem: Die Rebuild-Zeit einer Festplatte steigt linear mit ihrer Größe an. Es kann zwei bis vier Tage dauern, bis eine neue 4TB-Platte in einem RAID-Verbund wieder mit den Daten der ausgefallenen Festplatte gefüllt ist. Die Gefahr ist, dass in dieser Zeit weitere Festplatten ausfallen. RAID 6 verträgt zwei Ausfälle...

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New service enables developers to stream resource-intensive applications and games from the cloud to a broad range of devices.

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Amazon marks new status for Cloudreach as AWS Premier Consulting Partner

Amazon has named Cloudreach as Premier Consulting Partner for its Amazon Web Services suite of cloud products. The London-headquartered cloud consultancy becomes one of the first European firms to be recognised by Amazon Web Services as a key player in the cloud market, and as a partner that continues to grow, innovate and consistently exceed its expectations.

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Iceotope liquid-cooled supercomputer operates at 95 percent utilisation with near-perfect PUE

Iceotope has announced the installation of its next generation liquid-cooled servers inside the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland, a 3,200sq ft colocation facility offering shared HPC (High Performance Computing) services to scientists, universities and researchers from around the world. The installation is part of the European PRACE Research Project (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) and was completed in June 2013. Since then, the Iceotope and PRACE teams...

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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