Solid State is Coming
I’m more convinced of this than ever. News headlines are increasing, prices are decreasing, and solid state drives will be mainstream before you know it. Heck, we’re even giving one away for our December contest! So what
does this mean for you?
Well, prices for solid state drives are still higher than traditional mechanical disks, but if you’ve got transactional systems where minimizing data latency is critical, it could be the time to make the switch.
We’re also seeing exciting uses for low-power solid state drives in new hardware, such as netbooks.
Google has even announced that their Chrome OS will only support solid state drives.
SearchStorage has an article out this week suggesting four new ways to use solid state disks.
Have you introduced SSDs into your environment yet? We want to know! Drop us a line at leadgeek@appassure.com and tell us your story.
You know what the best thing about IT is? It’s never boring!
Industry News
Four ways to use solid-state disk
Contemporary enterprise data storage systems have been designed to cope with the limitations of mechanical disk drives, in particular to reduce the impact of high latency and the low number of IOPS mechanical disks can support. With solid-state drives (SSDs), this basic truth has changed and capacity limitations of storage controllers have become the limiting factor.
Next frontier: managing performance of virtualized apps
IT organizations that decide to virtualize multi-tier, production applications tend to go slow.
But implementing performance management software gave one firm what it needed to rev up its efforts, enabling the company to virtualize nearly all its applications in about a year.
Disaster Recovery Is All About Imagination
Within our IT-centric world, we tend to forget that disaster recovery is more – much more – than getting mission-critical data restored. In fact, getting the data back might be the easiest part of the process. Tougher is knowing what is going to happen with that data after it is restored.
Are backups and archives getting closer?
The backup vs. archive debate has been raging for a long time, and for years, the data backup and recovery community has advocated that “backup is not archive.” However, with recent moves by vendors to integrate more and more functionality into their backup software, there is a question whether this is still
true or not.
Data deduplication tools move into data backup infrastructure
Data deduplication technology has added a new argument to the long-running disk vs.
tape data backup and recovery debate. Though deduplication tools are still in their infancy, dedupe opens a path toward eliminating tape entirely from many enterprise data storage infrastructures.
News from AppAssure
Win a 128GB Solid State Drive in December
Not to worry – we’ve got a new contest for December! We still have 7 available downloads (AppAssure Backup & Replication, DocRetriever, MailRetriever, DocRetriever Lite, MailRetriever Lite, Exchange Observer, and the Hyper-V Toolset), and every qualified download in December will enter you into our drawing for a free 128GB Solid State Drive from Crucial.
Creating a Business Case: Translating Technical Capabilities into Business Advantage
Technical people and business people don’t always speak the same language.
IT managers and administrators who understand the business goals and realities of their company are able to evaluate and select technology that will help meet goals while staying within budget.
In best case scenarios, the technology they select actually saves the company money.
The hard part is often explaining the benefits of chosen technology to business people who have to sign off on the investment.
Finally this week, some additional resources from our trip to the Windows Connections conference last month.
SQL experts Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp have posted all of their slide decks fromthe show, including Paul’s session on SQL backup strategy and their joint session on database maintenance. Make sure to take advantage of these great free resources!
Have a great week,
Josh |
