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IT Efficiency planning

HP Pavilion DM3-1040US 13.3-Inch Silver Laptop Review

Specifications: With ultra-slim laptops doing so well available in the market, HP is currently wanting to grab a piece of the piece using its HP Pavilion DM3-1040US 13.3-Inch Silver Laptop, a fashionable 13.3-inch ultra-portable model. It’s almost a direct competition using the Asus UL laptops and also the popular slim Toshiba models. This HP Laptop [...]

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Repairing and updating your PC Registry

If you are having performance problems with your PC registry or Registry Software and you aren’t sure how to proceed or are considering buying a new PC, you should consider another possible source of the problem.  You may be experiencing problems with your Windows System Registry. If your system registry is faulty, with erroneous or [...]

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How to Evaluate IT Efficiency Investments in Healthcare Management

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has made available a comprehensive workbook assisting suppliers in getting a grip on the real cost and benefits an IT investment provides. The guidebook walks IT efficiency project managers through the procedure of establishing project goals, including what facets of the technology will need to be measured and [...]

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Save 1 Terabyte of Storage: NetApp Storage & VMware Virtualization Demo

Hey, I found this great video on youtube demonstrating the extraordinary storage savings Deduplication gives you.  Watch and see how almost 1 Terabyte of storage space is created with this technology.      Vmware Virtualization programs and software along with NetApp storage is used to deduplicate one hundred virtual machines saving almost 1 terabyte of storage!   For more information on how [...]

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Is Data Deduplication Important? Why?

 Among the greatest challenges to the data storage community is how to effectively store information without selecting the exact same data and storing over and over again in different locations on the same servers, hard drives, magnetic tape libraries and so forth. There have been numerous efforts to handle these redundancie a few more successful [...]

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Is there a difference between Utility Computing, Grid Computing and Virtualization or do they all mean the same thing?

They’re different aspects and utilizations of a concept instead of the same exact thing. Grid Computing tends to refer (in academia) to the scientific discipline, communications protocols and technologies that enable massively distributed computer systems to be massed across numerous origanisations. Owing to the massive scale of these systems they’re frequently homogenous (i.e. many dissimilar [...]

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What is Deduplication?

   Deduplication (occasionally called Single-Instance Storage, Capacity Optimization or Factoring) represents a data diminution technology designed to do away with redundant (duplicate) data on a storage system by saving just one instance of each piece of data for the purpose of reducing disk space and network bandwidth.There are various types of deduplication technologies: File deduplication [...]

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Medina Networks Release 2009 Predictions

Increasing the value in a down economy Organizations will suffer budgets slashed or frozen. With less money to spend they’ll get by with what they have instead of splash out on new technologies. Chief financial officer* and Finance Directors will search inwardly at how to attain greater returns on assets utilized rather than the ROI [...]

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Is utility computing, grid computing, and virtualization the same thing?

Utility computing, grid computing and virtualization are terms that have been floated around when disscussing IT efficiency planning and server consolodation.  However, some people use them interchangably.  What do you think, are they just different names for the same concept? Tweet This Post

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Remote Data Backup Technology

I remember when a server used to be as big as a room, and a computer wasn’t a small portable object.  Nowadays computer technology is more modern, however, these improvements happened in just a few years.  Now, you wouldn’t think of keeping any of this old technology in your business office setting, would you?  Of course not!  On the [...]

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