One of the biggest storage management advancements in the past years has been the (re-) introduction of thin provisioning. Practically speaking, thin provisioning is one of the many technologies that have transformed some aspects of the age-old problem of storage utilization. Since storage utilization is a rough metric used to determine the amount of data, compared to actual capacity,...
This week saw OCZ accused of fraud, a big storage merger announced and divergent earnings reports from EMC and Western Digital.
Scathing Report Implies OCZ Has Committed Fraud
Copperfield Research has put out a scathing report around OCZ Technology entitled, " OCZ - The Master of SSD (Shady, Suspect, Deceitful)" The abstract said that the firm has found numbers that do...
Between its consumer/ gaming lines and its server lines, ASUS has a compelling set of workstation motherboards for a variety of platforms as denoted by WS line designation, like the ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution recently reviewed. ASUS has released an update to the popular P6T6 WS line in the ASUS P6X58-E WS. The P6X58-E WS is a mix between...
These days, IPMI 2.0 with KVM-over-IP functionality is virtually a requirement on server boards unless one is using an external KVM-over-IP unit plus an IP switched power distribution unit. Being able to remotely administer not just the operating system, as one can with tools like SSH/ Telnet, VNC and Remote Desktop clients is a huge advantage when things go...
Seagate today confirmed rumors aired by the Wall Street Journal yesterday (and predicted by ServeTheHome last month after the Western Digital - Hitachi GST announcement) when it announced its plans to purchase Samsung's hard drive business for $1.375B. What does this mean to the industry?
As was noted yesterday, the deal makes a lot of sense. Samsung is focusing on...
Although the Intel Xeon L5640 is a lot of processor with very low power consumption requirements, the Intel Xeon X5670 is a much higher-end part. Although quad socket capable, the X5670 is also dual socket capable and fills a position that the Xeon E series does not scale to at this time. The L5640 was fast, but let’s see...
Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Samsung was mulling the sale of its hard drive unit. Seagate has been rumored as a potential buyer which makes a lot of sense. With the pending Western Digital - Hitachi tie-up it makes sense. As ServeTheHome noted at the time of the Western Digital - Hitachi GST announcement:
"At the end of...
Here is a quick roundup of interesting news this week:
Iron Mountain Shutters Public Cloud Storage and Nirvanix Reaches Out to Stranded Customers
Perhaps one of the scariest things for anyone storing data in the cloud is what happens if that cloud provider ceases operations. Unlike an internal IT department shutting down a system, there is less control over third parties....
The Opteron 6166 HE is a dodeca (12) core CPU running at 1.8GHz. Utilizing the Magny Cours G34 platform, the Opteron 6166 HE is dual and quad socket ready. In each package there are essentially two Opteron 4100 series CPUs stitched together that combine for 6MB of L2 cache and 12MB of L3 cache per package alongside access to...
The Tyan S8236WGM3NR packs two socket G34 CPUs and up to 24 Magny-Cours cores and sixteen DDR3 DIMM slots in a 1U/ 2U friendly form factor. One area admittedly ServeTheHome has been lacking in is covering the AMD G34 and C32 platforms. I plan to do a much larger piece on some CPUs in the near future, but I...