Initiatives like open storage technologies should help drive this improvement.
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Storage device companies such as Seagate can provide cost effective storage solutions that could have special power saving or performance features that would be attractive to open storage system designers.
With the amount of digital data in data centers growing annually and storage budgets highly constrained open source storage system designs can fill an important niche for data centers and IT people comfortable with installing and maintaining their own hardware.
Facebook created an initiative called Open Compute to create open computer architectures, including open source storage architectures.
Founded in 1983 to market a minicomputer data cartridge backup drive, Advanced Digital has emerged as a world leader in open systems storage for PCs.
The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.
TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.
The center armrest between the front seats, which swings open to reveal a storage bin, is one smooth piece of leather devoid of unsightly shut lines.
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The real power of OpenStack is its open standards across compute, storage and networking resources.
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The availability of cheap, fast computers and storage, as well as open source tools, have made it okay to capture first and ask questions later.
Availability of an open, API based standard for digital asset storage access.
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It covers activities such as the creation, retrieval and deletion of data elements from the cloud and is an open standard for self-provisioning and accessing cloud storage.
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This is a shift away from proprietary APIs and interfaces that tie clients to their storage vendors as CDMI is a more open approach aimed at reducing vendor dependability.
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The project is still very much under construction, and the team is weighing a number of different open source technologies in order to build out the storage, management and querying of the Twitter archive.
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Rackspace also said it is installing a tiered pricing system for its open cloud products, starting with its Cloud files object storage service.
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Red Hat recently purchased storage software maker Sistina and vowed to make it open source.
As corporations began deploying open client-server systems in recent years, many attached storage devices to their local servers.
Packed in their 7-by-2-foot titanium-framed fiberglass bodies are terabytes of cellphone flash storage, a dual-core ARM processor running open Linux software, a battery pack, sensor arrays, a GPS unit, and wireless and satellite communications systems.
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Someone found the manuscript in storage in January, according to the statement, and Open Road will publish it in paperback and digital formats Oct. 22.
OpenPhoto is an open source tool enables you to export all Instagram photos into your existing storage account i.e.
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
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The underground bunker would be a very good data storage centre and its proximity to the Norfolk Broads and the coast open up leisure possibilities.
But some steps we take to be more productive, such as setting up a team account on a cloud storage service, or bringing a personal tablet into the office, can inadvertently open holes in corporate defenses.
Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.
The development of new technology solutions, channels and open standards to support operating system and other programing that takes advantage of the use of solid state storage for traditional storage as well as non-volatile memory will change the face of our technical culture for many years to come.
Even if the government meets targets to expand storage capacity by June, that would still leave around 8 million tons of grains out in the open -- vulnerable to weather and attacks by rodents.
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