The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personal computer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.
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With the addition of one or more storage systems connected to a high-performance RAID controller, users can deploy virtually unlimited RAID-protected shared storage across the network.
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This software will allow a vendor to use a server containing a Fusion-io ioMemory flash card into a shared storage appliance.
With up to 4TB of shared storage capacity, the BlackArmor NAS 220 storage server can meet the needs of small offices and self-employed professionals as well as home networks.
Runner-up: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus represents the wave of the future of network storage, combining left-brain network backup with right-brain media serving with the hard disk already inside.
Now, however, Dane Elec -- best-known for selling USB flash drives and memory cards at retailers such as Target -- has jumped into the shared storage space with an offering called MyDitto.
The company's product line features a range of high-performance, cost-effective, and reliable desktop and rackmount RAID storage solutions ranging from two- and four-drive and SSD RAID units, to 8- and 16-drive solutions with advanced RAID controllers, to 16-drive, 16-port, 8Gb Fibre Channel shared storage systems that are expandable to 384 TB.
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The company leverages Flash storage (Fusion-io is a partner) directly on the server itself to provide a shared primary storage infrastructure.
Today the increased processing power of mobile devices as well as more ubiquitous network connectivity and the ability of data centers to provide (almost) always available storage capacity and applications, are causing a return to thin client computers accessing larger shared processing and storage resources.
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Creating international nuclear fuel banks and shared management of enrichment, reprocessing and spent fuel storage facilities would make nonproliferation sense as well as supporting civil nuclear power in energy-thirsty Asia.
Once the IT infrastructure is virtualized, firms have the foundation of a shared IT infrastructure of pooled computer, network, and storage resources to delivery capacity on demand and meet fluctuations in resource requirements.
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"With the proliferation of devices and content being shared and stored today, consumer demand for high-quality branded storage solutions continues to grow, " said Philippe Spruch, LaCie's chairman and CEO.
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The bulk of laptops bought for the project have been shared with pupils in Torfaen and Monmouthshire but the remainder have been in storage and are now out of warranty.
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