Refurbished servers - good deal or something to avoid?

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The economy is down and IT budgets are shrinking. How do you keep moving forward and providing enhanced value to the organization while, at the same time, your budget is heading toward zero? Scott Lowe explains how refurbished servers might help you stretch your budget dollars.


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A look at some more AX4/iSCSI availability diagrams

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Your comments on AX4 & iSCSI high availability were very informative and provided a number of idea for improving on the described availability scenario. In this post, Scott Lowe continues the availability discussion.

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A look at an iSCSI-based highly available architecture

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High availability is an important consideration in any service and becomes more important all the time. Scott Lowe shared with you a look at the highly available storage infrastructure implemented at Westminster college.

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EMC AX4 - A failover update

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EMC’s AX4 failover features work as advertised, much to the delight of Scott Lowe. Sometimes, it’s nice to celebrate the small successes!

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iSCSI is the future of storage

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iSCSI is here to stay and will eventually supplant a significant portion of the installed base of Fibre Channel SANs out there. Further, as organizations make their initial forays into block-level shared storage, iSCSI will beat Fibre Channel more often than not.

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 sees the light of day

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Windows Home Server was released in 2007 to much fanfare, but had a few significant limitations and quickly fell victim to a serious data corruption bug. This week, Microsoft released Power Pack 1, the first update to Windows Home Server. Scott Lowe explains some of the updates features.

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