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Submission + - One General Admin to Manage 10 TB

Submitted by roj3 on Monday November 13, 2006 @02:20PM

roj3 writes: eWeek is reporting on a trend toward simplification in the datacenter. Test center analyst Victor Loh writes: "Now, vendors including Compellent, EMC and Hewlett-Packard are simplifying buying decisions for IT managers by packaging [NAS, SAN, iSCSI and data protection products] together or offering them as add-ons as part of a unified product line. ...Smaller organizations [less than 250 employees] moving from DAS (direct-attached storage) to networked storage can now often do so without any specialized storage expertise." How much storage should an organization have before hiring a full-time data storage admin?

Submission + - The end of the piecemeal datacenter

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roj3

on Monday November 13, 2006 @10:53AM

roj3 writes: "eWeek is reporting on a trend toward simplification in the datacenter. Test center analyst Victor Loh writes: "Now, vendors including Compellent, EMC and Hewlett-Packard are simplifying buying decisions for IT managers by packaging [NAS, SAN, iSCSI and data protection products] together or offering them as add-ons as part of a unified product line. ...Smaller organizations [less than 250 employees] moving from DAS (direct-attached storage) to networked storage can now often do so without any specialized storage expertise.""

Submission + - Aggregated product reviews: useful?

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roj3

on Thursday September 21, 2006 @12:44PM

roj3 writes: "CNET's Rafe Needleman takes a look at two web sites that aggregate product reviews for tech gadgets and other consumer goods. One site parses each review's text to auto-magically give a summary rating of 1-100. The other site collects consumer-written reviews and expert reviews to come up with a single number and then rank the products. Is there any good replacement for just reading the text and doing the work yourself?"

Submission + - The guy who bought a search engine off eBay

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roj3

on Friday September 15, 2006 @06:37PM

roj3 writes: "About a year ago, this guy purchased Jux2, a metasearch engine, off eBay for $101,000. He calls it a "steal" and fills in the rest of the story. It's not clear if he broke even, but is using ideas from the site to metasearch expert and consumer product reviews."

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