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(124 diggs) Infrastructure Key to Google’s No-Downtime Guarantee Google blogged this morning about a new no-planned-downtime for Google Apps, a promise it's able to make because of its globally distributed infrastructure estimated at more than 1 million servers. Google's expansive infrastructure gives it multiple options for migrating workloads during planned downtime.

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(2 diggs) Promise Technology launches VTrak Ex30 series Promise Technology has launched its VTrak Ex30 series of enterprise storage devices. The new products have an 8Gb Fibre Channel, 6Gb SAS, 1Gb iSCSI and 10G iSCSI and incorporate Intel's Xeon C5500/C3500 processor, which the company claims will give customers a "dramatic increase in power and flexibility" of up to 650K I/Ops. According to the company the VTrak Ex30 series will also boost performance up to 4x more than its previous products from 1500 MB/s to 6000 MB/s as well as reducing power...

(9 diggs) Promise VTrak: Second SAS-connected Expansion Chassis Only: This article contains a script used to configure Promise VTrak SAS-connected Expansion Chassis for Xsan. This script is used in the event that a Promise VTrak RAID Controller has already been configured for use with Xsan, and that an Expansion Chassis is being connected to the already-configured RAID Controller.

(1 diggs) Does Virtualization Deliver on Its Promise? — ServerWatch.com A recent survey from Symantec found that for many respondents, virtualization fell short of expectations. Why? The technology underpinnings of some flavors of virtualization aren't quite there yet.