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Double My Speed of My Server
There are many commercials about doubling the speed of your PC, but what about the speed of your business server? The good news is that you can spend thousands of dollars maxing out your network...
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Hard Drives Are Like Cars
When selecting a hard drive for your server, a drive that can hold more data is better – right? That’s not always the case. Hard drives are very much like cars. You have your daily commuter, family...
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What VMWorld meant for you in the IT world
VMware is starting in a new direction after a year of crazy price increases and a shakeup at the top of their corporate ladder. In late July, Paul Martiz confirmed he would be stepping down as the CEO...
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Windows Server 2012 and Dell’s 12th Generation Server offerings. How they can...
With Microsoft’s server level operating system teetering on the 5 year mark, Windows Server 2012 is now on the market to take its place. Their flagship enterprise offering has some of the most...
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RAID today, gone tomorrow – thank you windows server 2012
When one thinks about disk level redundancy, thoughts almost always go to hardware level RAID controllers and their various capabilities. RAID as we know it now was defined in the late 1980’s by...
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Dell goes Active on Converged Infrastructure and VDI
In an effort to broaden its customer base Dell is now entering previously uncharted territory. Where in the past individuals and organizations could only buy the pieces of their infrastructure one at a...
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Maximizing Direct Attached Storage
Trying to keep up with the rapid growth of application data can put a heavy burden on many IT departments, especially those whose budgets have seen dramatic cuts in the face of rough economic times....
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Best Dell Storage: Fibre, iSCSI, or Direct Attached?
Technology within the world of enterprise class storage is evolving at a higher rate of speed than ever before. Three different standards have emerged within the industry. Each having its own set of...
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Dangers of RAID 5 Array with SATA Drives
For many in the tech industry, RAID 5 has always been the recommended RAID level when creating new arrays. When I was first deploying a new iSCSI SAN for xByte, I found strong recommendations against...
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Using CacheCade to get 15K performance from 7.2K Drives
Often there is performance tradeoff between large slower drives and smaller faster drives. SAS 15K drives provide phenomenal performance but their limited size can result in lack of usable disk...
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Reduce your risk buying “refurbished” servers
Buying refurbished servers is all about selecting the right vendor who you can trust and stands behind their products. The last thing you want is to save money buying a server and then turnaround and...
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Budgets make 10K drives faster than 15K drives
Spin for spin, 15K drives will always be faster than 10K drives. Dollar for dollar is another story. For the same price, you can buy more 10K drives and create a faster array with more usable space...
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Introducing New Dell & EqualLogic
Now xByte can help you with your New Dell and EqualLogic needs! For those of you who have been battling management for approval to purchase refurbished equipment, you can put down your sword. xByte can...
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Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD
Several of xByte’s customers have asked if the Dell H710P controller would ultimately limit the performance of a large number of SSD’s in a server. While it seems that it would be a bottle neck, I...
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xByte Named Florida Company to Watch
xByte Technologies is excited to announce that we have been named a Florida Companies to Watch award recipient, presented by GrowFL. Only 50 out of over 600 nominees receive this prestigious annual...
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xByte Technologies is Heading to Austin, TX
From September 22nd to September 24th, we’re sending a team to Austin, Texas to exhibit at SpiceWorld Austin. This annual IT conference is hosted by the IT community SpiceWorks, and brings elite...
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xByte is More than Servers and Parts – We Do it All
This is your chance to learn about the many things that xByte Technologies can do and get entered to win an iPad! During the month of September 2014, just ask for a quote on anything other than a...
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xByte Survived SpiceWorld Austin 2014
xByte Technologies is back from SpiceWorld Austin We’re back from SpiceWorld, and hope everyone had safe travels as well. We enjoyed catching up with clients, meeting new people, and learning from all...
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Dell PowerEdge R620 – With Pro Support
The PowerEdge R620 is a scalable 2S, 1U rack server with primary emphasis on virtualization, as well as general purpose applications with headroom for growth. The R620 will serve as a product for dense...
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The R730, R720, and R710 Battle
Pick the Winner Based on Your Needs With Dell’s recent release of the 13th generation R730, many might be wondering if the R720 and R710 are still relevant. The answer is yes, and it is based on your...
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