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storage medium [′stȯr·ij ‚mēd·ē·əm] (computer science) Any device or recording medium into which data can be copied and held until some later time, and from which the entire original data can be obtained. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From separating information from its storage medium (as in downloading data from the Web) to breaking up large company structures for better service and more clearly defined products, The Pebble And The Avalanche examines how disaggregation works: the five methods used to take things part, and how this can generate new innovations and business options. Originally called the virtual storage concept capable of managing one half a terabyte of data, this concept of helping mainframe customers move data from tape to a then-new disk-based storage medium remains relevant even in today's virtualized storage architectures. These solutions safely remove rarely-accessed data from overloaded production databases and save the data to easily managed Archive Files that can be stored on the most cost-effective storage medium. |
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