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What is RAID , why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for "redundant array of independent disks," and you may or may not need it depending on your data-storage requirements. The biggest gain from using RAID is protection against drive failure --which, according to Google and other experts, happens a lot more often than hard-drive manufacturers like to admit. (Note that the word array is included in the acronym, so saying "RAID array," as a lot of people do, is redundant. Clearly, storage folks have a strange sense of humor.) In the old days, when the fastest and largest hard drives carried a very heavy premium (faster drives still do, though not nearly to the same degree), RAID was created to combine multiple, less-expensive drives into a single, higher-capacity and/or faster volume. Redundancy, also known as fault tolerance or failover protection , was included so that the loss of one drive wou...

To increase its current portfolio of VAS offerings for its mobile consumers, Aircel has selected TeleDNA Communications VAS Infrastructure platform—which includes short messaging service centre (SMSC), multimedia messaging service centre (MMSC), cell broadcast centre (CBC) and Location Based Applications (LBA). The TeleDNA carrier grade SMSC platform would help optimize traffic flow and improve the overall messaging experience of the telecom service provider’s subscribers. One of TeleDNA’s innovative offering is CBC that can be a tool for emergency warnings. It allows telecom operator to have a complete control over the cell broadcast message on its network. It is a carrier grade platform interfaces with the mobile network elements such as BSCs, RNC and MSC over standard interfaces (3GPP or 3GPP2). With inbuilt GIS server, TeleDNA CBC allows system users to easily define a geographical area on the fly and broadcast messages. “Defining and delivering compelling and innovative ...