RAID Research
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Storage Efficiency Best Practices: Tiering and Energy Efficiency
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®You need modern storage that is simpler, more agile, and grows along with your business. Check out this expert E-Guide to explore 8 green storage best practices that increase energy efficiency while reducing your costs.
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E-Guide: NAS Systems Buying Decisions
Sponsored by: Dell EMC and MicrosoftCheck out this E-Guide to learn about a viable and now cost-effective storage solution – NAS and what you should consider when evaluating this product for purchase. Also discover what Dell’s VP has to say about scale-out NAS and more.
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E-Guide: Purchasing hardware for SQL Server
Sponsored by: DELL TECHNOLOGIES AND MICROSOFTSQL Server performance is highly dependent on how you configure your server's storage subsystems. With that in mind, this e-guide dives into a benefit/cost comparison of the increasingly popular solid-state drive (SSD) trend and explains some of the top mistakes people make when purchasing hardware for SQL Server.
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Server Optimization, Hardware and Virtualization
Sponsored by: DELL TECHNOLOGIES AND MICROSOFTIn this expert e-guide, find out how to optimize SQL Server with the right choices for hardware, storage devices, and virtualization. Inside, find articles on: what not to do when purchasing hardware; if solid-state storage devices are worth the cost; hardware and risk considerations for an inevitable virtualization initiative.
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Best Practices for Managing Storage in a Virtual Server Environment
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentThis expert e-guide outlines the top 5 tips for managing storage in a virtual server environment and also divulges a set of best practices for using server virtualization in your storage environment. Read on to learn more.
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HP StoreOnce Deduplication Software: Technology Fueling the next phase of storage optimization (ESG)
Sponsored by: HP IncToday’s most popular backup storage targets featuring deduplication, however, don’t address the long-term operational issues that are sure to arise as secondary storage environments expand.
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E-Guide: Best Practices for Managing Virtual Machines
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentThere are many things to consider when designing storage to support a virtual desktop infrastructure environment. While budgets may limit some of your options, there are a number of creative solutions available that can help you get the performance your virtual desktops will require. Read this guide to learn more.
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E-Guide: Top 5 Tips for Managing Virtual Server Environments
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentTo help data storage professionals make the most of these challenging environments, we've collected our top five tips on managing storage in a virtual server environment. Download this E-Guide to learn how to go about managing your virtual environments more efficiently.
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Case Study: German TV Broadcaster RTL II Accelerates Content Delivery with Storage Solutions from SGI
Sponsored by: SGIAs a TV station offering programming around the clock, the requirements of a storage solution for digital media content at RTL II are both clear and sophisticated: the technologies used must be state of the art in order to meet the demanding IT performance requirements, as large data volumes need to be transferred at top speeds.
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Storage for Your VDI: Strategies and Best Practices
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®This E-Guide from SearchStorage.com discusses VDI's impact on storage and then outlines how to determine your storage requirements for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Read on to learn about Fibre Channel vs. NAS vs. iSCSI for VDIs, what drive types are best for this environment and much more
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Tennis Australia scores big with IBM® XIV® Storage Systems
Sponsored by: IBMWith the pressure and exposure of major international tournaments, Tennis Australia had a compelling need for reliable, easy-to-manage storage that could scale quickly. IBM served up their XIV Storage System, which dramatically reduced downtime, cut costs, and simplified storage management. Read this case study for more.
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Achieving Superior Manageability, Efficiency, and Data Protection with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Software
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationOracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.
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Oracle RMAN Disk-to-Disk Backup Methods Using Sun Storage Array
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis document provides a high-level description of how to implement an RMAN backup and recover methodology using Sun® storage arrays as the storage medium. For more information about Oracle best practices, refer to Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database with ASM on a Sun Storage 6540, 6580, or 6780 Storage Array.
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E-Guide: Improve your performance and avoid bottlenecks in your storage networks
Sponsored by: PC MallThis e-guide will help you improve your storage-area networks (SANs) and fine-tune your storage networks. Find out what steps you should take to prepare your SAN for the worst, and learn what you can do to improve your storage network performance, efficiency and resiliency. Check out this e-guide today!
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E-Guide: Virtual Tape Libraries and Data Deduplication in Enterprise Storage Today
Sponsored by: Fujitsu America, Inc.Download this guide to learn more about the solutions surrounding virtual tape libraries and data deduplication in today’s enterprise storage environments.
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A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
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E-Guide: Best of 2010: The 10 Web Pages Most Read by UK-based IT Pros
Sponsored by: EMC Backup and Recovery SolutionsThis searchstorage.co.uk eguide is comprised of the best and most read expert articles. Read this brief guide to find out how to avoid the common pitfalls of storage planning and how you can prepare your business for 2011.
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The Architectural Advantages of Compellent Automated Tiered Storage
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentWith the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.
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Storage Magazine: September 2010
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageIn this month's cover story, Jacob Gsoedl explores how unstructured data became one of the top challenges in today’s organizations and highlights how file/NAS virtualization allows for future growth.
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Remote/Branch Office Data Protection and System Availability
Sponsored by: arcserveThere are many approaches to remote office data protection and system availability. This paper describes best practices in using available technologies for protection, recovery and availability of remote or branch office systems, applications and data.
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Uncompromising Reliability through Clustered Storage
Sponsored by: Isilon SystemsThis white paper describes the limitations of traditional data protection technologies and examines Isilon IQ’s revolutionary new approach to ensuring data integrity and availability in large clustered storage environments.
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Presentation Transcript: The Basics of RAID
Sponsored by: NexsanA RAID is a method of ganging up, so to speak, a bunch of disk drives, such that the availability and/or the performance is actually improved. Read this transcript for more basics of RAID.
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Storage Magazine * May 2010: R.I.P RAID?
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageRAID has been a mainstay of data protection for decades, but now its days may soon be numbered. In the May 2010 cover story of Storage magazine, Marc Staimer details the various issues of traditional RAID today and highlights how alternative technologies aim to address these problems. More...
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IDC White Paper: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Online PC Backup Solution
Sponsored by: Iron MountainThis paper illustrates the top–level benefits of online PC backup. Read this paper to learn more about how to choose an online PC backup solution for your mid-sized organization or enterprise!
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RAID FAQ Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: NexsanPlease read this presentation transcript, in which Andrew Burton, features editor for searchstorage.com, interviews Greg Shulz, Founder and Senior Analyst with Storage Dial Group, about RAIDS. Shulz will provide a synopsis of the different RAID levels, their characteristics and when to use each level?
