RAID Research
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Adaptec Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection
Sponsored by: Adaptec, Inc.Adaptec Series 5Z RAID controllers with Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection (ZMCP - pronounced “zemcap”) provide maximum protection for cached data and eliminate the substantial costs and environmental impact of complex, messy and expensive Lithium Ion batteries, while improving cache protection and cache performance.
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On-Demand Hosting Provider SoftLayer Relies On Adaptec
Sponsored by: Adaptec, Inc.When On-Demand Hosting Provider SoftLayer needed a single provider of SATA/SAS who offered the flexibility they needed, they turned to Adaptec.
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Adaptec Intelligent Power Management: Reducing IT Costs and Storage Power Consumption by Up to 70%
Sponsored by: Adaptec, Inc.The challenge of saving power while maintaining server performance has become a primary concern within the IT environment. But, the latest generation of Adaptec RAID controllers provides Intelligent Power Management software and supports a variety of techniques that, together, enable significant savings without compromising performance.
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How to Select the Correct RAID for an EqualLogic SAN
Sponsored by: Dell IndiaOne of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
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Tucson Police Department Moves To Digital Imaging With Linear Systems And LSI 3ware RAID Controllers
Sponsored by: LSI Corporation.When the Tucson Police Department decided to equip its crime scene specialists with digital cameras, it chose Linear Systems Enterprise DIMS ImageServer for the ID Section’s server and storage needs. For its RAID protection, Linear Systems chose the LSI 3ware 9650SE controller card. Read on to find out the amazing results.
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Windows Server and Storage eBook, Ch 3 - Assess Your Data Center Storage Needs
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.
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VMware Fault Tolerance Recommendations and Considerations on VMware vSphere 4
Sponsored by: HP, Intel, & VMwareAs dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. This paper gives VMware fault tolerance recommendations and considerations on VMware vSphere 4.
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Presentation Transcript: Presentation Transcript: EMC Corporation and the Benefits of Network Attached Storage for Small Businesses
Sponsored by: EMC CorporationThe presentation transcript from EMC Corporation features Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies, discussing the benefits of Network Attached Storage for Small Businesses.
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Storage magazine Online June 2009: Heal Thyself
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageA trend in storage product messaging these days is the theme of self-healing storage - the ability of a system to detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. In this month's cover story, independent storage expert Marc Staimer explains how and how well they work. This electronic issue also includes features on storage efficiency...
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Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server - Data Domain Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide
Sponsored by: EMC Backup and Recovery SolutionsIn many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.
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Agentless Architecture: Agentless Backup is Not a Myth
Sponsored by: AsigraAgentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.
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Presentation Transcript: Let's Talk About Deduplication
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseIn this segment, Curtis begins by defining and explaining deduplication. He expands on this with an explanation of file-level and subfile-level deduplication and how subfile-level deduplication makes true disk backup feasible.
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Presentation Transcript: Deduplication's Impact on Restores
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseThis segment begins with an explanation of how long to store backups to get the maximum benefit of deduplication, and then discusses the appropriate frequency of full backups.
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Best Practices: Backing Up VMware with Veritas NetBackup
Sponsored by: Symantec CorporationAs there are many ways of using VMware technology, there are just as many methods available for protecting this innovative technology. System administrators and IT technologists can use this paper to determine one of three recommended solutions for protecting VMs. Each of these technologies has relative advantages and disadvantages.
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Iron Mountain Digital Virtual File Store Service: Trusted, Secure, Cost-Effective Cloud-Based Storage
Sponsored by: Iron MountainTo help companies reduce the costs of storing and managing inactive data, Iron Mountain has created an enterprise-class cloud-based storage archive service, the Virtual File Store (VFS). The VFS service is part of Iron Mountain's Storage-as-a-Service portfolio, which includes email management/archiving, eDiscovery, and data backup/recovery.
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The EVA takes on NetApp and EMC
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseIn their second comparative challenge, The HP StorageWorks EVA asked three teams of high school students who had never configured a storage array to run timed tests on EVA, NetApp and EMC to see which one is easiest to use. EVA was the clear winner
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NetBackup Solutions for VMware
Sponsored by: Symantec CorporationIt is critical to choose the right data protection solution, one that is complete, one that not only protects the physical world, but is also finely tuned for the virtual world. The current release of NetBackup delivers award winning solutions for VMware.
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Best Practice for NDMP Backup Veritas NetBackup
Sponsored by: Symantec CorporationCustomers are confronting the confusing number of options and configurations when it comes to backing up and restoring their network attached storage servers. This paper addresses this by describing the best practices for protecting and recovering NAS devices utilizing the Network Data Management Protocol.
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Next Generation Management Software for Blade Environments
Sponsored by: HP & Intel®One approach being used to reduce complexity and TCO in the data center is the implementation of new management software for blade servers, increasing business value and trimming expenses that vex IT budgets and divert important resources for transformational projects.
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Next-Generation Power and Cooling for Blade Environments
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseIn this technical brief, IDC examines HP Thermal Logic, a holistic approach to improving power and cooling efficiency in the IT infrastructure, designed to help companies reduce energy consumption, reclaim unused datacenter capacity, and extend the life of their datacenter.
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Comparison of Performance and Ease of SAN Deployment using HP Simple San Connection Manager (SSCM) Solution
Sponsored by: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseThis report compares the performance of HP's 8Gb FC solution alone versus it's performance in conjunction with the Simple SAN Connection Manager. The results are remarkable! The Simple SAN Connection Manager took half the time to configure and 2/3rd fewer configuration step to deploy a FC SAN compared with configuring each component separately.
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Storage Magazine: Recovery Site Options - Hot, Warm, or Cold
Sponsored by: Storage MagazineThe January 2009 issue of Storage magazine is highlighted with a cover story on how best to select a disaster recovery planning site. This issue also includes features and columns on solid state disk, killing infectious data, consolidated archiving, fast disk drive rebuilds and green storage.
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Fusion-io ioDrive Data Sheet
Sponsored by: Fusion-IODesigned around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive is the world's most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times.
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Taming The Power Hungry Data Center
Sponsored by: Fusion-IOThe widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
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User Directed Storage Management: How To Make Users Accountable For Responsible Storage Usage
Sponsored by: Northern ParklifeThe accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
