Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation is Best for my Application?
This white paper provides a high-level overview of the various RAID solutions. It begins by defining "Software RAID" vs. "Hardware RAID", explains how these different RAID implementations work and the benefits of each implementation, and helps you make a decision on which RAID solution is best for your application.
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Storage Area Networks (SANs)
As the volume and criticality of corporate data grows exponentially, companies are seeking storage solutions that maximize their capacity, scalability and flexibility, while controlling costs. To meet the growing information needs of the business, IT managers must find ways to make more data more available to more users - while ensuring that data is properly protected.
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Serial Attached SCSI: Meeting the Growing Needs of Enterprise Storage
Today's predominant server storage interface standards (SCSI for enterprise environments and ATA for cost-sensitive desktop applications) rely on parallel transmission of data streams for device-level attachment. However, parallel technology's signal skew and crosstalk, signal termination restrictions, cable and connector reflections, and device addressability, stand as barriers to throughput performance as servers are pushed to meet advancing system and application capabilities and requirements.
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Storage network extension using optical networks
Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is the pre-eminent connectivity solution for enterprises wanting to implement high-performance distributed storage solutions that meet their needs for business continuity and data availability.
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Storage Appliances: Information Appliances for Data Storage
Information Appliances have become increasingly popular in both large- and small scale networks. These devices are generally inexpensive and limited to performing one or two essential functions of a network or system.
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True Fabric Interoperability for Today's SANs
Brocade offers a number of fabric interoperability solutions to provide flexible deployment options that help maximize hardware investments.
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The Growing Need for Security in Storage Area Networks
New features in Brocade Fabric OS 5.2 help increase SAN security in enterprise environments to better protect sensitive data.
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Tiered Storage Management
Blueprint for Effective Recovery, Protection, and Archive in a World of Exploding Data Volumes
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Beyond Tar: Backup to the Future
The CommVault Galaxyâ„¢ Backup and Recovery product offers a powerful set of data and storage management tools to assist in the protection, restoration and management of critical UNIX enterprise information. Providing easier management of complex UNIX environments, the Galaxy software is designed to meet the changing data management needs facing every enterprise today.
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Considerations for Designing, Implementing, and Managing an Email Archive Solution
This white paper looks at the drivers behind the introduction of so many new email archive technologies as well as the primary features these solutions offer. The paper also outlines some of the key considerations for organizations considering implementing an email archive solution. For IT professionals who are tasked with managing the retention or archival of corporate data, this paper will provide a general overview of how email archive technologies can play a role.
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Storage Management: How to Simplify, Centralize and Optimize Your Environment
This discussion is intended to be of interest to CIOs, enabling them to make informed strategic storage management decisions. It is also intended for IT decision makers charged with understanding storage management options in a rapidly evolving market and making recommendations to management regarding products, solutions, and services required to employ these options.
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Managing Storage: Trends, Challenges, and Options (2007-2008)
The explosion of data, its criticality, and increasing dependency of business on digital information are leading to larger and more complex storage environments that are increasingly challenging to manage.
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Four Steps to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity using iSCSI
It's a fact of business life - physical, natural, and digital disasters do occur, and they interrupt operations and impact revenue. Your level of preparation and planning will determine your ability to recover from a disaster. Dramatic lessons about this topic have been learned in the past few years, yet some organizations remain unprepared. This much is certain - organizations that are prepared are able to withstand disasters, while those that are unprepared risk heavy losses.
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EqualLogic emerges as top midrange array
In its first year in our survey, EqualLogic PS Series proved its mettle by unseating Sun FlexLine as the highest rated midrange storage array.
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Building a disaster-proof data center with HP Extended Cluster for RAC
Continuous availability with the flexibility of virtualization
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Seven Ways an iSCSI SAN Simplifies Management of Microsoft Exchange
Learn seven ways the LeftHand iSCSI SAN helps administrators manage their day-to-day Microsoft Exchange environment including discussions around spindle counts, performance, scalability, high availability and budgeting.
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One Size Does not Fit All
Tailoring Your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans to Suit Your Unique Needs
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Secure Storage: A Necessary Evolution
All kinds of security systems, from network firewalls and VPNs to passwords and physical mechanisms have been implemented to prevent unauthorized access to networks and premises. Yet, even with all these security measures in place, highly publicized data breaches involving the leakage and theft of customer- and employee-sensitive information still occur. The resulting damage to corporate reputations and a climate of increased regulatory compliance, is forcing organizations to focus attention on protecting corporate digital assets even further.
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The Evolving Role of Tape in the Data Center
The disk versus tape debate continues to rage within the trade publications. Disk supporters claim that the emergence of low cost Serial ATA (SATA) drives proves that disk is now a viable, inexpensive media for backup. In fact, some proponents claim that tape is dead...or at least dying.
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Pre-Testing Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plans: The Network Simulation Solution
Effective IT disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning is essential for every business. All businesses depend on their IT services for moment-to-moment operations. So they must all take measures to ensure that those services are not disrupted due to a natural or man-made disaster.
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Email-Archiving Regulatory Compliance for Small and Midsized Firms (SMBs)
Email Can Be a Blessing and a Curse. Recently, the importance of saving email messages has become critical in litigation battles and in high-profile government cases, where these "digital records" are being used as evidence of wrongdoing. It is stark proof of how electronic communication has changed the legal and regulatory compliance landscape in a very short time.
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NAS Helps Customers Address File Storage Growth
This white paper examines how many organizations are currently addressing storage and management needs to support the growing amount of file-level activity pervasive in most enterprise organizations. The paper then identifies pain points associated with the current solutions, takes a closer look at network-attached storage (NAS), and focuses on Sun Microsystems' new NAS solutions and the benefits to be gained by customers.
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Virtual tape and physical tape: Power in combination
The growth of data in today's enterprise datacenters remains unabated. Driven by email, messaging, fixed content, database and compliance considerations, data growth continues to put immense pressure on backup windows and disaster recovery plans.
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