March 11, 2009 - (Free Research) Continuous data protection (CDP) represents the future of data backup as companies look to provide near real-time recovery points to enterprise applications. However, CDP software is still in various stages of development, while near-CDP (frequent snapshots) software is already mature and available on many operating and storage systems.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Deduplication dramatically improves the value proposition of disk-based data protection as it eliminates the redundancy typically seen in secondary storage processes. The use of deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and reliability benefits.
April 10, 2009 - (Free Research) While tape has been the dominant storage medium for data protection for decades because of its low cost, it is steadily losing ground to disk-based deduplication storage systems. The CPU-centric design of Data Domain systems takes the pressure off of disk accesses as a bottleneck.
May 27, 2009 - (Free Research) In this chapter of <i>The Green and Virtual Data Center</i>, Greg Schultz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, discusses how to deal with the increased management costs and complexity of ever expanding data footprints, green data storage management concerns, and storage virtualization.
March 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Data storage management is a multifaceted process that is always changing. In this tutorial on SMB storage management, learn about iSCSI versus Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year ahead.
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January 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this white paper for more details on how Compellant can save save your company millions of dollars.
June 26, 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert videocast, Greg Forest from Contoural diagrams a typical file-archiving system and details the software and hardware components that comprise a file-archiving architecture. He also explains best practices for organizing tiered storage for the best performance, availability and cost savings.
December 08, 2008 - (Free Research) In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.
February 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper explains how FalconStor CDP delivers a comprehensive backup, restore, and recovery regime for Oracle that protects against soft <i>and</i> hard errors.
October 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
March 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This case study illustrates how Replay is saving a large property management company a tremendous amount of time and money by enhancing the backup process so it runs corruption-free and much faster when compared to traditional approaches.
November 03, 2008 - (Free Research) Many organizations are grappling with rapidly growing storage requirements. IDC has found that those organizations are experiencing 50% growth in data, adding as much as 4TB of data each year. This paper discusses HP's disk-to-disk (D2D) storage strategy offerings to address these changes.
November 03, 2008 - (Free Research) HP protects the integrity of your data and helps you regain access to it.
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January 16, 2009 - (Free Research) Data growth is on the rise and organizations need an alternative to extra hardware to manage this growth. Data archiving provides highly effective Information Lifecycle management. Read this white paper for 9 steps to successfully implement an ILM solution.
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system
June 08, 2009 - (Free Research) Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings.
January 16, 2009 - (Free Research) In this Quest white paper you'll learn how you can become proactive - not reactive - when managing your storage capacity. Learn best practices to maximize your existing resources, and how doing keeps your budget under control. Read the paper white today.
January 15, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes ten reasons to deduplicate data with CommVault<sup>®</sup> which maximize flexibility and storage cost-efficiency, rapid data access & recovery and improves manageability and performance.
April 22, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper exposes the various kinds of threats that unmanaged data poses to the organization. Topics include: identifying confidential or regulated data in documents, making DLP solutions more effective, addressing the risks created by reports in spreadsheet format, and discovering and classifying unstructured data assets automatically.
June 08, 2009 - (Free Research) It's been estimated that Open Storage architectures will make up just under 12 % of the market by 2011, fueled by the industry's need for more scalable and economic storage. The following podcast will present the ideas and strategies of Open Storage and the key benefits it delivers to storage architectures.
April 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper examines the performance considerations of placing Oracle Databases on enterprise flash drives versus conventional hard disk drives, as well as discusses the best practices for placing partial database contain-ers on flash drives.
May 05, 2009 - (Free Research) Using Solid State Disks (SSDs) in enterprise storage arrays is one of today's hottest storage trends. This whitepaper discusses the best practices for deploying SSDs in an OLTP environment using Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays.