December 2009 - (Free Research) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.
July 2009 - (Free Research) In this presentation transcript, Peter Bachner, Site Editor for SearchStorage.com, discusses green storage with Nick Simpson, an analyst with Burton Group, an enterprise IT research firm focused on infrastructure technologies. Nick has more than 20 years of experience in storage, enterprise servers, and system software.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Application performance can be dramatically increased using a solid state disk. This Texas Memory Systems’ paper introduces solid state disks and includes a comparison of methods for increased application performance.
March 2010 - (Free Research) This special report provides an overview of the benefits of SSDs within storage environments, as well as the how SSDs have evolved into a key component of many storage infrastructures today. This report also highlights the various vendors in the SSD space.
February 2010 - (Free Research) The purpose of this article is to examine the unique benefits of Intel® Solid State Drive (Intel® SSD) over traditional HDDs and competing SSDs, and to explore the benefits one could realize in using these new high performance SSDs in storage and embedded applications.
December 2008 - (Free Research) System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. This paper covers how to reduce and eliminate downtime.
February 2010 - (Free Research) This paper will demonstrate differences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instantaneous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a working system under a true enterprise workload.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Please 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?
January 2010 - (Free Research) In order to get the maximum value from your storage system it is vital to invest the time required to design the best possible solution to meet your unique requirements, whether these include capacity, reliability, performance or cost. This paper has just touched on some of these areas.
December 2009 - (Free Research) The EMC® CLARiiON® AX4 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations looking for an alternative to server-based storage. The AX4 delivers performance, scalability, and advanced data management features in one, easy-to-use storage solution.
February 2010 - (Free Research) For IT professionals, disk-based backup is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to slow and cumbersome tape backup in the data center. Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) bridge the two technologies – combining modern disk backup with traditional tape infrastructure.
January 2010 - (Free Research) The importance of this chapter is to understand the need to support and store more data using various techniques and technologies to enable more cost-effective and environmentally as well as energy-friendly data growth.
February 2010 - (Free Research) This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Since the cost comparison between tape and disk is obviously far more complex than the media itself, this brief outlines all the considerations necessary for a more complete understanding of the benefit and true cost comparison between tape and disk to help IT professionals choose and justify their backup environment.
October 2008 - (Free Research) In selecting a disk-based backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organization now and into the future. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Enterprise flash drives represent a huge leap forward over traditional mechanical drives. When deployed in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays, these drives can dramatically boost storage performance for targeted data center workloads while helping increase resource utilization, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce total cost of ownership.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Learn how to overcome the challenges of traditional data backup for your small to mid-size organization and discover the benefits of implementing a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) backup solution.
January 2008 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn more about why D2C and D2D2C strategies are the best solution in data protection for your SMB or ROBO.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique.
June 2009 - (Free Research) How does a dynamic U.K. business get its large customers to entrust it with their data? The answer is to deploy a Quantum data deduplication solution. By implementing a comprehensive disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and restore infrastructure based on the Quantum DXi-Series..
April 2009 - (Free Research) This paper outlines the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how Data Domain pioneered the combination of storage system interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods.
