March 16, 2009 - (Free Research) Simplified management is one of many business values of the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array. A storage system that is simple to administer saves time and money, and reduces configuration errors. This paper highlights common configuration rules and tradeoffs for optimizing HP StorageWorks EVAs for cost, availability, and performance.
March 12, 2009 - (Free Research) ExaGrid offers the fastest and most scalable disk-based backup system with byte-level data deduplication at the best price in the industry. It works with your existing backup application to eliminate failed backups and restores, reduce your window all at the same cost as tape. Visit the Disk Backup with Data Deduplication Resource Center for more.
June 15, 2009 - (Free Research) Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.
September 30, 2008 - (Free Research) To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores
this setup and configuration.
July 02, 2009 - (Free Research) The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.
July 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this White Paper from ESG to learn about current data growth and consolidation challenges as well as BlueArc's new mercury series products, foreceful consolidation solutions, providing enterprise class file system features to support mid-range applications.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about how you can deliver the necessary I/O throughput for HPC applications. It will also cover Sun's offerings for addressing HPC challenges in the form of flash technology, network attached storage, parallel storage, and archive solutions.
May 12, 2009 - (Free Research) Do more with less! In today's economic climate, businesses need to find ways to improve agility, deliver business continuance, improve availability and reduce operational costs.
March 18, 2009 - (Free Research) In this video EMC's Tanya Loughlin, of Celerra product marketing, explains EMC's newest unified storage platform. The new Celerra NX4 features industry-leading price and performance, ease of deployment, and no-compromise availability.
December 08, 2008 - (Free Research) This paper details a few of the possible deployment scenarios when using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (called Unified Storage System hereon ) with Vmware Infrastructure ESX 3.5. This paper also describes how each of the deployment differs from one another.
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.
May 29, 2009 - (Free Research) CAS, (Content Addressable Storage) is a mechanism that can store and retrieve information based on its content, not its storage location. Explore this presentation to learn more about CAS and the innovative new solutions that are swiftly gaining popularity.
December 01, 2008 - (Free Research) This Taneja Group analyst report focusses on FalconStor Software's announcement of a file-interface deduplication system, a NAS interface option for their existing line of disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solutions. The report highlights Falconstor's strategy and attractive benefits of their new interface to end-users.
May 06, 2009 - (Free Research) This IT Briefing will talk about the nightmare of the data center sprawl in the age of virtualization and how network and storage consolidation can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO).
May 08, 2009 - (Free Research) In 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.
July 02, 2009 - (Free Research) In HPC data management, traditional standards-based solutions have been limited in performance and scalability, but proprietary, high-performance solutions have
required specific expertise to set up, manage, or scale. Read this Tabor Research White Paper to learn about file systems used in HPC environments as well as BlueArc storage solutions.
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.
June 10, 2009 - (Free Research) If you're concerned about the amount of host resources consumed by your existing approaches to local and/or remote recovery, are interested in improving RPO, RTO and recovery reliability, and would like to consolidate recovery capabilities to reduce complexity and cost, this seminar will discuss a proven solution.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this case study to see how Dell teamed up with Mc Allen Independent School District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%.
April 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization has been a positive evolutionary step in the data center, driving consolidation of these resources to maximize utilization and power savings, as well as to simplify management and maintenance. This white paper makes the case for the Pillar Axiom becoming the storage system of choice for the virtualized data center.
