July 30, 2008 - (Free Research) Eric Burgener, senior analyst and consultant of Taneja Group, answers the questions he is hearing most frequently about data protection.
April 22, 2009 - (Free Research) How much are virtualized server environments affecting backup processes? Mark Bowker, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, answers the most common questions about virtual server backup from storage administrators.
April 24, 2009 - (Free Research) As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space.
April 15, 2009 - (Free Research) In this Podcast, backup expert, Mark Bowker, addresses how this technology helps leverage your storage, network, and computing resources.
June 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Email archiving is a burgeoning market at a time when many storage pros are faced with increasing ediscovery requests and compliance regulations. Listen to this podcast to find out the latest developments in email archiving.
June 18, 2009 - (Free Research) Email archiving is a burgeoning market at a time when many storage pros are faced with increasing ediscovery requests and compliance regulations. Listen to this podcast to find out the latest developments in email archiving.
April 14, 2009 - (Free Research) Find out who should be using file virtualization and why. Get answers to questions about how file virtualization is performed, the pros and cons of file virtualization appliances, limitations to the technology -- and more.
April 14, 2009 - (Free Research) Find out who should be using file virtualization and why. Get answers to questions about how file virtualization is performed, the pros and cons of file virtualization appliances, limitations to the technology -- and more.
December 11, 2007 - (Free Research) The paper describes the procedures used to install and configure Hyper-V on a Sun Fire X4150 server. It gives an example configuration that also used a Sun Storage J4200 array for additional storage and to spread the disk I/O over a great number of spindles for improved performance.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) With ZFS, developers reevaluated the idea of a file system and a volume manager. It's data management architecture that is optimized for managing bits on both disk and flash. ZFS provides file and block systems, but you have common data services like RAID, mirroring, snapshots, quotas, reservations, and all the features needed to manage data.
May 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this free trial guide to see which Sun storage solution works best
for you. Choose from a variety of options such as theSun Storage Unified
Storage Systems, Sun StorageTek systems, and many more.
March 09, 2009 - (Free Research) As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization.
June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This eGuide discusses the backup best practices available for SMBs in
today's storage market. It's more important now than ever for SMBs to gain efficiency in their backup processes. This eGuide will highlight how SMBs can save money, and also how they can make their data backups more secure.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
June 2009 - (Free Research) Join us for an extraordinary panel session that you just won't want to miss. In this podcast from Sun Microsystems, hosted by Tech Target, leading technical experts will discuss Flash technology and it's effect in the HPC environment.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This 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.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Preston discusses several different implementation practices in this video, highlighting source vs. target data deduplication. He discusses the pros and cons of this and other implementation methods available, and how each fits into different types of environments.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This 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.
March 2009 - (Free Research) In 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.
March 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 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert videocast, Marc Staimer will discuss how to get the most value out of virtualization, which already permeates most IT storage environments. He'll also discuss utilizing storage virtualization with server virtualization.
March 2009 - (Free Research) In 2008, HP introduced two products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved.
