August 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Join Founder and Lead Analyst of DCIG, Jerome Wendt as he answers the most common data deduplication questions he’s hearing today – including the technology’s benefits, dedupe products to watch out for, target dedupe on a virtual tape library and more.
May 14, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this FAQ featuring W. Curtis Preston, which outlines how Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape differs from other tape media, the various generations of LTO and the pros and cons of this backup technology. Also learn about the newest model, LTO-5, being released this year.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) What are you doing to combat unstructured data growth? Listen to this expert FAQ podcast as it discusses clustered network-attached storage (NAS) as a solution, the pros and cons and the vendors in the NAS market.
July 08, 2010 - (Free Research) A RAID is a method of ganging up, so to speak, a bunch of disk drives, such that the availability and/or the performance is actually improved. Read this transcript for more basics of RAID.
June 09, 2010 - (Free Research) In order to fully understand present and future advancements in RAID technology, start with the basics principles of what makes RAID such an effective enterprise storage technology. This podcast discusses everything RAID including the different levels, basic principles, benefits and drawbacks of leveraging RAID, the 2010 market trends and more.
May 05, 2010 - (Free Research) RAID has been a mainstay of data protection for decades, but now its days may soon be numbered. In the May 2010 cover story of Storage magazine, Marc Staimer details the various issues of traditional RAID today and highlights how alternative technologies aim to address these problems. More...
May 11, 2010 - (Free Research) “High Speed RAID 6” disk arrays from Winchester Systems provide a unique and unmatched combination of reliability, performance and affordability in a truly open storage product that is in its tenth generation of development. Read this white paper for all the details on this next generation of high speed disk arrays.
May 11, 2010 - (Free Research) The white paper outlines the advantages, limitations, and best practices of using Winchester Systems v-IP Virtual iSCSI Storage Appliance and FlashDisk RAID in conjunction with a VMware virtual infrastructure. It is intended to provide a clear understanding of how v-IP integrates with VMware and focuses on the product’s robustness.
May 11, 2010 - (Free Research) Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.
August 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Check out this FAQ podcast featuring W. Curtis Preston to learn all about laptop and desktop backup – including how it’s just as important as enterprise data backup, best practices, products available and more.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Global Knowledge and Red Hat have assembled 10 Tips and Tricks from Red Hat Certified Engineers® (RHCEs) to give you a quick reference guide to help you navigate Red Hat® Linux™ systems.
August 2009 - (Free Research) The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
September 2010 - (Free Research) In this month's cover story, Jacob Gsoedl explores how unstructured data became one of the top challenges in today’s organizations and highlights how file/NAS virtualization allows for future growth.
August 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.
June 2010 - (Free Research) VMware vSphere v4 includes the ESX server virtualization layer, VMware VMotion for live virtual machine migration, VMware DRS for continuous load balancing, and more. VMware ESX abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines (VMs), enabling greater hardware utilization and flexibility.
August 2010 - (Free Research) There are many approaches to remote office data protection and system availability. This paper describes best practices in using available technologies for protection, recovery and availability of remote or branch office systems, applications and data.
March 2009 - (Free Research) Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?
June 2010 - (Free Research) This paper explains what is meant by storage thin provisioning, the way it works and the storage problems it addresses. It describes its potential benefits as well as a few pitfalls for potential users to watch out for.
December 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.
March 2009 - (Free Research) This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.
