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.
June 08, 2010 - (Free Research) Organizations for the first time now have at their fingertips a Buyer’s Guide that provides them with a comprehensive list of midrange arrays that can assist them in this all-important buying decision while removing much of the mystery around how midrange arrays are configured and which ones are suitable for which purposes.
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.
August 10, 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 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.
February 23, 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.
November 25, 2009 - (Free Research) This analyst report examines Quantum’s DXi6500 family of disk storage systems, which are designed to help companies deal with modern day backup and recovery challenges. Read on to learn about the DXi6500 family and their ability to improve backup performance, manage costs, speed up recovery and more.
July 09, 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.
July 23, 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this new program and hear experts reveal proven approaches to help you build a more efficient data center. Learn about three storage technologies that will help you cut power and cooling costs and reduce your overall number of disk drives.
January 29, 2010 - (Free Research) Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control.
March 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This DCIG analyst report discusses the changing role of tape as a backup target in both the short- and long-term. It goes on to examine leading LTO technology, and why many companies are looking at refreshes - not overhauls - to meet new organizational expectations.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions is based on Xiotech’s patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology and proven virtualized, distributed cluster architecture. Read this white paper now to learn about the Emprise 7000 family in detail and the many benefits available.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech's Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology and provides a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability that delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any SAN or SAN-like storage system on the market.
March 01, 2010 - (Free Research) The Xiotech Emprise 5000 storage device and its foundation component, the Xiotech Intelligent Storage Element (ISE), are designed to redefine the construct of a storage foundation building block. The idea is to provide a storage target that delivers application-specific requirements, such as I/O operations per second (IOPS). Read more!
November 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper outlines key business problems facing customer IT environments and how the new Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) technology can be used to address these challenges. This paper provides an overview of the EFD technology and its effect on specific business applications.
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...
February 04, 2010 - (Free Research) The February 2010 issue of Storage magazine online unveils the 2009 Storage Products of the Year. 3 winners are named in 5 categories – Backup and DR Hardware, Backup and DR Software and Services, Disks and Disk Subsystems, Storage Management Tools and Storage Networking Equipment.
July 21, 2009 - (Free Research) Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
October 19, 2009 - (Free Research) One of the greatest challenges for Fox Chase has been to keep pace with the backup requirements imposed by ever-growing amounts of data. Read this case study to learn how Fox Chase implemented a storage solution that significantly reduced backup times and improved the data reduction ratio.
August 11, 2010 - (Free Research) As the demand for information access has increased exponentially over the past decade to meet the growth of the Internet as whole, including e-commerce and commercial databases, the demand placed on datacenters has intensified. Read this paper to find out more.
July 20, 2010 - (Free Research) The backup and recovery choices for a small- to medium-sized business (SMB) can easily be broken down into three broad segments: tape-based backup, disk-based backup and cloud backup. Each offers a different set of advantages and disadvantages. This tutorial will help you choose a data backup system that will best serve your storage needs.