Data Reduction

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Hitachi's Approaches for an Increasingly Cost-Conscious Data Storage World by Hitachi Data Systems
In today's economic environment, IT managers must find ways to add efficiency to their data centers and to drive costs out of, and value into, their storage infrastructures. This white paper relies on ESG research to...
Dedupe-Centric Storage by Data Domain
burden of scheduling, tuning, or generally managing the deduplication process could again negate any benefits of the data reduction. All of these requirements make it very challenging to build a storage system that actually delivers the full potential of...
Deduplication School: Reduce Storage Needs by Eliminating Redundant Data by Data Domain
growth is going to prove essential to storage professionals in 2009 as we all try to do more with less. As a result, data reduction technologies like data deduplication, which reduce storage needs by eliminating redundant data, are a tool most...
The New Generation of De-duplication Technology Offers Clustered Architecture and Linear Performance Aggregation by FalconStor Software
such as clustered architecture and linear performance aggregation. IT managers and executives face explosive data growth, driving up costs for primary storage as well as storage for backup and disaster recovery (DR). Nevertheless, IT...
A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
A leading global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4...
Data Deduplication Background - A Technical White Paper by Quantum Corporation
The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of...
Data Deduplication Beyond Backup by Storage Decisions
for primary storage, the pros and cons of the different approaches, and what we should expect to see in future systems. Data deduplication has had a profound effect on backup operations, enabling companies to store more backup data than ever on easily...
Podcast: Customers Re-architect Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication: Symantec Backup Exec and Data Domain by Data Domain
be achieved by deployment of new technologies as it relates to enterprise level backup and DR practices. Learning about data protection and backup planning procedures can make selecting an appropriate data protection strategy less complicated...
Webcast: Customers Re-architect Data Protection Processes with Data Deduplication: Symantec Backup Exec and Data Domain by Data Domain
View this webcast to learn more about re-architecting your data protection processes with data deduplication; this webcast also highlights a solution that provides superior protection and...
Podcast: Priceline.com Capitalizes on Lean Economic Times by 3PAR
Download this podcast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times. Download...
Priceline.com Capitalizes on Lean Economic Times by 3PAR
Watch this videocast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times. Watch this...
Solution Sheet: Xenos DSR™ - Document Storage Reduction Solution for ECM by Xenos Group Inc.
by today's large organizations is rising dramatically. This solution sheet presents the Xenos DSR, document storage reduction solution for enterprise content management (ECM). The amount of high-volume content such as statements, bills, policies, and...
The Advantage of VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Protection and Data Domain Deduplication by Data Domain
Reliable business continuity must be supported by a comprehensive approach to data backup, recovery and offsite disaster recovery. Read this white paper and learn how Server consolidation with VMware technology...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
software that has helped more than 2000 organizations consolidate their servers and streamline their data centers, resulting in as much as a ten-fold boost in resource utilization. The software also reduces the cost of setting up a...
Elements Of A C-4 Strategy: Mastering The Storage Issue by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
medium-size firms, IT planners face the same challenges: cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction. These C-4 issues will set the storage management agenda and throttle the options for IT investments for the foreseeable future...
Four Principles for Reducing Storage TCO by Hitachi Data Systems
This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage...
Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT by SAP America Inc
come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organization. This is particularly worrisome given the lack of confidence in data...
Nine Ways to Cut Costs While Keeping the Lights On by Wipro Technologies
companies are looking for ways to reduce their costs by 25% or more. The following paper represents the top set of cost-reduction initiatives that Wipro clients have effectively implemented. "It's no surprise a lot of clients want to rapidly and dramatically...
eGuide: An in-depth look at data deduplication methods by FalconStor Software
This E-Guide will discuss the various approaches to data deduplication. You'll learn the pros and cons of each, and will benefit from independent expert insight that will help you get the...
Evaluating Concentric Managed Backup by Concentric
They should also gain more insight into why customers choose Concentric as the guardian for their own critical data protection processes...
Optimizing Oracle RMAN and ASM Environments with FalconStor VTL and Integrated Deduplication by FalconStor Software
enterprises of all sizes. But with all the challenges that IT faces - such as budget constraints, distributed data centers, ever-growing bandwidth and storage capacity needs, and trying to maintain consistent Oracle high availability -...
Cutting datacenter costs with server and infrastructure offload - A technical guide by Citrix
approach also means having to get by as best they can for the next two to three years, or however long it takes for their new data centers to be designed, approved, constructed and eventually brought on line. Without the capacity to readily deploy new...
Quest® vWorkspace: The Only Enterprise-Grade Desktop Deployment & Application Delivery Platform by Quest Software
vWorkspace delivers the most comprehensive desktop brokering, management, and application publishing solution, supporting the world's leading virtual infrastructure platforms and blade PC implementations, to meet the needs...
Why Records Management is important by Hewlett-Packard Company
Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process...
Related SMB Tips
Data footprint reduction for SMBs By Greg Schulz
For small-midsized businesses (SMBs) wanting to address power, cooling, footprint and environmental issues (known as PCFE), as well as data management issues, establishing a holistic data footprint reduction strategy is a must.

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May 29, 2008
How to adapt NAS to your needs By Greg Schulz
your NAS with additional software or functionality if it is not already built in or included, such as local or remote mirroring for data replication, advanced security capabilities, including internal appliance- or external...
Jun 1, 2007
The rising cost of cheap SMB storage By Pierre Dorion
Procrastination, or in actuality avoidance, is exactly what a lot of organizations are opting for when faced with the problem of data growth and the absence of data retention policies.

This is a common situation for small...

Aug 5, 2008
Data Storage Resource Center
How to back up and restore a certificate store by Brien M. Posey
to the users and computers on your network. These certificates are used by a variety of applications as a means of encrypting data, proving a user's identity and verifying that data has not been tampered with. If you lose certificates, you lose data. If files...
Dec 1, 2008
iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel for SMBs by Howard Marks
the SAN network of choice for large enterprises with many SAN-attached servers and applications that process huge amounts of data.

Fibre Channel vendors are in the middle of the transition from 4 Gbps to 8 Gbps technology, which provides more bandwidth than...

Nov 25, 2008
How to evaluate and purchase a SAN by Martin Taylor, Converged Network Manager, Royal Horticultural Society
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The starting point in a SAN purchasing strategy is to determine the business' needs -- both present and future -- in terms of data management and storage. The first step is to hold assessment meetings with those areas of the business that use the SAN in...

Nov 25, 2008
Data deduplication methods: Block-level versus byte-level dedupe by Lauren Whitehouse
Data deduplication identifies duplicate data, removing redundancies and reducing the overall capacity of data transferred...
Nov 24, 2008
The pros and cons of solid-state drives for notebook computers by Daniel P. Dern
a thousand dollars to the cost of a notebook -- or cost $3/GB to $10 per gigabyte purchased separately.

And unless a user has lots of data, or feels the need to consume mass quantities of music and videos, 32 GB is more than enough space. (A full Windows OS and Office...

Nov 24, 2008