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Storage Landscape 2009: Best Practices Unveiled to Help You Store More for Less. by Iron Mountain Digital
In these challenging economic times organizations large and small are seeking ways to more efficiently store data. Though budgets are shrinking, the growth rate of data is not slowing down. This growth is the result of new data being created, data...
HP Enterprise Virtual Array tiered storage solution for Oracle: Aligning storage performance and availability with the business value of information by Hewlett-Packard Company
and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more. Enterprises around the world are racing to capture business data from every possible source in hopes of identifying new opportunities and competitive advantage. The resulting explosion of data...
Building a Service-oriented Data Protection Strategy by Storage Decisions
Data protection is not a one-size-fits-all strategy and this can create added complexities when building a service level-based data...
A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent. One of the world's leading global financial institutions (GFI), distressed by the economic downturn and...
Stop Buying Storage - Part 4: Deduplication and Other Strategies for Protecting Your Assets with the Veritas NetBackup Platform by Symantec Corporation
s tight economy, companies need a better way to balance backup storage costs with business needs for rapid and reliable data recovery. Symantec's NetBackup data protection platform lets you do more with your existing resources. Many companies find their...
Presentation Transcript: Changing the Economics of Storage Infrastructure with Virtualization by LSI and presented by HP
In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates...
Changing the Economics of Storage Infrastructure with Virtualization by LSI and presented by HP
In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates...
Changing the Economics of Storage Infrastructure with Virtualization by LSI and presented by HP
In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates...
Realizing the Benefits of Deduplication in a Backup and Restore System by Hewlett-Packard Company
experiencing 50% growth in data, adding as much as 4TB of data each year. This paper discusses HP's disk-to-disk (D2D) storage strategy offerings to address these changes. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are seeking better, more cost-effective ways to store...
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...
Hitachi's Approaches for an Increasingly Cost-Conscious Data Storage World by Hitachi Data Systems
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 demonstrate this, showing users are focusing on storage strategies...
ESG Report: Data Deduplication Diversity: Evaluating Software- vs. Hardware-Based Approaches by CommVault Systems, Inc.
the value proposition of disk-based data protection as it eliminates the redundancy typically seen in secondary storage processes. The use of deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and...
Is Online Server Backup Appropriate for Your Business by Iron Mountain Digital
Association. All businesses depend on one valuable and irreplaceable asset in order to function - their computer data. The business risk of losing this data - or even losing access to this data - is well documented and well recognized. In addition...
Server Virtualization, Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery by Storage Decisions
BC/DR strategy server virtualization and the storage products that enable efficient, flexible green and virtual data centers. Server virtualization has the potential to bring sophisticated business continuance (BC) and disaster recovery (DR...
ESG Report: Extremely Efficient Storage by Compellent
This Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) storage systems brief discusses the importance of storage efficiency, examines major considerations driving IT investments over the...
Reducing Storage Growth and Costs: A Comprehensive Approach to Storage Optimization by Intel Corporation
team assessed Intel's existing storage environment, including pain points and business drivers, and created a storage strategy, framework, and optimization roadmap based on emerging storage technology needs.

The storage optimization task force identified...
Enterprise Data Protection and Recovery - The Why, The How, and Who To Go To by Iron Mountain Digital
An effective data protection and recovery strategy not only restores data that has been destroyed, or misplaced but also prevents it from falling...
Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication: An In-Depth Look at Evaluation Criteria and Usage Scenarios by Double-Take Software
As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares...
Addressing Storage Challenges in Today's Economic Climate by Hitachi Data Systems
navigate your organization through this downturn, and learn more about the benefits of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform. The implications of the current economic downturn are far reaching and multifaceted, affecting everything we do. The...
Elements Of A C-4 Strategy: Mastering The Storage Issue by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
From large enterprises to small to medium-size firms, IT planners face the same challenges: cost-containment, compliance, continuity and carbon footprint...
Establishing a Low Cost Disaster Recovery Site by Intel Corporation
Learn about Intel IT's cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of its data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute...
Tiered data storage strategies for SMBs by EMC Corporation
Whether it's for performance or capacity improvements, the goal of tiered storage is simply to get data on the appropriate storage system. This tipcast details how SMBs can benefit from a tiered storage solution...
Centralized Data Protection for Remote Sites by Overland Storage
unique challenges when configuring and maintaining a storage solution. Read this paper to learn how Snap Enterprise Data Replicator™ (Snap EDR) maintains multiple snapshot images online as a disk-based archive. Successful management of business...
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Data footprint reduction for SMBs By Greg Schulz
For small-midsized businesses (SMBs) wanting to address power, cooling, footprint and environmental issues (known...
May 29, 2008
Seven steps for outsourcing data storage for SMBs By Daniel Dern
in capacity and lower in price (terabyte-sized SATA drives now cost less than $200) storage is getting more challenging, especially for small-midsized businesses (SMBs) that do not have dedicated storage expertise.

One solution for SMBs is to...

Aug 11, 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
to host via vMotion or XenMotion, to take advantage of snapshots and array-based replication or just to house a single pool of storage, you've decided to invest in your first storage area network (SAN). Now you have to decide whether to use iSCSI or Fibre Channel to...
Nov 25, 2008
How to evaluate and purchase a SAN by Martin Taylor, Converged Network Manager, Royal Horticultural Society
in the SAN purchasing process. Let's look at the ones that can help you specify a system to meet your organization's goals.

Business goals, tech specs

The starting point in a SAN purchasing strategy is to determine the business' needs -- both present and future...

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
com and other outlets.

Many of the $299 to sub-$1,000, two to three pound "netbook" computers, like the Asus Eee, also use solid-state storage, which is for smaller capacities and is less expensive than hard drives. Many netbooks also offer a choice of SDD or HDD.

For now...

Nov 24, 2008