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Network-Attached Storage FAQ by EMC Corporation
Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse...
Network-attached storage FAQ by EMC Corporation
Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. In this podcast, Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with...
FalconStor Opens Up an Entirely New Market for Themselves in Disk-to-Disk Backup by FalconStor Software
Group analyst report focusses on FalconStor Software's announcement of a file-interface deduplication system, a NAS interface option for their existing line of disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solutions. The report highlights Falconstor's strategy and...
Reducing Storage Complexity with Sun Unified Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
emerged as one way that IT managers are using to reduce the complexity of storage implementations while improving the business flexibility and lowering the total cost of storage.

The benefits of unified storage include:

  • Unified block - and file-level storage
...
Tiered Storage Best Practices for File Archiving by Hitachi Data Systems
availability and cost savings. How should you build out tiered storage for file archiving? Whether you're on a DAS, NAS or SAN, you must find out what your data storage options are, learn how to save money on hardware, and discover how you can realize rapid...
How To Cut Backup & DR Costs by InMage Systems
a fact of life. You have heterogeneous servers and storage. Servers can be physical and/or virtual, storage can be DAS, SAN, or NAS, and different applications can require a range of recovery capabilities. You're likely running multiple products to meet local...
Improving Data Center Efficiency with Network and Storage Consolidation by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Do more with less! In today's economic climate, businesses need to find ways to improve agility, deliver business continuance, improve availability and reduce operational costs. Do more with less! In today's economic climate, businesses need to...
Sun Virtualization Solutions for Medium-Sized Businesses: Seamlessly Enabling Profitability and Growth by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
existing IT resources, increasing server utilization, and allowing your infrastructure to quickly react to dynamic business conditions. In today's economic climate, medium-sized businesses need to optimize every possible aspect of day-to-day operations. By...
Cisco MDS 9000 alleviate business and technical challenges of deploying SAN in Virtual Server environments by Cisco Systems, Inc.
This document addresses the relevant business and technical challenges that the Cisco MDS 9000 N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) feature addresses and then describes the solution...
Secrets to Successful DR and Continuity Planning by Compellent
This webinar reviews several enabling technologies that greatly simplify Disaster Recovery and business continuity like Silver Peak's WAN optimization solution. You'll also hear how OfficeWare was able to implement an effective and...
Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server by Data Domain
management, scheduling and file sharing. If the corporate messaging system is not available, productivity goes down, and business opportunities can be lost. Even if e-mail is not critical to your business, chances are that the loss of messaging services, even for...
Comparing Disk with Tape: Improving Backup and Recovery Performance by EMC Corporation
it is the only solution. This paper explains the benefits of Disk Backup from EMC and how it can benefit your business. There's no question about it: The face of data protection has forever changed - and that new face is disk. Today, more and more...
EMC SourceOne™ Email Management: A Next-Generation Email Archiving Solution by EMC Corporation
The current economy in concert with the growing volume of email and the increasing importance of email in business operations makes choosing a highly scalable, highly available, and high-performance email archiving solution critical. The use of...
An Economical Approach To Maximizing Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
businesses are digitized and maintain a large online presence. Protection of data assets is increasingly vital to business viability. While many enterprise storage management systems provide adequate data protection, most come with limited...
Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center by Compellent
attempted to respond to growth by adding servers and storage systems dedicated to specific applications, business functions, customers, and geographic locations. Over time, the result has been a complex, inflexible infrastructure that is...
Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center Reduces Backup Time with SEPATON by SEPATON
test theories and ideas, help visualize and under-stand complex situations and reduce the risk inherent in business decisions.

VMASC's tape drive system did not have the speed or capacity to handle their quickly growing data volumes. VMASC's top two...
Victaulic Speeds Backup and Restores, Cuts Capacity with SEPATON VTL and Data Deduplication by SEPATON
Victaulic Company is the industry's leading manufacturer of mechanical pipe joining systems with locations and business operations around the world. To manage this global enterprise, Victaulic relies on a powerful IT infrastructure, which generates a...
Reducing Storage Complexity with Sun Unified Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
emerged as one way that IT managers are using to reduce the complexity of storage implementations while improving the business flexibility and lowering the total cost of storage.

With all protocols and storage features included in the cost of the system, Sun...
HP Business Continuity Solutions for Oracle Grid: Supporting 24/7 demands through recommended IT architectures with built-in business continuity and availability by Hewlett-Packard Company
and your agility goals. We've all seen the dire statistics on the damage a natural or human-caused disaster can inflict on a business. But even small, every-day disruptions to business services that are tightly woven into the fabric of your enterprise can have a...
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...
Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight, Archiving Best Practices Q4 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
on archiving demonstrates that many companies wrestle with defining their archiving policies, building the business case for specialized offerings, and selecting and implementing either the right archiving software and hardware or the right...
MySQL Guide For Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects...
Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments by FalconStor Software
protect data from corruption and failures - and ensure that if these types of events occur, companies aren't forced out of business. Data protection becomes even more important in a virtualized server environment, because each physical server serves as a...
Five Cost-Effective Ways to Enable Fast Recovery by i365, A Seagate Company
maximum efficiency at minimal cost. If you experience data or system loss, how quickly can you recover and get back to business? Not all your business data and systems are created equal--some mission-critical systems, such as mail or transaction...
Related SMB Tips
How to consolidate NAS boxes By Brian Peterson
scalability, technology refreshes and controlling costs. By now, we all know that network-attached storage (NAS) can provide benefits for small-midsized businesses (SMBs). However, managing more than a few NAS devices quickly becomes a burden...
Jun 2, 2008
Is clustered NAS for SMBs? By Greg Schulz
storage is not just for large enterprises. This tips explores how clustered network-attached storage (NAS) can be leveraged in the small-midsized business (SMB) market...
May 14, 2008
Data Storage Resource Center
iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel for SMBs by Howard Marks
Storage/Snap Server at the low end, to NetApp in the enterprise to build unified storage systems that support both iSCSI and NAS protocols.

Rather than having separate file servers and storage arrays, or a file server front ending a Fibre Channel SAN, you...

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
Secure DAS without breaking the bank by Kevin Beaver

Arguably the greatest security risk to an organization is not knowing what's vulnerable and how each weakness can affect the business. Simply put, you can never assume that all is well. The solution is very straightforward: Perform a security assessment using...

Nov 24, 2008
Considerations when selecting a data storage VAR by Martha Young
storage VARs can handle rapidly changing storage needs, assist in regulatory compliance, assure disaster recovery and business continuity, perform installation and offer financing.

There are numerous considerations when selecting a storage VAR. You...

Nov 13, 2008
High performance computing demands special backup approach by Alan R. Earls
Backup can be coordinated, he notes, through "brute force methods" that flush buffers and set a machine check point.

HPC can bear small amounts of downtime
David Hill, an analyst with storage analyst firm The Mesabi Group, points out that for many HPC...

Nov 12, 2008