Small-midsized Business Storage Hardware

Solution Search:
ESG Report: Data Deduplication Diversity: Evaluating Software- vs. Hardware-Based Approaches by CommVault Systems, Inc.
maximum business, operational, and financial benefits.

Deduplication has been more popularly deployed in target storage hardware, including virtual tape libraries (VTLs) and storage appliances; however, recent introductions by backup vendors have shifted the...
Reducing Storage Complexity with Sun Unified Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
the data they create continues at a rapid pace, even in today's difficult economic times. IDC forecasts that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010.

Unified storage has emerged as one way that IT managers are using to reduce the complexity of...
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...
Tiered Storage Best Practices for File Archiving by Hitachi Data Systems
components that comprise a file-archiving architecture. He also explains best practices for organizing tiered storage for the best performance, availability and cost savings. How should you build out tiered storage for file archiving? Whether you're...
Dell Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture by Dell and Microsoft
This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features...
WAN-optimized Replication: Built into FalconStor Solutions by FalconStor Software
the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. But as IT are aware, data replication increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication...
7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization by Compellent
the provisioning of new applications, simplify server management and improve disaster recovery.

The Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN) is a perfect complement to the VMware environment because virtualized storage offers...
Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight, Archiving Best Practices Q4 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
the pain. Unfortunately, archiving is complicated, with many different factors to consider and dozens of different hardware, software, and service combinations. Between January and September 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving...
Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
one size fits all.

Indeed, the range of storage virtualization technologies and solutions has continued to evolve as storage hardware, the software that powers them, and external storage management applications have matured. This can often create confusion. Thus...
Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
one size fits all.

Indeed, the range of storage virtualization technologies and solutions has continued to evolve as storage hardware, the software that powers them, and external storage management applications have matured. This can often create confusion. Thus...
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...
Open Storage Implementation by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
IT professionals have been looking to flexibly scale, reconfigure, and or repurpose their storage infrastructures to reserve their allocated budget. The product presented in this Videocast combines open-storage software with...
Solution Sheet: Xenos DSR™ - Document Storage Reduction Solution for ECM by Xenos Group Inc.
produced 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...
Case Study: KCP&L powers Kansas City with help from end-to-end HP business technology by Hewlett-Packard Company
This case study outlines how KCP&L, Kansas City's primary electric utility, was able to simplify and consolidate their storage server and infrastructure using HP as their primary provider. KCP&L, Kansas City's leading electric utility provider, needed to...
HP StorageWorks tape and disk-to-disk data protection by Hewlett-Packard Company
effective, and trusted solutions that provide the appropriate level of protection based on your specific business requirements. HP can help you protect the integrity of your data and regain access to it when you need it. We have a range of change...
Advanced virtualization management for Hyper-V and System Center environments by Citrix
capabilities of Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager with advanced virtualization tools for managing storage in virtual environments, automating the virtual machine lifecycle, and dynamically provisioning Hyper-V infrastructure. Server...
Be SURE About Storage Capacity Management by Quest Software
In this Quest white paper you'll learn how you can become proactive - not reactive - when managing your storage capacity. Learn best practices to maximize your existing resources, and how doing keeps your budget under control. Read the paper...
Technical Brief: Data Domain SISL™ Scaling Architecture by Data Domain
has developed a proven architecture to deliver high throughput deduplication storage systems with economical storage hardware. Over time, this will allow the continued scaling of CPUs to add direct benefit to system scalability...
ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is...
Matching Data Deduplication Approaches to Workload Characteristics: The Quantum DXi7500 by Quantum Corporation
approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system Storage capacity optimization (SCO) offers undeniable economic benefits to enterprises of all sizes by significantly reducing the...
Unify & Automate Management Of Virtual, Physical, Cloud & Hybrid Computing Infrastructures by FastScale Technology
change and struggling with day-to-day reality of increasing complexity. Workloads may be deployed on multiple hardware platforms, virtualized, or possibly moved to an off-premise cloud such as Amazon EC2. Patch management, compliance and constant...
The Perils of Using the Wrong Approach to USB Flash Drive Security by IronKey
This paper examines how the IronKey flash drive uses hardware-based encryption and key management within a highly secure framework to eliminate physical and logical avenues of attack. A...
Leading Transportation Company Saves Thousands of Dollars in Hardware Costs for Disaster Recovery Setup using VMware Infrastructure 3 and Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays by Dell and VMware
recovery needs for companies of all sizes. Acme has six VMware ESX hosts and two EqualLogic PS Series arrays with 10.5 TB of storage, split between its headquarters in Louisiana and a disaster recovery site in Austin, Texas.

Check out this brief case study to learn...
Leveraging four-socket servers for your SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 consolidation by Dell, Inc.
how consolidating eight Dell PowerEdge 6650 servers onto a single Dell PowerEdge R900 server with a PowerVault MD1000 storage array can yielded results that enabled use of nearly one-fifth the rack space, one-third the power, and one-eighth the number of SQL...
SQL 2000 to 2008 consolidation made easy with two-socket servers by Dell, Inc.
consolidating legacy Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers onto a single Dell PowerEdge R805 server with a PowerVault MD1000 storage array can yielded less than one-third the rack space usage, less than one-fourth the power, and one-eighth the number of SQL Server...
Related SMB Tips
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
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
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
unique block is stored. By replacing repeated blocks with much smaller pointers rather than storing the block again, disk storage space is saved.

The criticism of block-based approaches are 1) the use of a hash algorithm to calculate the unique ID brings the...

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
Secure DAS without breaking the bank by Kevin Beaver
a favor and test your storage system resiliency. This means performing focused and realistic system failure scenarios (i.e., the storage hardware dies or your data center gets damaged or destroyed). There's no doubt you'll need to rely on it one day so why not find out where it's...
Nov 24, 2008