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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...
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...
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...
Storage Landscape 2009: Best Practices Unveiled to Help You Store More for Less. by Iron Mountain Digital
This webcast will explore ways in which an organization can achieve greater efficiencies in their storage infrastructure and make suggestions how to plan for the future so that when the economy recovers, the idea of efficiency and cost...
Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and...
Do you really need continuous data protection? by FalconStor Software
of development, while near-CDP (frequent snapshots) software is already mature and available on many operating and storage systems. Continuous data protection (CDP) represents the future of data backup as companies look to provide near real-time recovery...
Storage Network Performance -- The Weakest Link by Storage Decisions
identifies just what aspects of performance are or are not critical to the successful deployment of these storage network technologies. People often point to performance as a major benefit of a Storage Network infrastructure. But performance...
ESG Labs Validation Report: Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family by Hitachi Data Systems
This ESG Lab Report documents the results of hands-on testing of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 family with a focus on ease of implementation and management, availability, and agility as well as scalability of both...
Cutting datacenter costs with server and infrastructure offload - A technical guide by Citrix
Enterprises and service providers worldwide are struggling to deal with mounting datacenter costs. With a powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure, NetScaler provides a relatively quick, low-cost...
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...
7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization by Compellent
operation and management.

Like the VMware environment, the Compellent SAN abstracts storage attributes from physical hardware. Storage is presented to virtual servers as disk capacity, regardless of the mix of disk types, disk capacities and server connectivity...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with differing performance and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more. Enterprises around the world...
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...
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...
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...
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Choosing a storage virtualization approach By Greg Schulz
What you will learn: This tip outlines three approaches to storage virtualization available today, along with some benefits, caveats and some examples of each.

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Mar 11, 2008
What you should know about iSCSI initiators By Greg Schulz
in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. However, these days we are seeing more and more large enterprises deploying iSCSI storage area networks (SAN).

ISCSI SANs are made up of three parts: a network, a target and an initiator. The...

Aug 20, 2007
Is clustered NAS for SMBs? By Greg Schulz
Clustered storage is often associated with high performance computing, where the primary focus is on access to...
May 14, 2008
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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
time has come to purchase your first SAN, there are many challenges to overcome before you can reap the benefits of centralized storage.

Some of the decisions facing prospective SAN purchasers can mean the difference between deploying a storage system that...

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