Storage Management

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SMB data storage management by EMC Corporation
Data storage management is a multifaceted process that is always changing. In this tutorial on SMB storage management, learn about iSCSI versus Fibre...
7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization by Compellent
the overall storage capacity needed to support a VMware environment, speeds up storage provisioning, simplifies storage management, enhances disaster recovery and reduces the cost of acquisition, operation and management.

Like the VMware environment, the...
An Economical Approach To Maximizing Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
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 flexibility and at a high cost, especially for smaller...
Advanced virtualization management for Hyper-V and System Center environments by Citrix
technologies, server virtualization can challenge traditional approaches to IT delivery. For example, storage management in virtualized environments can be cumbersome and inefficient because virtualization makes it difficult for organizations to...
Sun™ Open Storage for MySQL™ Database Projects by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Today's storage systems are often proprietary, expensive to manage, and rigid to deploy. In contrast, Sun Open Storage products, including...
Thin Provisioning with the Pillar Axiom by Pillar Data Systems
of thin provisioning. Thin provisioning is now recognized in the industry as a critical approach to simplifying storage management while drastically improving capacity utilization. Pillar recognizes the value of thin provisioning and has taken its inherent...
Email Archiving: Understanding the Reasons, Risks and Rewards by Proofpoint, Inc.
Regulatory compliance, legal discovery and storage management issues are driving more organizations to consider email archiving. Here's what you should know when making decisions about your...
Optimizing Oracle RMAN and ASM Environments with FalconStor VTL and Integrated Deduplication by FalconStor Software
offers advanced backup and global deduplication capabilities that support Oracle Recovery Manager and Automatic Storage Management. The importance of adequate backup and disaster recovery (DR) for Oracle databases cannot be emphasized enough. These databases...
Control Capacity with Storage Virtualization by SearchStorage.com
With ever-growing capacity, storage managers are struggling to ensure that their installed disk capacity is being used as effectively and efficiently as possible. By...
Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
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, vendor virtualization approaches and strategy are important.

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Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
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, vendor virtualization approaches and strategy are important.

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iSCSI Storage Review: Implementation and Migration for SMBs by EMC Corporation
In their opinion, it is an ideal choice for customers consolidating storage for the first time. It provides a strong set of storage management features in an entry-level system, offers a great growth path, and is competitively priced.

This report shows the actual steps taken...
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...
Reduce Storage Spending with Quest Horizon by Quest Software
Quest's technical brief "De-Mystifying VMware Storage Consumption" discusses how Quest's Storage Horizon® makes storage in VMware environments more efficient and cost effective...
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...
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...
Elements Of A C-4 Strategy: Mastering The Storage Issue by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
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. This paper gives further details. From large...
Presentation Transcript: Email Archiving, Ediscovery, Compliance, Storage Management by Symantec Corporation
Email archiving is a burgeoning market at a time when many storage pros are faced with increasing ediscovery requests and compliance regulations. Listen to this podcast to find out the latest...
Holistic and Efficient Protection for Oracle Databases with FalconStor CDP by FalconStor Software
a high level of enterprise data availability. Critical database applications such as Oracle demand advanced data storage management. In an enterprise Oracle environment, FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP) optimizes application and data...
Tools to Help You Manage Capacity by Storage Decisions
disk capacity you have allocated, how much is actually being used and what's left and available are basics for disk system management. But the tools you get with your storage arrays are often inadequate or simply don't provide all the details you need to make smart and...
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...
Presentation Transcript: File Virtualization with Greg Schulz by Iron Mountain Digital
is performed, the pros and cons of file virtualization appliances, limitations to the technology -- and more. Existing storage management methods and tools are coming up short when it comes to meeting the demands of today's exploding storage requirements. Application...
File Virtualization with Greg Schulz by Iron Mountain Digital
is performed, the pros and cons of file virtualization appliances, limitations to the technology -- and more. Existing storage management methods and tools are coming up short when it comes to meeting the demands of today's exploding storage requirements. Application...
Dedupe-Centric Storage by Data Domain
across the storage infrastructure for reducing data, improving data protection and, in general, simplifying data management. Storage system vendors who treat deduplication merely as a feature will check off a box on a feature list, but are likely to fall short of...
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Choosing a storage virtualization approach By Greg Schulz
pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device in order to simplify storage management. Many have debated the best approach to perform storage virtualization, but no single approach...
Mar 11, 2008
Five steps to calculate data storage capacity requirements By Brian Peterson
into one simple number is a metric called the "effective cost of storage." This is the total storage budget divided by the utilized storage. Storage managers can extract more value to the business by lowering the storage budget or increasing...
Apr 10, 2008
How SMBs can ensure storage security By Kevin Beaver
buy-in, many small and midsized businesses (SMBs) often struggle to achieve reasonable information security. Once you throw critical storage systems into the mix, you've got the potential for some really interesting IT issues. Ensuring...
Aug 19, 2008
Data Storage Resource Center
How to back up and restore a certificate store by Brien M. Posey
are lost, then there is no way of decrypting the file. Of course, certificates are also used for other purposes such as identity management and authentication. The point is -- your certificates are not something you can afford to lose.

The easiest way to back up an...

Dec 1, 2008
iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel for SMBs by Howard Marks
the infrastructures and processes of midmarket firms up to enterprise standards in the areas of systems, network and storage management, with a focus on data protection and business continuity planning. Marks is the author of three books and more than 200...
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