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ESG Automating Away the Data Migration Blues
Data migrations and consolidations are expensive, time consuming and difficult. For years, they have been manually intensive, error prone projects. SANpulse has developed a technology with highly skilled resources and processes to deliver a migration...
How StoneFly IP SANs Leverage Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services for Easy Snapshot Management
StoneFly's IP SANs provide centralized storage management, advanced storage services and integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to simplify storage provisioning.
Evaluating a Storage Security Solution
This document provides guidance into some of the factors you should consider when evaluating storage security technology and solutions. As with any security project, acquiring technology is not the only step to properly protecting your data. Part of this...
Best Practices for Long-term Data Storage and Preservation
This white paper presents current best practices in long-term digital data storage and preservation. Although we primarily address digital archives held within or on behalf of an enterprise, the discussion is equally applicable to digital archives for...
Protecting Confidential Data: The Role of Tape Encryption
Protecting confidential data is nothing new to IT managers -- they have been responsible for restricting access to corporate data and maintaining its physical security since the early days of computing. But in the last couple of years, it has taken on a...
SCSI Inflection Point: Standardizing on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Dramatic advances in processor speed, RAM size and RAM speed have combined to accelerate system performance to levels unthinkable just a few years ago. Yet one aspect of system capability has conspicuously lagged behind: parallel SCSI drive performance.
Securing Networked Storage
This document provides an overview of security threats in a Network Attached Storage environment and countermeasures offered by Decru DataFort® storage security appliances. NEXT PARA PLEASE: In today's world, there are multiple copies of data stored...
Scalable, Always Available Solution for Digital Media
Winning and retaining media consumers in a competitive marketplace requires content delivery solutions for digital media that are quick, reliable, repeatable, easily managed, and scalable as your business, content and customer demands grow. HP’s...
Fujitsu SAS vs SATA
A key benefit of deploying SAS technology in the enterprise datacenter is that it also enables universal interconnect with Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives. Cost-effective SATA HDDs offer some very attractive tradeoffs when deployed for less demanding...
Thinking Beyond Tape
Many branch offices are already backing up to tape, but a tape-only backup strategy means high cost and risky shortcomings. Double-Take can reduce the cost of tape-only solutions and provide a higher level or recoverability for critical systems and data....
Delivering Data Protection with ROI
IT organizations are seeking new solutions that improve the operational efficiency of their business meeting their ROI expectations while consolidating the number of technologies to reduce their budgets. Today's economy is forcing IT organizations to...
The State of Resilience and Optimization on IBM Power Systems
Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX UsersThis report includes the input of over 2,000 companies running AIX and IBM i Ii5/OS) environments regarding their data protection and recovery technologies and strategies. In addition to...
Serial Attached SCSI technology (technology brief)
The parallel SCSI bus has been a workhorse in the data storage industry for over 20 years. The success of SCSI as an I/O interface can be attributed to its performance, intelligence, and backward compatibility. However, after years of steady performance...
LSI Fusion-MPT™ Architecture
Fusion-MPT architecture marks the next generation of I/O architecture designed to deliver the highest performance available today while reducing time to market, integration, and certification time.
Disk and Tape Square Off Again -- Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4
In this white paper discover the real cost of storing data long term in a SATA disk system and in an LTO-4 tape system -- and which provides lower total cost of ownership and optimizes energy use. A strategic blend of disk and tape may be optimal to...
Five Steps to Reducing Your Backup Window
Are you taking the right steps, or could you reduce your backup window further? Compare the 5 steps in our Free Guide to what you're doing now. You'll find answers to some of today's toughest questions on meeting backup window requirements:1. Are you...
Virtual Storage + Virtual Servers
Learn more about using the benefits of combining virtualized IP SAN storage with virtual server technologies. Centralize management and resources to reduce power consumption, simplify management, and increase storage and server resource utilization.
Implementing an Affordable, Robust IP-Based Solution for Long Distance Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Applications
Protecting high-value data and delivering 24x7 business continuity has become one of the top imperatives for organizations around the world, regardless of size. Business has a mandate to their customers and stakeholders to cost-effectively keep key...
Implementing Cost-Effective D2D Backup and Recovery with StoneFly's Integrated IP SANs
Learn how IP SANs solve storage challenges, how using snapshots simplifies data recovery and restoration, ways to expedite backups, and how to simplify storage infrastructure by deploying cost-effective iSCSI technology.
Fujitsu SAS: Serial Attached SCSI & Hard Disk Drive Storage
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the next logical evolution in the enterprise HDD interface, satisfies new data center demands for increased scalability, performance, reliability and manageability. Even greater improvements in overall storage system...
Data Protection Report 2008: Best Practices in Data Backup & Recovery
IT never stands still - this report proves 2008 will not be an exception! Excillio Group surveyed more than 135 IT professionals to understand the top goals, challenges, and trends in data protection in 2008. Learn what your peers are thinking and...
Consolidation for an Optimized Storage Environment
In many organizations Windows file services are spread among a series of servers. These servers often originate from different vendors with diverse maintenance requirements and result in server sprawl - a storage landscape cluttered with various NAS...
Scalable, Fault-Tolerant NAS for Oracle: The Next Generation
For several years NAS has been evolving as a storage alternative for Oracle databases, and for good reason: NAS is quite often the simplest, most cost-effective storage approach for Oracle.This evolution is driven in part by the emergence of scalable NAS...
A Practical Guide to Business Continuity
Are you able to keep vital business operations running in the event of an infrastructure failure? View this white paper to learn how you can create a simple yet strong business continuity plan for your organization.Like most things, a little planning and...
SAS: Power and Simplicity Become One (Seagate)
After months of speculation and anticipation, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage solutions are now entering the marketplace in force. Given its unparalleled blend of performance, scalability and flexibility, it should come as no surprise that SAS is...
Scalable NAS: Insights from customers, analysts and HP
When IT administrators are looking for networked storage solutions, they often look to NAS. Unfortunately, traditional NAS doesn't scale and administrators often find themselves having to add NAS platforms to keep up with growing storage demands. As a...
Tiered Data Protection White Paper
Industry analyst firm Storage Strategies NOW outlines the importance of having a data protection strategy that recognizes and takes into account all of your applications, data and the needs of your business. Learn how you can guarantee information...
Fujitsu Technology & Partnership
Fujitsu has been designing and manufacturing cutting edge enterprise-class hard disk drives since 1968. Now a $45B global company with heavy investment in R&D and a dedicated field engineering support team, Fujitsu offers a full line of enterprise...
Best Practices in Data Protection White Paper
How long would your company function without access to its CRM, ERP, or messaging data? For many, the answer is, not long. For some, even downtime of a few minutes could have enormous impact. This new white paper addresses the mission critical issues...
Enhancing Operational Recovery with TimeData CDP
When an organization depends on its data, the challenge is to be able to recover that data with the minimal amount of data loss and in the shortest possible time should the unimaginable happen. While most organizations focus on disaster recovery so they...
IDC White Paper: Deduplication in Data Protection
For any IT professional who is considering deduplication as a means to enhance data protection and storage management capability, this white paper is a must. IDC offers its most balanced assessment of the benefits and potential disadvantages of...
Seagate Brings the Benefits of SAS to Tier 2 Storage
Storage professionals continue to wrestle with unprecedented demand for low-cost, high-capacity Tier 2 (also known as nearline) storage, driven by user needs for online data access and ballooning application requirements. At the same time, IT managers...
SAS Makes the Path to More and Higher Performance Storage Easier (HP)
Just in time for today's storage explosion, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive options provide a scalable, flexible, better performing and efficient solution for servers and for storage enclosures that go beyond the inherent limits of parallel...
Fujitsu and LSI Drive Ready-to-Go SAS Storage Systems Through Proven Compatibility
LSI and Fujitsu Computer Products of America are driving the transition from SCSI to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Both companies have embarked on a full-scale effort to validate drive and Host Bus Adapter (HBA) compatibility with SAS server and storage...
Top 10 Considerations When Selecting a Distributed NAS Solution
Businesses with remote locations face unique challenges when it comes to a storage solution. Some storage vendors offer low-end systems that may be fine for a small branch office, while others offer large, enterprise-class systems that are really only...
How to Achieve Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments
Do you have a plan and the necessary technologies to meet the data protection and recovery requirements for AIX environments on your IBM System p and i servers? This informative 10-page paper outlines the options for moving your protection and recovery...
A New Technology Hits the Enterprise Market: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Fujitsu 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives offer improved I/O performance, lower power consumption, reduced heat levels, and they are hot pluggable.
Decru Lifetime Key Management System
For many organizations, the business drivers for securing stored data are becoming obvious: high-profile security breaches, identity theft, brand damage, regulatory penalties, and increased legal liability have all underscored the importance of securing...
Important Considerations When Selecting a Branch Office Data Protection Solution
Ensuring that the company's data is protected is one of the most essential elements to any storage administrator's responsibilities. Businesses with remote locations face the challenge of protecting mission-critical data that resides on geographically...
Scalable, Fault-Tolerant NAS for Oracle: The Next Generation
For several years NAS has been evolving as a storage alternative for Oracle databases, and for good reason: NAS is quite often the simplest, most cost-effective storage approach for Oracle.This evolution is driven in part by the emergence of scalable NAS...
Enterprise-Level RAID Management for a Complete
Family of MegaRAID Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) AdaptersThe LSI MegaRAID Management Suite™ provides the must-have software components to efficiently manage MegaRAID products, whether deployed in an enterprise or small business.
HP Scalable NAS for Digital Media Content Streaming-Reference Architecture
The advancement of the Internet and its capabilities has had a major impact on enterprises. The new Web 2.0 business model, where the data is the business, utilizes the Internet to disseminate information in many different ways. Streaming media files --...
Leverage, Storage, Innovation: The New LSI Logic
Read the latest analyst report and find out how LSI Logic's storage strategy drives technology innovation, including interfaces like Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).......... ........ .......With a new management team in place, LSI Logic is in the process of...
Data Deduplication Best Practices
This white paper delves into market drivers and the differing data deduplication technologies in the market today.
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