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whitepaper TechRepublic Resource Guide: Data Storage for the Enterprise2008-11-11 Dell EqualLogic
  This TechRepublic Resource Guide is a great starting point if you're looking to expand your storage capacity but aren't sure how. It compares the pros and cons of various technologies and explores the types of decisions you'll need to make when traversing today's storage marketplace. Titled "Data Storage for the Enterprise," this handy guide provides:
  • An overview of new trends and options in enterprise storage
  • A comparison of direct-attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS), and storage area networks (SANs)
  • Detailed instructions for installing and configuring Microsoft's iSCSI initiator software
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Tags: Back-up, Storage Management, Database Marketing, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, NAS, SANs		   
whitepaper The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation2008-09-05 Diskeeper
  Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit of an automatic hands free disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. This in-depth independent study covers disk architecture, examines how the pervasive problem of fragmentation affects computer systems and explores effective approaches in reducing these pains. It outlines the mechanics of automatic defragmentation, how to select and deploy an automatic defragmentation solution and the ROI involved.

Tags: Back-up, Database Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt., Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Building a Highly Reliable SAN2008-01-24 Dell EqualLogic
  System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. But since SANs are built using mechanical and electronic parts, component failures, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. This paper discusses best practices in total system design to achieve the highest levels of service.

Tags: Monitoring Systems, Desktop Systems - PCs, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, SANs		   
whitepaper SAN Deployment on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using Emulex HBAs and CNAs2008-10-01 Emulex
  With the unrelenting escalation of costs for power, cooling and data center footprint, IT managers are under pressure to extract even more performance from their hardware and software. Server virtualization never made more sense. Microsoft's Hyper-V is the next-generation hypervisor technology that provides highly efficient server virtualization fully integrated with Windows Server 2008. In order to fully realize the benefits of Hyper-V, servers much have access to network storage that is fast and flexible. To that end, recent studies have shown that 60% of virtualized servers are connected to a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN), enabling fail-over cluster support and rapid migration of virtual machines.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Simplifying Enterprise File Management2008-09-10 Brocade Communications Systems
  With valuable corporate data increasingly distributed throughout enterprises, today's IT organizations face many barriers to efficient, cost-effective file management. However, these organizations can significantly simplify file management—including consolidation and migration—by deploying innovative file services solutions as part of a reliable File Area Network (FAN). This paper describes the key data management challenges in distributed environments as well as the business advantages of utilizing strategic file services solutions.

Tags: Data Center, Data Recovery - Security, NAS, Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper Providing Cost-Effective Data Availability and Protection in Distributed Enterprises2008-09-10 Brocade Communications Systems
  Changes in business conditions, corporate objectives, technology infrastructures, and the quality of business applications have combined to significantly increase the requirements for data protection. Unfortunately, traditional data replication solutions have not kept up to adequately match IT organizations' current business priorities—including simplified management, centralized control, policy-driven execution, and prioritization for data protection.

Tags: Data Center, Data Recovery - Security, NAS, Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper Effective File Management: Enabling Business Continuity for Business-Critical Files2008-09-10 Brocade Communications Systems
  The continued expansion of file-based, business-critical information within extended enterprises will have a dramatic impact on a wide range of industries and geographies in the next five years. Effective file management in the datacenter and across geographically dispersed locations will become the primary challenge for many IT administrators in corporate datacenters, increasing the need for new approaches to data protection and business continuity across the enterprise.

Tags: Data Center, Data Recovery - Security, NAS, Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance2008-08-01 Taneja Group
  Virtual Tape Library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce disk into a tape-based backup infrastructure. A VTL is a set of disks that emulate tape; one sees a disk array, the backup software sees a tape drive or a tape library. The use of tape virtualization will improve backup performance and reliability while allowing one to preserve investment in the existing tape infrastructure. But choosing the right VTL technology depends upon what particular backup issues are most important in one's environment. This paper considers these issues, and then provides a quick review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure.

Tags: Tape Drives - Libraries, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Tape: The Digital Curator of the Information Age Formation2008-07-17 Horison
  The 56 year-old magnetic tape industry continues to evolve. Markets are shifting as disk slowly encroaches on tape's traditional backup/recovery market while tape is positioning itself for the exploding tier 3 data such as fixed content, compliance and archive market. In 2007, annual tape industry revenues total just over $4B including all drives, robotic libraries and media compared to a $26B magnetic disk drive industry. The tape revenue figure has ranged between $4 - 4.3B since 2001.

Tags: Magnetic - Optical		   
whitepaper The Mathematics of RAID-62008-07-02 Zytor
  RAID-6 supports losing any two drives. The way this is done is by computing two syndromes, generally referred P and Q. The algebra used for this is the algebra of a Galois Field, GF(28). A smaller or larger field could also be used, however, a smaller field would limit the number of drives possible, and a larger field would require extremely large tables. GF(28) allows for a maximum of 257 drives, 255 (28 - 1) of which can be data drives; the reason for this is shown in the paper.

Tags: Storage Management		   


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