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whitepaper Developed and Maintained a RAID Controller Product Line for a Large Storage Company2008-01-26 MindTree Consulting
  The client is part of a leading company in the field of Network Storage. The client wanted to reduce their engineering overheads and was looking for a suitable offshore partner. With a technology as domain specific as RAID, building a good set of resources was a challenge. MindTree built a dedicated team of storage experts to help define the requirements and features of the product. This team was then scaled quickly using MindTree's internal skill sets. A knowledge building exercise was executed to help bring the team upto speed with the product's technology, the client's processes and tools.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Thought Equity Delivers Film and Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Thought Equity Management, Inc. is the worldwide leader in motion imagery licensing and management for the entertainment, creative and corporate production industries. The company wanted to provide customers with rapid online access to large film and video files to scale petabyte-level storage environment in cost-effective increments to keep pace with customer requirements and support demanding, high duty-cycle storage environment. Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive to its existing tape library to dramatically improve the storage density, speed and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system. Sun software provides centralized management of a storage area network that includes the Sun StorageTek tape drive and library, as well as other tape and disk systems.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper Barclays Bank Deploys SecureWave Sanctuary Device Control to Remove USB Security Risk0000-00-00 SecureWave
  Barclays is a UK-based financial services group and an international banking organisation, with branches throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe and South America, engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. The challenge was to create a secure environment within the branch network and to secure against the unauthorised use of USB devices. Barclays needed to guarantee that potential security breaches, through devices such as floppy drive access, USBs and serial ports, were completely eliminated. As a solution Barclays chose SecureWave's Sanctuary Device Control which enabled complete lock down of USB ports and prevented all unauthorised connection of USB devices to the network.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper CASE STUDY: Using AMI's NAS Software for Digital Video Editing & Storage0000-00-00 American Megatrends
  Micro Media, which has served the broadcast and production industry for over 10 years, integrates and sells turnkey digital video editing systems and storage. Micro Media needed a turnkey storage solution for high bandwidth storage like graphics and video. As a solution Micro Media chose AMI's NAS software, which was created to turn almost any standard server or desktop into a storage solution. Micro Media installed the software onto several different hardware configurations - a single PIII 1 GHz and 2x120 GB of ATA133 IDE storage and a Dual Xeon 2.4 GHz with 1.2 Terabytes of Ultra320 storage.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper SAN and NAS Combine to Deliver a Comprehensive Storage Solution at the GRZ IT Center0000-00-00 Hitachi
  Founded in 1971, the GRZ IT Center in Linz has grown to become one of the largest and most successful IT systems houses in Austria. In order to facilitate business expansion and support their strategic objectives, GRZ IT Center had to overcome a number of challenges and limitations within their storage and server infrastructure. Hitachi Data Systems proposed a solution that combined SAN and NAS technologies based upon two Lightning 9970V storage systems. Brocade Silkworm fibre channel switches and a Hitachi Data Systems/NetApp Enterprise GF960 NAS Gateway. This approach integrated the flexibility and capability of a SAN with the functionality of a NAS.

Tags: NAS, SANs		   
whitepaper Holmbergs Consolidates Storage and Backup, Improves Performance and Productivity With HP NAS Unified Network Storage0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Holmbergs wanted to consolidate storage, improve backup, serve a mixed Windows/Mac environment, and speed up file access. The company deployed HP NAS unified network storage solution, including an HP ProLiant DL380 G4 Storage Server, an HP Modular Smart Array (MSA), HP Ultra320 SCSI disk storage enclosure, HP StorageWorks SSL1016 Ultrium 460 tape autoloader, and HP ProLiant DL320 and DL360 servers. As a result there was a projected, cumulative five-year net benefit of $326,231, driven by improved productivity and IT savings. The project has an ROI of 526%, and a payback period of seven months. Holmbergs has consolidated its storage, decreased the number of its servers, and placed all of its file sharing in one location.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper Security Bank of Kansas City0000-00-00 Plasmon
  Security Bank of Kansas City is part of a multi-bank holding company located in Wyandotte County. Having worked for more than 25 years in the financial industry, Dean Foster, VP of Data Processing for Security Bank, questioned the vendors about archival quality and the backup of images placed into RAID systems, as well as future growth capacity within a fixed disk technology. When Foster reviewed available write-once optical storage options, he was very excited about a technology available from Plasmon, Ultra Density Optical (UDO). Since the Silhouette software worked with Pegasus InveStore, UDO was a supported option within the system already being used.

Tags: Storage Management, Magnetic - Optical		   
whitepaper Powering Up Production With SGI InfiniteStorage NAS 20000000-00-00 sgi
  Like many successful creative media studios, Reel FX was confronting the growing pains of the data explosion, pains most acutely felt when artists and animators need to access the same data simultaneously. Seeking an economical, IP-based networking and centralized storage solution with high-speed, simultaneous data access - regardless of operating system - Reel FX turned to Silicon Graphics, which delivered the only available solution that meets their current needs. Recognizing the explosive trend of digital storage in the creative media industry, Silicon Graphics is addressing today's demands and will deliver the seamless upgrades of tomorrow with a simple concept: SGI network-attached storage (NAS) today, SGI CXFS Storage Area Network (SAN) tomorrow.

Tags: NAS, SANs		   
whitepaper Fast-Growing Robotics Engineering Center Armed With Versatile, Expandable Disk- and Tape-Based Storage Solutions0000-00-00 Overland Storage
  The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University conducts basic and applied research in robotics technologies to boost the productivity and competitiveness of businesses throughout the United States. The company's rapid data growth drove need for scalable storage capacity and inability to react quickly to overnight surges in storage requirements. Their existing outdated tape library with DLT tape technology required upgrade and decentralized backups were inconsistent and posed security concerns. In evaluating tape- and disk-based solutions, NREC rated products based on ease of use, centralized management, form factor, scalability, availability, interoperability and price. The Overland NEO 4100 offered the most compelling value proposition.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper IC Source Pinpoints Best Deal With RamSan Solid State Disk From Texas Memory Systems0000-00-00 Texas Memory Systems
  IC Source, Inc. has been serving the time-critical and complex needs of electronic components brokers since 1996 with its advanced inventory database application. The company wanted to improve competitiveness of trading forum by eliminating backlog of updates to the inventory database. IC Source initially set up the RamSan-400 in a demonstration environment at their office. Within half an hour they had it up and running and did not require any technical assistance at all. They found it extremely easy to use. When IC Source deployed the RamSan in their data center they immediately saw a 400% improvement in performance. This resulted into the World's Fastest Storage" which eliminates backlog, delivers 400% performance improvement to database and helps ensure IC Source's competitive edge.

Tags: Warehouse Inventory Management