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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 The 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive Delivers Home Entertainment2008-10-14 Fujitsu
  The 2.5" HDD has rapidly developed to handle the demands of the competitive consumer electronics market. As consumers look for smaller devices with greater storage and efficiency, 2.5" HDDs give device manufacturers the ability to create a new class of storage-centric set-top boxes like digital video recorders, cable boxes with integrated HDDs, and home media centers.

Tags: Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Provantage Credits Iomega's REV Drives for Meeting PCI Compliance While Delivering Dramatic Upgrades in Data Protection and Accessibility2008-07-11 Iomega
  Provantage Corp. is a leading online dealer of technology and personal computer products. Provantage's internal storage scenario mirrored those of its customers. The growing reliance on the Internet for business coupled with increased dependence on email resulted in storage requirements growing faster than ever before. Attuned to safeguarding mission-critical e-commerce, customer and product data, Provantage became concerned about relying only on tape-format storage devices to protect four redundant backup servers. Provantage deployed the newly-available Iomega REV 120GB Backup Drive to elevate its own backup and recovery processes, and began offering the REV 120 Drive to customers that required more native capacity in the same compact form.

Tags: Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Undetected Disk Errors in RAID Arrays2008-07-01 IBM
  Though remarkably reliable, disk drives do fail occasionally. Most failures can be detected immediately; moreover, such failures can be modeled and addressed using technologies such as RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks). Unfortunately, disk drives can experience errors that are undetected by the drive - which the paper refers to as Undetected Disk Errors (UDEs). These errors can cause silent data corruption that may go completely undetected (until a system or application malfunction) or may be detected by software in the storage I/O stack. Continual increases in disk densities or in storage array sizes and more significantly the introduction of desktop-class drives in enterprise storage systems are increasing the likelihood of UDEs in a given system.

Tags: Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper The New Foundation of Storage: Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element2008-05-01 Xiotech
  For the last several decades the underlying elements of data storage--disk drives, drive enclosures, and controllers--have remained more or less the same, and have been unable to keep pace with dramatically changing business requirements. Xiotech offers a fresh approach with its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE): A storage foundation that sets new standards for reliability, performance, and scalability. Read this paper to learn more about ISE and how it can help you.

Tags: RAID, Storage Management, Hard Drives, Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper DELL AX4-5 Application Performance: A Comparison of Entry-Level Storage Platforms2008-04-01 Dell
  This paper compares the performance of the Dell AX4-5 storage system to its nearest competitors. The AX4-5 is designed to bring the benefits of storage consolidation to small businesses and to the smaller dispersed data centers of larger organizations. This paper takes a workload approach to compare the performance of entry-level storage systems. The workload approach simulates a storage system's performance in a production environment. It avoids the 'Synthetic' and possibly misleading results of benchmark programs.

Tags: Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Dunedin TV Streamlines End-to-End Workflow With PX-1 and FS-42008-02-01 Focus Enhancements
  One of the oldest towns on the West coast of Florida, Dunedin offers its residents a small-town feel, a relaxed life style, and four miles of picturesque waterfront. Over the past several years, the station had accumulated significant quantities of footage, and found themselves struggling to manage all their video, audio, and photo assets. In order to streamline acquisition, Dunedin TV selected the FS-4 HD Portable DTE Recorder from Focus Enhancements. Based on Focus Direct To Edit (DTE) Technology, the FS-4 records DV and HDV streams directly to disk via FireWire.

Tags: Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Dell Raises the Bar in Shock-Resistant Hard Drives2008-02-01 Dell
  A key benefit of laptop computers is that they are mobile, but with that mobility comes the risk of being dropped. High-shock events put the hard-disk drive and the user data contained in it at risk. With more users transitioning from desktops to laptops as their primary computers, it has become increasingly important to provide a robust solution to help protect the hard-disk drive and prevent data loss. To meet this need, Dell offers drop (or "Free-fall") protection as a standard feature in its laptop computers equipped with 7200 Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) hard-disk drives. This feature is designed to detect a fall and protect the hard-disk drive by parking its heads before impact.

Tags: Hard Drives		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: Optical Media in Windows Vista (Level 300)2008-01-02 Microsoft
  This webcast provides an overview of some of the enhancements of using optical media in the Windows Vista operating system. It covers the new user interface for backing up and restoring information in Windows Vista and the use of Universal Disk Format (UDF) to enable users to exchange files between Windows-based computers, Macintosh, and Unix-based computers. It also explores the Image Mastering API (IMAPI). With IMAPI version 2, applications can burn audio, video, data, or disc images to CD or DVD devices.

Tags: Magnetic - Optical, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec2007-12-01 Symantec
  Today's enterprises face a growing data protection challenge: how to optimize the backup and recovery of a volume of business-critical data that grows larger each and, in many cases, doubles each year. Most enterprises are finding that their IT footprint and storage resources continue to grow at a rate of 40 to 50 percent per year, which adds considerable complexity to their existing data protection strategies. This challenge becomes yet more difficult as companies migrate from stand-alone Windows server backups to enterprise site-wide backups that are performed across the local area network and storage area network environments.

With the data protection landscape becoming more distributed and IT resources increasingly constrained, businesses need a centralized data protection strategy that can efficiently manage multiple backup and recovery jobs across the enterprise. In addition, the data protection strategy must be able to support an off-host backup strategy to efficiently minimize the impact on mission-critical applications and network user interruption, and take advantage of the speed of disk-based data protection.

Symantec Backup Exec 12 addresses these critical enterprise challenges with the following cutting-edge features: Central Admin Server Option, SAN Shared Storage Option, and dynamic disk-based data protection which is the subject of this paper.

Tags: Back-up, Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security, Hard Drives, SANs		   


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