RAID Reports

EGUIDE: Linear Tape File System (LTFS) offers the chance to build nearline storage with the cost profile of tape and the access times of NAS. This guide walks you through LTFS and tape NAS.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Jan 2019

EGUIDE: In this guide we look at LUN provision and management, RAID and flash storage, plus tuning for analytics workloads and key emerging technologies that can give your organisation a competitive advantage in mission-critical operations, such as storage-class memory, NVMe flash and persistent memory.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 15 May 2018

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the top–level benefits of online PC backup. Read this paper to learn more about how to choose an online PC backup solution for your mid-sized organization or enterprise!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The presentation transcript from EMC Corporation features Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies, discussing the benefits of Network Attached Storage for Small Businesses.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

EZINE: A trend in storage product messaging these days is the theme of self-healing storage - the ability of a system to detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. In this month's cover story, independent storage expert Marc Staimer explains how and how well they work. This electronic issue also includes features on storage efficiency...

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Agentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This segment begins with an explanation of how long to store backups to get the maximum benefit of deduplication, and then discusses the appropriate frequency of full backups.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this segment, Curtis begins by defining and explaining deduplication. He expands on this with an explanation of file-level and subfile-level deduplication and how subfile-level deduplication makes true disk backup feasible.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: As there are many ways of using VMware technology, there are just as many methods available for protecting this innovative technology. System administrators and IT technologists can use this paper to determine one of three recommended solutions for protecting VMs. Each of these technologies has relative advantages and disadvantages.

Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

DATA SHEET: To help companies reduce the costs of storing and managing inactive data, Iron Mountain has created an enterprise-class cloud-based storage archive service, the Virtual File Store (VFS). The VFS service is part of Iron Mountain's Storage-as-a-Service portfolio, which includes email management/archiving, eDiscovery, and data backup/recovery.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 16 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: In their second comparative challenge, The HP StorageWorks EVA asked three teams of high school students who had never configured a storage array to run timed tests on EVA, NetApp and EMC to see which one is easiest to use. EVA was the clear winner

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 16, 2009

WEBCAST: It is critical to choose the right data protection solution, one that is complete, one that not only protects the physical world, but is also finely tuned for the virtual world. The current release of NetBackup delivers award winning solutions for VMware.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 6, 2009

WHITE PAPER: Customers are confronting the confusing number of options and configurations when it comes to backing up and restoring their network attached storage servers. This paper addresses this by describing the best practices for protecting and recovering NAS devices utilizing the Network Data Management Protocol.

Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: In this technical brief, IDC examines HP Thermal Logic, a holistic approach to improving power and cooling efficiency in the IT infrastructure, designed to help companies reduce energy consumption, reclaim unused datacenter capacity, and extend the life of their datacenter.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: One approach being used to reduce complexity and TCO in the data center is the implementation of new management software for blade servers, increasing business value and trimming expenses that vex IT budgets and divert important resources for transformational projects.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the performance of HP's 8Gb FC solution alone versus it's performance in conjunction with the Simple SAN Connection Manager. The results are remarkable! The Simple SAN Connection Manager took half the time to configure and 2/3rd fewer configuration step to deploy a FC SAN compared with configuring each component separately.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

EZINE: The January 2009 issue of Storage magazine is highlighted with a cover story on how best to select a disaster recovery planning site. This issue also includes features and columns on solid state disk, killing infectious data, consolidated archiving, fast disk drive rebuilds and green storage.

Posted: 26 Feb 2009 | Published: 26 Feb 2009

DATA SHEET: Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive is the world's most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

CASE STUDY: Mine Safety Appliances were facing a problem of server sprawl which created many problems in their process and to overcome this problem they choose XenServer and NetApp as their solution.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008