Storage Management Reports

SOFTWARE DEMO: Complex microprocessors lie at the heart of every electronic device and embedded system in use today - from mobile phones to brain scanners. Such products demand sophisticated software to get the job done, and that's where operating systems come in.

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 14 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Email is the foundation of business communication, so outages can have a dramatic impact on productivity. This webcast transcript showcases a technique to prevent email downtime that's non-invasive, remotely managed 24x7, and eliminates the danger of database corruption.

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 13 Apr 2009

EZINE: Data replication has taken center stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to deploy replication: in the array, network or servers. Plus, check out features on power-smart disk systems, value-based data protection, deduplication...

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The call to protect corporate data in less time and for less money has inspired a whole new way of thinking about backup - a complete backup redesign. This paper explores a better way to backup and protect data and applications - disk-based application.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Join Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston and Falconstor's Product Marketing Manager Peter Eichers as they explore common data protection challenges and what technologies can be used to address them.

Posted: 07 Apr 2009 | Published: 07 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: First, target and source deduplication are defined and explained in this segment. Then, Curtis discusses the pros and cons of each, how each fits into different types of environments, and how each approach is typically being used today.

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

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Enter the HP Solutions Demo portal for an interactive flash demo and overview on FalconStor CDP with HP Solutions.

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the acquisition of Diligent Corporation, IBM has put itself in the rather unique position as the only vendor that can offer to the enterprise a complete backup/recovery solution with servers, disk, tape, software, and data deduplication technology, all rolled into one.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Deploying an IBM System Storage TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance can help organizations more efficiently protect their corporate data on disk-based storage while helping them manage the exponential growth of new data through reduction or elimination of duplicate data in their backups.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document is not intended to judge what is good or bad, right or wrong. The primary focus is educational, providing a background on the principles of de-duplication and recommendations to consider in planning an evaluation of de-duplication solutions.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Storage consolidation enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. But how does an organization ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues? To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

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

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

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations worldwide are leveraging the benefits of virtualization to create flexible IT environments that reduce costs and improve business agility. These are among the many benefits of shifting to solutions from HP, Intel and VMware. Learn how your organization can benefit from complete virtualization solutions from HP, Intel and VMware.

Posted: 23 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2008

EZINE: Innovation was the byword for storage vendors in 2008. See which products came out on top in this issue of Storage. Other topics covered include deduplication, multitiered disaster recovery, and storage in a down economy.

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

WHITE PAPER: Read this document to learn how FalconStor's powerful MicroScan technology works to minimize duplicate data and help save considerable bandwidth, storage resources, and overhead.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, you will learn how to eliminate systems planning problems with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final data center design.

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 03 Feb 2009