A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010
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Achieving Superior Manageability, Efficiency, and Data Protection with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Software
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.
Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011
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Acronis Backup and Recovery: Next Generation Physical, Virtual, Cloud Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Data Protection Solution from Acronis
sponsored by Acronis NEMEA
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Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 provides comprehensive Physical, Virtual, and Cloud environment backup,recovery and data protection in a common framework using the same management and implementation interface across all environments.
Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 2011
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Analyst's take: Microsoft Dynamics CRM boosts customer service and company profits
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables organizations to improve customer service, effectively manage marketing and communications, and increase sales productivity, ultimately driving increased profits and reduced costs.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011
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Archiving Storage vs. Data Backup Storage: The Dos and Don'ts of Using Backups and Data Archives
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
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It's important not to confuse data backups with data archives; backups should not be used as archives and archiving products have many features that backups don’t. Read this white paper as W. Curtis Preston examines these differences further and discusses the dos and don’ts of each.
Posted: 12 May 2010 | Published: 12 May 2010
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City Where Fantasy Thrives Solves Reality of Backup Challenges with Quantum DXi7500 Express
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
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When a full backup of the city's 125-plus servers became impossible overnight on a legacy tape system, Burbank went looking for a better answer. The city chose Quantum's DXi7500 Express disk-based backup solution with deduplication technology.
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 22 Jul 2009
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Cloud Ready Business Intelligence with Oracle Business Intelligence 11g
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Read this white paper for an overview of cloud computing along with Oracle's cloud computing strategy and significant features of Oracle business intelligence 11g, Oracle's market leading BI platform that has been architected to support both cloud and non-cloud deployments.
Posted: 26 Oct 2010 | Published: 26 Oct 2010
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Cloud rEvolution: A Workbook for Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
sponsored by CSC
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This white paper will get you up to speed on all aspects of cloud computing. It will help you examine cloud opportunities, review potential issues, and consider where and how specific information should be processed in your organization. Check out this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010
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Data Deduplication Background: A Technical White Paper
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
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The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper from Quantum Corporation to learn more about data deduplication today.
Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011
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Data Reduction: Benefits of Deduplication and Compression
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
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In this report, learn about the different types of data compression and deduplication, whether inline or post-processing dedupe is better and more. This report also features best practices and recommendations regarding dedupe solutions, as well as an IT professionals survey regarding data deduplication and compression. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011
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De-Duplicated Disk Backup: Addressing Backup Challenges Across the Enterprise
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
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With the DXi7500, Quantum adds an enterprise-class backup-to-disk target with de-duplication to its arsenal, making it a true provider of scalable, end-to-end de-duplicated secondary storage.
Posted: 23 Oct 2008 | Published: 23 Oct 2008
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Disk Backup: Sorting Through the Confusion of 5 Alternative Approaches
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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Many IT organizations have grown dissatisfied with tape-based backups and are looking for alternatives. This white paper will discuss the factors to consider when evaluating any of these alternatives, including a framework for assessing the value to IT for each approach.
Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011
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Eight Considerations for Evaluating Disk-Based Backup Solutions
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Disk eliminates all the problems of tape backup. Backing up to disk is faster than backing up to tape, and disk-based backups are more reliable and more secure than tape-based backups. Read on to learn more about the advantages of disk backup today!
Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011
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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric
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This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009
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ESG Lab validation Report: Cost-effective Disk-based Backup
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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ExaGrid is a cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that replaces tape in your nightly backup process, enabling faster and more reliable backups at a price comparable to a new tape library. ExaGrid offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose.
Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012
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How to tie learning to business impact
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
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Many organisations implement “learning engagements,” or training programmes, to increase employee satisfaction, realise better team performance, and improve communication.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011
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HP 3PAR Storage Systems Designed for Mission Critical High Availability
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard
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As the first storage vendor to build accelerated thin capabilities into array hardware with our Thin Built-in Gen4 ASIC, HP 3PAR is building on a heritage of thin technology leadership, a heritage with which vendors offering bolt-on capacity reduction products simply cannot compete. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012
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HP Positioned as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays by Gartner
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard
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This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocol. Register below to view the Gartner report.
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012
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Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System
sponsored by Global Knowledge
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This paper examines how virtualization has become such a hot topic that the number of virtualization techniques, tools, and technologies is into the dozens, and that’s just from Microsoft. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, configuration optimization, less disruption, and easier reallocation of resources.
Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011
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IDC white paper: A New Era in Midrange storage
sponsored by IBM
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The exponential growth of data is pushing the limits of midmarket storage capabilities. IBM® has developed new architectures that can scale up to this demand. This white paper elaborates on how IBM has met this challenge with efficiency and simplicity.
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011
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If it's Just a Disk, Why the Reliability Gap Between Vendors?
sponsored by Nexsan
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If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors? This white paper seeks to gain insight into this question.
Posted: 23 Sep 2011 | Published: 23 Sep 2011
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Integrated High Performance Disk-to-Disk Backup for Oracle Exadata
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Read this Oracle white paper for expert insight into disk-to-disk backup for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine with the Sun ZFS storage appliance.
Posted: 13 Jun 2011 | Published: 13 Jun 2011
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ITG Report: Cost/Benefit Case for IBM XIV Systems: Comparing Cost Structures for IBM XIV and EMC VMAX Systems
sponsored by IBM
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New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents.
Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010
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Key Considerations for Backup and Recovery
sponsored by Nexsan
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This paper will examine how to architect storage subsystems to provide efficient protection as part of the backup and recovery process. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 23 Sep 2011 | Published: 23 Sep 2011
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Leveraging a Persistent Hardware Architecture
sponsored by Dell Compellent
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Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.
Posted: 09 Jul 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2010
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