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ALSO CALLED: Removable Data Storage, Electronic Data Storage, Network Data Storage, Remote Data Storage, Computer Data Storage, Offsite Data Storage DEFINITION: An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term. Two to the sixtieth power is actually 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal, or somewhat over a quintillion (or ten to the eighteenth power) bytes. It is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion … Definition continues below.
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Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization sponsored by Xiotech Corporation WHITE PAPER: Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, most storage administrators need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses to survive the economic downturn. Download this tutorial to learn more about tiered storage. Posted: 04 Dec 2009 \| Published: 04 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Industry \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Systems

60 TB of Savings in 4 Days: EMC IT’s Informatica Data Archive Proof of Concept sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the ability to reduce the data growth challenge seen with EMC’s Oracle Applications CRM implementation via a Proof of Concept (POC) sponsored by the EMC IT organization. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: CRM \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Modeling \| Data Storage \| Oracle (Product)

Deploying Oracle within the Data Center sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: Once you decide to deploy Oracle within the data center, a continuous lifecycle begins - moving from initial development, test, and deployment, to ongoing migration, to new releases of Oracle and deployment of new features with each release. The EMC Solutions Practice for Oracle can help you get started quickly. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuation Services \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Database Administration \| Oracle (Product) \| Tiered Storage

Storage in a Tough Economy: Five Targets for Lowering Total Cost of Ownership sponsored by Xiotech Corporation WHITE PAPER: When determining a potential storage system's TCO, you must include both capital and operating expenditures, some of which are easy to calculate and others are less obvious. Read this whitepaper to identify target areas for cost savings in your new storage system. Posted: 20 Nov 2009 \| Published: 20 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| IT Spending \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Spending \| Storage Systems \| TCO

No More Tiers: Reduce Storage Costs with an Age-in-Place Strategy sponsored by Nexsan Technologies WHITE PAPER: As mid-size enterprises find themselves strapped for time, money and management resources, they have to find ways of doing more with less. Age-in-Place is a data management strategy that means no more tiers – the easiest and most cost effective way to manage the life-cycle of your data. Posted: 18 Nov 2009 \| Published: 18 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Governance \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Capacity \| Tiered Storage

What Every Managed Service Provider Should Know About Cloud Storage sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital WHITE PAPER: Cloud storage presents Managed Service Providers an exciting opportunity to help customers accommodate data growth, but can raise doubts about security, privacy, and compliance. As THINKStrategies notes, choosing the right cloud storage partner is essential to maintaining customers’ trust. Posted: 18 Nov 2009 \| Published: 18 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Stewardship \| Data Storage \| Storage Management \| Storage Standards

Iron Mountain’s Cloud-Based Protection for Servers sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital WHITE PAPER: Managed Service Providers working with smaller businesses can help them better protect their data with two cloud-based strategies from Iron Mountain. Learn how LiveVault and CloudRecovery can bring your customers peace of mind. Posted: 18 Nov 2009 \| Published: 18 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Cloud Computing \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups

8 Problems of Keyword Search in E-Discovery – A Guide for Fortune 1000 Companies sponsored by FTI Technology WHITE PAPER: In this paper – first in a three part series - we will examine the difficulties of working with keywords during a matter, the many challenges associated with relying on keyword search, and the cost and risk associated with attempting to “guess” one’s way to a relevant document set. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Databases \| Document Management \| Documentation \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Management \| Legal Compliance Software

The Keys to Disaster Recovery Planning: i365’s EVault Disaster Recovery Solutions help protect you from losing valuable data due to complete site outage sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company WHITE PAPER: Disasters happen in many ways and can disrupt or even completely destroy your business. What happens if and when disaster strikes? Do you have duplicate copies of your mission critical data stored offsite? How fast and reliable will your recovery of information be? Will your company survive? Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Online Backups \| Security Threats

Five Cost-Effective Ways to Enable Fast Recovery sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews options for a multifaceted recovery strategy, ensuring that your key systems are protected with maximum efficiency at minimal cost. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime

Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection sponsored by Double-Take Software WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn about how Double-Take Backup reduces the window for data loss, is more efficient than tape, and less costly than tape or other replications solutions. Posted: 16 Nov 2009 \| Published: 16 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Virtualization

Storage Tiering: Achieve Efficiency by Implementing Storage Tiers sponsored by BlueArc Corp. WHITE PAPER: In the age of tighter budgets and continuing data growth, storage administrators are facing an ever increasing challenge of aligning storage resources with the demands of business applications. Read this IDC paper for information on how to implement effective storage efficiency practices. Posted: 10 Nov 2009 \| Published: 10 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Storage \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Spending \| Storage Systems \| Tiered Storage

How an SRM Tool can Improve and Centralize Storage Technologies sponsored by Northern Parklife WHITE PAPER: Massive data growth and long retention periods of fixed-content data is changing the landscape of enterprise data storage and is challenging storage administrators to deliver a cost effective storage strategy. A Storage Resource Management [SRM] tool can help manage the flow/volume of data. Posted: 16 Oct 2009 \| Published: 16 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Data Replication \| Data Storage \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Devices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Resource Management Software \| Storage Standards \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| ETL (Software)

Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth sponsored by Syncsort WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications. Posted: 12 Oct 2009 \| Published: 12 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Classification \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Administration \| Database Management

Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection sponsored by Double-Take Software WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn about how Double-Take Backup reduces the window for data loss, is more efficient than tape, and less costly than tape or other replications solutions. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Published: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Management \| Storage Replication \| Storage Replication Services \| Storage Replication Software \| Storage Virtualization

Techniques to Avoiding Disk Bottleneck in the DataDomain File System sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Deduplication \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Data Storage

Executive Guide: Assess the Value of Deduplication for your Storage Consolidation sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Deduplication \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Data Storage

Building Proven Data Protection Strategies Checklist sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: We are beginning to see the next generation of backup and recovery solutions appear. New data protection solutions led by Data Domain’s deduplication architecture are quickly gaining market momentum improving data and application availability while increasing the probability for a business to survive most types of outages. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disaster Planning \| Disk Backups \| Disk Mirroring \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup

New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data: Best Practices on Eliminating Tape and Backup Reduction sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: Data protection is fast becoming the most critical part of IT strategies today. Read this paper to learn how your organization can address data protection issues using Data Domain enterprise protection storage systems. Posted: 29 Sep 2009 \| Published: 29 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Acquisition Hardware \| Data Deduplication \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Security

Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide sponsored by Data Domain WHITE PAPER: This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 28 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Data Mirroring \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Management \| Storage Replication \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Storage \| Database Architectures \| Database Design \| Databases \| Oracle (Product) \| Scalability Testing \| SOA

Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 802.11g \| Cluster Management \| Data Center Design \| Data Storage \| Database Administration \| Database Design \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management Software \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA

Deploying and Protecting Microsoft Applications with Dell Equallogic and Vmware vSphere 4.0 Integrated, Scalable and Cost: Effective cloud-like IT environments for your mission critical applications sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment. Posted: 24 Sep 2009 \| Published: 24 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Enterprise \| Enterprise Systems \| Microsoft Hyper-V \| VMware

Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection. Posted: 23 Sep 2009 \| Published: 23 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Virtualization

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DATA STORAGE DEFINITION (continued): … An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term. Two to the sixtieth power is actually 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal, or somewhat over a quintillion (or ten to the eighteenth power) bytes. It is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes. In decimal terms, an exabyte is a billion gigabytes.An exabyte of storage could contain 50,000 years' worth of DVD-quality video.
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