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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
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Data Storage White Papers
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Critical Technologies for Compliance and Risk Management
sponsored by Siperian, Inc.
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Smart decision-makers are seeking technology investments -- such as Master Data Management -- to help establish good governance models that will help with regulatory compliance and lower their operational risk.
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009
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When Data Governance Turns Bureaucratic: How Data Governance Police Can Constrain the Value of Your Master Data Management
sponsored by Siperian, Inc.
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Over the past several years, most Master Data Management implementations have used a "reactive" style of data governance. Learn how "reactive" data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a "proactive" approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009
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SQL Server 2008 - 10-20Terabyte Data Warehousing
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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This white paper documents the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault storage. Using the knowledge gained through joint development this white paper illustrates the cost-effective performance of Dell Solutions for SQL Server 2008.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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Gone in 30 Days: Exchange, Retention, and Regulatory Compliance
sponsored by Sherpa Software
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In this white paper, we will discuss how to discover, manage, and archive information within your Exchange enterprise to successfully limit your legal exposure and protect your corporate information.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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Do You Know Where Your Messages Are?
sponsored by Sherpa Software
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper will dicuss the need for message archiving in your organization by covering the cost of storage, retaining and protecting messages to stay compliant, features in Microsoft Exchange that help reduce mailbox size, PST management and much more.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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Using FalconStor FDS as a Backup Target for Veritas NetBackup
sponsored by FalconStor Software
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This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) in a Veritas NetBackup™ environment. It is intended to provide best practices for configuring all components.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009
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How to sell business continuity to management in tough times
sponsored by CDW Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Although more companies than ever have continuity plans, an AT&T study discovered that a high percentage of those plans are outdated. If your company is one of those with an outdated plan or no plan, here are some things that might help them understand the importance of good continuity planning.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Preparing to Stay in Business - Storage Continuity Critical in 24-Hour World
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Disaster Plan - New Technologies Put Fresh Wrinkles in Business-Continuity / Disaster-Recovery Planning
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Disaster Got You Down?
sponsored by CDW Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
While trying to predict an outage is impossible, being prepared for one is not. Having the right tools in place to respond to a "disaster" is essential to sustaining a successful organization. A business-continuity / disaster-recovery plan can help you cut costs by avoiding downtime, lost revenue and dissatisfied customers.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Reality Check – A Smart Business Continuity Strategy Can Offer Maximum Results at Minimum Cost
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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In an increasingly digital world, it's clear that business continuity is no longer an option. Keeping systems running 24x7 and ensuring that data reaches its intended destination — precisely when it's needed — is the heart and soul of a business. This paper discusses Business-Continuity (BC) initiatives on a tight budget and with limited resources.
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009
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Proven strategies for archiving complex relational data
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:
Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009
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Data privacy best practices: time to take action!
sponsored by IBM
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This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Find out how you can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009
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Reduce Your Server Footprint with SQL Server 2008 -- Rely on SQL Server 2008 to Consolidate Database Servers
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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With its new unified management and auditing tools, SQL Server 2008 makes it easier to manage multiple instances on fewer servers. And by hosting these instances on Dell PowerEdge Servers powered by multi-core processors, you can guarantee the best levels of availability, as well as ensure the best possible performance.
Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009
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Using FalconStor FDS as a Backup Target for EMC NetWorker
sponsored by FalconStor Software
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This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor FDS in an EMC NetWorker environment. The document is intended to provide an architectural overview of FalconStor FDS being used with EMC NetWorker and the benefits of a combined solution.
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009
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7 Ways to Make Your Data Center Infrastructure More Efficient
sponsored by Datalink and NetApp
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This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009
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ESG White Paper: Intelligent Tiered Storage: BlueArc's Implementation
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
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This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009
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A Technical Review of Caching Technologies
sponsored by Blue Coat
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The goal of this white paper is to discuss the role of caching, describe in detail how object caching and byte caching works, and show how these caching technologies work together to deliver true performance differentiation.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009
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Sun and Infobright - Delivering high-performance data warehouse solutions that cost less to run
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership.
Posted: 11 May 2009 | Published: 11 May 2009
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Avoiding the Disk Bottleneck in the Data Domain Deduplication File System
sponsored by Data Domain
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This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck.
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009
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Why Use Cisco Network Storage Systems for Your Business
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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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
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HP Enterprise Virtual Array tiered storage solution for Oracle: Aligning storage performance and availability with the business value of information
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
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Together HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with differing performance and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 16 Mar 2009
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Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center
sponsored by Compellent
WHITE PAPER:
To take full advantage of server virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009
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7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization
sponsored by Compellent
WHITE PAPER:
As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009
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Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments
sponsored by FalconStor Software
WHITE PAPER:
VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) improves virtual server backup, but there are a number of limitations. FalconStor Software has a solution that works with VCB while overcoming these limitations. Using this solution, you can quickly and efficiently back up virtual machines and retain transactional consistency, without management complexity.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009
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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. Data Storage definition sponsored by SearchStorage.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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