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May 19, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Drives DEFINITION: An SSD (solid-state drive or solid-state disk) is a storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. SSDs actually aren't hard drives at all, in the traditional sense of the term, as there are no moving parts involved. Instead, an SSD has an array of semiconductor memory organized as a disk drive, using integrated circuits (ICs) rather than magnetic or optical media. This arrangement … Definition continues below.
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Deploying Flash in the Enterprise sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This white paper carefully analyzes the costs of several different flash solutions – provided by NetApp – at various combinations of performance and capacity to help you understand how to choose the best solutions to address your storage challenges based on your performance needs. Posted: 08 May 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management

Fidelity Information Systems and IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM System Storage for Easy Tier sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the benchmark testing that was done with IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and Fidelity information services in January 2012. Posted: 02 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Hardware \| Software \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management

GET THE FACTS: LTO Tape Reliability Saves sponsored by The LTO Program WHITE PAPER: Access this one-page data sheet to get the facts on the savings you could realize with LTO tape. Posted: 07 Mar 2013 \| Published: 07 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Storage Media \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

Flash Storage for Dummies: NetApp Special Edition sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. Posted: 18 Apr 2013 \| Published: 18 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Cache Server Hardware \| Cache Server Software \| Data Center Management \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

Do I Know You? Solid-state Vendors Need Brands or OEM Contracts sponsored by The 451 Group WHITE PAPER: Late last year, 451 Research evaluated two solid-state storage variants: Solid-sate drives and solid-state cache in networked storage. This paper breaks down the detailed examination, and you can access the key findings here. Read on to learn who the top-ranked vendors are, find 8 top SSD drive criteria and hear what your peers said about SSD! Posted: 05 Dec 2012 \| Published: 24 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Tiered Storage

VW Credit, Inc. Drives Better Backups with ExaGrid sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief case study today to explore one company's journey to better backups. Posted: 08 Aug 2012 \| Published: 08 Aug 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Content Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Security

8 Considerations for Evaluating Disk-Based Backup Solutions sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for 8 critical considerations to keep in mind before deciding on a disk-based backup appliance. Explore the importance of backup, restore, dedupe and scalability capabilities when shopping for a backup solution, and gain the insight you need to make a confident and informed decision when it comes to backup. Posted: 07 Aug 2012 \| Published: 07 Aug 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Deduplication \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Security

Delivering Tomorrow's Backup and Recovery Infrastructure sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the best practices for modernizing all facets of your backup and recovery architecture in a fashion that suits your budget and established processes. Read now to learn more. Posted: 24 Apr 2012 \| Published: 30 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups

Dell Compellent Storage Center - Linux sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems. Posted: 05 Apr 2012 \| Published: 05 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

The Data Archive Challenge: What’s Your Game Plan? sponsored by Horison Information Strategies WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can overcome the challenges associated with effectively archiving information in today's data-intensive IT environments. Learn about different types of archiving strategies, discover an emerging method known as hierarchical storage management (HSM), receive a step-by-step guide for building a long-term, scalable data archive and more. Posted: 15 Mar 2012 \| Published: 15 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Content Management \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disk Drives \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Drives

ExaGrid Systems Named Champion in Disk Backup Vendor Landscape by Info-Tech Research Group sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: As a Disk Backup Champion, ExaGrid received the highest rating from Info-Tech Research Group for its exceptional product architecture and overall vendor score highlighting the company’s ‘exemplary’ strategy and strong viability, reach and channel. Read on to learn more. Posted: 07 Feb 2012 \| Published: 07 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Content Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Simpana® Software—A Unique Cloud-Enabled Platform sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to see how Simpana software seamlessly extends local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from out integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance. Posted: 17 Feb 2011 \| Published: 17 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Cloud Computing \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Drives \| Public cloud computing \| RAID \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Security \| Storage Systems

A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: 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 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Hard Disk Drives \| Oracle (Product) \| RAID \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Devices \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software

IBM Easy Tier Enables DS8700 and Storwize V7000 Users to Profit from Solid State Drives sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: IBM DS8700 and Storwize V7000 users now have the tools in Easy Tier and its associated software tool Storage Tier Advisor to evaluate the benefits of, plan for, deploy, and manage on an ongoing basis SSDs in combination with existing HDDs. Read on to learn more. Posted: 04 Nov 2010 \| Published: 01 Oct 2010 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Devices \| Storage Management

IBM Upgrades SVC with Solid State Drives - Achieves Better Storage Utilization sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: With the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more. Posted: 20 Oct 2010 \| Published: 19 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Architectures \| Virtual Tape Libraries \| Virtualization Security

Leveraging a Persistent Hardware Architecture sponsored by Dell Compellent WHITE PAPER: 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: 01 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| High Availability \| SAN

7 Key Steps for Overcoming the Limitations of Tape Backup sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication. Posted: 09 Jul 2010 \| Published: 09 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drive Controllers \| Disk Drives \| Disk Mirroring \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries

Designing a Persistent Hardware Architecture sponsored by Dell Compellent WHITE PAPER: The Compellent® Storage Center™ SAN is designed for persistence. Using an open, nonproprietary hardware architecture, 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: 28 Jun 2010 \| Published: 01 May 2009 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| High Availability \| SAN

Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs sponsored by STEC Inc WHITE PAPER: This paper will demonstrate differences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instantaneous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a working system under a true enterprise workload. Posted: 01 Mar 2010 \| Published: 25 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Disk Backups \| Disk Drive Controllers \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Solid State Disks

Making Cents of Tape vs. Disk: The Complete Guide on What to Choose and Why sponsored by Nexsan WHITE PAPER: Since the cost comparison between tape and disk is obviously far more complex than the media itself, this brief outlines all the considerations necessary for a more complete understanding of the benefit and true cost comparison between tape and disk to help IT professionals choose and justify their backup environment. Posted: 25 Feb 2010 \| Published: 23 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Disk Backups \| Disk Drive Controllers \| Disk Drives \| Disk Mirroring \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries

Streamlining the Speed and Ease of VTL Deployment sponsored by Pillar Data Systems WHITE PAPER: For IT professionals, disk-based backup is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to slow and cumbersome tape backup in the data center. Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) bridge the two technologies – combining modern disk backup with traditional tape infrastructure. Posted: 19 Feb 2010 \| Published: 19 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Virtual Tape Libraries

Why SAS Matters - Cost Effective Performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology from Hitachi sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive. Posted: 25 Jan 2010 \| Published: 01 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| SCSI Controllers \| Serial ATA \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure

Configuring Systems for High Bandwidth I/O sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This Sun BluePrints™ article describes a recipe for configuring systems to support the very high bandwidth I/O capabilities needed by data-intensive applications. Posted: 20 Jul 2009 \| Published: 27 May 2009 TOPICS: Data Collection \| Data Storage \| Data Visualization \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel Switches \| File Transfer Protocols \| Gigabit Ethernet \| RAID \| Storage Devices

MicroScan De-Duplication Minimizes Replication Bandwidth and Storage Requirements sponsored by FalconStor Software 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 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Replication \| Disaster Recovery \| Disk Drives \| Fibre Channel \| Storage Management

Digital Intermediate: Content-Aware Compression and Data Deduplication for Online Storage for Media/Entertainment and Post-Production sponsored by Ocarina Networks WHITE PAPER: This application paper provides an overview of Ocarina technology, describes a typical media workflow, specifically citing a 2K/4K film and Digital Intermediate (DI) environment. Posted: 23 Jan 2009 \| Published: 23 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Capacity on Demand \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Management

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DISK DRIVES DEFINITION (continued): … has many advantages. Data transfer to and from solid-state drives is much faster than electromechanical disk drives. Seek time and latency are also substantially reduced. Users typically enjoy much faster boot times as well. In general, SSDs are also more durable and much quieter, with no moving parts to break or spin up or down. SSDs do, however, have slower write times and a set life expectancy, as there is a finite number of erase/write cycles before performance becomes erratic. Development and adoption of SSDs has been driven by a rapidly expanding need for higher input/output performance. …
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