Disk Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER: This white paper carefully analyzes the costs of several different flash solutions. In order to help you choose the best platform to address your unique storage challenges and performance needs.

Posted: 08 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares IBM XIV storage system to EMC symmetrix VMAX and VNX for SAP enterprise deployments – outlining why IBM XIV storage systems offer a better option than EMC systems for most SAP applications and user organizations.

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a storage approach designed to deliver 99.999 percent availability, giving you the optimal performance you need. Inside, discover other solution benefits, including rapid recovery from failed disks, automated OSSA, resilient enterprise RAID levels, and more.

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this fourth tip of a seven-part series, Jon Toigo explains how vendors have changed traditional storage hierarchies and cites it as yet another driving force behind the 'storage infrastruggle.'

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 | Published: 16 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: The capability of being able to perform backups 100x faster sounds a little farfetched but is it? This white paper dives into evolving data protection techniques beyond the "traditional" daily and weekly backups – and explores more efficient disk based backups being better than tape based for most data protection.

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this comprehensive report to learn about the role of LTFS in digital media in 2013.

Posted: 11 Mar 2013 | Published: 07 Mar 2013

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

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to explore the results of a TCO (total cost of ownership) study of tape vs. disk as the primary storage media for archiving. Read on to explore which medium has a significant TCO advantage over the other.

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how modern, space-efficient virtual disks eliminate the cost of unused and unallocated storage as they simplify the tasks of assigning storage capacity to applications. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 27 Feb 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Many organizations have turned to automated storage tiering to minimize SSD cost while providing high I/O performance. With automated storage tiering, you can have the application performance of flash using only a minimal amount of SSD capacity. Check out this white paper to explore what automated tiered storage can do for your organization.

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 | Published: 03 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This expert white paper examines the market drivers for purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) and explores the inherent benefits and challenges that PBBAs entail. Read now to see if PBBAs are conducive to your organization's storage and data protection strategy.

Posted: 03 Dec 2012 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the necessary reassessment of the ways your company uses and stores data in order to create an effective storage strategy that encompasses your backup, recovery and archiving operations. Learn how to best make a new storage strategy and to explore a new idea: Optimizing off-site data with tape and cloud support.

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 | Published: 28 Nov 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, the implementation of flash across enterprises is examined. Learn how the technology is being deployed to improve performance and efficiency, and take a look into various flash solutions designed specifically for the enterprise.

Posted: 21 Mar 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

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

WHITE PAPER: Find proof that tape isn't dead by checking out this research conducted by The 451 Group, a leading global analyst and data company. This October, 2012 white paper contains the findings of The 451 Group's recent visit to IBM's research facility in Zurich and presents 451 Research's opinion of IBM's innovations and activities in the tape space.

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 | Published: 08 Oct 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: Oracle presents an entirely new opportunity for unprecedented levels of integration that contributes directly to the top-line benefits of IT technology can bring to the business, as well as bottom-line efficiencies and cost savings.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: 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: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores a simple, inexpensive, and non-disruptive solution that can greatly minimize the SSD write cliff effect while maximizing performance.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how Veeam Backup & Replication along with the ExaGrid series of disk backup appliances delivers a solid data protection solution for VMware environments with advanced deduplication and data replication for off-site protection.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Growing demand for capacity in data center space has motivated some to cram as many disks as possible in a single space to manage capacity needs without expanding the storage footprint. However, the power/density paradox hinders end users from utilizing the very floor space that high density systems were intended to conserve.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: It's almost impossible to conduct a conversation with a storage vendor without raising the topic of "storage tiering." Along with "virtualisation" and "cloud," it's one of those de rigueur phrases. And, like those other two, storage tiering suffers from an over-exposure that can assume familiarity and understanding where it does not exist.

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 | Published: 19 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: 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