Disk Storage Systems

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: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a summary of how IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center supports the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, and provides an in-depth description of the management capabilities that Tivoli Storage Productivity Center provides in a virtualized storage configuration.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

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: 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

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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: By employing a strong archiving strategy as the foundation for an intelligent data management program, enterprises can enhance efficiency for IT staff, meet compliance requirements, and streamline backup processes.

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 | Published: 28 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a high-level description of how to implement an RMAN backup and recover methodology using Sun® storage arrays as the storage medium. For more information about Oracle best practices, refer to Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database with ASM on a Sun Storage 6540, 6580, or 6780 Storage Array.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: 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

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: 09 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: Quantum has been quietly strengthening its position in the data protection market via internal development, acquisition, and pragmatic leveraging of its technology, as is evident in the area of data de-duplication.

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 13 Jun 2007