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May 25, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Hard Drives, HDD DEFINITION: In a personal computer, a hard disk drive (HDD) is the mechanism that controls the positioning, reading, and writing of the hard disk, which furnishes the largest amount of data storage for the PC. Although the hard disk drive (often shortened to "hard drive") and the hard disk are not the same thing, they are packaged as a unit and so either term is sometimes used to refer to the whole unit.
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Getting from Caching 1.0 to 2.0 with QLogic’s FabricCache QLE10000 sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will discover a new type of host bus adapter (HBA) – which implements as flash memory on a PCIe card attached to the Fibre Channel HBA to solve the problems with caching 1.0. Posted: 24 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Caching Devices \| DAS \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Host Adapters \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

The Business Benefits of the QLogic FabricCache Adapter sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will gain insight into a performance gap solution that combines a SAN-host Bus Adapter with onboard I/O management and caching technology to deliver applications anytime, anywhere. Posted: 24 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Caching Devices \| Disk Drives \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

Overcoming the Weaknesses of Server-Side Flash sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper discusses the rise of server-side flash storage solutions to eliminate the performance and complexity concerns from the storage network while acting to augment, not replace, existing storage. Posted: 24 May 2013 \| Published: 24 May 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Server Management \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

Performance Report: Evaluation of sTec's s1120 PCIe Accelerator and EnhanceIO™ SSD Cache Software sponsored by sTec Inc WHITE PAPER: In this evaluation report, you will gain insight in to an analysis of innovative accelerators in both primary storage and caching configurations with its EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software, and to compare these solutions to a more traditional Fibre Channel SAN hard disk drive storage solution. Posted: 20 May 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Data Centers \| Database Performance Management \| Fibre Channel \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

How to Solve Application Performance Problems sponsored by Virident WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will discover how to gain a competitive edge over your competition and reduce storage cost with a comprehensive solution to your application performance problems. Posted: 20 May 2013 \| Published: 20 May 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| RAID \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

FlashSoft™ Software from SanDisk®: Accelerating Virtual Infrastructures sponsored by SanDisk Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll discover a new technology introduced by SanDisk, designed for an enterprise software caching engine that supports the higher demand of I/O requests from mission critical applications and virtualized infrastructures by using intelligent software to get the most performance out of SSDs. Posted: 09 May 2013 \| Published: 16 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Cache \| Caching \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Hard Disk Drives \| Server Virtualization \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Virtual Machine

Deploying Flash in the Enterprise sponsored by NetApp 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 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

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

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): SAN Acceleration Using FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) sponsored by FalconStor Software WHITE PAPER: Do you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more. Posted: 25 Oct 2010 \| Published: 25 Oct 2010 TOPICS: Cache \| Fibre Channel \| Hard Disk Drives \| Memory \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| USB \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Unleashing Application Performance with Solid-State Drives and Sun Servers sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper, intended for executives and managers, describes how Oracle's Sun servers—equipped with flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs)—offer dramatic improvements to high-performance computing (HPC), Web 2.0, and datacenter application performance. Posted: 01 Oct 2010 \| Published: 03 May 2010 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Hard Disk Drives \| High Performance Computing \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Management

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

Improving the mobile experience through solid state drive sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. We have initiated a proof of concept (PoC) study that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks with SSDs to the Intel workforce. Posted: 27 May 2009 \| Published: 05 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| Remote Access Hardware \| Remote Access Security \| Remote Network Management \| Solid State Disks

Unprotected Laptops: The Million Dollar Gamble: How Much Can Your Company Afford to Lose? sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about laptop security and how asset and data protection solutions from Dell can help save your company millions of dollars. Posted: 27 Jan 2009 \| Published: 27 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Hard Disk Drives \| Laptop Computers \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers

Increase Application Performance with Solid State Disks sponsored by Texas Memory Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Super fast solid state discs allow organizations to manage high transaction volumes and larger numbers of users using fewer servers. Read this white paper to learn more about SSDs and how they provide a cost-effective way to improve application per... Posted: 10 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Disk Backups \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Hard Disk Drives \| RAID \| Server Consolidation \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation

Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership with Fast Solid State Disks sponsored by Texas Memory Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of solid state disks (SSD) and the benefits they deliver for companies. SSDs are becoming a practical option for dealing with application performance concerns. Learn how they deliver a lower Total Cost of Ownership. Posted: 10 Jun 2008 \| Published: 10 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Disk Backups \| Hard Disk Drives \| RAID \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| TCO

Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the technical terms of Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor. Posted: 06 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2006 TOPICS: Data Center Power Management \| Data Centers \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hubs \| Power Consumption Monitoring \| Power Test Equipment \| Routers \| Storage Systems \| UPS

MAID 2.0: Energy Savings without Performance Compromises sponsored by Nexsan WHITE PAPER: Power consumption is now a major concern and it's time you think about making your storage environment more "green." Read this white paper to learn how MAID devices can help you achieve this and find out about different MAID solutions available. Posted: 14 Jan 2008 \| Published: 02 Jan 2008 TOPICS: CAS \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Environmental Compliance \| Hard Disk Drives \| MAID \| RAID \| Storage Best Practices

Avoiding Self-Inflicted Security Breaches through Hard Drive Decommissioning sponsored by Ensconce Data Technology, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper and discover how to help your client prevent financial loss, irreparable damage to the company's reputation, as well as civil and criminal liability for directors with an effective hard drive decommissioning solution. Posted: 09 Nov 2006 \| Published: 01 Jul 2006 TOPICS: Data Destruction \| Data Management \| Hard Disk Drives \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Security

Managing Access Control through SAS Zoning sponsored by PMC-Sierra, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is gaining popularity in small SAN environments. Read this white paper to learn about SAS zoning and how it helps IT administrators create more flexible, scalable and efficient server networks that meet their business needs. Posted: 06 Oct 2005 \| Published: 01 Sep 2005 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Continuous Data Protection \| DAS \| Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Hard Disk Drives \| iSCSI SAN \| SCSI Devices \| Serial ATA \| Storage Switches \| Tiered Storage

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