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WHITE PAPER: Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them. This information can come from a variety of sources: opinions from peers and colleagues; a personal sense of intuition or business judgment; or data derived internally or externally to the organisation.

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 28 Sep 2009

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: This resource explores a vendor neutral enterprise archive solution that addresses the size and scale of a small or medium hospital’s enterprise storage requirements.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 08 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper from Quantum Corporation to learn more about data deduplication today.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: It's important not to confuse data backups with data archives; backups should not be used as archives and archiving products have many features that backups don’t. Read this white paper as W. Curtis Preston examines these differences further and discusses the dos and don’ts of each.

Posted: 12 May 2010 | Published: 12 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today's explosive data growth makes managing storage a challenge - access this resource to learn how you can check those complexities and regain control of your infrastructure.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualisation is an essential first step on the way to the cloud, but you must also include storage and network in your virtualised environment.  Read this white paper to learn about a new storage system that can support multiple apps with better flexibility for provisioning and greater capacity utilisation.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

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: IT environments are becoming increasingly complex as trends like cloud computing, virtualization and mobility gain traction. Utilizing a lead service provider (LSP) approach can free up IT and let external, highly skilled experts handle issues. Read this white paper to learn more about how this new IT strategy can benefit your business.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

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