Storage Devices

EZINE: The February 2010 issue of Storage magazine online unveils the 2009 Storage Products of the Year. 3 winners are named in 5 categories – Backup and DR Hardware, Backup and DR Software and Services, Disks and Disk Subsystems, Storage Management Tools and Storage Networking Equipment.

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 | Published: 04 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise flash drives represent a huge leap forward over traditional mechanical drives. When deployed in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays, these drives can dramatically boost storage performance for targeted data center workloads while helping increase resource utilization, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce total cost of ownership.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Simply purchase any 3PAR InServ® Storage Server with Thin Built In™ and use 3PAR Thin Conversion to non-disruptively liposuction the fat from fully allocated volumes on your traditional storage arrays, transforming them into new “thin” volumes on the 3PAR InServ. We guarantee that you’ll reduce your traditional capacity requirements by 50% or more!

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 | Published: 20 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Introducing thin provisioning technology into existing and new enterprise data storage environments can bring dramatic storage recovery rates and bottom-line savings. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 | Published: 18 Jan 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The EMC® CLARiiON® AX4 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations looking for an alternative to server-based storage. The AX4 delivers performance, scalability, and advanced data management features in one, easy-to-use storage solution.

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 | Published: 15 Dec 2009

EZINE: The final 2009 issue of Storage Magazine Online features the 5 technologies that our editorial team and expert contributors predict will make the biggest impact in 2010. Plus, our annual Salary Survey shows how the economy is affecting the highly-specialized world of storage in IT.

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of recommended servers, storage, software, and services. It can be used to plan, scope, and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Xiotech’s Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology—a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: Solid-state storage will eventually nudge spinning disks out of our data centers, but right now it's still mostly for wellheeled shops with power-hungry applications. But with new technology developments addressing some of solid state's shortcomings and larger-scale manufacturing, solid-state storage could come down to earth soon.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

PODCAST: This podcast will cover snapshots and how they make backup operations more efficient. It will also reveal what factors you should consider before implementing snapshots. Listen to this podcast for an overview of how snapshot technologies can drive efficiencies in your data center.

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 26 Aug 2009

ANALYST NEWS: This IDC Flash analyzes 3PAR's announcement of the InServ F-Class storage server product line, a solution that 3PAR is positioning as a more scalable, efficient, and flexible midrange storage platform. This Flash also examines the major IT developments that are driving future midrange storage developments.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

EBOOK: This eBook will walk you through some of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room. Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management.

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 | Published: 23 Apr 2009

PODCAST: In this Mediacast, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management.

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 15 Apr 2009

WEBCAST: In this Mediacast, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management.

Posted: 15 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 15 Apr 2009

PODCAST: In this Tipcast, the editors from SearchStorage.com will highlight tips related to why vendors of storage arrays need to rebalance their systems for SSDs, and explore why using SSDs to help run server applications faster may prove hard to deliver.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the use of industry standard servers, with an abundance of CPU and memory as storage controllers by leveraging industry standard hardware and general purpose software to create a high performance storage architecture.

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 02 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment.

Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 09 Jun 2008