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ESG White Paper: Intelligent Tiered Storage: BlueArc's Implementation
| sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER:
This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008
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ESG White Paper: Enabling Enterprise Class Features for the Mid-Range: Focus on BlueArc Mercury
| sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER:
Read this White Paper from ESG to learn about current data growth and consolidation challenges as well as BlueArc's new mercury series products, foreceful consolidation solutions, providing enterprise class file system features to support mid-range applications.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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SiliconFS™: The BlueArc® Filesystem
| sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER:
The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009
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Data Deduplication Tutorial
| sponsored by Quantum Corporation
TRAINING GUIDE:
Data Deduplication is a vital technology to consider as part of your overall data protection strategy. Data Deduplication significantly reduces the amount of space required for backup and the network bandwidth required for replication. This tutorial explores several facets of data deduplication technology and compares vendor offerings.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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Essential Guide to Data Backup for SMBs
| sponsored by SearchSMBStorage.com
ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
Data backup is still the No. 1 pain point for storage administrators. The tips in this guide will help you simplify your backup process and put together a reliable backup and recovery plan.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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StoredIQ for Intelligent eDiscovery and Information Management
| sponsored by StoredIQ
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
StoredIQ is riding the eDiscovery wave into companies that have had enough of discovery costs and costly failures and are ready to make a change for the better. StoredIQ leverages its technology platform to include not only litigation-based eDiscovery, but also governance, risk and compliance management (GRC) and storage management for IT.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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VMware® ESX 3.5 Deployment with Sun Storage 7000 Series Unified Storage System
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This paper details a few of the possible deployment scenarios when using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (called Unified Storage System hereon ) with Vmware Infrastructure ESX 3.5. This paper also describes how each of the deployment differs from one another.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
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Reducing Storage Complexity with Sun Unified Storage
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
ANALYST BRIEF:
With all protocols and storage features included in the cost of the system, Sun claims its new unified platform delivers significant performance gains and cost benefits versus proprietary unified storage solutions.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2006
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eGuide: Get More Out of Your Data Protection Plan
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
EGUIDE:
Every storage pro is looking to do more with less, especially in today's economy. This eGuide offers the practical advice storage pros need in order to get more out of their data protection plan, an increase overall IT efficiency.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009
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E-Guide: Expert Strategies for Managing Server Virtualization Complexity
| sponsored by HP, Intel, & VMware
EGUIDE:
This expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com, HP, Intel and VMware, gives expert tips for managing the complexity associated with virtualized servers. Learn how to reduce server virtualization sprawl and gain insight into key virtualization management strategies for your server environment.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009
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Best Practices for Defining and Establishing Effective Archive Retention Policies
| sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Electronically stored information (ESI) has become a major source of business records, and any organization that uses ESI - from email to word processing to instant messaging - must manage those records. This paper explains best practices for establishing effective archive retention policies.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2007
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Top Five Strategies for Getting an Email Archiving Project off the Ground
| sponsored by Symantec Corporation
DATA SHEET:
Proactive archiving reduces business risks, lower costs and increases efficiency. This quide has five strategies recommended by Symantec for building the case for an archive and rationalizing your requirements of
an email archiving system.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2008
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Top Five Ways to Improve E-Discovery with Archiving
| sponsored by Symantec Corporation
DATA SHEET:
Organizations are increasingly being ordered to produce email messages and other files relevant to electronic discovery - and the penalties for noncompliance with a court's discovery order can be severe. Thus it is vital that every organization manage its electronic data for fast, easy, accurate retrieval when required.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 21 Jan 2008
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Network-Attached Storage FAQ
| sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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E-Guide: SMB Backup Tips
| sponsored by EMC Corporation
EGUIDE:
This eGuide discusses the backup best practices available for SMBs in
today's storage market. It's more important now than ever for SMBs to gain efficiency in their backup processes. This eGuide will highlight how SMBs can save money, and also how they can make their data backups more secure.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
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Tiered data storage strategies for SMBs
| sponsored by EMC Corporation
PODCAST:
Whether it's for performance or capacity improvements, the goal of tiered storage is simply to get data on the appropriate storage system. This tipcast details how SMBs can benefit from a tiered storage solution.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 26 Jun 2009
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Tiered Storage Best Practices for File Archiving
| sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
VIDEO:
In this expert videocast, Greg Forest from Contoural diagrams a typical file-archiving system and details the software and hardware components that comprise a file-archiving architecture. He also explains best practices for organizing tiered storage for the best performance, availability and cost savings.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 26 Jun 2009
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Data Deduplication: It's more than Just a Box on the Network
| sponsored by FalconStor Software
WEBCAST:
This session will discuss the various operational and design factors that go into making the right technology decision for deduplication.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Stepping Up to Deduplication with Simpana8
| sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
WEBCAST:
This brief webcast provides a basic overview of CommVault's inline, embedded deduplication capability. It will cover how we dedupe, how our approach differs from traditional appliance-based dedupe and several use cases for implementing deduplication within your organization.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Live Q&A with W. Curtis Preston
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
WEBCAST:
Please join us for today' Live Q&A with backup and recovery expert, W. Curtis Preston. This interactive Q&A session will provide attendees with the opportunity to have all backup and recovery questions answered by Mr. Backup himself.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data Deduplication Beyond Backup
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
VIDEO:
In this TechTalk, W. Curtis Preston, Executive Editor for TechTarget's Storage Media Group and independent consultant, discusses the state of deduplication for primary storage, the pros and cons of the different approaches, and what we should expect to see in future systems.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
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Implementation Advanced Uses and Testing Part I
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
VIDEO:
The first session starts with an explanation of why we are using disk in the backup system, as it will build the foundation for later discussions.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
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Implementation Advanced Uses and Testing Part II
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
VIDEO:
Preston explains the differences between the different types of dedupe, including source and target, hashing vs. delta differentials, inline vs. post processing and local vs. global deduplication. He continues with an explanation of some advanced uses of deduplication and finishes the session with some thoughts on how to test deduplication.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 30 Jun 2009
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Video: Four Principles for Reducing Storage TCO
| sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
VIDEO:
Watch this video summary, which outlines methods of quantifying storage infrastructure costs and identifying those that can be reduced. It also presents techniques, developed over several years and hundreds of customer engagements, for reducing those costs and helping you create a lean, dynamic storage environment that's economically sustainable.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 24 Jun 2009
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HP Simply Business Protection: Reliable Data Protection for Business Continuity
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
No matter the business, industry, or size, reliable data access is essential to operations. As that data continues to grow exponentially, it is important to have a backup and recovery strategy that meets current business needs and has the flexibility to grow and change. Read this white paper to learn about HP data protection solutions.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009
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The Better Choice: HP StorageWorks EVA and HP BladeSystem
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper is based on a study conducted by Edison Group to verify advantages showing that, from the standpoint of management software efficiencies, EVA storage arrays and HP BladeSystem comprise the best solution in a VMware environment. Use of EMC's CLARiiON arrays is assessed for comparative purposes.
Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009
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