Storage Standards

WHITE PAPER: Cloud storage presents Managed Service Providers an exciting opportunity to help customers accommodate data growth, but can raise doubts about security, privacy, and compliance. As THINKStrategies notes, choosing the right cloud storage partner is essential to maintaining customers’ trust.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides six tips for an SMB approach to protecting critical data. These tips used in conjunction with Double-Take Availability from Double-Take Software can help SMBs defend against crippling downtime and data loss.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009

RESOURCE CENTER: On the Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, you will find storage resources from leading industry experts exploring the technologies, problems and solutions available around Open Storage and SSD.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Use this calculator to determine the potential storage cost savings your company could realize by implementing the F5 ARX solution. Just answer a few simple questions about your environment to get a three-year savings analysis. Make sure you review the Case Studies to learn how other companies have reduced their storage costs by 50% or more.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast, learn how to ensure your disaster recover (DR) needs are met by your cloud provider. Gain insight into the differences between standard and cloud-based DR approaches and how to incorporate your exiting DR plans.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 02 Nov 2009

DATA SHEET: Syncsort BEX source side data reduction can be used to significantly decrease the amount of data sent to a backup target, reducing network traffic and CPU impact. Read this solution sheet for details.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Massive data growth and long retention periods of fixed-content data is changing the landscape of enterprise data storage and is challenging storage administrators to deliver a cost effective storage strategy. A Storage Resource Management [SRM] tool can help manage the flow/volume of data.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

ANALYST REPORT: eDiscovery for civil litigation is a fact of life in the enterprise. This Technology in Brief, written by Christine Taylor form the Taneja Group, will discuss the top 5 critical factors of an in-house eDiscovery solution.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Organizations are often challenged by the need for a “mixed” data protection strategy that includes VCB or esXpress, agent-based backups of VMs, and backups of non-VMware systems. Quantum provides a broad portfolio of highly scalable disk and tape solutions designed to meet the data protection needs of any VMware environment.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment, allowing your storage infrastructure to support virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Pearson, the international media and education company, is looking for a single tool that can provide information vital to their storage management. Its infrastructure support team selected Northern Storage Suite.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

PODCAST: Solid state drives (SSD) are going to play everywhere in the enterprise—at the storage array level, at the server level and in users’ notebook computers. This podcast discusses the issues involved in integrating SSDs at these three junctions in enterprise storage environments.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 24 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: Solid state drives (SSD) are going to play everywhere in the enterprise—at the storage array level, at the server level and in users’ notebook computers. This webcast discusses the issues involved in integrating SSDs at these three junctions in enterprise storage environments.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Use this calculator to determine the potential storage cost savings your company could realize by implementing the F5 ARX solution. Just answer a few simple questions about your environment to get a three-year savings analysis. Make sure you review the Case Studies to learn how other companies have reduced their storage costs by 50% or more.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009