Storage Architectures White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn how IBM appears to have the deployment issue down pat and how they have a variety of delivery vehicles to satisfy the tape needs of your enterprise. Keep reading to learn more about IBM’s LTO-5 offerings. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Information Archive helps you store, retrieve, manage, share and protect regulated and non-regulated data with a design that is both highly secure and extremely cost efficient.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Database Smart Flash Cache on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux has the potential to offer considerable benefit to users of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with disk-bound read-mostly or read-only workloads, through the simple addition of flash storage such as the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array or the Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about the acquisition of Akorri Networks, Inc. by NetApp. and the ways in which this merger is helping to provide customers with new virtualization technologies.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper from Symantec Corporation looks at the advantages associated with adopting a VMWare environment in organizations.

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 | Published: 08 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability. It illustrates how Hitachi technologies, services and solutions facilitate the agility required to achieve it. Read on to learn more today.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps enterprises reduce capital and operating expenditures, garner a greater return on existing storage assets and ultimately lower the total cost of ownership (TCO). Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems, looks at the advantages of implementing an efficient storage system through virtualization. Read on to learn more!

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper examines complementary technologies from Hitachi and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization and dramatically improve the management of the infrastructure while modernizing the storage architecture. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Transactional application availability is more important than ever to businesses in a globalized economy. This Vendor Spotlight examines the various architectural approaches to ensuring application uptime and availability, particularly a clustered file system approach with clustered services.

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how you can take control of your content with an integrated, end-to-end archiving approach for email and files and Increase the business value of your data while driving down the costs and complexity of the infrastructure all while staying compliant with legal and business mandates.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

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: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The deployment of virtualization technology has allowed businesses of all sizes to reduce costs and optimize resources. The impact has been particularly dramatic with server virtualization. By virtualizing their servers, many organizations have dramatically reduced their IT investment in hardware procurement. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain. Read this white paper to learn more about easing the tape backup process.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the advantages and industry-leading capacity of the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive and how implementing StorageTek LTO-5 into StorageTek tape libraries will result in a significant boost in capacity that will help customers stay on top of their data growth needs.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: You can’t make the best storage decisions for your business if you’re not asking the right questions. Our “New Storage Buying Criteria for Shared Virtual Infrastructure RFP template” makes it easy. Use it to help ensure the solutions you choose can deliver extreme flexibility and efficiency, and a “future-proof” foundation.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: With Dell Compellent, enterprise data is actively, intelligently managed throughout its lifecycle so you can constantly adapt to changing business conditions. This paper discusses eight Dell Compellent technologies that combine to create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you are in charge of IT at a mid-size enterprise, you’re probably about to bite the bullet to add a new Storage Area Network (SAN). Why? The simple answer is that it’s a combination of challenges and opportunities. Read this paper to learn why any organization that runs more than one business server application should consider a SAN.

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 | Published: 26 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: With exploding amounts of data, CalTech needed to store critical digital information for NASA on a storage system that could deliver enterprise class reliability with power efficient technology to drive down cost. With over 2 petabytes of data on Nexsan Storage, CalTech has experienced 99.9% hardware reliability over the last 7 years.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about 12 best practices for data backup and recovery such as Reliability, Breadth of Offering, Security, Accessibility, Scalability, Cost-effectiveness and more!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Jan 2010