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Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers. Disk drives consume a significant amount of the power and consequently place a considerable load on the cooling resources in large data centers. The type of disk drive and associated...
RSA enVision® Storage Calculator by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
online and near line log or event data storage needs by following four easy steps. Download this calculator now, which will highlight a comparison chart in each step to help identify your estimated storage needs...
Primary Storage Handbook: Part 1 by Ocarina Networks
optimization solution. Data storage continues to grow at unprecedented rates and the overwhelming majority of data originates as primary data. As a result, organizations that can reduce their primary storage footprint stand to leverage capacity and...
IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage by Ocarina Networks
Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile. Ocarina Networks has...
IBM System Storage DS Family--Electronics by IBM
looking for secure and resilient data storage. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for the electronics industry Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step an electronics business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand...
Data migration: Moving to a Better way of Integrating Data Storage Devices by Overland Storage
how to utilize and best leverage the data migration utility built into GuardianOS. The data migration utility allows administrators to easily copy or move data from any file server that has an accessible Windows (CIFS/SMB) share or UNIX (NFS) mount. It can also...
What is the Case for Storage Management? by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
Amount of resources dedicated to data storage management • Main factors in virtualization storage purchase decisions • Improvements desired in current data storage solutions
IBM System Storage DS Family-Telecommunications by IBM
IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for the Telecom industry. Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a telecommunications business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage...
IBM System Storage DS Family-Financial Svcs Institutions by IBM
IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for financial institutions. Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a financial institution can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage DS...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization. Today’s exponential growth in data volumes creates formidable challenges in building IT storage infrastructures that can effectively support HPC environments. Traditional...
ARX® Series Intelligent File Virtualization Devices by F5 Networks
file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, eliminating the disruption and automating many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in efficiency. File Storage Constraints Today's file storage environments comprise...
Modular Storage: The Dell™ Powervault™ MD Storage Family by Dell, Inc.
can simplify IT by optimizing your data storage architecture and ensuring the availability of your data. In the past, storage customers were forced to choose between capability and price. Today, the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD family offers the perfect balance: the...
Confront Escalating Data Storage and Power Requirement with HP's Enterprise Virtual Array by Mobius Partners
The University of Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab and to overcome this problem they used HP’s Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis. The University of Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
often the best option for long-term data storage and retention. Companies continue to use disk and tape in their backup process, but managing both media creates issues...
Tips for Protecting the Edge: Remote-Office Data Protection by Overland Storage
is an ongoing challenge to the storage team due to issues such as lack of qualified staff or inefficient equipment. This Tipcast gives IT professionals an effective way to incorporate remote backups done locally and managed centrally from the main data...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
backup solutions. Shifting data storage to Storage Area Networks (SAN) provided numerous advantages in both hard and soft dollar cost savings. The final evolution of storage management is to separate the boot disks from systems and turn them into stateless...
Veritas NetBackup 6.5: Designing and Implementing Backups Using Storage Lifecycle Policies by Symantec Corporation
deployed to help ensure that backup storage is used cost-effectively while still maintaining appropriate levels of recoverability. Veritas NetBackup 6.5 introduces two new features, Data Classifications and Storage Lifecycle Policies, that are intended...
HP StorageWorks All-in-One Systems by Hewlett-Packard Company
grow and protect your expanding data storage environment with HP's radically simple, affordable, and reliable network storage solutions for smaller IT environments. Manage, grow and protect your expanding data storage environment with HP's radically simple...
Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
performance for high-duty cycle data storage and retrieval: • Drive efficiencies related to media capacity, productivity, and power/cooling • Protect your investment by reusing existing StorageTek T10000 media and by simplifying deployment • Minimize risk with...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
While VTL data storage has been a popular data protection solution in recent years, the VTL solution may be incomplete for long-term needs. Read this white paper to learn why D2D backup solutions are the ideal data protection technologies...
Storage and the Law: Backup, Recovery and Depositions by SearchStorage.com
As the keepers of the corporate data, storage managers can play a pivotal role in ensuring that their companies not only toe the line when it comes to regulatory compliance, but also ensuring that their companies can respond effectively to any legal issues. In...
“Hurricane-Proof” Data Protection by Compellent
two locations while simplifying storage administration. With the Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN) and Remote Instant Replay software as the catalysts for heftier business continuance, Moss & Associates implemented a resilient...
Software Demo: Ocarina Content Aware Optimization by Ocarina Networks
Ocarina reduces data footprint with the world's first content-aware storage optimization solution for online data. Our solution drastically reduces capital and operational expense for customers across a broad range of industries...
Podcast: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Virtualization - In One Hour by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
from vaporware to actual products storage managers are using to centralize data, add flexibility and change the economics of storage. While virtualization is still a growing technology for storage, the merits behind this technology are countless...
Open Storage: Revolutionizing the Storage Status Quo by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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. Traditional modular storage products have not changed much in the last 10...
Minimize Risk with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive by Sun StorageTek
requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval. The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval...
Tape Efficiencies by Sun StorageTek
requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval. The Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval...
Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Gain an understanding of data deduplication and learn the benefits of these solutions. Data deduplication has completely taken the storage world by storm. As far as backup technologies go, data deduplication offers the most promise because it...
Using RAID 6 on the SUN™ Storagetek™ 6140 Array Increasing Reliability for Storage Arrays by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
for applications with large data sets requiring both high performance and high availability. This article addresses the following topics: ▪ “Sun’s RAID 6 Solution: Reliability, Performance, Economy” on page 1 describes the Sun RAID 6 solution using the...
Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence by Oracle Corporation
and introduces Oracle’s data storage solutions, HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the HP Oracle Database Machine. Oracle’s data warehousing solutions enable customers to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
For many companies, that's just too much time. IT departments can use snapshots to capture entire storage environments, or simply track changes to the state of mission-critical systems. Snapshots can establish recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) by supporting... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which can limit the allowable retention period for data. Data reduction technologies like data deduplication and delta differencing can dramatically extend the effective storage capacity. Also, indexing and search are can be valuable when rapid file organization and location are needed. Below are a series of best... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In... More...
FAQ's
What happens if you fill up a storage system with deduplicated data and it needs to grow?
This is really the Achilles heel of data deduplication right now.

If you have a lot of growth and wind up filling up an entire system, most products on the market today don't have the ability to add another system behind it. So, you have to invest in a new system. And that leads to... More...

You touched on restores from forward referencing and backward referencing deduplication, but what about restores from inline or post-process deduplication?
deduplication, one of the pros is that when it's done, it's done. So when your data is written into the device, dedupe is accomplished and you keep on trucking. You may have less upfront performance compared to some of the post-process vendors because you're doing a lot more work as you're doing inline... More...
What should you do if you can't realistically encrypt everything, like many people are interpreting many of the security regulations to say?
to secure everything. We all know that's not true, especially in back-end storage, such as large SAN/NAS environments -- you can typically encrypt some key storage assets, but it's just not realistic to encrypt everything.

When I'm performing security assessments, I do see several situations where storage systems... More...