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The Enterprise Strategy Group on Services Oriented Storage Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems
The Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform enables IT to automate processes, simplify management and leverage physical assets without sacrificing performance or reliability. Service Oriented Storage Solutions is the idea of leveraging one...
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i 5000 Mailbox Single Copy Cluster Microsoft® Exchange 2007 Storage Solution by Dell, Inc.
to provide information on its storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server software. For more details on the Microsoft ESRP-Storage program...
Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
is intended for IT managers and storage architects 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...
Dell PowerVault MD3000 1000 Mailbox Local Continuous Replication Microsoft Exchange 2007 Storage Solution by Dell, Inc.
describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 1000 mailbox Exchange Server 2007 environment with Local Continuous Replication (LCR) feature. This white paper describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 1000 mailbox Exchange Server...
Solve Exchange Storage Problems Once and for All: A New Approach without Stubs or Links by Mimosa Systems
NearPoint can reduce Exchange storage and keep email accessible to end users, without requiring stub files in Exchange. Microsoft Exchange administrators face the daunting challenge of maintaining adequate storage capacity and performance. Most...
Dell PowerVault MD 3000i Configuration Guide for VMware ESX Server Software by Dell, Inc.
The Dell PowerVault MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration. This whitepaper provides instructions to setup the MD3000i iSCSI storage solution for usage with VMware ESX Server software. The Dell™...
Solution Guide - Choosing Storage for Dell Database Solutions with Dell™ PowerVault™ and Dell/EMC Storage by Dell, Inc.
a guide for choosing an appropriate storage architecture for Dell Database Solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault and Dell/EMC storage. This white paper provides a guide for choosing an appropriate storage architecture for Dell...
Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems bring a new level of simplicity and price/performance to the Open Storage market by integrating innovative storage software with hybrid storage pools and an open architecture...
HP Simply Consolidation Solution Guide: Your Guide to Shared Storage for Business Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
guide is on entry-level network storage solutions for small and midsized businesses (SMBs). In particular, it features the HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) and the HP StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage System...
IDC White Paper: Addressing Business Challenges with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure by Hitachi Data Systems
organizations to rely on modular storage solutions as their primary data storage platform. Read this IDC report to learn more about the modular storage landscape and Hitachi storage solutions. As business and technology needs evolve, businesses must adapt with new...
Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V by Dell, Inc.
virtual machine migration. The Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V provides an overview of:

  • Storage options available in Hyper-V
  • How Dell-supported storage solutions fit into a Hyper-V Deployment
  • Best practices associated with solution
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Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility. VDI-Optimized Storage dramatically improves boot performance and has...
Strategies for PST File Elimination by Mimosa Systems
solution which optimizes the storage capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server. Email growth is exploding, and the common practice of saving old email and attachments is overburdening email servers. Email usage is expected to grow by 25 to 40 percent...
The Total Economic Impact of Isilon's Clustered Storage System by Isilon Systems
benefits over traditional storage solutions:

  • 97 percent reduction in management resources.
  • 22 percent increase in storage utilization which resulted, for an environment of the size used in the study, in a 37 percent decrease in the volume of storage
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Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
fraction of the cost of traditional storage consolidation solutions. Learn more in this paper. Now small and medium-sized organizations can harness the storage consolidation and data management capabilities of a SAN, easily and cost effectively. The...
Dell PowerVault MD3000 3000 Mailbox Single Copy Cluster Microsoft Exchange 2007 Storage Solution by Dell, Inc.
describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 3000 mailbox Exchange 2007 environment with Single Copy Cluster in a high availability clustering mechanism based on the Microsoft Cluster Service shared storage. This white paper describes a...
IDC White Paper: Striving for Efficiency in Information Management with Services Oriented Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
the need for services oriented storage solutions and discusses the specific solution put forth by Hitachi. Hitachi's Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS) are designed to better manage rapidly expanding IT infrastructures and allow organizations to...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
There are numerous ways that your storage has already been virtualized, and there are many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why? SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal...
Best Practices Data Deduplication for Symantec's NetBackup (NBU) by Data Domain
how the Data Domain deduplication storage solution integrates with standard NBU architectural and operational environments in order to overcome the growing gap between what is being accomplished and needs to be accomplished. Data Domain provides an...
Storage Virtualisation Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization...
Sun Storage J4000 Array Family Scalable, Reliable and Cost-effective Solutions for Open Storage Infrastructures by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Sun Storage J4200 array provides high availability, cost-effective 2U storage and supports up to 12 3.5-inch SATA or SAS hard drives. The Sun Storage J4200 array provides high availability, cost-effective 2U storage. It...
Project Your Data: Featuring TS2240 and DS3200 by IBM
Productivity Center, an open storage infrastructure management solution designed to help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructure and to help improve storage capacity utilization. IBM System Storage products help you save,...
Using HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System with VMware ESX Server Solution - Overview and Configuration Guide by Hewlett-Packard Company
how HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System can be used as the storage repository for a VMware ESX server using iSCSI connectivity between the iSCSI initiator on the VMware server and the iSCSI Target built into the AiO. The purpose of this document is to...
IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together by IBM
to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions. An Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is designed to contain unstructured information such as files, images, and drawings. Its purpose is the delivery of the right content to the right person at the right...
Primary Storage Handbook: Part 1 by Ocarina Networks
for deploying a primary storage 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...
What is the Case for Storage Management? by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
Understanding the storage challenges that your peers face can help you assess and address storage problems in your own virtualized data center. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of storage management in IT. This white paper...
eGuide: iSCSI SAN Storage for Microsoft Exchange by Dell, Inc.
the concepts of an iSCSI-based SAN storage system and will discuss how to implement for Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 using Windows Server 2003 and the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator software. Selecting the proper storage solution in an Exchange...
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: The Core of an Accelerated MCAE Workflow by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems accelerate MCAE workflow by speeding data to processors and then providing shared data access to all. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System family of products provides an open...
Deduplication -- Sorting through the Hype by Datalink/NetApp
webcast, led by seasoned Datalink storage experts, to learn exactly what deduplication can do for you-what's real and what's hype. Among today's storage technologies, deduplication is generating significant buzz and is at the top of the "what's hot" list. The hype...
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 capacities grow and costs per gigabyte shrink, disk is being used as a backup storage target more frequently. Disk offers far better performance than tape systems, allowing for faster data transfers as well as greater long-term reliability. Disk can accept complete backup volumes, as well as simple file copies. For example, backup software can send a... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
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 spite of the many different protective cassette designs... More...
FAQ's
Are these types of tools really expensive and what can you do if you need some of this functionality but you're on a budget?
The solutions are definitely an add-on cost to any environment. But if you look at the benefits you get from these types of solutions, it really does pay off over time. If you've been hit with an audit or if you have to comply with an e-discovery request... More...
What's the best methodology to use when testing for storage security vulnerabilities?
using testing tools such as those in my article "Five must-have storage security testing tools, and look for missing patches, poor configurations and other loopholes. Finally, try exploiting those vulnerabilities.

I normally recommend that you try to exploit your vulnerabilities as long as there... More...

What happens if you fill up a storage system with deduplicated data and it needs to grow?
level, you are looking for a product that can scale performance and storage independently.

Check out the entire Data Deduplication FAQ.

This is really the Achilles heel of data deduplication right now... More...