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- Optimising Storage with Global File Virtualisation
- This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications. Rainfinity is the only enterprise-class file virtualisation solution, and delivers complete NAS optimisation across geterogeneous environments, such as NAS, CAS, and...
- Tags: Rainfinity, Virtualization, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-14
- Top Legal Firm in Hong Kong Opted for StorageTek L40 Tape Library and LTO Drives to Back Up Its NAS Architecture
- Sidley Austin Brown & Wood ("SABW" or "the firm"), a significant legal power in the international arena, was formed as a result of the merger of Sidley & Austin and Brown & Wood in May 2001. As e-mail has become the firm's core communication tool in recent years, e-mail data...
- Tags: NAS, Data Storage, Network, Tape Library, StorageTek, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, E-mail, Storage Management, Hardware, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Case Study: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)
- The Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI Crime Scene Photography Branch handles more than 4,000 crime scene photos each month for 29 District Command Units and three geographical areas - Urban, North, and South. The PSNI Crime Scene photo library needed a digital storage solution that would store up to...
- Tags: NAS, Photograph, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, RAID, Hardware
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- Retailer Shops for File Services With Higher Standards and Rings Up Super-Combo HP NAS-SAN
- Meijer Inc., located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a family-owned grocery and general merchandise retailer with over 150 stores across the Midwest that feature more than 120,000 national brands and private-label products. A retail IT environment dependent on file servers distributed throughout the company's 150 locations made it too costly...
- Tags: Information Technology, Retail Company, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Retail, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), File Servers, Quality, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
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- University Goes to the Head of the Pack With Help From Dell
- The University of South Carolina Spartanburg USCS, one of eight USC campuses, was founded in 1967. The University needed to offer better e-mail service to faculty, staff, and students; improve network speed and performance by migrating from a network attached storage NAS system to a storage area network SAN. The...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Network, University, E-mail, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Online Communications, Hardware
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- The StorageTek 9176 Disk Subsystem Helps Gator.com Grow and Thrive
- As customers use software products from Gator.com, various log file information is sent back to the company that is stored in database format for data mining purposes. With a growth rate approaching 25 percent per month, which put pressure on both data collection and data storage capabilities, Gator.com could no...
- Tags: NAS, Data Storage, Disk, StorageTek, Subsystem, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Data Mining, Storage, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
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- Case Study: East Antrim Institute
- East Antrim Institute of Further and Higher Education, with three locations in Antrim County, Northern Ireland, provides vocational, pre-university, and lifelong learning for more than 1,300 full-time and 12,000 part-time students. The institute needed an easy-to-implement, centralized storage solution that would enable students and faculty to easily locate work for...
- Tags: Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
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- Case Study: AGFA Corporation
- Agfa Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, which ranks among the world's leading graphic systems companies. Agfa needed a distributed storage solution that is quick to set up and is accessible to Windows-based, UNIX, and Macintosh clients simultaneously. Advanced Media Services provided a Windows Powered NAS solution...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Agfa-Gavaert Group, Microsoft Windows, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Operating Systems, Storage, Desktops, UNIX, Software, Hardware
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- HP NAS Gives Holmbergs Fast File Share on a Mixed Platform
- Based in Malmo and the nearby university town of Lund, Holmbergs is one of Sweden's most respected print companies with a history that goes back 100 years. Holmbergs, needed to store and retrieve large amounts of business critical data. Its existing heterogeneous storage environment had become complicated and difficult to...
- Tags: NAS, Hewlett-Packard Co., Holmbergs, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
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- Airbus Flies High With VERITAS Software and CSC
- Airbus is one of only two aircraft manufacturers in the market for large commercial airliners. Airbus deployed VERITAS ServPoint NAS to create a single storage array across its Network Attached Storage NAS environment. This enables all Airbus engineers and production staff to store, access, and share files from anywhere on...
- Tags: NAS, VERITAS Software Corp., Computer Sciences Corp., Airbus, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
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- Case Study: National and University Library (NUL) of Slovenia
- NUL is located in Ljubljana, the capital and largest city in the Republic of Slovenia, one of six former Yugoslavian republics. Before, locating and accessing individual document images stored on tape took up to two hours. Slovenia's National and University Library NUL harnessed the fusion of networked-attached storage NAS and...
- Tags: Slovenia, NUL, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Storage Management, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware
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- HP Writes the Book on NAS-SAN Fusion for Slovenian National Library
- Public libraries worldwide are under intense pressure to provide state-of-the-art services and web-accessible resources, while at the same time struggling against tight budget constraints. The National and University Library NUL of Slovenia needed to consolidate islands of storage, provide flexible access to digitized documents, and support new linkages to European...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Servers, Hardware
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- Using NetApp Fibre Channel SAN and NAS Storage to Support a Perforce Software Configuration Management Environment
- With multiple development teams working on separate project components and with teams often geographically dispersed, Software Configuration Management SCM solutions can help increase productivity and improve quality. NetApp provides robust unified storage solutions proven to work with the industry's leading SCM platforms. This case study describes a deployment of the...
- Tags: Software, Software Configuration Management, NAS, Network Appliance Inc., SAN, Configuration Management, Fibre Channel SAN, NetApp, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware
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- PACS and NAS - A Strategic Fit
- The challenge of handling large volumes of patient-related data and images has now outgrown traditional ways of dealing with such information. Sharing, retrieving, saving, and viewing high-resolution medical images (MRIs, X-rays, etc) in conjunction with corresponding patient information accurately and reliably every time demands technology like Picture Archive Communication System...
- Tags: NAS, Patient, Pacs, TCO, Image, Picture Archive Communication System, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
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- Case Study: VP Buildings
- VP Buildings, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, is a world leader in developing, manufacturing, and distributing versatile, energy-efficient, pre-engineered steel building systems. It employs 200 people at several manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. The company needed a reliable, cost-effective alternative to general-purpose servers for storing builders' drawings for current projects....
- Tags: VP, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Manufacturing, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
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- 3H Technology Case Study: DC Public Library
- DC Public Library wanted to migrate from a static Windows NT 4.0 to a Windows 2000 network with Active Directory. 3H Technology (3H) migrated DCPL's 500 users (in 23 remote sites) through pushing a Windows 2000 Professional installation to the desktops. 3H designed and deployed Windows 2000 Server with Active...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Directory Services, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware
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- Software Company Enhances Development Environment
- Stockholm based RemoteX Technologies provides software solutions, consulting services, and managed hosting that helps customers throughout the Nordic region improve the efficiency and effectiveness of field service operations. The firm was fast reaching a point where it needed to increase the size of the disk drives in individual servers or...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Development Environment, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
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- New Generation NAS - Advanced File System Replication for Affordable Business Continuity and DR Solutions
- Business continuity is fast becoming critically important to businesses. The challenge in maintaining business continuity needs to be addressed at two levels - local redundancy for continuous data protection and remote mirroring for disaster recovery. As a recent spate of natural disasters has shown, we need to plan ahead for...
- Tags: NAS, File System, Replication, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), It Services, Data Management, Storage, Hardware
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- Tuning Oracle Database 10g on Linux Using ASM
- With the explosive database size requirements and the proliferation of SAN Storage Area Network and NAS (Network-Attached Storage) disk technologies, the system administrator and the DBA must manage hundreds to thousands of disks - sometimes just for one database. Thus the task of planning, initializing, allocating, managing and tuning so...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, Oracle Corp., Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Capitulation, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- New Generation NAS - Higher performance at lower cost
- New generation NAS devices offer twice the performance at almost one tenth of the cost of existing enterprise-class fiber channel NAS devices. And, if your network supports Gigabyte Ethernet, new generation NAS devices are also designed to handle Gigabyte transfer rates. There is considerable confusion when comparing...
- Tags: NAS, Device, Performance, Fiber, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
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