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- Data De-Duplication and Backup: Stretching Your Windows Disk Storage Dollar
- With storage requirements for applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server growing exponentially, IT administrators need more cost-effective ways to stretch their data storage budget without increasing backup and recovery windows or sacrificing IT policies for data retention or disaster recovery. The presenters of this webcast examine how disk-based de-duplication...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, De-duplication, Disk Storage, Storage, Backups, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-12-06
- Reducing Data Protection Costs by 50 Percent With Symantec Software and Data Domain Disk Storage Appliance
- Synopsys was dealing with 60 percent year-over-year data growth and needed a reliable backup solution for data stored on NAS appliances at its remote sites. It chose Veritas NetBackup from Symantec and Data Domain appliances from Data Domain, Inc., using disk-to-disk backup to replace disk-to-tape backup. The results included a...
- Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Disk, Storage, Domain, Disk Storage, Backups
- Case studies 2007-04-20
- Look inside ASM disk groups with Oracle 10gR2's ASMCMD
- In Oracle 10g Release 2, Oracle introduced a new command line tool called ASMCMD that lets you look inside Automatic Storage Management ASM volumes. Get an overview of the ASMCMD commands, and learn about a few of the tool's quirks. In 10g, Oracle introduced a new kind of storage...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ASMCMD, Automatic Storage Management, Bob Watkins, Application servers, disk, disk group, storage, Oracle Tips Newsletter, Oracle Application Server 10g, Disk Storage, File System Storage
- Technical articles 2007-01-30
- Disk Storage: How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
- The traditional approach of purchasing storage is broken. Comparing the purchase cost per megabyte of one storage array to another misses over 70% of the potential costs and leads to two classic storage management pitfalls. Managers who purchase new storage often focus too much of their attention on the upfront...
- Tags: Disk, Window, Disk Storage, CIOview, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-11
- DiskOnMail (zip)
- DiskOnMail is a virtual Internet disk storage utility based on your own e-mail boxes. It maps your e-mail boxes to the Internet online file system just like a real file system on your local computer. DiskOnMail uses one or more e-mail boxes to store files. You can copy or back...
- Tags: Disk, E-mail Box, Disk Storage, DiskOnMail, Internet, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2005-11-21
- A Reed-Solomon Code for Disk Storage, and Efficient Recovery Computations for Erasure-Coded Disk Storage
- Reed-Solomon erasure codes provide efficient simple techniques for redundantly encoding information so that the failure of a few disks in a disk array doesn't compromise the availability of data. This paper presents a technique for constructing a code that can correct up to three errors with a simple, regular encoding,...
- Tags: Technique, Disk, Storage, Disk Storage, Productivity
- White papers 2005-07-28
- Cost of disk storage.
- Is there a generally accepted value for the cost of maintaining files on a network? Like a cost per megabyte per year, including backup costs?Not anymore, what with disk prices plummeting, etc.Well,Yes, but the physical media is but a small part of the cost over a period of time. I...
- Tags: disk, networking, storage, TonytheTiger
- Discussion threads 2005-04-14
- The Role of Disk in Effective Data Protection Strategies
- The plunging cost of disk storage during the last decade is motivating many IT organizations to consider the contribution potential of disk storage to their data protection strategies. With the advantage of very fast backup and recovery times, employing disk storage as a backup medium appears lucrative. However, the disadvantages...
- Tags: Data Protection, Disk, Storage, Disk Storage, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Managing and Troubleshooting Desktop Storage
- With an eye towards passing the MCDST 70-271 Exam, this paper explains the ins and outs of supporting desktop storage devices, covering such topics as disk maintenance, partitions, and basic vs. dynamic disks. Disk storage is more than about finding lost files. The paper covers how to support and troubleshoot...
- Tags: Desktop, Disk, Storage, Disk Storage
- White papers 2004-08-27
- Talking Shop: Disk storage and networking topics for the Win2K Server exam
- Disk storage and networking for Microsoft Exam 70-215It’s unlikely that you’ll pass the Windows 2000 Server exam if you can’t demonstrate your expertise in administering disks and other storage devices. It’s certain you’ll fail if you can’t configure and troubleshoot Win2K network connections. In this, the third of four lists...
- Tags: network, Erik Eckel Network+, MCP+I, MCSE, server, storage, disk, RAID, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000
- Technical articles 2001-09-14
- Reducing Energy Consumption of Disk Storage Using Power-Aware Cache Management
- Reducing energy consumption is an important issue for data centers. Among the various components of a data center, storage is one of the biggest consumers of energy. Previous studies have shown that the average idle period for a server disk in a data center is very small compared to the...
- Tags: Algorithm, Aware, Disk, Data Center, Disk Storage, Data Centers, Engineering, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers
- StorageTek 9176 Disk Storage System Passes MCSI Tests for Performance, Reliability and Manageability
- Midrange Computer Solutions Inc. MCSI, a reseller of StorageTek solutions, wanted a modular, scalable disk product that offered capacity, performance and connectivity for customers ranging from ISP/ASPs, manufacturing and distribution to financial, medical, utility and image graphics organizations. The StorageTek 9176 disk storage system delivered exactly what MCSI wanted because...
- Tags: Disk, Performance, StorageTek, Disk Storage, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- SERASA Invests in StorageTek Virtual Disk Storage
- SERASA, with headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the business that provides all of the creditor and financial markets with commercial information and decision-making support for credit contracts. SERASA maintains a presence in all Brazilian capitals and in the major cities of the world, with a total of 140 locations....
- Tags: Disk, Environment, StorageTek, Disk Storage, SERASA, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- HP Announces Game-Changing Storage Integration: XP24000 Disk Array Simplifies Storage Provisioning and Improves Storage Infrastructure for the Delivery of Storage Services
- Over the last number of years, the growth rate of storage resources has been extraordinary, driven by applications that have a greater thirst for more and larger files and a diversity of performance requirements. In the fall of 2004 with the initial announcement of the XP12000 Disk Array, HP set...
- Tags: Storage Provisioning, Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Disk Array, Integration, Barometrix, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-21
- Disk Mirroring - Local or Remote
- Advances in storage technologies and significant breakthroughs in both networking technologies and telecommunications make disk mirroring an important tool for data replication, migration, and consolidation as well as backup/restore and business continuation/ disaster recovery. This white paper describes the factors impacting information storage and access in enterprise environments, defines disk...
- Tags: Computer Network, Disk, Mirroring, Disk Mirroring, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2003-08-19
- NTFS/FAT Disk Defragmentation in RAID and SAN Environments
- There is a common misconception that disk defragmentation is not necessary in RAID or SAN/NAS storage environments. This paper explains how disk defragmentation really works and how it can deliver significant benefits to RAID or SAN/NAS storage. The idea that disk defragmentation software is not necessary on RAID or SAN...
- Tags: Disk, SAN, Defragmentation, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-24
- Reducing Energy Consumption Using a Non-Volatile Storage Cache
- One can outperforms the most powerful disk spin-down algorithm by using a small non-volatile storage write-only cache to temporarily store hard disk write request while a disk is spun-down. In the experiments explained in the paper, a USB thumb drive device is used as the non-volatile storage cache. By redirecting...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Storage, USB Flash Drive, University Of California
- White papers 2006-01-06
- Implementing SANRAD Disk-to-Disk Backup
- Disk-to-disk backup can be integrated with existing backup solutions to enhance and improve the overall process; it can be used to migrate an entire backup system or disk-to-disk can be used as the first step in a larger Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape (D2D2T) backup strategy. This paper examines the advantages disk-to-disk backup offers...
- Tags: Disk, SANRAD Disk-to-Disk Backup, Backups
- White papers 2004-05-31
- Building MEMS-Based Storage Systems for Streaming Media
- The performance of streaming media servers has been limited by the dual requirements of high disk throughput to service more clients simultaneously and low memory use to decrease system cost. To achieve high disk throughput, disk drives must be accessed with large IOs to amortize disk access overhead. Large IOs...
- Tags: DRAM, Disk, MEMS, Storage System, Streaming Media, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Storage System Bottlenecks and Their Solutions
- There are many storage vendors today, each offering a wide range of storage system options. This includes Data Center storage systems, Mid-Range storage, Workgroup Storage, NAS and Backup, (tape and software.) Though there are many choices available, this paper focuses on disk-based storage systems. Diminishing storage system bottlenecks should help...
- Tags: Storage System, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-07-21
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