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Ensuring Recovery Through Critical Data Protection

At a major Midwestern healthcare provider, Disaster Recovery DR is a major challenge, complicated by the sheer number of volumes and files that must be accurately tracked. This includes changes to the files and backups of the data, as well as tapes that have to be created and moved to...

Tags: Data Protection, Recovery, Softek Storage Solutions Corp., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

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State Auto Data in 'Prime of Life' With Total StorageTek Solution

With storage volumes growing and backup windows shrinking, State Auto Financial Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, recognized the need for new technologies in its mainframe storage environment. Over a three-year period, StorageTek implemented a comprehensive storage solution that will meet State Auto's needs for years to come. The solution encompasses leading-edge...

Tags: Solution, StorageTek, Storage, Hardware

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Designing Storage Tiers: Application Optimized Storage Solutions From Hitachi Data Systems

Application Optimized Storage solutions from Hitachi Data Systems provide the answer to the new business challenge. With Application Optimized Storage solutions, organizations are able to strategically align business applications and the storage infrastructure to reduce costs, boost performance, improve availability, and enhance functionality. This paper describes a process for matching...

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-06-01

Better Storage Solutions for Microsoft Exchange

Find out how your business can capitalize on the new powerful and easy-to-manage iSCSI Ethernet storage! Email access is required 24x7 and volume is growing at an unprecedented rate. With the continued increase in email volume comes an explosion in storage capacity needs, a growth of isolated...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Storage, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications

Webcasts 2005-04-14

Live Webcast: Simplify network management with virtualized storage

Despite its growing popularity, many IT professionals remain skeptical of virtualized storage as an enabling technology for simplified storage management. So what's the real story behind virtualized storage solutions? Sponsored by Dell and hosted by Josh Gingold, this live ZDNet Webcast will: Explain...

Tags: Webcast, Network, Network Management, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-02-25

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

ANC Rental Revs Up With StorageTek-Based Virtual Tape Solution

As one of the world's largest rental car companies, ANC Rental Corp. lives in a fast-moving, fast-growing business environment. To maintain its competitiveness, ANC must ensure that its data storage environment keeps pace with the growth in the business. So over the years, ANC has often looked to StorageTek for...

Tags: Data Storage, Environment, StorageTek, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

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Citrix Business Solutions: Powered by Datacore Software

DataCore Software provides storage virtualisation solutions that make storage and SAN infrastructures efficient, fault tolerant, flexible and virtual. DataCore Storage Virtualisation is the foundation for the Total Enterprise Virtualisation - the combination of proven virtualisation solutions into comprehensive, enterprise-wide, virtual infrastructures, comprising desktops, servers and storage. ...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., DataCore Software, DataCore Storage Virtualisation, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Ip storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-03

Break the Vicious Cycle - The Goals of Storage Management

In order to be successful with any of this you MUST understand your data, its value, residency, and use. This is all part of an effective storage management plan. Without this knowledge your operations, growth and/or strategic initiatives will fail no matter what the focus. The key to 'Break the...

Tags: Environment, Computer Associates International Inc., Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

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HP ProLiant Storage Servers: Family Guide

Storage needs and complexity grow rapidly, while budgets continually shrink - making it difficult to deliver the service levels the environment demands using current storage architectures. And with management applications and direct-attached storage scattered throughout the infrastructure, storage is more complicated than ever. That's why HP ProLiant Storage Server solutions...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Compaq ProLiant, Storage Server, Storage, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-01

Network Storage White Paper: Data Sharing Solutions From LaCie

As the extensive use of digital consumer electronics continues to accelerate exponentially, consumers and professionals are increasingly looking for data storage and sharing solutions. It's clear why internal hard drives are routinely filled and servers stagger as storage architects struggle to keep up with the ever-evolving needs of digital consumers....

Tags: Network, Network Storage, LaCie, Data Sharing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-10

Intel IOPs Help Adaptec Define Leading Edge of External Storage Solutions Segment

External storage solutions have traditionally been expensive to build from an R&D standpoint, as well as cumbersome to manage and service. Toward that end, Adaptec's Storage Solutions Group is developing next-generation controllers for connecting servers to RAID-based storage devices. The Hammerhead controller - as well as other external storage controllers...

Tags: Adaptec Inc., Intel Corp., Storage, Chipsets, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

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Novant Speeds Delivery of Patient Imaging Data With StorageTek Tape, Disk Solution

Novant Health Corp. of Charlotte and Winston-Salem, N.C., encompasses two health centers with multiple hospitals. With an eye toward the future, Novant Health set a goal: move its film-based patient imaging studies to digital systems. After a detailed evaluation of competitive products and different storage technologies, Novant Health selected a...

Tags: Patient, Disk, Novant Health, StorageTek, Document Management, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

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Dell PowerVault Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Always on Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server Always On program provides formal compliance documentation for solutions provided by vendors. Dell provides a number of highly available solutions, which are covered by this framework. This document provides coverage of those storage-based solutions, which are compliant under the definition of Microsoft SQL Server Always On....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerVault, Microsoft SQL Server, Compliance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Storage Management, Servers, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-09-01

SAN Consolidation Lowers Storage Total Cost of Ownership Through QLogic's Economy of Scale

Most IT organizations rely on Storage Area Network SAN solutions to provide business accessibility to their critical data. The complexity and scope of these solutions grow to meet ever-increasing storage capacity needs. The increasing complexity of storage solutions drives the need to consolidate SAN islands and create a plan for...

Tags: Consolidation, SAN, QLogic Corp., SAN Consolidation, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-18

Benefits and Methods of SAN Extension Using QLogic Switches and Routers

Fibre Channel based Storage Area Network SAN solutions continue to grow in popularity because they solve the following key storage issues: need for centralized management of storage, poor utilization of distributed, direct-attached storage, need for centralized backup/restoring of data, limited scalability of Direct-Attached Storage/Network-Attached Storage (DAS/NAS) solutions. QLogic software tools...

Tags: Router, SAN, Benefit, QLogic Corp., Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-18

Storage Area Networking: Storage vs. Data Sharing - Creating Appropriate SAN Solutions

You may have heard that SANs are for imaging applications like video post-production, or that LAN-free backup is what SANs are about, or that SANs can be used to consolidate storage. Is that what SANs can do? Absolutely. 100%. All these solutions use similar hardware components. The biggest challenge is...

Tags: Storage Area Networking, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, SAN, Data Sharing, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

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Mindspeed Technologies Turns to MTI Technology for Complete Data Storage Solution

Mindspeed Technologies designs, develops and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area networks. Not only does Mindspeed currently have an enhanced data storage system in place, but also the company's overall expenditure on data storage solutions has decreased considerably. Since MTI was already respected...

Tags: Data Storage, MTI Technology, Mindspeed Technologies, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

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Tiered Storage Economics: Defining and Calculating the Economic Benefit of Tiered Storage Solutions

As IT departments and storage planners continue to look at best practices and technologies to proactively reduce ownership costs, a tiered storage approach should be investigated and presented as a viable option for future storage strategies. While many IT planners assume that purchasing low-cost disk solutions will drive down the...

Tags: Disk, Benefit, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-09-01

Growth Without Limits - Effective Use of Tiered Storage Solutions

Discover how HP offers more data storage solutions -- to store and retrieve more data ...more economically. Hear how HP's expanded portfolio of tiered storage solution products, can deliver quick and easy data access -- economically for your business.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2005-04-26