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Major Considerations for Deploying a Thinly Provisioned Storage Solution by 3PAR
IDC believes that thin provisioning is a powerful enabling technology with significant benefits to offer storage...
iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries by Dell, Inc.
the setup, configuration and considerations associated with implementing this solution.

This white paper assumes a typical SMB environment with 5-10 Windows...
Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems Technical Consideration (Podcast) by Data Domain
This podcast explores the primary technological differences inherent in the various forms of data deduplication...
Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Back Up Systems: Technical Considerations (Webcast) by Data Domain
This webcast explores the primary technological differences inherent in the various forms of data deduplication...
Exploring the Return on Investment of Virtual Tape Library Deduplication Solutions: How HP StorageWorks Stands Up Against the Competition by Hewlett-Packard Company
and the D2D4112 deduplication appliance. Particularly in today's economy, costs and return on investment (ROI) often dominate product selection decisions...
Five Key Considerations for Evaluating the Scalability of Disk-based Backup Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup...
Reducing Storage Complexity with Sun Unified Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
IT organizations of all sizes are struggling to deal with the tremendous growth in data and the complexity of managing...
The Scalable Analytic Appliance: A Technical Overview by ParAccel
The Scalable Analytic Appliance (SAA), powered by ParAccel and EMC, is a tightly integrated analytic database appliance. It brings together the...
ESG Lab Validation Report: Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Backup to Disk Appliance by Dell, Inc.
is a fully integrated backup to disk appliance that offers reliable data protection with file level data deduplication and fast, drill-down recovery. The Dell...
Managing Backup and Archive Data with Data Domain and Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Integration by Data Domain
NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this...
Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Design Best Practices with Data Domain by Data Domain
NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this...
Ensuring Cost-effective, High-performance Storage Deployments for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environments by Hitachi Data Systems
Solution Brief includes nine key considerations for storage deployments to support your Microsoft Exchange environment. E-mail applications have become mission...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink
provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. A dizzying range of technology choices awaits IT...
File Virtualization with Greg Schulz by Iron Mountain Digital
Find out who should be using file virtualization and why. Get answers to questions about how file virtualization is...
Network-attached storage FAQ by EMC Corporation
network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. In this podcast, Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant...
Network-Attached Storage FAQ by EMC Corporation
network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse...
Leveraging Dell/EMC CX4 with Enterprise Flash Drives for Oracle Database Deployments by Dell, Inc.
paper examines the performance considerations of placing Oracle Databases on enterprise flash drives versus conventional hard disk drives, as well as discusses the...
MultiCare Health System Speeds Recovery of Data with SEPATON VTL and Data Deduplication by SEPATON
We never have to touch the SEPATON appliance. The SEPATON VTL appears to our backup software as a physical tape system. Our administrators are now free to perform...
IT Briefing: Improving Data Center Efficiency with Network and Storage Consolidation by Cisco Systems, Inc.
box, storage system, appliance, etc., and you put it in the data center. Unless you do a significant amount of planning, these new technologies haphazardly...
5 Key Considerations for Long Term Data Retention by Quantum Corporation
Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term...
LEARNING GUIDES
cross-section of midrange NAS arrays was selected based on input from industry analysts and SearchStorage.com editors. The specifications, which...
make a network-attached storage (NAS) system that would be easy to use and easy to manage.

Today's NAS products remain true to that guiding principle.

"The...

network-attached storage (NAS) to help cope with a load that would escalate from 100 GB to 1.7 TB, with much more on the horizon.

That's a classic scenario for...

After examining various SAN and NAS options, Buening selected a Fibre Channel-based IBM SAN built with IBM System Storage DS3400 arrays with an initial...