Storage area network components and architecture

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Tiered Storage Best Practices for File Archiving by Hitachi Data Systems
a typical file-archiving system and details the software and hardware components that comprise a file-archiving architecture. He also explains best...
The Scalable Analytic Appliance: A Technical Overview by ParAccel
Appliance (SAA), powered by ParAccel and EMC, is a tightly integrated analytic database appliance. It brings together the performance and price-performance...
Dell Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture by Dell and Microsoft
based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are...
Implementing Virtualization in a Global Business-Computing Environment by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
Intel IT planned, engineered, and has implemented a virtualized business-computing production environment. This multi-year initiative has confirmed...
Business-Ready Configurations for Deploying and Using VMware Virtualization on Dell Blades and in iSCSI Storage Environments by Dell, Inc.
Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware Infrastructure™ provides a detailed reference architecture for deploying and using VMware...
Security through Maturity: A Brief on Securing iSCSI Networks by Dell, Inc.
and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components. If you are interested in implementing a robust, secure iSCSI SAN then it is...
Elements Of A C-4 Strategy: Mastering The Storage Issue by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
compliance, continuity and carbon footprint reduction. These C-4 issues will set the storage management agenda and throttle the options for IT...
Storage Magazine April 2009: The State of Replication by SearchStorage.com
stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to...
Storage Evolution: Leveraging and Revolutionizing your Storage Network by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
It's been estimated that Open Storage architectures will make up just under 12 % of the market by 2011, fueled by the industry's need for more scalable and...
SUN REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ORACLE 11g GRID by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
integration specialists, and other technical staff looking to design, implement, and tune database applications in a grid computing environment...
Not "Just a Switch" Anymore -- Data Center "Backbone" Architectures by Storage Decisions
visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in...
JSON SOA-based Client/Server Application Development by The Ajax Experience
data storage and dojo.rpc service components and using standard REST and JSON-RPC communication with a Persevere storage and JavaScript server. JSON is rapidly...
Sun's Open Network System for Web: Accelerating application performance and cost efficiency by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
effectively combines virtualized and consolidated networking and storage coupled with the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System - at half the cost of competitors...
Networking the Modern Data Center by SearchNetworking.com
the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work are all changing the way the data center should be...
Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
that encompasses the expansive storage capabilities while using a NFS infrastructure. A new set of challenges can arise when designing a Windows server...
MySQL Guide For Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
MySQL database servers using a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System. Configuration procedures are included, describing how to configure both the Sun Storage...
An Introduction to System i (IBM iSeries) High Availability - Get to Know the Core Components of HA Solutions and Important Installation Considerations by Vision Solutions
want to understand this technology and evaluates whether such a solution can become a cost-justifiable component of their backup and recovery strategy. In...
SMB data storage management by EMC Corporation
about iSCSI versus Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year ahead.

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Sun Solutions for MySQL Rich Media - Storage Solution Brief by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
supports unstructured content and structure your data with cost-effective building blocks based on Sun systems, MySQL™ database software, and open...
LEARNING GUIDES
on input from industry analysts and SearchStorage.com editors. The specifications, which were provided by the vendors, are current as of October 2008. They...
NAS) system that would be easy to use and easy to manage.

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

"The reality of the situation is that just...

disk -- mostly direct attached storage -- with another separate library of tape backup totaling 2-3 TB," he says. But over the past five years, operations grew to...