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Cisco MDS Director Rated Best for Reliability and Performance by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Performance in the Director Class Storage Area Networks Switch Industry Assessment. This paper explains the features Cisco MDS has that led to that award. Miercom...
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...
Storage Choices for Virtual Server Environments by EMC Corporation
using preexisting Fibre Channel storage area networks. For IT professionals who will either upgrade or deploy a new storage environment to support server...
Cisco MDS along with other Datacenter 3.0 products enable large research university to scale and reduce cost by Cisco Systems, Inc.
to market faster. The Cisco MDS Storage Area Networking (SAN) technologies enable the University to virtualize data storage resources across the infrastructure...
SUN REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ORACLE 11g GRID by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
environment.

It provides an overview of database deployment challenges and options, and describes how Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g Grid...
Storage Network Performance -- The Weakest Link by Storage Decisions
the successful deployment of these storage network technologies. People often point to performance as a major benefit of a Storage Network infrastructure. But...
Sun's Open Network System for Web: Accelerating application performance and cost efficiency by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
and consolidated networking and storage coupled with the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System - at half the cost of competitors. Read this white paper for more...
Replay AppImage Helps The Villiage Restore Any Exchange Object With a Few Simple Clicks of a Mouse by AppAssure Software
network infrastructure, data storage and security, as well as all the backend applications necessary to support our clients. Our mission statement is: “We...
E-Guide: Mainframe Storage Overview by Data Domain
by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup. There are many advantages to using a...
E-Guide: An Overview of Mainframe Storage by Data Domain
by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup. There are many advantages to using a...
Replication Alternatives for DR by Storage Decisions
There are a variety ways of implementing replication, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, and within a wide...
Industry Report: Virtual Infrastructure Optimization by Virtual Instruments
This industry article presents an overview of virtual infrastructure optimization, answering common questions and exploring core capabilities...
Overview Webcast - Storage Strategy for a Down Economy: Stop Buying Storage by Symantec Corporation
how you can utilize your existing storage assets to gain efficiency. In this economic climate many things may be uncertain. But, one thing is certain; your business...
Achieving PCI DSS v1.2 Compliance with Lumension by Lumension
This Whitepaper gives you a quick overview of all 12 PCI DSS requirements, broken down by function. It then goes in-depth about how Lumension solutions can achieve...
Why VirtualWisdom When You Have Other Monitoring Tools? by Virtual Instruments
and address early symptoms of storage infrastructure issues, thus having the potential to affect application performance and availability.

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Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Environment on Dell PowerEdge Blades and Dell EqualLogic Storage by Dell, Inc.
and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays. This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5...
Tipcast: Do you really need continuous data protection? by FalconStor Software
by FalconStor, gives an in-depth overview of continuous data protection (CDP). Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) that CDP...
A Technical Overview of the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server by Oracle Corporation
architecture to enable a dynamic storage grid for Oracle Database 11g deployments. The HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server is a revolutionary high-performance...
The Scalable Analytic Appliance: A Technical Overview by ParAccel
set common in today's midrange SAN storage systems. The Scalable Analytic Appliance (SAA), powered by ParAccel and EMC, is a tightly integrated analytic database...
Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun™ Logical Domains by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical...
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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LEARNING GUIDES
set out to 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...

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...