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Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership
| sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST:
David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage...
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 24 Dec 2008
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FAQ Guide on Solid State Technology
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
PODCAST:
This Podcast takes a look at solid state drive (SSD) technology and how it may benefit consumers, especially enterprise infrastructures.
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 16 Dec 2008
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Balancing System Cost and Data Value: With Sun StorageTek Tiered Storage Systems for Oracle® Transaction Processing Applications
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This Sun BluePrint article demonstrates how to design tiered storage systems to meet specific RAS and data access requirements.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC
| sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
BOOK:
This article is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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IT Briefing: Virtualization and Blades: Why Together Now?
| sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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This document describes virtualization and blades and why they are such good implementation partners today, as well as why now is a good time to implement these two technologies separately and together.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation
| sponsored by Incentra Solutions
WHITE PAPER:
Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power and operating costs.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance
| sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PRESENTATION:
This presentation introduces the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Minimize Risk with Sun StorageTek T1000b Tape Drive
| sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST:
The Sun StorageTek T1000KB tape drive delivers the industry's highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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Ensure Data Protection with Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drives
| sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST:
Learn how Sun StorageTek T-series tape drives use a Crypto-Key Management System to encrypt data, and how Volsafe technology helps your business meet electronic, regulatory, and legal requirements.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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1TB Tape Drive
| sponsored by Sun StorageTek
VIDEOCAST:
In this videocast Thomas Wultich explains how the industry's first 1 TB tape drive can help drive efficiencies, protect your investment, minimize risk, and ensure data protection.
Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2008
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PODCAST: Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments
| sponsored by Dell, Inc.
PODCAST:
Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 08 Sep 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Family
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST:
The new HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Arrays offer the best price-performance features for direct attach environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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HP StorageWorks All-in-One Systems
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST:
Manage, grow and protect your expanding data storage environment with HP's radically simple, affordable, and reliable network storage solutions for smaller IT environments.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments
| sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST:
Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments.
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Transform Your Desktop with Virtualization: VDI solutions from AMD, HP and VMware
| sponsored by VMware, Inc.
PODCAST:
Sensitive data sitting on end user machines, roaming laptops and a workforce that's distributed around the world makes it difficult to manage and support your users while maintaining compliance and security.
Posted: 24 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 24 Jun 2008
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D2D2T Backup Architectures and the Impact of Data De-duplication
| sponsored by Quantum Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Automate Application Recovery
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
New automated application recovery products, geared toward SMBs, keep Exchange running 24/7.
Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution
| sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper examines the pros and cons of tape and disk-based storage and presents a cost analysis of ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk.
Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Case Study: New York Mets Add Deduplication to Their Roster
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
New York's "other" baseball team installed deduplication appliances in the first stage of retooling its backup processes.
Posted: 26 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Sync Up Virtual Servers and Storage
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
As deployments of virtualized servers proliferate in enterprise IT environments, there are growing concerns associated with creating, managing and protecting these newly created virtual machines (VMs).
Posted: 18 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Best Storage Products of 2007
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
If there's a lesson to be learned from the 2007 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year, it's that vendors can't rest on their laurels.
Posted: 18 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Where Encryption Fits Best
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
There are numerous places to embed encryption into your backup infrastructure. Considering key management and performance issues, here are our recommendations.
Posted: 14 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
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CDP in Depth
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
As continuous data protection (CDP) is integrated into backup environments, implementations may become complex and you may find that one CDP program doesn't meet all of your needs.
Posted: 18 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
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Upstart Tops NAS Vendors
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
In the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, top NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but BlueArc emerged as the surprise winner.
Posted: 29 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Editorial: Two Smart Guys
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Most of the emails and phone calls I get from vendors and PR people feature overblown phrases like "industry-leading," and are peppered with the typical tech litany of something being the first, fastest, biggest and so on.
Posted: 14 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007
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Rein in NAS with File Virtualization
| sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE:
As file servers multiply, they become more difficult to manage. File virtualization appliances make it much easier to migrate files and recapture stranded storage capacity.
Posted: 14 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007
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