ANALYST REPORT - This special report provides an overview of the benefits of SSDs within storage environments, as well as the how SSDs have evolved into a key component of many storage infrastructures today. This report also highlights the various vendors in the SSD space.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2010


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Hard Disk Drives | Hard Disks | Solid State Disks

PODCAST - A virtual tape library can improve tape utilization, processing performance and enhance the value of current tape hardware and media investments. Listen to this podcast to learn the basics of virtual tape libraries, tips on reducing storage tape costs and how and why you should apply VTL to your storage and backup decisions.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Premiered: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Drives | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper will demonstrate differ­ences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instanta­neous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a work­ing system under a true enterprise workload.
Posted: March 1, 2010 | Published: February 25, 2010


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Hard Disk Drives | Hard Disks | Solid State Disks

WHITE PAPER - Since the cost comparison between tape and disk is obviously far more complex than the media itself, this brief outlines all the considerations necessary for a more complete understanding of the benefit and true cost comparison between tape and disk to help IT professionals choose and justify their backup environment.
Posted: February 25, 2010 | Published: February 23, 2010


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - For IT professionals, disk-based backup is becoming an increasingly attractive alter­native to slow and cumbersome tape backup in the data center. Virtual Tape Librar­ies (VTLs) bridge the two technologies – combining modern disk backup with tradi­tional tape infrastructure.
Posted: February 19, 2010 | Published: February 19, 2010


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Fibre Channel SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

WEBCAST - A virtual tape library (VTL) can improve tape utilization, processing performance and enhance the value of current tape hardware and media investments. View this webcast to learn the basics of virtual tape libraries, tips on reducing storage tape costs and how and why you should apply VTL to your storage and backup decisions.
Posted: February 17, 2010 | Premiered: February 17, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Drives | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication.
Posted: February 11, 2010 | Published: February 11, 2010


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | SCSI Controllers | Serial ATA | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure

EBOOK - Hitachi Data Systems Storage Virtualization for Dummies sheds new light on storage virtualization technologies while dispelling common myths. In this book, you’ll learn how to select, architect and deploy today’s most powerful storage technologies, while drastically reduce storage costs. Learn how.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Storage Capacity | Storage Controllers | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the problem of allocated, but unused, storage—the storage that has already been assigned to applications and file systems, but has not actually be written to. It also considers the high tax organizations pay to provision storage in typical environments.
Posted: January 15, 2010 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - The EMC® CLARiiON® AX4 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations looking for an alternative to server-based storage. The AX4 delivers performance, scalability, and advanced data management features in one, easy-to-use storage solution.
Posted: December 15, 2009 | Published: December 14, 2009


Topics:  Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Controllers | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | VMware

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Please read this presentation transcript, in which Andrew Burton, features editor for searchstorage.com, interviews Greg Shulz, Founder and Senior Analyst with Storage Dial Group, about RAIDS. Shulz will provide a synopsis of the different RAID levels, their characteristics and when to use each level?
Posted: December 8, 2009 | Published: December 7, 2009


Topics:  Data Mirroring | Data Replication | Data Storage | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | RAID

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Organizations are often challenged by the need for a “mixed” data protection strategy that includes VCB or esXpress, agent-based backups of VMs, and backups of non-VMware systems. Quantum provides a broad portfolio of highly scalable disk and tape solutions designed to meet the data protection needs of any VMware environment.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

EBOOK - Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.
Posted: August 11, 2009 | Published: August 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disk Drives | RAID | SCSI Devices | Solid State Disks | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Windows Server 2003

EGUIDE - This expert E-Guide from the writers at SearchServerVirtualization.com brings you up-to- date on the latest virtualization developments and explains how they can benefit your IT shop.
Posted: December 17, 2008 | Published: December 17, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Blade Servers | Disaster Recovery | Disk Drives | ERP | Server Virtualization | VMware