Ensuring Application Availability Whitepaper: Research indicates that 36 percent of enterprises indicate they will incur significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact if they have even an hour or less of downtime on their mission-critical applications. Almost 15 percent indicate they cannot tolerate any downtime. This whitepaper examines a field test of HP availability and recoverability solutions.
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Disaster-Proof Storage Video: At a high-tech ballistics center HP simulated a gas leak using real explosives to blow up a data center. Every system failed-over after the explosion in less than two minutes.
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HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication Whitepaper: The HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication (3DC) architecture provides data currency and consistency. It protects against both local and wide-area disasters by simultaneously supporting short-distance synchronous replication and long-distance asynchronous replication emanating from the same source volume.
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Remote Replication Best Practices for Oracle10g Using XP Continuous Access Whitepaper: This paper provides a comprehensive set of test-proven best practices for properly configuring, deploying, and operating an Oracle 10g database on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array (XP12000) in an HP-UX environment using HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software as the remote copy infrastructure.
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VMware Gets Into Recovery By Paul Shread -
Published May 12, 2008
VMware Site Recovery Manager helps virtualized server environments recover from disasters, and storage vendors are lining up to support the new offering. [more Management News]
EMC Sees Gold in Network Management By Erin Joyce -
Published May 7, 2008
The storage vendor is looking to build more business in the network configuration space with new product releases. Memo to HP? [more Management News]
Storage Users See Green in 'Green' IT By Judy Mottl -
Published April 11, 2008
Green storage drew a lot of attention at this week's SNW conference, and with good reason users are saving a bundle because of it.
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Microsoft Keeps Storage Users In Suspense By Paul Rubens -
Published February 25, 2008
Storage users will have to wait for Windows Storage Server 2008, but Server 2008 will give them plenty of storage features to play with until then.
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NetApp Ups the Virtual Ante By Paul Shread -
Published February 15, 2008
Amid a tough environment for IT spending, Network Appliance is making a play for VMware storage business.
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NetApp Spends Dinero on Onaro By Paul Shread -
Published January 3, 2008
Network Appliance is making a big move to boost its storage management and automation capabilities with the acquisition of Onaro.
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Power Struggles Take Center Stage at SNW By Marty Foltyn -
Published October 18, 2007
Storage users described their struggles with power and cooling issues at this week's Storage Networking World, and industry officials launched an initiative to try to help them.
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HP Aims to Make E-Discovery Easier By Dan Muse -
Published September 26, 2007
The systems vendor's Integrated Archival Platform pre-packages storage, server, search and policy-management software to help ensure you're compliant and prepared for your day in court. [more Management News]
Storage Vendors Take Aim at VMware By Paul Shread -
Published September 6, 2007
With VMworld fast approaching, storage vendors are busy trotting out their products for backing up virtual machines.
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F5 Files Away Acopia By Paul Shread -
Published August 6, 2007
With Acopia gone, Attune becomes the last standalone file virtualization startup.
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Symantec Supercharges SRM By Clint Boulton -
Published August 1, 2007
Symantec's latest CommandCentral storage resource management software offers better utilization and reporting, among other features. [more Management News]
Cisco Branches Out By Clint Boulton -
Published July 25, 2007
Cisco unveils new remote data management and security capabilities, along with new storage switches.
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CommVault Does It All By Paul Shread -
Published July 10, 2007
CommVault's latest data management software release includes single-instance storage, encryption, and search and classification. [more Management News]
Managing Storage in a Virtual World By Drew Robb -
Published March 20, 2008
Server and storage virtualization create greater efficiency and utilization, but they can also increase storage consumption and create their own management headaches. [more Management Features]
VMware's Storage Ambitions By Paul Rubens -
Published January 4, 2008
The server virtualization leader aims to manage everything in data centers with help from storage vendors.
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Is There Life After ILM? By Drew Robb -
Published November 16, 2007
Information Lifecycle Management was once the hottest buzzword in the storage industry. Where is it now?
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Making Sense of VMware Storage Options By Greg Schulz -
Published September 25, 2007
Storage vendors have been rushing to market with products that support VMware. We give you some issues to consider as you take a closer look at them.
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Using Fear to Sell Storage By Henry Newman -
Published August 21, 2007
Storage vendors use your fear of data disaster to sell you their products. We give you three rules to follow to make sure you get beyond the hype and get what you need.
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'Green' Is Hot for Storage Managers By Marty Foltyn -
Published August 14, 2007
Soaring energy costs aren't the only reason for storage managers to be concerned about green issues. A growing number of environmental laws and regulations are targeting IT issues. [more Management Features]
Is There Intelligent Life in Storage? By Drew Robb -
Published July 31, 2007
Early signs of intelligence are finding their way into RAID data protection, switch platforms and disk arrays, with much more in the pipeline. Vendors and users are lining up, but do they see eye to eye?
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File Virtualization For Dummies By Jennifer Schiff -
Published May 24, 2007
Acopia's intelligent file virtualization system helps the publisher of the "Dummies" book series get a handle on all its data. [more Management Features]
Virtualization Gets Real at SNW By Drew Robb -
Published April 19, 2007
Storage virtualization can make a big difference if done wisely, according to users and vendors at Storage Networking World. [more Management Features]
Getting Your Storage Needs Met By Leslie Wood -
Published January 5, 2007
Be it dedicated storage teams, trained personnel or having the right tools, there are a number of ways to get the storage management help your organization needs. [more Management Features]