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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EMC Backs Up Macs By Paul Shread -
Published May 1, 2008
In a sign of how important the consumer market has become to EMC, the storage giant is extending its Mozy online backup service to Macs. [more Outsourcing News]
IBM Adds Online Storage to its Services Arsenal By Paul Shread -
Published April 29, 2008
Online storage services took the spotlight in IBM's new services product lineup this week, thanks to Big Blue's recent acquisition of online backup pioneer Arsenal Digital. [more Outsourcing News]
HP Upline Suffers Downtime By Paul Shread -
Published April 21, 2008
HP's new online backup service is off to a rough start. Update: HP says service back later this week. [more Outsourcing News]
IBM Simplifies Media Storage By Judy Mottl -
Published April 14, 2008
Big Blue's new service assesses data loads and storage demands to streamline media and entertainment storage operations.
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EMC Does Storage as a Service By Paul Shread -
Published January 22, 2008
EMC's first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering is a hosted backup service based on its Mozy acquisition.
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IBM Acquires Arsenal Digital By Paul Shread -
Published December 6, 2007
In a sign that the online backup market is maturing, IBM buys in and Hitachi goes to Iceland for green data archiving. HDS also hints at some intriguing data mobility technology.
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EMC Mozies Into Online Backup By Larry Barrett -
Published September 26, 2007
EMC will soon move into the online backup space with the acquisition of Mozy, according to sources.
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Big Blue Makes a Boo Boo By Nicholas Carlson -
Published May 17, 2007
IBM may preach encryption, but a lost data tape incident suggests the company doesn't practice it as much as it should. [more Outsourcing News]
IBM Scoops Up Softek By Paul Shread -
Published January 29, 2007
Big Blue moves to bolster its data services unit by acquiring the data mobility specialist. [more Outsourcing News]
Seagate Gets Into Recovery By Paul Shread -
Published December 21, 2006
The drive maker gets into the online backup space with the $185 million acquisition of EVault. [more Outsourcing News]
Amazon Launches Web Storage Service By Clint Boulton -
Published March 14, 2006
Amazon is the latest dot-com to enter the online storage space — with an offering aimed squarely at enterprises. [more Industry News]
EMC Plans New Services Portfolio By Clint Boulton -
Published December 9, 2005
Looking to improve an area where it has been traditionally weak, EMC next week will unveil a host of new storage services. [more Outsourcing News]
Big Blue Embraces Online Backup By Paul Shread -
Published March 21, 2005
IBM will launch new services next month to help businesses backup and retrieve critical data for faster recovery from a disaster or outage. [more Outsourcing News]
SwapDrive Deploys Decru DataFort to Provide Secure Data Storage Services Published January 31, 2003
SwapDrive customers can now use Decru's security appliance, DataFort E440, in the SwapDrive server environment to secure data. With DataFort, enterprises can safely store, share and manage data while keeping it protected against both internal and external threats.
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AlphaNet Opens Portal to Managed Enterprise Storage Services Published January 21, 2003
AlphaNet Solutions introduces its Managed Enterprise Storage Portal (MESP), a new managed storage offering enabling companies to seamlessly integrate and manage their storage assets across the enterprise while reducing the costs of IT operations.
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SMB Disaster Recovery Options Go Beyond Online Backup By Drew Robb -
Published September 19, 2007
Online backup is simple and cost-effective, but it's not an adequate backup solution for all small businesses. Setting up a complete replication site might be out of the question, but there is a wide middle ground. [more Outsourcing Features]
Energy Firm Opts for Online Backup By Lynn Haber -
Published May 11, 2007
When Vaalco Energy needed a data backup solution to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, the company opted for a managed services offering based on the Asigra Televaulting platform. [more Outsourcing Features]
What Storage Costs By Drew Robb -
Published January 26, 2007
It's more than you might think, according to one federal agency turned storage service provider. [more Outsourcing Features]
Brother, Can You Spare a Terabyte? By Jennifer Schiff -
Published September 28, 2006
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is making available more than 400 TB of disk space and even more archival tape space for academic and scientific data in search of a good home. [more Hardware Features]
Storage Basics: The Inside Scoop on Outsourcing By Mike Harwood -
Published August 24, 2004 On-demand, utility computing, outsourcing ... you've heard the buzzwords, but now get the real story on the pros and cons of signing on with a storage service provider. [more Outsourcing Features]
Resolving Finger-Pointing in Storage By Henry Newman -
Published April 22, 2004
When something goes awry in your data center, the worst thing that can happen is for one or more of your storage vendors to start pointing fingers at other vendors - or at you - but unfortunately, this happens quite frequently. Henry Newman uses a case study to offer tips and advice for effectively mitigating finger-pointing.
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Ask Your Recovery Services Vendor These Questions By Elizabeth M. Ferrarini -
Published April 25, 2002
Selecting a recovery services vendor is a complex process. Here are 10 questions you can use as a starting point to make sure you get the right recovery services company for your organization. [more Outsourcing Features]
Microsoft's Hailstorm : A Good Idea? By Brien M. Posey -
Published December 26, 2001
The idea behind Hailstorm is that for a subscription fee, Microsoft will store all of your data for you. Sounds good, but how many companies out there would trust Microsoft with its data? [more Outsourcing Features]
Paranoia is a good thing By Drew Bird -
Published September 12, 2001
Off-site storage is one of the challenges of the IT world. You want to keep data secure, and the best place for it is on site, but you also want that data off-site for disaster recovery purposes. The question is how to keep the data secure once it leaves the confines of the data center. [more Outsourcing Features]
Storage outsourcing gets mixed reviews from IT suits By Elizabeth Ferrarini -
Published March 28, 2001
Storage has blossomed into a plethora of storage-only outsourcing services beyond the traditional off-site vault for backups. These services range from backup variations--desktop-only, server, and real- time replication--to on-demand virtual storage utilities. [more Outsourcing Features]
Outsourcing Goes Beyond Storage for Dot-Coms By Elizabeth Ferrarini -
Published March 16, 2001
An IT outsourcing firm can handle all your infrastructure needs for you, taking the weight of hardware, switching equipment, and personnel off your back. [more Outsourcing Features]
The incredible amount of electronic data, and the need to keep it safe and accessible for industry and government compliance purposes, means storage is one of the hottest areas in tech today. Get everything you need to understand how storage works, from the basics to storage networks and beyond. 
