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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Storage and the Small Business
Small and mid-sized businesses are the fastest-growing segment of the storage market, but their needs can be quite different than their enterprise counterparts.
Storage As A Service Catches On
With EMC, IBM, Dell and Google moving into online backup and e-mail archiving, the storage services market may have finally arrived.
Compliance, Regulation And Storage
Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA don't have to be the death knell for companies concerned about retaining files, as vendors step up to comfort them with new products.
Tackling Storage Management
Taking a look at the relevant and often complex management issues encountered in today's storage industry.
The Storage Security Series
This series takes an in-depth look at the state of storage security, and includes articles that address what you can do today to protect your storage investments and what technologies are on the horizon to help improve security.
Storage Case Studies
The Storage Case Studies series presents in-depth looks at how enterprises of various types have tackled and conquered specific storage challenges.
Benchmarking Storage Systems
Storage benchmarks are widely cited by vendors, yet benchmark components like hardware and software can have a significant effect on the performance, reliability and price of the storage system. In this ongoing series, we outline the changes and controversies of storage benchmarks to better arm storage consumers.
The Storage Basics Series
Specifically designed for the storage newcomer, the Storage Basics series introduces readers to relevant storage topics with easy-to-understand articles. The series is also useful for those interested in quickly learning about specific storage topics.
A Trip Down the I/O Data Path
Henry Newman's monthly column takes an in-depth look at the I/O data path from the application through the operating system.
The Storage Outlook
We delve into our crystal ball and reveals what the future holds for storage technologies and the storage industry in general.
NAS and Shared File Systems
NAS may be cheaper, but sometimes the extra performance of a shared file system may be worth it.
Storage in the Mid-Range
Nurtured over the past decade in the relative affluence of large data center budgets, SAN solutions are now poised to penetrate the vast middle market. This series looks at how new, lower cost storage technologies are spurring the adoption of SANs by SMBs.
The Storage Focus Series
The Storage Focus series offers in-depth examination of specific enterprise storage topics. The series
is designed to provide more advanced instruction than our Storage Basics series.
Storage Interviews
Industry heavyweights chime in on the state of the storage industry and offer their perspective on the developments and challenges that will shape the future of enterprise storage.
