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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Sun Also Rises on SSDs By Judy Mottl -
Published June 4, 2008
Following on EMC's heels, the vendor plans to push solid state technology throughout its storage portfolio.
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Blue Coat Picks Up Packeteer By Sean Michael Kerner -
Published April 22, 2008
The acquisition will boost Blue Coat's WAN optimization and acceleration offerings and add WAFS technology too.
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Intel, LSI Promise RAID Breakthrough By Paul Shread -
Published April 9, 2008
Intel and LSI say they plan to change how RAID is deployed on servers and workstations, but users will have to wait for details.
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Tapping PC Resources for Storage Needs By Judy Mottl -
Published January 15, 2008
RevStor has come up with the storage equivalent of a computing grid, tapping unused disk space in PCs to create a storage network.
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EMC Goes Solid State By Paul Shread -
Published January 14, 2008
The storage giant adds solid state drives and thin provisioning to its high-end Symmetrix arrays.
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Imation Doubles Tape's Capacity By Paul Shread -
Published January 11, 2008
Imation has developed technology that could double the storage capacity of data tapes, but the company first has to find OEMs to develop the drives for it. [more Technology News]
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]
NetApp Sues Sun By Paul Shread -
Published September 5, 2007
Network Appliance claims that Sun's ZFS file system technology infringes on seven NetApp patents.
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Call/Recall Pushes Optical Limits By Paul Shread -
Published June 25, 2007
A private company with roots in Bell Labs hopes to put optical storage on the enterprise map with new technology that squeezes 1TB on a single disk and offers transfer rates that compete with hard disk drives. [more Technology News]
Data Robotics Makes Storage Simple By Paul Shread -
Published June 6, 2007
The low-end startup with a high-end NAS pedigree hopes to revolutionize data storage with what it calls 'the world's first storage robot.' [more Technology News]
NetApp Dedupes Customers By Clint Boulton -
Published May 17, 2007
Network Appliance has added de-duplication to its primary storage systems, with virtual tape slated for the feature at a later date. [more Technology News]
EMC Researches Data Solutions By Clint Boulton -
Published May 8, 2007
The storage giant has established a global community of company researchers and university partners to solve challenges posed by the information explosion. [more Technology News]
Storewiz Squeezes Data By Paul Shread -
Published March 9, 2007
Storewiz hopes to make a splash in the data storage market with a unique compression approach. [more Technology News]
Holographic Storage Appears By Paul Shread -
Published January 4, 2007
InPhase is shipping its first holographic storage drives and media, turning a 40-year-old dream into reality. [more Technology News]
Mellanox Marries InfiniBand, Ethernet By Paul Shread -
Published November 16, 2006
The InfiniBand chipmaker's next-generation architecture also supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI, creating a unified architecture. [more Technology News]
Gear6 Speeds Up Storage By Paul Shread -
Published October 19, 2006
The startup hopes to boost NAS performance with a first-of-its-kind centralized storage caching solution. [more Technology News]
Cisco Reaches for the Remote By Paul Shread -
Published September 5, 2006
The networking giant is the latest to combine wide area file services with optimization and acceleration to tame branch office sprawl. [more Technology News]
Sepaton De-Dupes Customers By Paul Shread -
Published May 5, 2006
Sepaton says its de-duplication technology can reduce storage capacity needs by a factor of 25 without affecting backup performance. [more Technology News]
What Is Web 2.0 Storage? By Dave Rowell -
Published July 18, 2008
Everyone's talking about storage systems designed to meet the exploding data needs of Web 2.0 companies, but what will these systems look like, and what kind of data requires such a system?
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? By Henry Newman -
Published May 29, 2008
Despite the outcry from the open source faithful, Linux file systems will require some changes to handle the 100 TB environments that will become commonplace in the not too distant future.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Gearing Up For Solid State By Henry Newman -
Published May 2, 2008
Flash-based solid state drives are beginning to show up in enterprise storage, and while promising for high-performance applications, they have some reliability issues that must be addressed.
[more Technology Features]
Moving Beyond the Benchmark Brouhaha By Greg Schulz -
Published April 2, 2008
A look at the reasons behind the refusal of EMC and other storage vendors to participate in benchmarks — and a suggestion for improving the usefulness of benchmarks.
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The Future of NFS Arrives By Henry Newman -
Published March 27, 2008
NFSv4.1 and Parallel NFS will finally bring the 24-year-old protocol into the high-speed networking age.
[more SANs/NAS Features]
Cisco, Brocade See One Big Happy Fabric By Dave Rowell -
Published March 19, 2008
The top switch vendors see data center fabrics converging — and they're developing platforms to be at the center of it all when it happens.
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RAID Turns Rad By Jennifer Schiff -
Published March 12, 2008
RAID pioneer Garth Gibson discusses Tiered Parity, the latest step in the storage technology's evolution.
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Building a Perfect Storage World By Henry Newman -
Published March 3, 2008
If users, vendors and standards bodies all got along, this is what the storage world might look like.
[more Technology]
I/O, I/O, It's Off to Virtual Work We Go By Greg Schulz -
Published December 3, 2007
I/O virtualization and converged I/O networks offer users the promise of greater efficiency for their server and storage networks. We look at some of the vendors and protocols that promise to make unified data center fabrics a reality.
[more Technology Features]
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.
[more Management Features]
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.
[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?
[more Management Features]
The Real Cost of Storage By Henry Newman -
Published April 25, 2007
When power, cooling, performance and reliability are considered, SATA may not have much of a cost advantage over Fibre Channel after all. [more Hardware 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. 
