TRIAL SOFTWARE - The Sun Unified Storage Simulator is a VMware virtual machine that provides a simulated experience of the Sun Storage 7000 products on a virtual machine with sixteen simulated disk drives.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Disk Drives | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - This document is based on a Data Domain/TechTarget webcast entitled "De-dupe and Disk Backups--What You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge."
Posted: November 25, 2008 | Published: November 25, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Databases | Disk Backups | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides many different capabilities to improve these processes each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Posted: November 25, 2008 | Published: November 24, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | RAID | SAN | Tape Drives | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper compares the benefits and challenges involved with the development of high-density packaging, signaling, and management of hundreds of 2.5-inch small form factor disk drives.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Cooling Capacity | Disk Drives | Power Supplies | RAID | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | Storage Management

PRESENTATION - This document explains the 3rd Era of Commercial Computing and its characteristics.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | NAS | Operating Systems | RAID

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a five-step roadmap for standardizing and optimizing organization within both low and high density enclosure, with special emphasis on how to plan for higher densities.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disk Drives | Networking | Rack Enclosures | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power and operating costs.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - Green is the new buzzword in the storage industry; practically every advertisement has a green component to it.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Industry

PRESENTATION - This document explains what Solid State Disk is, when you need it, why it is so popular, and the future of SSD.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Disk Drives | Enterprise | Integrated Circuits | SAN | Solid State Disks | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage Decisions session (New York 2008) that explores the advantages for companies using tape backup to move to deduplication-based disk systems for onsite backup storage.
Posted: November 18, 2008 | Published: November 18, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Management Services | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This article provides an overview of the Atrato system's unique approach to eliminate drive tending and minimize risk of data loss for a three-year operational lifetime.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Disk Drives | ERP | RAID | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper presents the power consumption characteristics of several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Storage | Disk Drives | SAN | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Ocarina Optimizer and Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile.
Posted: November 13, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Warehouses | NAS | SAN | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a quick review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

DATA SHEET - Read this paper to learn how the Sun StorageTek T10000B enterprise tape drive blends highest capacity, reliability, performance, and data security to support demanding, 24x7 datacenter operations.
Posted: November 4, 2008 | Published: November 4, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Encryption | Data Management | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Productivity | Tape Drives | TCO