DATA SHEET - Designed around a revolutionary silicon-based storage architecture known as ioMemory, the ioDrive is the world's most advanced NAND clustering technology with performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks, giving you the power to improve both memory capacity and storage performance by up to one thousand times.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Environmental Compliance | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - With throughput and seek times faster than disk arrays, data centers are including NAND flash as part of their server infrastructure. Fusion-io offers solid state storage solutions with NAND flash that provides integrity for data exceeding today's solid state storage solutions and surpasses enterprise-class rotating magnetic storage devices.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Solid State Disks | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - In the automotive world, testing is part of the culture, and it extends to the IT team where initiatives are undertaken with scientific precision. Such was the case with SGF, a Bavarian maker of automobile parts that was seeking a storage management solution. As this Case Study shows, SGF found the perfect match with Northern Storage Suite.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Northern Storage Suite V8, Northern's latest release, meets the central challenge of designing practical storage strategies. It's highly customizable and can be tailored to fit any environment. With a better user experience, increased administrative efficiency and decreased costs, it's exactly what an SRM solution should offer.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Storage | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

BOOK - In chapter 13 of "Storage Area Networks For Dummies," important concepts of data de-duplication are detailed. The techniques described are designed to "lighten the load" of a company's data storage infrastructure, freeing up crucial storage space, and eliminating multiple instances of the same data.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Content Archiving | Data Storage | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

BOOK - In this chapter on Continuous Data Protection, you will learn how to use recent technical innovations to instantaneously recover data while enhancing overall data protection to make it faster, easier and more efficient.
Posted: February 10, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Backups | DAS | Disaster Recovery | LAN | SAN

WHITE PAPER - In this guide, OpenStorage best practices are examined and discussed to assist in eliminating the bottlenecks associated with deployment and functional testing of the solution.
Posted: January 30, 2009 | Published: January 30, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Domain Name Systems | NAS | RAID | Remote Computing | SAN

EGUIDE - This series of tips discusses the issues involved in integrating solid state drives at three junctions in enterprise storage environments.
Posted: December 19, 2008 | Published: December 19, 2008


Topics:  Hard Disk Drives | RAM | ROI | SAN | Storage Management | Windows

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Combining Microsoft Hyper-V technology with SCVMM 2008 on Dell platforms can help organizations create highly available virtualized systems while offering simplified management, dynamic performance, and reduced costs.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Productivity | SAN | Server Virtualization | SQL Server | TCP/IP | Vendors | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V introduces different options to implement HA for Hyper-V environments.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Enterprise | High Availability | Memory | Operating Systems | SAN | SMBs | Testing | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Center Management | DHCP | Enterprise | High Availability | Operating Systems | SAN | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Hardware | High Availability | NAS | RAID | SAN | Vendors