PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Built on Adaptec Unified Serial® (SATA/SAS) Series 5Z, Series 5 and Series 2 storage controller technology, High-performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) provide for maximum performance at the lowest capital investment and operating costs.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Hard Disk Drives | High Performance Computing | Solid State Disks | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Controllers

CASE STUDY - With a large IT backbone and growing backup challenges, Kronos decided it needed to upgrade its data protection infrastructure. After evaluating several alternatives, the company chose to deploy Quantum’s Scalar i2000 enterprise tape library.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Storage Capacity | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - The company’s previous tape system wasn’t meeting Cornerstone’s needs, particularly with 50 percent annual data growth. Cornerstone selected the Quantum Scalar i500 intelligent tape library platform due to its modularity, speed and the ability to move to LTO-4 tapes.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Integration | Database Management | Database Marketing | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Review the comparisons in this paper and learn the various ways that moving to disk-based backup and data protection solutions – as onsite software, SaaS or managed service – can be the smart move for your company.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Tape Backups | Tape Drive Controllers | Tape Drives | Tape Heads | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes. When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. Read this paper to learn other best practices on disk-to-disk technology and more.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Data Security | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs) offers dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance.
Posted: September 17, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Hard Disk Drives | High Availability | High Performance Computing | Server Hardware | Server Management | Solid State Disks | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - Spectra Logic, with 30 years experience in the field of high technology, is committed to protecting data - your data. Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain.
Posted: September 1, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Damaged or worn out tape cartridges can force you to recreate lost data, which can be costly or even impossible. How do you know which cartridges should be retired? This paper details how a cartridge memory chip inside a storage tape cartridge provides a wealth of information on the remaining viability of that cartridge.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 26, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Storage | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

CASE STUDY - The Gas Operations Division of Airgas has an extensive staff of mobile sales representatives and field technicians. IT was concerned about protecting vital business data on laptops. Airgas uses Iron Mountain Off-site Tape Vaulting to securely store tapes. IT found it had the features he needed to protect employee laptops properly.
Posted: August 20, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Laptop Computers | Mobile Device Management | Mobile Workers | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - One of the primary challenges that RXi Pharmaceuticals faced was backing up its data servers. RXi's IT consultant suggested Iron Mountain's LiveVault® online backup and restore solution for servers. After evaluation, RXi Pharmaceuticals implemented LiveVault in November 2008.
Posted: August 20, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Hard Disk Drives | Storage Security

ANALYST BRIEF - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: February 29, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

ANALYST BRIEF - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Encryption Standards | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - O'Neill is a lifestyle brand focused on boardriding products. To address its challenges with tape-based backups and growing data volumes, O'Neill turned to Data Domain.
Posted: May 26, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Direct PCI Express (PCIe) attached flash storage offers unparalleled performance levels and vastly outperforms SAS/SATA-attached flash storage solutions. However, such PCIe attached flash storage cards have many restrictions. Read this white paper to learn about an enhanced PCIe flash storage solution from Dolphin, in partnership with Fusion-IO.
Posted: May 12, 2009 | Published: May 12, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Mining | Data Warehouses | Flash Memory | Hard Disk Drives | RAID | Solid State Disks | Storage Hardware | Storage Management