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As organizations look for ways to lower costs, while still gaining from the benefit of shared storage technology, the choice between an iSCSI and FCoE solution continues to be pitted in IT boardrooms. How is the battleline forming? We ask David Dale, NetApp's industry standards director and chair of the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum.
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Very few SRM companies offer products designed to simplify the task of storage management while providing the extended visibility. Solutions currently available tend to be far outside the budget range of the majority of businesses, and SolarWinds sees the opportunity to change the dynamic within the SRM market.
As organizations look for ways to lower costs, while still gaining from the benefit of shared storage technology, the choice between an iSCSI and FCoE solution continues to be pitted in IT boardrooms. How is the battleline forming? We ask David Dale, NetApp's industry standards director and chair of the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum.
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Cloud storage service-level agreements (SLAs) will often detail guarantees on uptime but that is usually not the case with data availability and protection. Negotiating the SLA is key.
Having second thoughts on cloud storage implementation? Read about five best practices covering what you need to know on service-level agreement (SLA), pricing, and setting it all up.
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The improvement reduces costs and maximizes existing storage investments using a single, simplified management interface.
Hitachi Data Systems chief technical officer, Hu Yoshida, discusses his take on the future of Hitachi Data Systems with regards to Sun, future plans, and upcoming challenges.
Customers finally get what they ask for when 3PAR includes solid-state drive and automated sub-volume tiered storage to its InServ storage arrays.
The U.S. Department of Energy has opted to make use of Atrato's self-healing disk arrays in one of their projects on server virtualization.
NetApp unveils new design guides for building cloud storage offerings; HP and IBM now sell Emulex FCoE adapters; QLogic's 8100 Series CNAs gets certified by Cisco.
Iron Mountain and LiveOffice are now offering hybrid cloud data archiving services which allows their customers to store their data in-house while also handing a copy for storage off-site.
The fourth-generation, 3.5-inch Seagate Constellation ES drive family for 7200-RPM enterprise environments enables cost-effective, highly efficient storage with capacities of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB.
Symantec is planning on launching new software called Data Insight which will be integrated with the company's other products to link IT resources with data owners.
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selecting the right data protection vendor
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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
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People have the perception that backup is nothing more than just making a copy of your data. Andrew Martin, vice president for Asia Pacific with BakBone Software, argues that your backup strategy have to include other areas. He also explains that while backup is well known, many are still confused with new technology developments that flow from backup technology.
