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A closer look on cloud storage SLAs

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.

Best practices: cloud storage

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.

Hitachi Data Systems CTO talks about the future

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.

Cloud data backup paves the way for cloud storage adoption

Market research shows that cloud storage adoption has been slow to pick up and what little activity there is lies with cloud data backup.

A rundown of private cloud storage hardware and software today

Cloud storage has been around for some time now and more and more cloud providers have come up. This guide tackles the major hardware and software advancements in the private cloud storage space.

Storage news summary March 9 2010

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.

Symantec reveals mid-year plans

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.

Storage news summary March 2 2010

IBM extends its data deduplication; Dot Hill Systems ships next generation SAN series; Bus-Tech launches MDL VTL version 7; QourumLabs improves business continuity system.

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The difference between backup and archive

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.

Simpana Software - a unique cloud-enabled platform

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.

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Cloud computing in measured steps

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.

Could Iomega be the answer to USSA's dreams for gold

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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A Byte of Knowledge

RAID should die

I was watching "2012" last night. As buildings crumbled it dawned on me that all the world's information - including what I am writing now - is stored on technology that is over 20 years old. RAID! And nothing has changed much. Why?

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Is best of breed dying?

Recently I've noticed that vendors like IBM, Oracle, SAP and EMC have started using the term "single vendor" suggesting a return to the days of single-source. Is "best of breed" a thing of the past? Why?

Learning Guides

Storage management in the Cloud

Ask a dozen people what their perception of Cloud Storage is and you would probably get a dozen different answers. Public Storage Clouds and Private Storage Clouds create a further element of confusion.

Best practices for data recovery

Events such as technical failure, virus attack, deliberate sabotage or employee error can destroy valuable data. Organizations must plan for data recovery and implement mechanisms for managing the data recovery process.

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