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Warner Music Group boosts production, improves operational efficiencies with F5 Acopia

Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 Acopia ARX Devices To meet its storage growth challenges, Warner Music Group deployed a pair of ARX6000 devices in a fault-tolerant cluster configuration, virtualizing several EMC Celerra NAS devices.

Understanding clustered NAS

Network Attached Storage are dedicated file storage servers. In this video, Sathish Murthy, technical consultant with NetApp Asia, discusses the development of NAS and the evolution of clustered NAS. He cites some industries and applications for which NAS and clustered NAS are best suited.

NAS FAQs for SMBs

Network Attached Storage lets SMBs gain better utilization of their storage infrastructure without the expensive budgets that come with SAN and DAS. Sunil Chavan, director of Content & File Services for Hitachi Data Systems, discusses the most frequently asked questions among NAS for SMBs.

2008 Products of the Year Winners: Networking Equipment

The annual SearchStorage and Storage Magazine product of the year awards have been announced. The winners in the Networking Equipment Category are...

Hot Spots: Scale-out NAS poised for growth

The compelling economic benefits of deploying scale-out NAS have the technology increasing its footprint in the general storage space.

Network Attached Storage Bible - a SearchStorageAsia eGuide

Nothing without money! That is what you get when you need help. As an old friend used to remind me: nothing’s free in this world! Well, we hoped to change the rules here at SearchStorageAsia. This is our 10th free eGuide and our topic for this issue is Network-attached Storage or NAS.

Can you discuss other trends that impact NAS?

It's the 'iceberg analogy.' Transactional data may be above water and get your attention, but the tremendous amount of unstructured...

Researchers wrangle petabytes of data storage with NAS, tape

Scientists at Cern's LHC say dozens of petabytes require custom-built NAS systems and data migration software, but commercial tape drives are mostly up to snuff.

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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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