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| Guest Column: The BDevent Gives Attendees A Billion Dollar Lesson | Not many individuals have ever had the opportunity to be worth $1B. Fewer still have had the opportunity to lose a billion dollars over the course of their lifetime. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. | 07/27/2010 | 22.8 KB |
| Guest Column: LTO-5 With LTFS Gives Tape A New Lease On Life | It is funny how this industry changes almost from week to week. Sometimes there is so much activity going on you do not even know where to start. Other times (like during holiday shortened weeks such as this one), it is difficult to find anything really noteworthy to write about. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc. | 07/27/2010 | 24.5 KB |
| Case Study: Ellis Medicine Lowers Compliance Risk With Integrated End-To-End Data And Security Management Solution From CommVault And McAfee | In 2009, Ellis Medicine was the only hospital in the state and one of only 76 nationwide to be ranked among the top five percent of U.S. hospitals for both patient safety and clinical excellence, according to a study conducted by HealthGrades, a leading national healthcare ratings company. By CommVault Systems | 07/26/2010 | 226.0 KB |
| Datasheet: Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS/6010SVX | The Dell™ EqualLogic™ family of virtualized iSCSI SANs are designed to provide responsive, reliable support to end users; while increasing efficiency and decreasing the cost of data management. The PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS are two high-performance offerings in the PS6000 family created to support the data availability requirements of tiered applications. | 07/23/2010 | 238.3 KB |
| White Paper: Dell EqualLogic PS Series Network Performance Guidelines | A PS Series group is an iSCSI SAN consisting of one or more PS Series storage arrays (group members) connected to an IP network and managed as a single system. This Technical Report provides network requirements and performance recommendations for a PS Series group. By Dell Inc. | 06/25/2010 | 473.8 KB |
| White Paper: Configuring VMware® vSphere Software iSCSI With Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage | VMware® vSphere™ offers many new and advanced enhancements to the iSCSI software initiator in conjunction with iSCSI SAN connectivity. Many of these new features require advanced configuration in order to work properly. By Dell Inc. | 06/25/2010 | 858.8 KB |
| Article: 10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI And Fibre Channel In A Single Network Fabric | The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations now have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments. By Achmad Chadran, Gaurav Chawla, Ujjwal Rajbhandari | 06/25/2010 | 1.20 MB |
| White Paper: PS Series Deployment – Configuring And Deploying The Dell Equallogic Multipath I/O Device Specific Module | High availability of data is a requirement for many businesses today to ensure protection against system/device faults as well as increasing performance for workload demands. Achieving this level of availability is sometimes a challenging and daunting task for server and storage administrators. By Dell Inc. | 06/24/2010 | 267.0 KB |
| Article: Mixing Gigabit Ethernet And 10 Gigabit Ethernet In A Dedicated SAN Infrastructure | The recent availability of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and the expected enhanced Ethernet standards such as Data Center Bridging (DCB) present an opportunity for administrators to transition to a consolidated Ethernet infrastructure. The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches. By Tony Ansley | 06/24/2010 | 1.07 MB |
| Guest Column: Data Insight Seeks To Answer The Most Basic Data Classification Question Of All: Who Owns The Data? | Over the last few years I thought I had seen just about every (well, maybe not every but most) automated eDiscovery, data classification, data management, data preservation and search engine technology on the market. By Jerome M Wendt | 06/23/2010 | 30.8 KB |
| Guest Column: Two Tips To Help Businesses Meet Their Forecasted 260 GB Per Person Needs Of 2011 | Businesses that think they are sheltered from data growth better think again. Recent statistical evidence suggests that by 2011 every man, woman and child on the globe will each consume over 260 GBs of data. By Jerome M Wendt | 06/23/2010 | 33.4 KB |
| Guest Column: Can Fibre Channel (FC) Go The Distance? | I have been a long running Fibre Channel (FC) enthusiast since I deployed my first two SAN switches back in 1999 but it seems that since then basic facts about FC have gotten lost along the way. By Tim Anderson | 06/23/2010 | 25.0 KB |
| Guest Column: Knowing When To Call It Quits On Virtualization | I have recently heard it said that server virtualization is to data centers what marijuana is to other drugs: a "stepping stone" or "gateway" drug. After all, once you start down the path of server virtualization, at what point do you quit and stop virtualizing the rest of the infrastructure? By Jerome M Wendt | 06/23/2010 | 27.7 KB |
| White Paper: Solid State Disks And Storage Tiering | Standard hard disk drives (HDDs) are spinning disks, and their mechanical actions can create a delay in data retrieval. Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an exciting improvement in disk technology - made of silicon memory chips and with no moving parts, SSDs have no rotational delay and near zero seek time, dramatically reducing response times. By Dell Inc. | 06/21/2010 | 240.6 KB |
| Success Story: St. John's Hospital | St. John’s IT department backs up differential changes in data daily, and conducts weekly full backups. The hospital stores more than 20TB for full backups, duplicates those backups to tape, then takes them offsite for Disaster Recovery (DR) practices. By Spectra Logic Corporation | 06/18/2010 | 260.6 KB |
| Success Story: Community Health Systems | Community Health Systems (CHS) is one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care hospitals. The organization’s affiliates own, operate or lease more than 130 hospitals in 28 states, with an aggregate of nearly 18,700 licensed beds. By Spectra Logic Corporation | 06/17/2010 | 243.2 KB |
| White Paper: Tape Storage TCO | This paper focuses on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a product or solution. To the point, it will concentrate on the short and long-term cost factors associated with owning or operating your gear and why you should be thinking about them when you buy. By Spectra Logic Corporation | 06/17/2010 | 106.6 KB |
| White Paper: Active Archive: Front-End File System For Tape And Disk | Tape has come back into its own, with the advent of new hardware and software that lets tape act like disk. This completes the cycle, with tape initially used like disk for mainframes. In that context, tape served as storage of data to be acted on, and was loaded into the computer only for manipulation. By Spectra Logic Corporation | 06/17/2010 | 234.3 KB |
| Success Story: Versus | Versus archives thousands of hours of high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) broadcast digital media content. The company must also operate a constant archive of all digital media content. By Spectra Logic Corporation | 06/17/2010 | 236.4 KB |
| Success Story: NASA Langley | In 2003, NASA Langley focused on the upcoming MER Spirit landing, scheduled for January 3, 2004. Langley was responsible for multiple aspects of the MER project, including analysis of Spirit’s entry, descent and landing data. By Spectra Logic Corporation | 06/16/2010 | 466.1 KB |
| White Paper: Leverage Disk And Tape Synergies To Maximize Storage ROI Via Deduplication | With the introduction of low-cost, high-capacity disk drives has come a surge in the use of disks in data protection strategies. For IT, disk-to-disk (D2D) backup strategies resolve a number of long standing pain points associated with data restoration. By Jack Fegreus, Ph.D., Managing Director, openBench Labs. | 06/16/2010 | 1.16 MB |
| Case Study: First National Bank Invest In Simpana Software To Ensure Superior Customer Service While Keeping Pace With Aggressive Business Growth | Over the past decade, aggressive growth, primarily through mergers and acquisitions, has resulted in FNB’s total assets now exceeding $8 billion. Along the way, the company has remained focused on its vision of being an industry leader in creating value for customers, employees, shareholders and communities it serves. By CommVault Systems | 06/09/2010 | 212.7 KB |
| Novant Health Protects Critical Data With Bulletproof Backups | A CDP-based backup and recovery solution helps Novant Health backup data in near real-time and accelerate recovery times. By InMage | 06/07/2010 | 256.5 KB |
| Q3/Q4 Economic Forecast For Resellers | Keith Bradley, Sr. Executive Vice President and President North America for Ingram Micro, talks with Jameson Publishing and Business Solutions magazine President Jim Roddy in this exclusive Executive-To-Executive interview. | 06/04/2010 | 0.3 KB |
| Guest Column: Will Your Disaster Recovery Plans Work As Planned? | By replacing cumbersome, less effective traditional tools and practices with automated disaster recovery testing and monitoring, IT organizations can significantly improve the success of their disaster recovery preparedness. By Niraj Zaveri, Senior Manager, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec | 05/26/2010 | 17.6 KB |