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Business Value Performance - NetForecast
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To justify a technology purchase, you must ensure the technology will deliver maximum business benefit. Although vendor-provided data is useful, there is no substitute for actual user experience. With this in mind, NetForecast interview 11 Riverbed customers to learn firsthand how Riverbed' s Steelhead solution delivers business value.
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Making the Business Case for Deploying Data Visualization Tools
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This new white paper, researched and written by IDC, illustrates how six companies reduce costs and comply with government regulations by using netViz to document their IT systems, networks and/or applications. One federal agency estimates they save $1.2M per year by using netViz IT documentation and data visualization software
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SAN/NAS Vendor Landscape Update: Infrastructure Strategies
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The storage industry continues to evolve, with hardware systems maturing and software systems reaching adolescence. Following the storage-area network/network-attached storage (SAN/NAS) METAspectrumSM in February 2003, this report takes a “midterm” look at the various vendors in the context of new technologies and current strategies (see SAN/NAS METAspectrums titled “Enterprise SAN-Attached Storage: Market Overview” and “Enterprise NAS-Attached Storage: Market Overview”).
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Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
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To meet their growing needs for retaining critical data - while efficiently utilizing costly storage capacity - companies are turning to Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategies. Adaptec helps you meet your Information Lifecycle Management needs - both today and into the future - with a comprehensive range of flexible, cost-effective storage solutions for the entire data lifecycle.
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Secure Backup and Recovery Whitepaper: Securing Data in Backup and Disaster Recovery Sites With Decru DataFort Appliances
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Decru provides solutions that dramatically simplify data security in these scenarios. By encrypting data before it is ever written to disk or tape, Decru DataFort ensures that only authorized people are able to read data, and fully protects data against unauthorized access if a disk or tape is lost or stolen
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The Five Ugly Truths about WAFS and Caching
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Think WAFS is a good idea? Think again. Accelerating file sharing is smart, but there’s a smarter way to accelerate your applications that avoids the pitfalls of WAFS
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Business brief: SAN next generation - moving to 4 Gbps
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The Fibre Channel (FC) storage industry has begun the transition to the 4 Gbps interface standard. This is a natural evolution from the 1 and 2 Gbps standards that preceded it. The new standard doubles the speed of the storage communication interface and will lead over time to improvements in storage performance as organizations upgrade their end-to-end storage infrastructure to 4 Gbps.
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Best practices for replication of Oracle storage area networks
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Data recovery and protection are the top most priorities of business today and essential elements of any business continuity strategy—the bigger the enterprise, the more challenging the problem—requiring robust and reliable solutions. Final choices and IT decisions depend on how a business perceives its tolerance for data inaccessibility or loss. As such, protection can be as simple as backup of the information locally to a secondary storage device, or it can be complex, involving clustered application and database servers from multiple sites replicating data continuously to other secure remote sites over a long distance.
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SANique CFS - A SAN-Based Cluster File System
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MacroImpact' s SANique Cluster File System (CFS) is a data sharing solution for cluster servers. SANique CFS is designed to meet commercial-grade mission-critical I/O requirements while providing 24×7 high availability and multiway concurrent file sharing.
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SANique CVM - A SAN-Based Cluster Volume Manager
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SANique Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is a storage virtualization solution for a cluster environment supporting Storage Area Network (SAN). SANique CVM virtualizes physical storage space and provides virtual or logical volumes for the use of location-independent and restriction-free storage space.
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