Extreme RAID: How STORM Xtreme Array Delivers True "No Single Point Of Failure" Data Availability For Mission-Critical Applications
White Papers They offer multiple, redundant fibre channel connections from the RAID controller to the disks and hosts to survive fibre channel connection or adapter failures. RAID storage systems have always been regarded as inherently fault tolerant.
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Oracle Storage Compatibility Testing - Remote Mirroring Using Compaq SANworks Data Replication Manager
White Papers DRM connects to a Fibre Channel RAID Array 8000 and/or the Enterprise Storage Array 12000 and the new MA8000/EMA12000 RAID Fibre Channel external storage systems. DRM runs at full fibre channel speeds of up to 100Mbytes/sec at distances up to 100KM.
[November 4, 2004, 23:00]
Apple Takes Its RAID To New Heights
News The RAID systems have dual 2Gbps Fibre Channel ports, and connect to servers through a £312 Fibre Channel PCI-X card. Apple, a relative newcomer to the storage market, has launched a 7 Terabyte RAID system with a price of only £1.14/GB.
[September 14, 2005, 17:40]
Apple Plans RAID On Storage Market
News The £4,999 entry-level model includes dual, independent RAID controllers with a 128MB cache (and support for up to 512MB) per controller, dual 2-gigabit-per-second Fibre Channel ports, 8MB of on-drive cache and four 180GB ATA/100 Apple drive modules.
[February 11, 2003, 9:40]
Compaq RAID Array 4000 Overview
White Papers The Compaq Storageworks RAID Array 4000 (RA4000), formerly the Fibre Channel Storage System, is an external storage solution incorporating Fibre Channel interconnect technology. Fibre Channel interconnect technology is designed to satisfy the...
[August 28, 2003, 0:00]
Compaq StorageWorks RAID 4100 Overview
White Papers The Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4100 (RA4100) is an external storage solution incorporating Fibre Channel interconnect technology and the Compaq Ultra2 Universal Hard Drive. Fibre Channel interconnect technology is designed to satisfy the...
[February 8, 2004, 23:00]
"Enterprise RAID 6"
White Papers Simply, enterprise RAID 6 is a disk array that uses enterprise class disk drives, whether Fibre Channel, SAS or SATA, protects against two drive failures and ensures the successful completion of rebuilds by providing RAID 5 protection after a...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
MTI DataShield: Data Security And Flexibility For SAN Environments
White Papers To protect storage and data from unwanted access, MTI Volume Mapping and MTI Vivant Fibre Channel RAID Arrays ensures that only the system or systems authorized to access the device, can do so. MTI Volume Mapping provides data integrity in a multi...
[November 9, 2003, 23:00]
WasabiRAID
White Papers WasabiRAID from Wasabi Systems is a kernel level RAID driver optimized for Wasabi Certified BSD. The WasabiRAID developer's kit includes the Wasabi RAID driver, documentation, and an API for integration with other applications or a GUI.
[March 11, 2008, 23:00]
Compaq RAID Array 4000 Storage System: Deployment And Configuration
White Papers Compaq believes Fibre Channel is the best interconnect technology choice for future storage solutions and has developed the RAID Array 4000 (RA4000) Storage System, which is based on this technology. Fibre Channel storage solutions shatter distance...
[August 28, 2003, 0:00]
Implementing Sun Solaris On IBM BladeCenter Servers
White Papers It describes how to incorporate the latest patches to Solaris from Sun, plus updated drivers for the Ethernet and RAID devices in the blade servers. The paper explains how to implement Fibre Channel storage and how to configure boot from SAN.
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
Faster Oracle Database Access With The RamSan-210™
White Papers RAM-SAN transaction latency is more than 100 times lower than that of any RAID. With up to fifteen fast Fibre Channel interfaces and up to 64 Gbytes of SDRAM storage, a single RAM-SAN can eliminate storage bottlenecks for an entire data center.
[March 24, 2004, 23:00]
Redesigning RAID For SATA Drives With Accelerated Drive Teaming (XDT)
White Papers In the seventeen years since RAID researchers at Berkeley unveiled their technology, the cost of disk storage has fallen at amazing rates. Considering that one of the goals of RAID was to use inexpensive disk drives, the decline of disk prices...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Understanding Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 And Infrastructure Cabling
White Papers Compaq StorageWorks RAID Array 4000 storage solutions shatter distance, connectivity, capacity, and bandwidth limitations of small computer systems interface (SCSI) technology. This paper describes Fibre Channel transmission , the cabling and...
[August 28, 2003, 0:00]
Hitachi Jumps Ahead Of IBM In Storage Race
News Meanwhile Seagate announced that its Cheetah X15-36LP, which it claims is the fastest drive in the world (ie the first Ultra320 SCSI to actually be delivered) will be used in LSI Logic's Ultra320 SCSI RAID arrays.
[November 8, 2001, 15:48]
Upstart Could Shake Up Networked Storage
News The company's most popular product is the SR1520, a 5.25-inch-tall system that accommodates 15 drives and uses RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) technology for increased data reliability. First came Fibre Channel, then iSCSI.
[July 27, 2006, 16:25]
Infortrend Launches Small RAID Drives
News The EonStor drives will come in two basic types, the B12S-R/G1030 SAS-to-SAS and the B12F-R/G1430 Fibre Channel-to-SAS arrays, and will have the disk controller for RAID storage mounted within the drive chassis, the company said.
[October 31, 2007, 14:26]
Design And Implementation Of A Block Storage Multi-Protocol Converter
White Papers It describes the variety of applications in Storage Area Networking that can benefit from products based on the BSMC architecture, such as a multi-protocol storage router and a multi-protocol, multi-RAID-level disk array.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Oracle Foresees A Rosy Future For Apple
News Oracle is using the Xserve RAID for a task once reserved for pricier Fibre Channel-based disk arrays. Apple's rack-mounted storage system received a vote of confidence on Monday, with database giant Oracle endorsing the Xserve RAID as part of an...
[December 7, 2004, 7:20]
EMC Revs Up Its Matrix
News The new products are also expected to offer higher amounts of cache memory and to reflect a switch from RAID-1 technology to a newer RAID-5 approach, which lets data be stored "redundantly" -- or in more than one place for backup purposes -- but...
[January 30, 2003, 14:57]

