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Network Appliance Filers Competitive Fibre Channel Performance: Comparing NetApp FAS Storage With EMC CLARiiON Arrays Using Cached Read Performance
White Papers Fibre Channel storage subsystems are complex computing systems. Because each system has its strengths and weaknesses, no single figure of merit captures the relative performance of storage systems across all workloads.
[June 13, 2008, 9:57]
Managing Storage Across The Enterprise
White Papers Leveraging the flexibility of modular, next-generation Dell/EMC Fibre Channel storage arrays and Dell PowerVault network attached storage (NAS) systems, administrators can use sophisticated software to manage storage efficiently throughout the...
[May 7, 2005, 3:00]
IBM System Storage DS4800 8000 Mailbox Exchange Server 2007 Storage Solution
White Papers The tested solution consists of one IBM System Storage DS4800 dual controller attached to 3 fibre channel EXP810 storage expansion arrays, for a total of 48 disks. The DS4800 maximum configuration offers up to 67 TB of fibre channel (112 TB SATA...
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
Enabling A Highly Scalable And Available Storage Environment Using Oracle Automatic Storage Management
White Papers This paper introduces the concept of ASM and presents techniques for implementing Oracle Database 10g databases on Dell/EMC Fibre Channel and Dell PowerVault SCSI storage arrays. As databases grow larger, requiring more disk drives and cluster...
[August 6, 2004, 3:00]
HP StorageWorks Mezzanine Backup-Restore Solution
White Papers This paper presents an HP technical blueprint for building mezzanine backup-restore solutions, which include HP StorageWorks raid arrays, tape libraries, and software. The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1500 (MSA1500) controller shelf is a 2...
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
Resilient Low-Cost Storage
White Papers The advent of low-cost ATA disk based storage arrays and low-cost storage networks and Oracle Database 10g has made it possible to create a Database Storage Grid. The controllers connect the storage array to a SAN or LAN network via 1 to 4 Fibre...
[February 3, 2005, 2:00]
HP Announces Bigger Drives
News Hitachi's Ultrastar 10K300 drives with SCSI technology are now available in HP ProLiant servers and the Modular Smart Array (MSA) family of storage arrays, HP said. HP said that in early October it will offer the Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 drive with...
[September 30, 2004, 9:25]
EMC To Launch 146GB Solid-state Drives
News The system will still contain SATA and fibre-channel disk drives in the arrays, which help organisations to execute what industry analysts call "tiered" storage — that is, using a hierarchy of different drives that reflect the value of the...
[January 15, 2008, 7:33]
Infiniband -- Old Before Its Time?
News Infiniband can connect disk arrays, SANs, LANs, servers and clusters together, but only supports point-to-point links: two devices are linked via a high-bandwidth, low-latency channel and communicate commands and data through a message passing...
[September 18, 2002, 13:07]
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]
EMC Announces Storage Upgrade
News Like other storage systems, EMC's pool data across large arrays of hard disk drives. The system can also now be ordered with 73GB, 15,000 revolution per minute Fibre Channel interface hard drives, which promise higher performance for more demanding...
[February 9, 2004, 16:40]
Networking Standard Gets Windows Storage Boost
News The software giant also began a testing programme to check that products -- such as storage disk arrays that use the iSCSI interface and hardware "bridges" designed to translate iSCSI commands to another interface -- are compatible with Windows.
[November 19, 2003, 13:35]
IBM, NetApp Take Aim At Midrange Storage
News Rather than buying the big, big arrays with budgets being tight, they are buying storage for a particular application," said Dianne McAdam, a partner at storage analysis firm Data Mobility Group. The Fibre Channel communications standard is faster...
[February 17, 2003, 9:03]
Photos: Inside Cisco's European Datacentre
News Storage arrays are getting smaller in physical size, even as they balloon in capacity. Minimally configured in terms of size — as a small rack size it can take up to 192 Fibre Channel ports — the 9513 is flexible and also has hardware encryption...
[April 10, 2006, 10:10]
Apple Xserve RAID Admin Tools
Downloads Monitoring panes display detailed information on arrays, drives, LUN mappings, Fibre Channel, network, thermal, power, and events. RAID Admin is the Xserve RAIDs powerful remote management software that dramatically simplifies setup and monitoring...
[November 14, 2007, 10:17]
Sun Datapath Policies For Disks And Disk Arrays
White Papers Although disks and arrays implement many standard interfaces, there are still numerous problems with lack of interoperability. The software considered includes drivers for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) version 9 and later, and...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Tape Libraries Central To Intelligent Tape: Tape Proves Its Value In Data Center, Disaster Recovery - Storage Management
White Papers Infrastructure, arrays, software-based management, libraries - developers are working to provide new levels of efficiency, automation and management capabilities at hardware and software levels. Tape storage vendors are constantly increasing tape...
[August 11, 2006, 1:00]
HP Bullish On Storage
News New enhancements to the HP StorageWorks EVA and XP disk arrays include concurrent iSCSI and fibre channel connections for EVA arrays, which will be available in a single unit for companies who want to consolidate their IP networks.
[February 21, 2006, 16:15]
HP Launches Storage System For SMEs
News According to the company's SAN marketing director, Kyle Fitze, HP saw 15 percent growth in the storage products last year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and it shipped 40,000 of the previous models in the mid-range EVA line-up — nearly...
[February 26, 2008, 15:46]
EMC Claims Double Boost For Clariion
News EMC launched three new CX3 arrays based on the UltraScale architecture, which it claims offer information lifecycle management (ILM) at a cost affordable to small businesses. The CX3-40 can support 2Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) drives and 2Gbs and 4Gbs...
[May 8, 2006, 17:15]
