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Disk Storage: How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?
White Papers Managers who purchase new storage often focus too much of their attention on the upfront cost of buying disk and inherit a cost structure that requires ever-increasing expenditures on advanced functions, storage software, and support and maintenance.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Disk Storage Faces Gloomier Outlook
News Gartner on Thursday said sales of external, controller-based RAID disk storage hit $3.23bn (£1.8bn), up from $3.08bn in the second quarter of last year. Cox said HP's decline in the Gartner report owed to distribution problems as well as weak...
[September 3, 2004, 11:45]
Disk Infant Mortality In Large Storage System
White Papers As disk drives have dropped in price relative to tape, the desire for the convenience and speed of online access to large data repositories has led to the deployment of petabyte-scale disk farms with thousands of disks.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) Storage Solutions: High-Performance And Low-Cost Disk Drives
White Papers This paper describes using Near-Online storage, low-cost Fibre Attached Technology Adapted (FATA) disk drives, in the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), to supplement the high-performance disks and complement the use of tape and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Iomega's Budget Storage Disk Puts Flash Card In Danger
News The device is based on Iomega's n.hand technology and will use disks half the size of a business card costing around $10 (£6.25) a disk - a fraction of the price of a Flash Card. Iomega will make n.hand available to computer and consumer...
[November 11, 1996, 11:24]
Virtualization Of Disk Storage
White Papers Virtualization of disk storage has been in the spotlight recently due primarily to the development of Storage Area Networks and the value it promises to bring in storage management. However virtualization of disk storage is not new.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Modular Disk Storage Subsystems: A Solution For Growing Data-Rich Businesses
White Papers This paper discusses enterprise-class modular disk storage subsystems, specifically, how they compare to their monolithic RAID counterpart at meeting the business needs and cost requirements of IT managers struggling to manage and protect data...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Apache Corporation Energizes Exploration With NetApp Storage And Disk-to-Disk Backup
White Papers To tackle this challenge the company deployed a NetApp FAS series and NetApp NearStore solution with NetApp SnapVault software which delivers improved data availability to geoscientists, automated disk-to-disk backup of global sites, within-hours...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Serving Queries To Multi-Resolution Datasets On Disk-Based Storage Clusters
White Papers The experimental evaluation is carried out using a data server implemented to serve multi-terabyte multi-resolution volumetric datasets to remote visualization clients and a one-terabyte multi-resolution volumetric dataset on a PC cluster with...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Management Framework For Petabyte-Scale Disk Storage
White Papers An explosion of data, along with new requirements for corporate governance, is compelling the construction of petabyte-sized disk subsystems. The authors are currently constructing a disk subsystem that will exceed a petabyte within the next few...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Using MEMS-Based Storage In Disk Arrays
White Papers Current disk arrays, the basic building blocks of high-performance storage systems, are built around two memory technologies: magnetic disk drives, and non-volatile DRAM caches. A new storage technology based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Reducing Energy Consumption Of Disk Storage Using Power-Aware Cache Management
White Papers This paper proposes several power-aware storage cache management algorithms that provide more opportunities for the underlying disk power management schemes to save energy. Previous studies have shown that the average idle period for a server disk...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Projecting The Cost Of Magnetic Disk Storage Over The Next 10 Years
White Papers This is assigned a relative approximate cost of 2X because the disk storage cost is roughly twice as much as the disk storage cost in a generic PC. The simplest disk configuration is in the PC (Personal Computer) on one's desk.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Decline Of Magnetic Disk Storage Cost Over The Next 25 Years
White Papers The cost of magnetic disk storage space has dropped by about forty percent per year since 1989. Each year, the managers of more and more document management projects find that the cost of required magnetic disk space has become inconsequential in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Data De-Duplication And Backup: Stretching Your Windows Disk Storage Dollar
White Papers The presenters of this webcast examine how disk-based de-duplication strategies and technology can help companies eliminate redundant data, extend storage resources, speed backup and recovery times, and ultimately drive cost savings.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
PowerQuest ® VolumeManager™ Reliable Disk Storage Management For The Enterprise
White Papers PowerQuest VolumeManager 2.0 provides an efficient solution for enterprise-wide server storage reconfiguration and disk storage management. PowerQuest VolumeManager minimizes system down time and reduces the overall cost of network storage...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
External Disk Storage Continues To Rise
News Worldwide sales of external disk storage systems hit $3.5bn (£2bn) in the second quarter, up 8 percent from the same period a year ago, according to research firm IDC. In IDC's report, EMC ranked first in external disk storage systems, with sales...
[September 6, 2004, 9:20]
I2 Transportation Manager On The IBM EServer P5 570 16-Way POWER5 With IBM DB2 Universal Database V8 And The TotalStorage DS4500 Disk Storage System
White Papers TotalStorage DS4500 Disk Storage System was used for storage. i2 Transportation Manager version 6.1.5 was tested on the IBM eServer p5 570 with IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition V8.1 with Fix Pack 3.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Technological Impact Of Magnetic Hard Disk Drives On Storage Systems
White Papers Magnetic hard disk drives have undergone vast technological improvements since their introduction as storage devices over 45 years ago, and these improvements have had a marked influence on how disk drives are applied and what they can do.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Disk Subsystem Performance Evaluation: From Disk Drives To Storage Area Networks
White Papers Disk subsystems span the range of configuration complexity from single disk drives to large installations of disk arrays. They can be directly attached to individual computer systems or configured as larger, shared access Storage Area Networks (SANs).
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