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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]
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...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
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.
[May 1, 2008, 1:02]
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]
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]
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...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
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...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
HP Announces Game-Changing Storage Integration: XP24000 Disk Array Simplifies Storage Provisioning and Improves Storage Infrastructure for the Delivery of Storage Services
White Papers In the fall of 2004 with the initial announcement of the XP12000 Disk Array, HP set the standard for enterprise-class storage and at the time put forth a vision to provide a storage architecture capable of efficiently managing enormous amounts of...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows: Comparing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Logical Disk Manager to VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to compare Logical Disk Manager, which provides the support for Dynamic disks, to VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows; a licensed solution from VERITAS Software. This paper will highlight key benefits that using...
[January 15, 2005, 2:00]
HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array: Next-Generation Enterprise Storage, Taking Oracle Applications to a Whole New Level of Performance, Availability, and Scalability
White Papers Because performance, availability, scalability, and management are critical for Oracle applications, XP disk arrays are the ideal storage solution. Together with a full suite of management tools and services, HP StorageWorks XP12000 and XP1000 disk...
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows: The Dynamic Disk Advantage - Comparing Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
White Papers Developed in conjunction with VERITAS Software, Disk Management in Windows 2000 uses the concept of dynamic disks to allow users to dynamically configure their storage i.e.no reboots. The default disk type, referred to as basic, allows for the...
[November 14, 2007, 0:01]
HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.1: HP-UX Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) With HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) and Instant Recovery (IR)
White Papers This white paper provides complementary information for how to configure HP OpenView Storage Data Protector in HP-UX Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) for Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) and Instant Recovery (IR) in HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Disk storage climbs perpendicularly
News IDC says in its report 2005 Hard Disk Drive Industry: Component Technologies and Business Models that the scientific problems have been solved and predicts the new technology will leap the manufacturing issues just as easily.
[June 27, 2005, 17:10]
Reducing Data Protection Costs by 50 Percent With Symantec Software and Data Domain Disk Storage Appliance
White Papers It chose Veritas NetBackup from Symantec and Data Domain appliances from Data Domain, Inc.using disk-to-disk backup to replace disk-to-tape backup. Synopsys was dealing with 60 percent year-over-year data growth and needed a reliable backup...
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
A Reed-Solomon Code for Disk Storage, and Efficient Recovery Computations for Erasure-Coded Disk Storage
White Papers Reed-Solomon erasure codes provide efficient simple techniques for redundantly encoding information so that the failure of a few disks in a disk array doesn't compromise the availability of data. It also presents new techniques for efficiently...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
IBM System Storage DS4700 Disk Architecture for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
White Papers This paper discusses the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application storage performance and configuration characteristics as tested with an IBM System Storage DS4000 subsystem and an IBM System x server running the 64-bit Microsoft SQL Server 2005...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
IBM System Storage DS4700 Disk Architecture for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on IBM System p
White Papers This paper discusses the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne application storage performance and configuration characteristics as tested with an IBM System Storage DS4000 subsystem and an IBM System p server (AIX 5.3 maintenance level/update 5) running the...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
Disk-to-Disk (D2D) Backup Enables Fast, Cost-Effective Backup, Restore, and Nearline Storage
White Papers D2D delivers some significant time and cost benefits over tape-based solutions for nearline storage, backup and restore, and compliance applications. Price and performance advantages and the advanced features of GuardianOS make Snap Server's D2D...
[March 2, 2009, 2:22]
IDC: Enterprise storage shows signs of rebound
News The enterprise disk storage market is showing signs of increased stability, while sales of storage software are showing continued weakness, according to figures from research firm IDC. IDC's third-quarter study of disk storage systems, published on...
[December 7, 2009, 15:21]
EMC Clariion arrays support iSCSI
News EMC said its new disk storage products will support for the Internet small computer system interface, or iSCSI, will allow customers to put together lower-cost networked storage systems. EMC said its Clariion disk arrays with iSCSI support begin at...
[February 16, 2005, 8:05]
