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HDFC Standard Life Ensures Business Efficiencies With FileNet Enterprise Content Management And Network Appliance Unified Storage
White Papers After evaluating various storage options, HDFCSL determined that a Network Appliance unified storage solution would best address its storage consolidation, performance, and management requirements. The company wanted to replace inefficient local...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
Network Storage Management With HP StorageWorks ISCSI Feature Pack And HP StorageWorks Storage Servers - White Paper
White Papers By integrating iSCSI management solutions into the Microsoft Storage Server 2003 operating system, HP is delivering increased flexibility to IT management while providing a cost-effective network attached storage (NAS) solution for small and...
[October 11, 2004, 3:00]
Storage Firms Expand Offerings
News One promising hardware product is so-called network-attached storage (NAS) gateways. These devices link NAS technology, which allows for easy file sharing, and storage-area network (SAN) technology, which tends to allow for greater capacity.
[February 6, 2004, 8:00]
EMC: Beware The Storage Virtualisation Quick Fix
News If we look at information lifecycle management (ILM), I envisage people will deploy different storage architectures as they do different network architectures, differentiated by different levels of service.
[April 10, 2006, 14:40]
Real Stories Of Virtualisation
News The next step in 2002 was to introduce a storage area network, initially to handle file and print services, although application support was added at a later date. We had pretty much one application per server and, while our headquarters are in...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Storage Products Pass Standard's Test
News The specification will simplify activities such as discovering devices on a storage network, the organisation said. That standard, called the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), is an interface designed to aid in the implementation...
[April 7, 2004, 9:20]
IT Giants Form Open Source Storage Group
News Nine tech titans, including IBM, Cisco and Network Appliance, announced plans onTuesday to form an organisation to develop open source storage management software. Aperi's formation, however, may also lead to confusion in the marketplace, given...
[October 26, 2005, 9:00]
Using A Network-Attached Enterprise Tape Library With NDMP
White Papers QuantumlATL’s Network-Attached Storage (NAS) enterprise tape library is a unique backup product that enables multiple data sources to backup directly to a network-attached ATL P-Series library. Embracing the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP...
[February 8, 2004, 23:56]
Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director
White Papers Standards such as the SMIS assist users by implementing a consistent and coherent model of the Storage Area Network (SAN) and by delivering simplified, cost-effective management of heterogeneous storage environments.
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
Enhancing IBM Tivoli SAN Manager Device Availability Alerting
White Papers This paper outlines how it is possible to enhance the real-time alerting of the availability status of SAN devices with the IBM Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager SAN management solution. The approach outlined uses the industry standard FC Mgmt...
[September 24, 2004, 3:00]
Block-Level Security For Network-Attached Disks
White Papers Thus, existing NAD file systems and storage-management software could incorporate the scheme very easily. This paper proposes a practical and efficient method for adding security to Network-Attached Disks (NADs).
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Canadian Pediatric Hospital Network Improves Patient Care With An Integrated Electronic Health Record System
White Papers A "Medical entities" dictionary translates data into standard terminology and data values for storage in the HNS repository. Justine Hospital network was not integrated, nor was there any way to share that information electronically.
[December 3, 2007, 0:01]
IT Consulting Firm And Customers Boost Productivity And Reduce Costs
White Papers Many of these businesses don't have centralized file storage, so their employees share files through e-mail or disks. Network Computer Systems is an IT consulting firm that assists small businesses with network upgrades, integration issues, and...
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
Storage Virtualisation
News With decent caching and bandwidth management, usually courtesy of a storage-area network (SAN) running on Fibre Channel, performance and reliability are also enhanced -- or so claim the vendors. In-band has the virtual storage management box...
[April 3, 2003, 20:25]
Fujitsu Storage Brand Confuses Strategy
News The company will certainly need to demonstrate its multi-vendor abilities, if it wants to expand, even within the sprawling network of Fujitsu brands and co-brands; Fujitsu's joint venture with Siemens is selling EMC storage in preference to...
[May 22, 2002, 11:21]
Servicer Takes Sweat Out Of Storage
News Technica, a consultant in storage area networking (SANs) has launched remote managed storage (RMS), a service in which it uses management products on its own site to manage storage on customer sites. A third-party service that will optimise and...
[September 13, 2002, 17:11]
Storage Industry Split Over Connections
News A divide within the storage industry over how to connect storage systems to the rest of the network is growing -- and leaving customers with a growing sense of unease. The change helped large companies embrace a design called storage area networks...
[November 27, 2001, 15:13]
Storage Management Initiative Rebooted
News The next industry standard for storage management may have moved a little closer to becoming a reality. The Storage Management Initiative specification (SMI-S) got a boost Thursday from a number of tech heavyweights, including EMC, Hewlett-Packard...
[June 23, 2006, 9:05]
Big Bang Project Sparks Supercomputer Plans
News Indeed, the agency is looking to tap existing computing and storage resources to supply much of the network's capacity. On Wednesday, IBM is announcing that it is joining the effort, providing six xSeries servers, 20 terabytes of storage as well as...
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
CA Opens Up Unicenter
News Called Management Database, or MDB, the database will act as a single place to keep configuration information on a broad set of managed gear, from storage devices to application servers. As previously reported, Unicentre 11 will also introduce a...
[June 3, 2005, 14:40]
