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Server Clusters: Storage Area Networks
White Papers This paper describes what storage area networks (SAN) are, how server clusters can be deployed in a SAN, and how the Windows platform and Windows clustering in particular, take advantage of SAN technology.
[March 24, 2004, 1:23]
Secure Group Services for Storage Area Networks
White Papers Storage Area Networks, with their ability to offer high data availability, reliability and scalability, are a promising solution for the large scale storage needs of many enterprises. As with any distributed storage system, a major design challenge...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Security in NFS Storage Networks
White Papers This technical report provides an overview of security features and functionality in NFS storage networks, including authentication methods, directory services, access controls, and deployment strategies.
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
Modeling and Performance Evaluation of iSCSI Storage Area Networks Over TCP/IP-Based MAN and WAN Networks
White Papers In these scenarios, the impact of end-to-end delay and QoS of broadband networks on SAN performance is critical and has to be well understood by IT departments when deploying IP-storage solutions and network operators when designing transport...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
SGI Inï¬niteStorage 220: A Pain-Free Path to Storage Area Networks (SANs)
White Papers However, moving from server-based storage to Storage Area Networks (SANs) has typically required the skills of highly specialized IT professionals. No one can dispute the potential benefits, especially in the case of storage, that can be gained...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
AMP NETCONNECT: Cabling Systems for Data Centers & Storage Area Networks (SANs)
White Papers Now that expansive optical networks are being deployed and the cost of bandwidth is dropping on even global transmissions, off-site data storage is a viable business option. Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Storage Service Providers (SSPs) are...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
IBM brings storage networks together
News IBM on Tuesday announced a new device for linking storage networks, saying the product offers greater performance and compatibility with other companies' storage gear. The product, called a network-attached storage (NAS) gateway, enables machines...
[January 28, 2004, 13:10]
Rethinking Data Management for Storage-Centric Sensor Networks
White Papers Data management in wireless sensor networks has been an area of significant research in recent years. The paper articulates a vision of a storage-centric sensor network where sensor nodes will be equipped with high-capacity and energy-efficient...
[November 2, 2008, 23:00]
KDDCS: A Load-Balanced In-Network Data-Centric Storage Scheme for Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper proposes an In-Network Data-Centric Storage (INDCS) scheme for answering ad-hoc queries in sensor networks. Previously proposed In-Network Storage (INS) schemes suffered from Storage Hot-Spots that are formed if either the sensors...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Encrypted Persistent Data Storage for Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers It is a distributed database for asynchronous wireless sensor networks that provides long term storage for measured data and ensures the confidentiality of the stored information. The paper presents the tiny persistent encrypted data storage...
[February 4, 2009, 23:00]
Networks '98: Fibre channel faster for mass storage
News PC Magazine's Jonathan Benett told ZDNet "Large companies have to solve the problem of getting mission-critical data out of their storage systems and into large multi-processor servers". A more flexible and powerful solution than systems like...
[June 25, 1998, 13:43]
Design and Implementation of a Linux SCSI Target for Storage Area Networks
White Papers This paper describes the architecture of a set of kernel components for developing and testing storage area network transport protocols under Linux. This software is intended for several uses: as a general prototype for network transport protocol...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Strategic & Financial Justification for Storage Area Networks
White Papers This white paper assists senior managers defining the IT vision of their companies, and gives the necessary strategic and financial justification to make effective decisions regarding storage networking initiatives.
[September 13, 2005, 10:43]
SANmelody Makes Music With Storage Area Networks
White Papers It can perform in IP storage networking and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN environments. SANmelody is software that one can run on a PC/server and it transforms that server and its disks into a 'Disk server' over a network.
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
Data Storage Placement in Sensor Networks
White Papers Data storage has become an important issue in sensor net-works as a large amount of collected data need to be archived for future information retrieval. This paper introduces storage nodes to store the data collected from the sensors in their...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
Decomposing Data-Centric Storage Query Hot-Spots in Sensor Networks
White Papers All current In-Network Data-Centric Storage (INDCS) schemes fail to deal with query hot-spots resulting from skewed query loads as well as skewed sensor deployments. Arising when a large percentage of queries are accessing data stored in few sensor...
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Storage Area Networks: An Innovative Approach to Backup and Recovery
White Papers This design uses tape resources poorly but the SAN method enables bulk data transfer from each server to shared SAN storage, while the The result is a fast, scalable, and reliable backup and recovery solution, which uses storage, server, and LAN...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Best Practices for Replication of Oracle Storage Area Networks White Paper
White Papers Data recovery and protection are the top most priorities of business today and essential elements of any business continuity strategy - the bigger the enterprise, the more challenging the problem - requiring robust and reliable solutions.
[December 6, 2005, 0:01]
Storage Area Networks: The Superior Storage Solution
White Papers This paper discusses the critical factors that are driving the SAN revolution; compares traditional and SAN technologies; presents seven key SAN benefits and how they positively impact business operations; and concludes with an overview of why...
[August 19, 2007, 22:00]
Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: LeftHand Networks Accelerates VMware Server Virtualization With SAN/iQ Software-Based Storage Systems
White Papers The features that VMware offers on the server side can be enhanced by a storage system that recognizes and enables the added intelligence of a virtualized infrastructure. In order to meet the challenges of running today's datacenters, an increasing...
[June 26, 2009, 1:05]
