Tape Storage Management Console
White Papers Compaq's Tape Storage Management Console (TSMC) is a software-based Data Protection tool that is designed to aid in the maintenance of Compaq tape drives, tape arrays, and tape automation products in both direct-attach and SAN fibre-attached...
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Reducing The Cost Of Offsite Tape Storage
White Papers This White Paper discusses a number of alternatives, including the use of ABARS, for data centers seeking relief from the offsite tape storage costs. Over the years, the explosion of mainframe storage has put a strain on IT budgets in many...
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Enabling Tiered Storage Through Tape Virtualization: Delivering More Performance, Reliability And Efficiency At Lower Cost
White Papers New storage paradigms such as Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) advocates tiered-storage strategies, like Disk-to-Disk (D2D) and Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T), that takes into account the value of the data over time.
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Measuring The Total Cost Of Ownership Of Tape Storage Solutions
White Papers This paper presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether or not an enterprise should replace its current ("Status Quo") tape storage solution with a new ("Proposed") solution and the economics related to that decision.
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Maximizing The Potential Of Your SAN-attached Tape Storage Assets
White Papers EDT-DistribuTAPE is a middleware product that extends the utilization, reliability, functionality, and scalability of tape storage assets connected to a Storage Area Network (SAN). This paper reviews the market forces that are driving demand for...
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Consolidating Tape Storage
White Papers Tape consolidation is a vital part of many storage consolidation initiatives, but even with the right storage network and tape library hardware, there are still significant challenges to overcome. Storage consolidation in this form, has been...
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IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Controller Performance Whitepaper
White Papers The purpose of this white paper is to examine the performance of the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Controller (TS1120 controller) in an IBM System z environment. This paper is intended to illustrate the potential performance of the TS1120 tape...
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Revolution Is Tempting: How To Move Into Automated Tape Storage
White Papers The evolution of automated tape storage has created a wide range of innovative products making tape storage and retrieval easier, faster and more reliable. There are three major trends that are chiefly responsible for the storage management...
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Fast-Growing Robotics Engineering Center Armed With Versatile, Expandable Disk- And Tape-Based Storage Solutions
White Papers Their existing outdated tape library with DLT tape technology required upgrade and decentralized backups were inconsistent and posed security concerns. In evaluating tape- and disk-based solutions, NREC rated products based on ease of use...
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Consolidating Tape Storage Using StorageTek's L5500 Tape Library
White Papers New high-end tape drives and tape storage subsystems are important components of a well-designed and efficient storage infrastructure. This white paper discusses the issues in storage consolidation and how StorageTek's new L5500 tape library is...
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Tivoli Storage Manager: SAN Tape Library Sharing
White Papers Tivoli Storage Manager Version 3.7 exploits the Storage Area Network (SAN) technology for dynamic tape library sharing. With this function, multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers can dynamically share library volume and tape drive resources of one...
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Using Hitachi Storage, Legato NetWorker And Tape
White Papers The focus of this white paper will be to help navigate through the options afforded by disk-to-disk technology and articulate how to leverage your Hitachi storage systems in conjunction with LEGATO NetWorker and your tape environment.
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Managing The Device Addressing Of SAN Attached Tape For Use With Tivoli Storage Manager
White Papers Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) exploits the bandwidth and connectivity to provide LAN-Free backup and library sharing capabilities using shared tape devices over the SAN. These are required to ensure that the addition of new storage devices, or that...
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Managing Archive Storage Systems And The Transition From Tape To Disk
White Papers This paper will provide a detailed overview of different archive formats available today, such as tape, optical, and data disk. Since storage life and retrieval requirements for content vary, Categorization for stored information separates into...
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Using Wasabi Storage Builder 1500i With Microsoft Windows Tape Backup Utility
White Papers This paper provides a technical overview of how to use Wasabi Storage Builder 1500i for iSCSI (Storage Builder) as a disk-based backup solution with Microsoft Windows Tape Backup Utility (TBU), also known as NT Backup, on Microsoft Windows 2003...
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Brocade Tape Pipelining With Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager
White Papers StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM5) system is the industry's leading virtual tape solution for large-scale mainframe data protection infrastructures. In addition to unmatched scalability, cost control, and availability, VSM5 supports FICON...
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Tape Mirroring On The StorageNet 6000: Tape Mirroring Software Feature On The StorageNet 6000 Storage Domain Manager Version 1.3
White Papers StorageTek Tape Mirroring software is a new product offering from StorageTek that has been implemented as an add-on software component for the StorageTek StorageNet 6000 storage domain manager (SN6000) system, which builds upon the backup...
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Wausau Financial Systems Solves Increasing Storage Demands With CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup And Plasmon Tape Automation Libraries
White Papers Looking for highly reliable support for its storage management infrastructure, WFS turned to CA and Plasmon, Inc.one of CA's Solution Partners, for a comprehensive storage management solution, and automated tape and optical libraries.
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Integrated Management Services: Adding Intelligence To Tape Library Platforms For Storage Networks
White Papers The Scalar 10K, a high-capacity, SAN-enabled tape library from ADIC, is the first library platform to feature these built-in management services, making the system an optimal backup solution for storage networks.
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Delivering High Performance On The Sony Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) Storage Platform
White Papers Performance of tape media and data availability are critically important, as the effect of system downtime can be financially catastrophic. Two major parts of disaster recovery are putting data on the tape, and retrieving it from the tape.
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