Disk Storage Systems White Papers

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Leveraging EMC Deduplication Solutions for Backup, Recovery, and Long-term Information Retention
sponsored by EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper from EMC takes a closer look at the advantages associated with a disk-based backup solution. Read on to learn more today!
Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd.

Achieving Superior Manageability, Efficiency, and Data Protection with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Software
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.
Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

Oracle RMAN Disk-to-Disk Backup Methods Using Sun Storage Array
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This document provides a high-level description of how to implement an RMAN backup and recover methodology using Sun® storage arrays as the storage medium. For more information about Oracle best practices, refer to Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database with ASM on a Sun Storage 6540, 6580, or 6780 Storage Array.
Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

Oracle Corporation

A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

The Architectural Advantages of Compellent Automated Tiered Storage
sponsored by Dell Compellent
WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

Dell Compellent

Uncompromising Reliability through Clustered Storage
sponsored by Isilon Systems
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the limitations of traditional data protection technologies and examines Isilon IQ’s revolutionary new approach to ensuring data integrity and availability in large clustered storage environments.
Posted: 26 Jul 2010 | Published: 21 Feb 2008

Isilon Systems

Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs
sponsored by sTec | HGST
WHITE PAPER: This paper will demonstrate differ­ences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instanta­neous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a work­ing system under a true enterprise workload.
Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

sTec | HGST

Making Cents of Tape vs. Disk: The Complete Guide on What to Choose and Why
sponsored by Nexsan
WHITE PAPER: Since the cost comparison between tape and disk is obviously far more complex than the media itself, this brief outlines all the considerations necessary for a more complete understanding of the benefit and true cost comparison between tape and disk to help IT professionals choose and justify their backup environment.
Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 23 Feb 2010

Nexsan

Configuring Deduplication for High Performance
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

BACKUP REDESIGN: Do More with Less ... Really!
sponsored by AppAssure Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The call to protect corporate data in less time and for less money has inspired a whole new way of thinking about backup - a complete backup redesign. This paper explores a better way to backup and protect data and applications - disk-based application.
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009

AppAssure Software, Inc.

Remote Replication Best Practices for Oracle 10g Using XP Continuous Access White Paper
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: The test results and information presented in this paper explain how to properly plan for and successfully deploy a remote copy infrastructure for an Oracle 10g database using HP XP12000 Disk Arrays and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software.
Posted: 11 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

S2A9550 Archive Solution Industry's Most Reliable SATA Storage Solution
sponsored by DataDirect Networks
WHITE PAPER: Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you.
Posted: 18 May 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006

DataDirect Networks

Dell Exchange 2007 Advisor and Representative Deployments
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses in detail the sizing features implemented in Dell Exchange 2007 Advisor Tool and deployment guidance for three reference architectures of small, medium and large Exchange environments.
Posted: 03 May 2007 | Published: 01 Apr 2007

DellEMC and Intel®

S2A Nearline SATA Solution
sponsored by DataDirect Networks
WHITE PAPER: Looking for a solution that can balance your data and storage requirements in terms of reliability, accessibility, performance and costs? Download this white paper to learn how you can make your storage infrastructure more efficient and less expensive tod
Posted: 19 Apr 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006

DataDirect Networks

Metadata: Bringing Order and Value to Reference Information
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to understand how metadata can be used to make it easier to escrow, migrate, manage, and make sense of extremely large reference information archives.
Posted: 07 Aug 2005 | Published: 01 Jun 2005

EMC Corporation