Disk Storage Systems White Papers

Transforming IT from a bottleneck into a competitive asset starts with a smart decision regarding your storage strategy. This midsize business portfolio document is designed to help you make the smart storage decision for your business. VIEW SUMMARY

This report by the Info-Tech research group evaluates 8 competitors in the storage market and is a useful independent resource for organisations planning or considering purchasing consolidated network storage, such as a SAN or unified storage solution. VIEW SUMMARY

In selecting a disk-based backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organisation now and into the future. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the white paper provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication VIEW SUMMARY

New generation solid state technology offers tremendous performance for high demand applications, but its limited capacity presents the challenge of determining how best to allocate the resource and how to identify and migrate the most appropriate data to populate it VIEW SUMMARY

The 2011 floods in Thailand inundated some of the world’s largest plants manufacturing hard disk drives. What has been a setback from some has become an opportunity for those unaffected who manufacture elsewhere. Stark cost differences have emerged: use this calculator to see how much you can save VIEW SUMMARY

VINCI migrated critical business data to an IBM XIV Storage System implemented at its main production site in Watford, with remote mirroring to a second XIV at a site 200 miles distant VIEW SUMMARY

The implementation of solid state storage delivering high IOPS performance is ideal for Oracle, however the cost and smaller capacities restrict its use to selective elements such as a single server’s temporary tablespace VIEW SUMMARY

V-locity 3 prevents I/O bottlenecks with new technology that automatically increases I/O efficiency and produces read/write speed increases of 35% or more. It efficiently manages the sharing of resources — without sacrificing I/O bandwidth. Download this free trial. VIEW SUMMARY

The efficient use of I/O resources directly affects performance and operating costs throughout a system, network, Virtual and Cloud environment. Despite advances in hardware speed and storage technology, file and free space fragmentation has become more of an issue, not less of one. Read the paper VIEW SUMMARY