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Storage refers to computer components, devices and recording media that retain data for some interval of time. Storage provides one of the core functions of the modern computer, that of information retention. Topics include Storage Area Networks, NAS, and Virtualization.

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Best Practices for Remote Replication for Oracle 10g Using XP Continuous Access
By : HP Published Date: Jan 15, 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive set of test-proven best practices for properly configuring, deploying, and operating an Oracle 10g database on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array (XP12000) in an HP-UX environment using HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software as the remote copy infrastructure.
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Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices with Data Domain
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jun 11, 2008
Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. Combining traditional backup with other methods such as clustering, replication and continuous data protection provide for a robust Exchange protection strategy. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Exchange along with solutions from Data Domain.
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Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN
By : Riverbed Published Date: Jul 05, 2006
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with wide-area data services (WDS) solutions.
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ESG Lab Report: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems - What to Know and Ask
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jul 17, 2007
While disk-to-disk (D2D) backup systems have been widely accepted as functionally superior to tape, they still carry a significant cost penalty. However, with the addition of data deduplication technology, D2D systems now provide compelling operational and cost efficiencies, thanks to increased manageability and reduced storage and bandwidth needs.
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EMC NetWorker Design Best Practices with Data Domain
By : Data Domain Published Date: Mar 26, 2008
Data Domain deduplication storage integrates with standard NetWorker architectural and operational environments and provides a highly cost-efficient nearline storage solution for enterprises of all sizes. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of how Domain deduplication storage offers new storage architecture options for EMC NetWorker customers.
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Enterprise-Class Storage Virtualization for Mission-Critical IT: HP XP24000
By : HP Published Date: Mar 31, 2008

ESG Lab tested the HP XP24000 storage system to validate the business impact of the new capabilities of the XP24000, including HP Thin Provisioning Software, creating large logical pools of capacity and the enhanced performance of the XP24000 as a core component of HP's extensive portfolio of IT solutions and services.


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Email Archiving: A Proactive Approach to e-Discovery
By : Proofpoint Published Date: Jun 20, 2008
Email and other electronically stored documents are now routinely presented as evidence in courts of law. To ensure litigation readiness, both legal and IT departments must address the management of electronic communication in their organization. As more companies are hit with the high costs of an e-discovery request, the benefits of an alternative, proactive approach become clear.  Without the right tools in place, collecting, processing, and reviewing electronic data for e-discovery can be time-consuming, expensive, and expose a business to significant legal risks.
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HP StorageWorks Virtualization
By : HP Published Date: Feb 28, 2008
Storage virtualization has been around for several decades. While technologies have advanced and capabilities have become more sophisticated over time, the motivations for virtualizing resources and the anticipated benefits have remained relatively stable. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges.
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HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) Performance
By : HP Published Date: Mar 10, 2008
The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product family offers midsize to enterprise size customers leading performance, high capacity, and high-availability storage solutions for reducing IT costs and complexity. The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration.
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & VMWare
By : HP Published Date: Jun 02, 2008
VMware describes their partnership with HP storage and how the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 is a great fit for many small and medium businesses that want the advantages of virtualization.
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & Microsoft
By : HP Published Date: Jun 02, 2008
The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & Microsoft applications have been tested together for real performance & reliability gains & Dynamic Capacity Manager takes advantage of more Windows features.
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & Oracle
By : HP Published Date: Jun 02, 2008
Hear from Oracle how the new the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 has been fully tested to be ready for full production loads, and how it is tuned to take particular advantage of Oracle VM.
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HP Continues High-end Storage Innovation
By : HP Published Date: Dec 14, 2007
HP is increasingly demonstrating that its vision includes positioning itself as an innovator at the high end especially with respect to managing heterogeneous storage assets. HP appears to be a leading proponent of avoiding dreams of owning the entire data center storage infrastructure. Rather its aim appears to add customer value by recognizing and accommodating the diversity of installed storage assets at customer sites.
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How to Plan, Configure, and Maintain a HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication Solution
By : HP Published Date: May 01, 2008
To stay competitive in today's business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs. IT departments face flat budgets and, at the same time, find that their organizations have become increasingly dependent on uninterrupted access to business-critical data. In today's world, prudent IT administrators prepare to recover from two types of disasters as part of a complete Business Continuity and Availability (BC and A) plan.
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Mitigate Business Risk with Disaster-Proof HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array
By : HP Published Date: May 01, 2008
In this video, at a high-tech ballistics center managed by National Technical Systems in Camden, Arkansas, HP simulated a gas leak using real explosives to blow up a data center. Every system failed-over after the explosion in less than two minutes—including data on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array which failed over flawlessly to an HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array.
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Storage Virtualization and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
By : HP Published Date: Feb 22, 2008
Virtualization has multiple definitions and many different implementations in a storage area network and virtualization technology allows companies to respond quickly to ever-changing storage capacity requirements. Read this white paper for an overview of storage virtualization at the controller level of a storage system.
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Superior Enterprise-Class Storage with HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array Mainframe Solutions
By : HP Published Date: Jan 11, 2008
HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays are enterprise-class storage systems that deliver dependable performance for environments where downtime is not an option. Complete redundancy throughout the architecture provides non-disruptive online upgrades and no single point of failure so you can count on your data being available.
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TCO Analysis of EMC, NetApp, and HP Midrange Storage Arrays
By : HP Published Date: Nov 15, 2007
Many factors contribute to the ownership cost for enterprise storage. These include (but are not limited to): physical capacity relative to physical space requirements, performance capacity for data transfer and system reaction time, software maintenance and updates, expandability and flexibility, hardware purchase price, software licensing costs, hardware expansion or upgrade costs, administrator training, and more.
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TheInfoPro Study: Why Deduplication Technology is Causing a Paradigm Shift in Storage Tiering
By : Data Domain Published Date: Feb 15, 2008
This recent research paper by TheInfoPro goes in depth as to why deduplication has sustained its #1 position on the TIP Storage Backup and Recovery Technology Heat Index®. 15% of storage organizations have already deployed deduplication technology and 59% of storage organizations are planning to deploy “dedupe” by the end of 2008. Managing storage growth, capacity reporting and planning, and backup management are the top pain points for most storage organizations.
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The ROI Case for WAN Vaulting - Extending Disk-to-Disk to Offsite Disaster Recovery
By : Data Domain Published Date: Mar 14, 2007
Systems and storage expert Barb Goldworm describes the benefits of deduplication and disk-to-disk (D2D) backup for disaster recovery (DR) and how these techniques are extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection. You’ll learn the benefits of deduplication and D2D backup, how D2D can be extended to deliver cost-effective offsite data protection and DR, and how to build a business case for WAN vaulting.
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The EVA 4400 Challenge
By : HP Published Date: Jun 02, 2008
In a first time, head-to-head comparison, see why 5 technology professionals found the new HP StorageWorks EVA4400 easier to operate and a greater time saver than the EMC/CLARiiON CX3-10.
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Using Storage to Maximize the Business Benefits of Virtualization
By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: May 14, 2008
Companies of all sizes are rapidly embracing server virtualization to reduce management of server sprawl, cut administrative chores, and save money. Used in conjunction with new high-performance servers, particularly those based on multi-core processors, virtualization allows dozens of applications to run as virtual machines on a single physical server, thus making much more efficient use of computing resources.
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Virtual Storage At Its Best: HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array
By : HP Published Date: Mar 05, 2008
The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array offers an easily deployed enterprise-class virtual storage array at an affordable price for the midsized customer. EVA virtualization is designed to improve capacity and reduce management complexities, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays.
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VMware Data Backup and Recovery Design Best Practices with Data Domain
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jun 11, 2008
When using Data Domain storage with well-understood best practices for backup and taking snapshots in VMware, a deployment can simplify management of consistent images. Once stored, the images are ready to restore, locally or, with optimized deduplicated replication, at a remote DR site. This paper describes best practices for managing these synergistic technologies together.
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Why You Need Email Active Archiving Now
By : Symantec Published Date: May 30, 2008
An effective email management solution is essential for organizations in today's litigious environment. Learn more from Gartner research about the market and top vendors providing active archive solutions today. Download this research study to learn more.
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