Other than the obvious people issues, when a disaster strikes what’s most important for the data center? Given the time to think about it, most IT managers will answer the question correctly. The most important thing is to restore access…
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When Disaster Strikes, What’s Most Important?
Tagged with: Application Aware, Data Movement, Disaster recovery, Neverfail, Snapshot
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Will SSD Improve Your Database Performance?
The fog around solid state storage is lifting. Most storage and database administrators are convinced that solid state technology is the most practical next step in storage performance. The challenge is that solid state performs so well that now there’s…
Tagged with: Database, DRAM, Kaminario, Oracle Database, PCI Express, Random-access memory, solid state storage, Solid-state drive, Storage
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Using Replication to Eliminate Virtualization Stall
Virtualization stall usually occurs in a server virtualization project when business-important or mission-critical servers are targeted for virtualization. There is risk associated with virtualizing these servers and this risk can cause IT managers to move slowly or put off their…
Scaling Agentless SRM
Storage resource monitoring (SRM) technology has evolved from networked systems which communicated with dedicated software installed on the individual host elements, to architectures which largely eliminated these ‘agents’. This “agentless” technology consolidated these dedicated pieces of software into a ‘collector’…
Achieving Application Aware Availability
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed methods for protecting an application from a storage system failure. Storage hardware, along with server hardware, is increasing in its reliability. The growing culprit of application downtime is the application itself either through…
What’s Missing From Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
Part I – Protecting Applications From Storage System Failures When most IT professionals think of a disaster recovery plan, they think big, really big, like an earthquake, fire, flood, etc., where the data center is totally inaccessible. To protect against…
Breaking The Top Four Myths Of Tape vs. Disk Backup
Over the past few years disk as a backup target has become a key enhancement to most backup infrastructures. Disk is believed to be faster, almost as cost-effective and more resilient. In reality tape has its own unique value in…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Data Protection, disk backup, Hardware, RAID, Tape drive, Tape library, Virtual Tape Library
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Dot Hill Briefing Note
Dot Hill has a rich history as an OEM supplier that built mid-range storage solutions for various manufacturers in the industry. They are now moving into a new era by providing unified storage solutions. These are either a turnkey storage…
Tagged with: Data center, Dot Hill, Network-attached storage, OpenSolaris, Storage area network
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Nimble Storage Briefing Note
Nimble Storage is a convergence device of a different sort. Instead of focusing on unifying primary storage protocols, they are unifying primary storage, backups and disaster recovery into a single device. The goal is essentially to allow storage managers to…
Tagged with: Backup, CASL, Data corruption, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Nimble, Nimble Storage, RAID, Solid-state drive
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Integrating Disk Backup With Backup Software
Modern disk backup systems can deduplicate data, replicate data and validate that data’s integrity without involving the backup application in the process. This is beneficial, as it allows the software application to not waste resources that may be better handled…
Tagged with: Backup, backup application, Data deduplication, Data Domain, EMC, software application, Storage
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