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’…
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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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What is LTFS?
Linear Tape File System (LTFS) is IBM’s recently released, self describing tape file system that enables tape media to be mounted and read by the operating system when the cartridge is inserted into the tape drive. The goal is to…
Tagged with: File system, Hard disk drive, IBM, Linear Tape-Open, Linux, LTFS, Tape drive
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What is TRILL’s Role in FCoE Storage Networks?
TRILL is an acronym that stands for Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links and is a proposed Link Layer (L2) networking standard from the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). TRILL is important because as large data centers begin to combine…
Tagged with: Converged Enhanced Ethernet, Data Center Bridging, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Spanning, Storage Network, STP, Switch, TRILL, Virtual machine
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Backup Virtualization
Virtualization has changed the way many data centers operate today. Server virtualization has increased server resource efficiency, flexibility and reliability. Storage virtualization has had a similar effect on storage resources and storage management. Interestingly, the backup and data protection processes…
Tagged with: Backup, Hardware, Storage, Tape drive, Tributary Systems, Virtual Tape Library, VTL
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