White Papers, etc

Scare yourself

It's amongst the worst IT nightmares. Disaster recovery (DR) turns into Disaster Continuity because the DR processes don't work.[more...]

posted on 19 August 2008

FalconStor: A New Generation of Green Storage

FalconStor believes that deduplicating virtual tape libraries represents a very energy-efficient way of storing data.[more...]

posted on 07 August 2008

Microsoft paper on Write Off-Loading

Here is the abstract from a Microsoft research paper entitled 'Write Off-Loading: Practical Power Management for Enterprise Storage':[more...]

posted on 23 July 2008

Falconstor's more efficient replication

FalconStor says storage array-based replication often sends disk tracks across the wire when replicating changes from one array to another. Its own MicroScan technology only sends the changed data in units of disk sectors, 512 bytes, and not the much larger tracks.[more...]

posted on 19 July 2008

Cisco sees FCOE driving SAN-LAN merger

Cisco expects FCOE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) to kick-start 10GbE use to link servers and Ethernet switches although converged, enhanced Ethernet (CEE) isn't ready yet as standards are still being created for this lossless, predictable latency version of Ethernet.[more...]

posted on 03 July 2008

White Paper: Use and Abuse of Storage

Storage accounts for a large and increasing proportion of the IT and data centre budgets. As the amount of stored data grows exponentially, enterprises are challenged to meet greater expectations for storage facilities that are agile, secure, fast and deliver high availability. At the same time there is remorseless pressure to reduce cost and improve value for money.[more...]

posted on 08 June 2008

White Paper: Enhancing Exchange Server 2007 Availability

Recovering an Exchange server in the event of a disaster can be an IT administrator’s worst nightmare. The recovery process takes too much time and planning, and is generally very hard to test. Besides the downtime, Exchange recovery may involve a significant amount of data loss because of the gap that can occur when the databases are restored from the latest available backup.[more...]

posted on 05 June 2008

Demystifying data deduplication

Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality.[more...]