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White Papers
Efficient Multi-Dimensional Query Processing in Personal Information Management Systems
Apr 2008
The relentless growth in capacity and dropping price of storage are driving an explosion in the amount of information users are collecting and storing in personal information management systems....
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics
Jan 2011
Building reliable storage systems becomes increasingly challenging as the complexity of modern storage systems continues to grow. Understanding storage failure characteristics is crucially...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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White Papers
External Double Hashing With Choice
Jan 2011
A novel extension to external double hashing providing significant reduction to both successful and unsuccessful search lengths is presented. The experimental and analytical results demonstrate...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Efficient External Table Reordering
Jan 2008
A novel extension to binary-tree table organization suitable for external storage providing successful searches for nearly full tables requiring less than two accesses is presented. This paper...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multicore-Aware Reuse Distance Analysis
Feb 2010
This paper presents and validates methods to extend reuse distance analysis of application locality characteristics to shared-memory multicore platforms by accounting for invalidation-based...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Simplify your data backups
Jun 2011
Is it too hard to regularly backup and protect your data? It doesn't have to be. Dell's PowerVault RD1000 can offer simple ways to streamline your storage systems to keep your files safe and secure.
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
SmartStore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm With Metadata Semantic-Awareness for Next-Generation File Systems
Nov 2008
Existing data storage systems based on hierarchical directory tree do not meet scalability and functionality requirements for exponentially growing datasets and increasingly complex metadata...
Provided by University of Nebraska
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White Papers
Case Study: Soft Error Rate Analysis in Storage Systems
Apr 2009
Soft errors due to cosmic particles are a growing reliability threat for VLSI systems. In this paper the authors analyze the soft error vulnerability of FPGAs used in storage systems. Since the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Case Studies
Telekom Slovenia Group Calls Upon IBM XIV for Dynamic Business Growth
Jun 2011
Telekom Slovenia Group is a major regional telecommunications provider, they needed a high-performance, high-capacity storage solution to support new revenue-assurance and anti-fraud applications....
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Replica Management in Data Grid
Jun 2008
The emergence of scientific applications which produce a huge volume of data files to be managed and shared requires special attention. In large-scale grid, data replication provides a suitable...
Provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia
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White Papers
Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-Offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: The Consumers' Perspective
Jan 2011
A new class of data storage systems, called NoSQL (Not only SQL), has emerged to complement traditional database systems, with rejection of general ACID transactions as one common feature....
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
Indexing Cached Multidimensional Objects in Large Main Memory Systems
Jan 2011
Semantic caches allow queries into large datasets to leverage cached results either directly or through transformations, using semantic information about the data objects in the cache. As the...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage
Aug 2008
Recent advances in flash media have made it an attractive alternative for data storage in a wide spectrum of computing devices, such as embedded sensors, mobile phones, PDA's, laptops, and even...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Capturing Dynamic Memory Structures
May 2008
Current operating systems do not capture any information about memory regions. The first step to enable a computer system to understand itself is capturing this information. In the course of this...
Provided by Technische Universitat Munchen
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White Papers
A Multi-Block Interleaving Structure for NAND Flash Memory Storage
May 2008
NAND flash memory is becoming more widely used in various computing systems due to improved cost effectiveness. This research is to design a cost effective solid state disk that can support high...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
A Statistical Travel Time Model for Miniload Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems With Open-Rack Structure
Apr 2008
In customary Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RSs), stacker cranes (S/R machines) are used to store and retrieve loads into/from the storage cells. In this paper, the open-rack...
Provided by University Putra Malaysia
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White Papers
Adaptive Software Transactional Memory: A Dynamic Approach to Contention Management
May 2008
Effectively managing shared memory in a multi-threaded environment is critical in order to achieve high performance in multi-core hardware platforms. Software Transactional Memory (STM) is a...
Provided by San Jose State University
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Case Studies
Disaster Recovery at NetApp: How We Delivered 11-Second RPO and 20-Minute RTO
Jul 2007
A world leader in unified storage solutions, NetApp recorded FY05 revenues of U.S. $1.6 billion. Manual site-to-site failover of critical business applications took 23 people two hours. The...
Provided by NetApp
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Podcasts
Tackling Your 4 Top Storage Problems
Jan 2011
Data growth impacts IT organization at many levels by making task like backups and data migration more disruptive, time-intensive and expensive than they need to be. In this brief but informative...
Provided by F5 Networks
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Podcasts
Podcast: Datameer CEO Stefan Groschupf on What Hadoop Is and Isn't
Aug 2012
In this podcast, the speaker talks about the history of Hadoop's development, explaining how the software works today and why its the best platform for storing and reading several different types...
Provided by Wellesley Information Services
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Whitepapers
Second Chance Replacement Considering a Garbage Collection Cost of FAST Scheme
Apr 2012
NAND-based storage devices deploy the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) in order to emulate the block device characteristics because NAND flash memory does not support the overwrite operation. The FTL...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Real-Time and Flexible Management of Storage Service Provider in Distributed Storage
Apr 2012
In distributed storage system, Storage Service Provider (SSP) is a critical component to receive and response these requests from clients. The authors propose a real-time and flexible management...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
An Analysis and Design of the Storage Management System Based on SMI 1.1.0
Jun 2010
This paper aims to suggest a Management Model of a storage system in distributed computing environment. Based on the Common Information Model and Web Based Enterprise Management, the SMI-S is a...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Managing Information Storage in Healthcare
Nov 2007
This paper is one of a series of papers that focus on the challenges healthcare providers face in information technology and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on...
Provided by Symantec Corp.
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Whitepapers
Data Storage and Management for Oil and Gas Industry
Mar 2009
Unstable oil prices and a global economic downturn place Exploration and Production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterize prospects and existing dormant assets. At the...
Provided by schlum
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Whitepapers
Repairable Replication-Based Storage Systems Using Resolvable Designs
Oct 2012
The authors consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems at the Minimum Bandwidth Regeneration (MBR) point. The codes allow for a repair process that is exact and...
Provided by Iowa State University
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Whitepapers
Scheduling Tree-Shaped Task Graphs to Minimize Memory and Makespan
Oct 2012
This paper investigates the execution of tree-shaped task graphs using multiple processors. Each edge of such a tree represents a large IO file. A task can only be executed if all input and output...
Provided by ISSN
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Whitepapers
The Architecture of Data Storage System for a Digital Library
Jun 2011
Today's society is the information society and the libraries are moving from traditional towards digitalization. The digitalization is the result of the need of modern information society. The...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Whitepapers
Solving Limited-Memory BFGS Systems With Generalized Diagonal Updates
Jul 2012
Limited memory (L-BFGS) quasi-Newton methods are powerful tools within the field of optimization for solving problems when second derivative information is not available or computing the second...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
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Whitepapers
Performance Evaluation of Flash File Systems
May 2012
Today, flash memory is strongly used in the embedded system domain. NAND flash memories are the building block of main secondary storage systems. Such memories present many benefits in terms of...
Provided by Université du Sud - Toulon - Var
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Podcasts
Fujitsu Introduces the Eternus DX60 and DX80 Midrange Disk Arrays
Jun 2009
Fujitsu recently introduced the DX60 and DX80 midrange disk arrays for its Eternus midrange product line. These disk arrays replace the Eternus 2000, 4000, and 8000, which are all at the low end...
Provided by Tandy Leather Factory
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Whitepapers
User-Level Secure Deletion on Log-Structured File Systems
Apr 2012
The authors address the problem of secure data deletion on log-structured le systems. They focus on the YAFFS le system, used on Android Smartphones, and on the Flash Translation Layer (FTL), used...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Parameterized Access Control: From Design to Prototype
Sep 2008
Peer-to-peer overlays provide a substrate well suited to building distributed storage systems. Applications that use the infrastructure need the ability to control access to their data. However,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Efficient Querying of Distributed Provenance Stores
Jun 2010
Current projects that automate the collection of provenance information use a centralized architecture for managing the resulting metadata - that is, provenance is gathered at remote hosts and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Maestro: Quality-of-Service in Large Disk Arrays
Jun 2011
Provisioning storage in disk arrays is a difficult problem because many applications with different workload characteristics and priorities share resources provided by the array. Currently,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Performance Differentiation for Multi-Port Arrays: A Control-Theoretic Approach
Apr 2009
Large multi-port disk arrays typically store data for multiple applications with diverse performance requirements. Each application has a different priority, representing the relative importance...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Distributed Storage Allocations
Jun 2012
The authors examine the problem of allocating a given total storage budget in a distributed storage system for maximum reliability. A source has a single data object that is to be coded and stored...
Provided by University of Southampton
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Whitepapers
Explicit Codes Uniformly Reducing Repair Bandwidth in Distributed Storage
Dec 2009
A distributed storage setting is considered where a file of size B is to be stored across n storage nodes. A data collector should be able to reconstruct the entire data by downloading the symbols...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - What's Possible With the Google Drive SDK
Aug 2012
In this webcast, the presenter explains about Google Drive which is used for file storage. The presenter also explains about implementing on the Google Drive SDK enables developers to distribute...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Podcasts
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 4: Hardware and Power Efficiency
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers explain about the new power and storage features in VMware vSphere that enable one to make more efficient use of the server and storage assets and reduce power...
Provided by VMW Games
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Lotto Sport Italia
Apr 2010
High tech footwear company Lotto Sport Italia was facing significant physical growth in the volume of company data, the development of markets and the launching of new initiatives, which made it...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
Feb 2008
The mission of King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) is to create the next generation of Thailand's leading scientists and technologists. To help accomplish this goal, the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Kennedys
Nov 2008
Accelerated business growth at insurance law firm Kennedys has resulted in new offices and an influx of lawyers and other staff worldwide. Consolidation of its London offices to a new headquarters...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Kiln Ltd
Apr 2008
With strong business growth in the UK supplemented with acquisitions abroad, Kiln Ltd needed a reliable, scalable storage platform to cope with its ever increasing data demands. A Hitachi...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: K7 Computing
Feb 2010
K7 Computing is an information security software solutions company. Its teams work simultaneously on multiple huge files, which are accessed from many servers. This complicates the work process...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Jubilee International High School
Nov 2008
Jubilee International High School wanted to ensure that both pupils and teachers have access to essential coursework and resources while increasing the size of the student body, the school needed...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: International School Bangkok (ISB)
Sep 2008
Established in 1951, International School Bangkok (ISB) has a proud heritage of providing quality education. It serves 19,000 expatriates from over 50 countries residing in the greater Bangkok...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Intellidyn Corporation
Mar 2008
Intellidyn Corporation processes, analyzes and compiles millions of intricate information records in order to deliver customized consumer data, faster and more comprehensively than the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Innlandet Hospital Trust
Mar 2008
When Norway's Innlandet Hospital Trust started its massive IT consolidation programme two years ago, they knew that avoiding downtime and loss of data access would be critical to the 8,000...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Infoterra
Mar 2008
Infoterra, a leading provider of geo-information products and services, delivers reliable geospatial knowledge to customers worldwide - when and where they need it. In order to provide this...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Industrial Electric Wire & Cable (IEWC)
May 2010
With double digit business growth and recently installed SAP systems, Industrial Electric Wire & Cable (IEWC) company needed a highly reliable storage foundation to embrace new capabilities and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Huntsville Hospital
Aug 2010
With extreme data growth escalating year after year, Huntsville Hospital was determined to implement high performance, low maintenance storage virtualization across three data centers. After...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC)
Dec 2009
Tasked with being the "Invisible hand" in the tangible realization of the national dream of "A happy home for every Filipino family," Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC) focuses on promoting home...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: The Henner Group - GMC: Collective Social Protection Specialists
Dec 2009
The Henner Group - GMC is the collective solution protection specialist in France, the leader in social coverage for expats and multinationals, the "Global Insurance" partner for businesses and a...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Helse Midt-Norge IT (Hemit)
Apr 2009
With ownership of and responsibility for all IT infrastructure and shared software throughout Hemit (the Central Norway Regional Health Authority), Hemit manages one of central Norway's largest IT...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: HDFC Bank Limited (HDFC)
Oct 2009
The HDFC Bank Limited (HDFC) was one of the first organizations to receive approval from the Reserve Bank of India to set up a bank in the private sector. Incorporated in August 1994 as HDFC Bank...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Gmarket
Mar 2008
When Gmarket, a burgeoning Internet retail company, began experiencing errors and interruptions in its database systems, it sought out a premier business continuity plan. A Services Oriented...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Electro-Motive Diesel
Sep 2008
Since 2005, Electro-Motive Diesel has experienced a tremendous amount of corporate growth and corresponding data growth, which has resulted in a storage failure in winter 2007-2008. Taking strong...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management
Jun 2008
Daya Bay Nuclear Power Operations and Management Co., Ltd., China's first operations and management company in the nuclear power industry, is modeled on international best practice standards and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Crown Macau
May 2008
In an industry known for its zero tolerance of downtime, Crown Macau wanted a storage solution supplier who understood their needs and could support their requirements. The company deployed a...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Conwy County Borough Council
Feb 2009
Serving 111,300 residents in North Wales, Conwy County Borough Council's disparate storage environment needed consolidating to support new internal systems and a developing disaster recovery plan....
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Apr 2009
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is a global leader in providing technology enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business: Business Solutions and Services, Global...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: City of Coquitlam
Apr 2010
For the city government in Coquitlam, British Columbia, providing quality services to its 125,000 residents is paramount. That is why the city IT department revamped its existing SAN to include...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Centrum Rozliczen i Informacji CERI sp. z o.o., a BRE Bank Group Company
Feb 2009
In order to ensure high quality of IT services, improve performance and consolidate disk resources, Centrum Rozliczen i Informacji CERI sp. z o.o. chose to implement two storage systems from...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Bouygues Telecom
Jun 2010
Founded in 1994, Bouygues Telecom has over 10 million customers and 8,650 employees. The company aims to become the "preferred brand of mobile, fixed, TV and Internet communication services." Data...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Barry Callebaut AG
Jul 2009
Barry Callebaut is world leader in the production of high quality cocoa and chocolate products - from the cocoa beanto the finished product on the store shelf. In the last couple of years, the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Banco Leon
Oct 2009
Located in the Dominican Republic, Banco Leon, S.A., is a financial institution that has been present in the commercial and retail banking segment for two years. At present, it has over 230,000...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Banco de Reservas de la República Dominicana (BanReservas Bank)
Jun 2010
Through its over 60 years of existence, Banco de Reservas de la República Dominicana (BanReservas Bank) has grown to become the most experienced and stable reserve bank in Latin America's eighth...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Austrian Federal Computing Centre - Bundesrechenzentrum GmbH
Oct 2009
As it works to provide customized and innovative public administration solutions - supporting administrative organizations, automating processes of public administration and ensuring problem free...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Atos Worldline
Sep 2008
Atos Worldline is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atos Origin. It specializes in three lines of services: payment services, eCRM and eServices, and it has three linked activities: design, development...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Asia Pacific Telecom Co., Ltd.
May 2010
Telecommunication service provider Asia Pacific Telecom Co., Ltd., must accommodate millions of system accesses daily. With the root of the problem identified, the company purchased additional...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Applica Incorporated
Apr 2010
From trendy kitchen tools to griddles and toasters, Applica Incorporated markets and distributes an impressive inventory of small household appliances. Business growth through acquisition has led...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study - Anthogyr: Dental Implant and Instrument Specialist
Nov 2007
Dental implant and instrument specialist Anthogyr designs, manufactures and markets dental implants, rotating instruments and peripheral material for dental implantology. With a significant design...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS)
Mar 2008
Thailand telecommunications service provider Advanced Info Service rings in more than half the nation's wireless business and shows no signs of losing market share. With its continual expansion of...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Whitepapers
Reducing Storage Costs With F5 ARX
Jun 2009
F5 ARX solutions dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses associated with managing file storage environments. Companies that have deployed ARX solutions have realized significant cost...
Provided by F5 Networks
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White Papers
Hitachi Storage Management and USP-V and USP-VM Enhancements
May 2008
In a continuing effort to align storage services with customers' business requirements, Hitachi Data Systems announced the Hitachi Storage Command Suite comprised of sophisticated storage resource...
Provided by Josh Krischer & Associates
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White Papers
Shore-MT: A Scalable Storage Manager for the Multicore Era
Mar 2009
Database storage managers have long been able to efficiently handle multiple concurrent requests. Until recently, however, a computer contained only a few single-core CPUs, and therefore only a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
On the Storage, Management and Analysis of (Multi) Similarity for Large Scale Protein Structure Datasets in the Grid
Jun 2009
Assessment of the (Multi) Similarity among a set of protein structures is achieved through an ensemble of protein structure comparison methods/algorithms. This leads to the generation of a...
Provided by University of Calabria
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White Papers
Using the Sun Storage 7000 Fibre Channel Target With Veritas Storage Foundation / DMP Quick Start Guide
Jun 2010
The purpose of this guide is to provide a quick overview on how to configure the Sun Storage 7000 to provide Fibre Channel storage for use with Veritas Storage Foundation / DMP. It contains...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Managing Performance Variance of Applications Using Storage I/O Control
Jul 2010
Application performance can be impacted when servers contend for I/O resources in a shared storage environment. There is a crucial need for isolating the performance of critical applications from...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Case Study: Soft Error Rate Analysis in Storage Systems
Apr 2009
Soft errors due to cosmic particles are a growing reliability threat for VLSI systems. In this paper the authors analyze the soft error vulnerability of FPGAs used in storage systems. Since the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Case Studies
Telekom Slovenia Group Calls Upon IBM XIV for Dynamic Business Growth
Jun 2011
Telekom Slovenia Group is a major regional telecommunications provider, they needed a high-performance, high-capacity storage solution to support new revenue-assurance and anti-fraud applications....
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Replica Management in Data Grid
Jun 2008
The emergence of scientific applications which produce a huge volume of data files to be managed and shared requires special attention. In large-scale grid, data replication provides a suitable...
Provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia
-
White Papers
Data Consistency Properties and the Trade-Offs in Commercial Cloud Storages: The Consumers' Perspective
Jan 2011
A new class of data storage systems, called NoSQL (Not only SQL), has emerged to complement traditional database systems, with rejection of general ACID transactions as one common feature....
Provided by University of New South Wales
-
White Papers
Indexing Cached Multidimensional Objects in Large Main Memory Systems
Jan 2011
Semantic caches allow queries into large datasets to leverage cached results either directly or through transformations, using semantic information about the data objects in the cache. As the...
Provided by University of Maryland
-
White Papers
Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage
Aug 2008
Recent advances in flash media have made it an attractive alternative for data storage in a wide spectrum of computing devices, such as embedded sensors, mobile phones, PDA's, laptops, and even...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
Capturing Dynamic Memory Structures
May 2008
Current operating systems do not capture any information about memory regions. The first step to enable a computer system to understand itself is capturing this information. In the course of this...
Provided by Technische Universitat Munchen
-
White Papers
A Multi-Block Interleaving Structure for NAND Flash Memory Storage
May 2008
NAND flash memory is becoming more widely used in various computing systems due to improved cost effectiveness. This research is to design a cost effective solid state disk that can support high...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
-
White Papers
A Statistical Travel Time Model for Miniload Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems With Open-Rack Structure
Apr 2008
In customary Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RSs), stacker cranes (S/R machines) are used to store and retrieve loads into/from the storage cells. In this paper, the open-rack...
Provided by University Putra Malaysia
-
White Papers
Adaptive Software Transactional Memory: A Dynamic Approach to Contention Management
May 2008
Effectively managing shared memory in a multi-threaded environment is critical in order to achieve high performance in multi-core hardware platforms. Software Transactional Memory (STM) is a...
Provided by San Jose State University
-
Case Studies
Disaster Recovery at NetApp: How We Delivered 11-Second RPO and 20-Minute RTO
Jul 2007
A world leader in unified storage solutions, NetApp recorded FY05 revenues of U.S. $1.6 billion. Manual site-to-site failover of critical business applications took 23 people two hours. The...
Provided by NetApp
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Podcasts
Tackling Your 4 Top Storage Problems
Jan 2011
Data growth impacts IT organization at many levels by making task like backups and data migration more disruptive, time-intensive and expensive than they need to be. In this brief but informative...
Provided by F5 Networks
-
Podcasts
Podcast: Datameer CEO Stefan Groschupf on What Hadoop Is and Isn't
Aug 2012
In this podcast, the speaker talks about the history of Hadoop's development, explaining how the software works today and why its the best platform for storing and reading several different types...
Provided by Wellesley Information Services
-
Whitepapers
Second Chance Replacement Considering a Garbage Collection Cost of FAST Scheme
Apr 2012
NAND-based storage devices deploy the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) in order to emulate the block device characteristics because NAND flash memory does not support the overwrite operation. The FTL...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
-
Whitepapers
Real-Time and Flexible Management of Storage Service Provider in Distributed Storage
Apr 2012
In distributed storage system, Storage Service Provider (SSP) is a critical component to receive and response these requests from clients. The authors propose a real-time and flexible management...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
-
Whitepapers
An Analysis and Design of the Storage Management System Based on SMI 1.1.0
Jun 2010
This paper aims to suggest a Management Model of a storage system in distributed computing environment. Based on the Common Information Model and Web Based Enterprise Management, the SMI-S is a...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
-
Whitepapers
Managing Information Storage in Healthcare
Nov 2007
This paper is one of a series of papers that focus on the challenges healthcare providers face in information technology and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on...
Provided by Symantec Corp.
-
Whitepapers
Data Storage and Management for Oil and Gas Industry
Mar 2009
Unstable oil prices and a global economic downturn place Exploration and Production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterize prospects and existing dormant assets. At the...
Provided by schlum
-
Whitepapers
Repairable Replication-Based Storage Systems Using Resolvable Designs
Oct 2012
The authors consider the design of regenerating codes for distributed storage systems at the Minimum Bandwidth Regeneration (MBR) point. The codes allow for a repair process that is exact and...
Provided by Iowa State University
-
Whitepapers
Scheduling Tree-Shaped Task Graphs to Minimize Memory and Makespan
Oct 2012
This paper investigates the execution of tree-shaped task graphs using multiple processors. Each edge of such a tree represents a large IO file. A task can only be executed if all input and output...
Provided by ISSN
-
Whitepapers
The Architecture of Data Storage System for a Digital Library
Jun 2011
Today's society is the information society and the libraries are moving from traditional towards digitalization. The digitalization is the result of the need of modern information society. The...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
-
Whitepapers
Solving Limited-Memory BFGS Systems With Generalized Diagonal Updates
Jul 2012
Limited memory (L-BFGS) quasi-Newton methods are powerful tools within the field of optimization for solving problems when second derivative information is not available or computing the second...
Provided by International Association of Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Performance Evaluation of Flash File Systems
May 2012
Today, flash memory is strongly used in the embedded system domain. NAND flash memories are the building block of main secondary storage systems. Such memories present many benefits in terms of...
Provided by Université du Sud - Toulon - Var
-
Podcasts
Fujitsu Introduces the Eternus DX60 and DX80 Midrange Disk Arrays
Jun 2009
Fujitsu recently introduced the DX60 and DX80 midrange disk arrays for its Eternus midrange product line. These disk arrays replace the Eternus 2000, 4000, and 8000, which are all at the low end...
Provided by Tandy Leather Factory
-
Whitepapers
User-Level Secure Deletion on Log-Structured File Systems
Apr 2012
The authors address the problem of secure data deletion on log-structured le systems. They focus on the YAFFS le system, used on Android Smartphones, and on the Flash Translation Layer (FTL), used...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
Parameterized Access Control: From Design to Prototype
Sep 2008
Peer-to-peer overlays provide a substrate well suited to building distributed storage systems. Applications that use the infrastructure need the ability to control access to their data. However,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
Efficient Querying of Distributed Provenance Stores
Jun 2010
Current projects that automate the collection of provenance information use a centralized architecture for managing the resulting metadata - that is, provenance is gathered at remote hosts and...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Maestro: Quality-of-Service in Large Disk Arrays
Jun 2011
Provisioning storage in disk arrays is a difficult problem because many applications with different workload characteristics and priorities share resources provided by the array. Currently,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Performance Differentiation for Multi-Port Arrays: A Control-Theoretic Approach
Apr 2009
Large multi-port disk arrays typically store data for multiple applications with diverse performance requirements. Each application has a different priority, representing the relative importance...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Whitepapers
Distributed Storage Allocations
Jun 2012
The authors examine the problem of allocating a given total storage budget in a distributed storage system for maximum reliability. A source has a single data object that is to be coded and stored...
Provided by University of Southampton
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Whitepapers
Explicit Codes Uniformly Reducing Repair Bandwidth in Distributed Storage
Dec 2009
A distributed storage setting is considered where a file of size B is to be stored across n storage nodes. A data collector should be able to reconstruct the entire data by downloading the symbols...
Provided by Indian Institute of Science
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Webcasts
Google I/O 2012 - What's Possible With the Google Drive SDK
Aug 2012
In this webcast, the presenter explains about Google Drive which is used for file storage. The presenter also explains about implementing on the Google Drive SDK enables developers to distribute...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Podcasts
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 4: Hardware and Power Efficiency
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speakers explain about the new power and storage features in VMware vSphere that enable one to make more efficient use of the server and storage assets and reduce power...
Provided by VMW Games
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Whitepapers
Optimizing Storage and Protecting Data with Oracle Database 11g
Mar 2011
As long as corporate information keeps increasing at such astounding rates organizations will pursue more efficient and cost effective ways to store and manage information. Managing data growth is...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Boosting Operational Efficiency by Streamlining File Storage Management
Apr 2012
IT storage administrators often face an overwhelming challenge as they respond to demands placed on them from all directions from users, the IT manager, and the business itself. Planned and...
Provided by F5
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Whitepapers
Storage Architecture XProtect Corporate
Feb 2011
This paper describes the storage architecture in Milestone XProtect Corporate IP video management software, and the new additions introduced in release 4.0 of XProtect Corporate. Milestone...
Provided by Milestone Systems
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Whitepapers
Four Principles for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership
Jul 2011
Difficult economic times require new perspectives and strategies for reducing the cost of storage infrastructure. The past several years of IT procurement have left many IT organizations with...
Provided by Hitachi
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Whitepapers
Solving Intel IT's Data Storage Growth Challenges
Jan 2012
Intel IT is using a variety of techniques to accommodate growing demand for storage capabilities, without increasing costs. In 2011 Intel faced a 53 percent increase in storage capacity from 2010,...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
OPDSM: A Combinatorial Object-Based and PageBased DSM Model
Oct 2011
The Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) system is designed on the basis of page-based, shared-variable-based or object-based access. There are certain advantages and disadvantages of each access...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Performance Enhancement by the Design of Flash Controller for X8 NAND Flash Memory Devices
Nov 2010
The available flash devices are NAND flash and NOR flash memory devices. Each device is also divided with data width into x8/x16 NAND flash memory and x8/x16 NOR flash memory. The authors are...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
