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White Papers
Storage Efficiency in an Oracle Environment
Aug 2009
This paper discusses various design decisions that can be taken when implementing data center infrastructure for Oracle Database and application environments to maximize storage efficiency. This...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Using the Performance Accelerator Module II in Online Transaction Processing
Aug 2009
The storage industry is undergoing a major transformation as flash memory technology transitions from a tool for storing cell-phone address books into an enterprise-ready performance acceleration...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Data Deduplication Solutions - IBM System Storage N Series
Jan 2010
This paper offers an overview of the data management tool, deduplication, and a brief understanding of the variety of deduplication solution types. In an era of burgeoning data growth, reductions...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
ESG Lab Validation Report: NetApp Ethernet Storage Protocol Independent Convergence With FCoE
Feb 2009
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an emerging standard that maps Fibre Channel storage traffic over an Enhanced 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. NetApp is the first storage vendor to support...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
DR Validation for SAP Solutions With VMware Site Recovery Manager and NetApp Storage and Products
Aug 2009
SAP provides a range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to manage and run the complete business of a company. Companies that have deployed such products depend on...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Why Visibility and Manageability Are Critical to the Adoption of iSCSI
Oct 2008
This paper explores some of the challenges that have slowed the adoption of iSCSI and discusses several ways to optimize iSCSI SANs. It also details several policies that can be created to...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
NearStore: Network Appliance and Quantum Solutions
Jun 2008
The expectations for the performance, reliability, and quality of backup systems grow significantly every year. While the amount of data that needs to be backed up continues to grow exponentially,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
NetApp Unified Ethernet Storage Evaluation
Jan 2010
Ethernet storage is advancing towards a converged storage network, supporting the traditional NFS, CIFS and iSCSI storage protocols and adding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), all running over...
Provided by Demartek
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White Papers
NetApp Thin Provisioning - Doing More With Less
Jan 2010
Reducing or deferring a datacenter's capital and/or operational expense has become a paramount concern in today's challenging economic climate. Many storage vendors' promote functionality and...
Provided by Silverton Consulting
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White Papers
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
Apr 2008
An important threat to reliable storage of data is silent data corruption. In order to develop suitable protection mechanisms against data corruption, it is essential to understand its...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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White Papers
Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures?
Apr 2008
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
AWOL: An Adaptive Write Optimizations Layer
Apr 2008
Operating system memory managers fail to consider the population of read versus write pages in the buffer pool or outstanding I/O requests when writing dirty pages to disk or network file systems....
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Implementation and Analysis of the User Direct Access Programming Library
Jan 2010
The User Direct Access Programming Library (uDAPL) is a generic application programming interface (API) for network adapters capable of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). The uDAPL interface...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Preservation DataStores: New Storage Paradigm for Preservation Environments
Sep 2008
As the world becomes digital, one is in ever greater danger of losing business, scientific, artistic, cultural, and personal assets. The threat of such a digital dark age stems from the fact that...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Authenticity and Provenance in Long Term Digital Preservation: Modeling and Implementation in Preservation Aware Storage
Feb 2009
A growing amount of digital objects is designated for long term preservation - a time scale during which technologies, formats and communities are very likely to change. Specialized approaches,...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
COPAN Systems Joins IBM in Unlocking Value of Long-Term Data: Solution From COPAN Systems and IBM Offers Hospital System Premier Storage Capability
Aug 2009
Swedish Medical needed to expand capacity for online and near-online backup data; reduce store times and increase recovery points and enhance stored data security. Swedish Medical, based in...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
OmniPay Aligns IT Financing With Business Growth Using Flexible Funding From IBM Global Financing
Oct 2009
OmniPay undertook a review of its IT operations. The company sought an external managed service contract and an immediate multi-million pound storage upgrade without the requirement for upfront...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Bank Leumi Revolutionizes Its Storage Paradigm After Discovering Superior Performance and Real Single-Tier Storage With the IBM XIV Storage System
Feb 2009
Bank Leumi's IT team had objectives typical to those of their counterparts in the finance arena: ensuring high system performance and reliability while utilizing rich features for optimized...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Security Service Federal Credit Union Revitalizes Data Storage With IBM System Storage DR550
May 2010
After a period of rapid growth through acquisition, SSFCU surpassed its capacity for data storage on its optical data storage and retrieval system. Aging optical technology adversely affected...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Centea - Fast and Reliable Document Storage Solution by IBM
Apr 2010
Centea needed to replace its outdated imaging system with a more comprehensive, high performance document scanning and management system. With IBM's software at the core of the solution, it...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Bezeq International Drives Cutting-Edge Competitiveness With IBM XIV Storage
Jan 2009
Bezeq International launched its XIV storage solution by deploying a single system for peripheral enterprise storage needs. Within a year and a half, it had expanded the solution to four systems -...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Optimizing Your Storage Environment With Veritas Storage Foundation
Jan 2010
Organizations are constantly looking to drive automation and reduce storage hardware costs while improving access to data. The attendee of this webcast learns how Veritas Storage Foundation solves...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Maintaining High Storage Utilization With Oracle ASM Storage Reclamation Utility and 3PAR Thin Persistence
Apr 2010
IT Organizations face increasing pressure to deliver high-performance Oracle databases and other mission-critical applications at the lowest possible cost. The old days of throwing disks at...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Thin Reclamation
Mar 2010
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a feature of Oracle's database made available in Oracle Release 10g. ASM is a purpose built file system and volume manager integrated in Oracle's database. It...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Get More Storage Efficiency With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Mar 2010
Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. Oracle can help ease this pain by...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Growing SharePoint From Small Libraries to Large Scale Repositories and Massive Archives
Feb 2010
SharePoint allows to store many documents in an environment and end users will want to store, find and retrieve documents and information quickly and easily. In this webcast, a lot of new...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Data Resilience and Improved Performance in the Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays
Feb 2010
The ability of a business to withstand outages and to operate important services normally and without interruption is crucial. Data resilience and high availability protect companies from the loss...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Architecture Principles and Implementation Practices for Remote Replication Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Apr 2010
An increase in storage demand increases the complexity of protecting data. The storage-based remote replication feature of Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (2010.Q1 release)...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks 8400 Enterprise Virtual Array 9,000 User Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution
Mar 2010
This paper is intended to show that the HP StorageWorks EVA has been tested with the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 load profile and is the right choice for certain deployments. This solution...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Archive Storage System Design for Long-Term Storage of Massive Amounts of Data
Sep 2008
A dramatic shift is underway in how organizations use computer storage. This shift will have a profound impact on storage system design. The requirement for storage of traditional transactional...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
Aug 2009
This paper at large discusses the development, design process, the basic data model in detail and overview of the clients for Cassandra, which is a decentralized structured storage system. The...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Case Studies
Portal for Health & Safety Management
Jan 2010
This case study aims at solving the problem of a leading international plastic and fiber supplier. The company gave utmost importance to health and safety (hereafter H&S) of its employees. The...
Provided by ITC Infotech India
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Case Studies
Business Systems Group
Dec 2008
This case study discusses the need for a sophisticated storage capability at Business Systems Group and how this challenge was met by Pillar Axiom. Business Systems Group is a company that helps...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
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Case Studies
Skyservice: Canadian Charter Airline Soars With Pillar
Mar 2009
SkyService has been one of the pioneers of Green policy in Canada. It introduced the first Canadian eco-friendly Boeing and has been committed to its promise of environment friendly policies. This...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
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Case Studies
Earth Rangers: Earth Rangers Build a Green Future With Pillar
Nov 2008
Earth Rangers is a non-profit organization which works towards inspiring children to exert a positive impact on their environment. This case study discusses the data storage concerns of Earth...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
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Whitepapers
A Correctness Criterion for Eager Approach Validation for Transactional Memory System
Jan 2012
With rise of multi-core systems, Software Transactional Memory (STM) has garnered significant interest as an elegant alternative for developing concurrent code. A (memory) transaction is an unit...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Reduction of Context Switches Due to Task Synchronization in Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Platform
Oct 2011
The problem of frequent context switches in multitasking is a real scheduling overhead which wastes extra CPU cycles, memory and causes much delay in scheduling. This paper focuses on reducing the...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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White Papers
A Performance Comparison of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries for Storage Applications
Aug 2008
Recent years have seen surge of erasure codes in preventing data loss in storage systems composed of multiple disks. Storage companies such as Cleversafe, Data Domain, Network Appliance and...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Managing Data Storage in the Public Cloud
Oct 2009
With organizations struggling to control costs, they face increasing demands to keep pace with explosive data growth and ever-changing regulations. To address these challenges, storage industry...
Provided by SNIA - Storage Networking Industry Association
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White Papers
Growth Solutions for Data Storage
May 2009
From small businesses to large enterprises, the growth in the internet has resulted in an enormous challenge to effectively and affordably manage, store and archive digital files. Businesses...
Provided by Synology
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White Papers
Understanding and Improving Computational Science Storage Access Through Continuous Characterization
Jul 2011
Computational science applications are driving a demand for increasingly powerful storage systems. While many techniques are available for capturing the I/O behavior of individual application...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Applying Simple Performance Models to Understand Inefficiencies in Data-Intensive Computing
Feb 2011
New programming frameworks for scale-out parallel analysis, such as MapReduce and Hadoop, have become a cornerstone for exploiting large datasets. However, there has been little analysis of how...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers
Aug 2011
Efficient thermal management is important in modern data centers as cooling consumes up to 50% of the total energy. Unlike previous work, the authors consider proactive thermal management, whereby...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Row Buffer Locality-Aware Data Placement in Hybrid Memories
Sep 2011
Phase Change Memory (PCM) is a promising alternative to DRAM, though its high latency and energy costs prohibit its adoption as a drop-in DRAM replacement. Hybrid memory systems comprising DRAM...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Reducing Memory Interference in Multicore Systems Via Application-Aware Memory Channel Partitioning
Dec 2011
Main memory is a major shared resource among cores in a multi-core system. If the interference between different applications' memory requests is not controlled effectively, system performance can...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Aggregate Memory as an Intermediate Checkpoint Storage Device
Nov 2008
Applications that generate bursty I/O load, like check-pointing, require additional support to perform efficiently on next generation peta-scale supercomputers. Tens of thousands of processors,...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Scratch as a Cache: Rethinking HPC Center Scratch Storage
Jun 2009
To sustain emerging data-intensive scientific applications, High Performance Computing (HPC) centers invest a notable fraction of their operating budget on a specialized fast storage system,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Improving Data Availability for Better Access Performance: A Study on Caching Scientific Data on Distributed Desktop Workstations
Jul 2009
Client-side data caching serves as an excellent mechanism to store and analyze the rapidly growing scientific data, motivating distributed, client-side caches built from unreliable desktop storage...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Active Flash: Performance-Energy Tradeoffs for Out-of-Core Processing on Non-Volatile Memory Devices
Dec 2011
In this paper, the authors study the performance and energy tradeoffs involved in migrating data analysis into the flash device, a process they refer to as Active Flash. The Active Flash paradigm...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
NVMalloc: Exposing an Aggregate SSD Store as a Memory Partition in Extreme-Scale Machines
Feb 2012
DRAM is a precious resource in extreme-scale machines and is increasingly becoming scarce, mainly due to the growing number of cores per node. On future multi-petaflop and exaflop machines, the...
Provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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White Papers
Active Flash: Out-of-Core Data Analytics on Flash Storage
Mar 2012
Next generation science will increasingly come to rely on the ability to perform efficient, on-the-fly analytics of data generated by High-Performance Computing (HPC) simulations, modeling complex...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
A Semantic Extension of a Hierarchical Storage Management System for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Jan 2012
The number of company data deposited in hierarchical storage management systems heavily increases. Thus, new approaches are necessary to keep track of a data pool. This paper introduces a Semantic...
Provided by Dresden University of Technology
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White Papers
Analytical Results on the Quadtree Storage-Requirements
Feb 2008
An analysis of the expected size occupied by a Quadtree is presented. The analysis is based on the general assumption that the storage requirements of internal and external nodes differ. Besides,...
Provided by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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White Papers
Optimistic Way of Accessing Open Storage Using Collaborative Approach
Mar 2012
Files are sent and delivered only if the Source-System and the Receiving-System is Switched-On. The system is on Client-Server architecture and not Peer-To-Peer. To provide Secured...
Provided by Manipal Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Optimizing Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Mar 2012
Desktop virtualization can help IT organizations reduce the time and cost associated with operating and maintaining desktop systems, as well as protect desktop data. This paper describes the...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Architectures and Modeling of Predictable Memory Controllers for Improved System Integration
Dec 2010
Designing multi-processor systems-on-chips becomes increasingly complex, as more applications with real-time requirements execute in parallel. System resources, such as memories, are shared...
Provided by European Design and Automation Association
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White Papers
Power Minimisation for Real-Time Dataflow Applications
May 2011
Energy efficient execution of applications is important for many reasons, e.g. time between battery charges, device temperature. Voltage and Frequency Scaling (VFS) enables applications to be run...
Provided by Delft University of Technology
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White Papers
Extraction of Forensically Sensitive Information From Windows Physical Memory
Jul 2009
Forensic analysis of physical memory is gaining good attention from experts in the community especially after recent development of valuable tools and techniques. Investigators find it very...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
The Concept of Memory Stubs as a Specialization of Dynamic Performance Stubs to Simulate Memory Access Behavior
Nov 2009
Dynamic performance stubs provide a framework for the simulation of the performance behavior of software modules and functions. Stubs can be used for a cost-benefit analysis of the gain from...
Provided by University of Applied Sciences
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White Papers
A New Data Allocation Method for Parallel Probe-Based Storage Devices
Apr 2008
The authors present a new data allocation method for probe-based storage devices that use multiple, simultaneously accessed parallel data fields. Their method uses blocks of data of unequal length...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Heuristic Method for Error Correction in Parallel Probe-Based Storage Devices
Feb 2009
This paper presents a new decoding algorithm that improves the reliability of probe-based storage devices, that use multiple, simultaneously accessed parallel fields, when they are affected by...
Provided by University of Patras
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White Papers
Measurements-Based Modeling of Burst Errors on Multiple Parallel Storage Channels
Mar 2009
This paper presents a measurement-based burst error model for storage devices that use multiple parallel channels when they are affected by external disturbances. The burst errors are modeled...
Provided by University of Patras
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White Papers
Coding Efficiency and Reliability in Probe-Based Storage Devices
Apr 2009
High density probe-based storage devices use multiple, simultaneously accessed parallel channels for achieving high I/O data rates. This paper presents an analytical methodology for evaluating the...
Provided by University of Patras
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White Papers
Minimization of ACL Storage by Adding Minimal Hardware of Range Matching and Logical Gates to TCAM
Mar 2008
Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) is a special type of memory used in routers in order to achieve high speed packet classification. The classification is performed using the five fields in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optimize SharePoint Storage to Cut Costs and Improve Performance
Mar 2012
SharePoint's popularity has resulted in an explosion in the amount of content uploaded into it. Nearly all of that content is documents and other types of unstructured data stored as Binary Large...
Provided by Metalogix
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White Papers
Making the Right Storage Choices: 10 Must-Ask Questions
Mar 2012
If you sit down with any storage vendor, you're likely to hear that its solution can do everything you need and that its product is the perfect solution. In many cases, the truth isn't revealed...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
N-Party BAR Transfer
Sep 2011
Peer-to-peer systems may be used to provide temporary or long-term storage services. Such services are useful in a number of settings. For instance, peer-to-peer systems can be used to process...
Provided by Instituto Superior Técnico
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White Papers
A Timing Assumption and Two T-Resilient Protocols for Implementing an Eventual Leader Service in Asynchronous Shared Memory Systems
Apr 2008
This paper considers the problem of electing an eventual leader in an asynchronous shared memory system. While this problem has received a lot of attention in message-passing systems, very few...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
The Overhead of Safe Broadcast Persistency
Dec 2010
Although the need of logging messages in secondary storage once they have been received has been stated in several papers that assumed a recoverable failure model, none of them analyzed the...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
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Case Studies
New B2C Launch Strategy Delivers Extraordinary Sales
Sep 2010
Seagate Technology has been providing the storage devices at the center of computers, their challenge is that bypass traditional B2B channels to reach end-users about revolutionary new storage...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
EigenBench: A Simple Exploration Tool for Orthogonal TM Characteristics
Nov 2010
There are a significant number of Transactional Memory (TM) proposals, varying in almost all aspects of the design space. Although several transactional benchmarks have been suggested, a simple,...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Storage and Mirroring in Single and Dual Section Metro WDM Rings under Different Traffic Scenarios
Feb 2010
This paper introduces a novel data mirroring technique for Storage Area Networks (SANs) in a metropolitan Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) ring scenario. Sectioning links are introduced to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Image Compression Based on Improved FFT Algorithm
Jul 2011
Image compression is a crucial step in image processing area. Image Fourier transforms is the classical algorithm which can convert image from spatial domain to frequency domain. Because of its...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Independent Set Packet Classification Algorithm Using Priority Sorting
Nov 2011
Independent set algorithms, as a kind of packet classification algorithms with space efficiency, has lower execution efficiency for the lack of priority consideration in linear matching process....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
LiFSBrowse: A Visual, User Environment for the Linking File System
Aug 2007
The Linking File System introduces a new storage paradigm for enhanced user productivity through relationships between files, yet it opens up new challenges in usability. LiFSBrowse is a GUI for...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
The Impact of Failures on Large Distributed Storage Systems
Aug 2007
Distributed storage systems that can support high throughput and capacities in the petabytes range, are being built using standard Off the Shelf Components disks and networks to lower costs. Both...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Semantic Data Placement for Power Management in Archival Storage
Nov 2010
Power is the greatest lifetime cost in an archival system, and, as decreasing costs make disks more attractive than tapes, spinning disks account for the majority of power drawn. To reduce this...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Logan: Automatic Management for Evolvable, Large-Scale, Archival Storage
Nov 2008
Archival storage systems designed to preserve scientific data, business data, and consumer data must maintain and safeguard tens to hundreds of petabytes of data on tens of thousands of media for...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Modeling the Impact of Disk Scrubbing on Storage System
Nov 2010
One of characteristics of the rising cloud storage technology is low-cost and high reliability. A distinct benefit of disk scanning or scrubbing operation is identifying the potential failure...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems With I/O Burstiness
Aug 2008
Energy conservation has become a critical problem for real-time embedded storage systems. Although a variety of approaches to reducing energy consumption has been extensively studied, energy...
Provided by Auburn University
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White Papers
NetApp Unified Ethernet Storage Evaluation
Jan 2010
Ethernet storage is advancing towards a converged storage network, supporting the traditional NFS, CIFS and iSCSI storage protocols and adding Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), all running over...
Provided by Demartek
-
White Papers
NetApp Thin Provisioning - Doing More With Less
Jan 2010
Reducing or deferring a datacenter's capital and/or operational expense has become a paramount concern in today's challenging economic climate. Many storage vendors' promote functionality and...
Provided by Silverton Consulting
-
White Papers
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
Apr 2008
An important threat to reliable storage of data is silent data corruption. In order to develop suitable protection mechanisms against data corruption, it is essential to understand its...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
-
White Papers
Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures?
Apr 2008
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
-
White Papers
AWOL: An Adaptive Write Optimizations Layer
Apr 2008
Operating system memory managers fail to consider the population of read versus write pages in the buffer pool or outstanding I/O requests when writing dirty pages to disk or network file systems....
Provided by NetApp
-
White Papers
Implementation and Analysis of the User Direct Access Programming Library
Jan 2010
The User Direct Access Programming Library (uDAPL) is a generic application programming interface (API) for network adapters capable of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). The uDAPL interface...
Provided by NetApp
-
Whitepapers
Preservation DataStores: New Storage Paradigm for Preservation Environments
Sep 2008
As the world becomes digital, one is in ever greater danger of losing business, scientific, artistic, cultural, and personal assets. The threat of such a digital dark age stems from the fact that...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
Authenticity and Provenance in Long Term Digital Preservation: Modeling and Implementation in Preservation Aware Storage
Feb 2009
A growing amount of digital objects is designated for long term preservation - a time scale during which technologies, formats and communities are very likely to change. Specialized approaches,...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
COPAN Systems Joins IBM in Unlocking Value of Long-Term Data: Solution From COPAN Systems and IBM Offers Hospital System Premier Storage Capability
Aug 2009
Swedish Medical needed to expand capacity for online and near-online backup data; reduce store times and increase recovery points and enhance stored data security. Swedish Medical, based in...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
OmniPay Aligns IT Financing With Business Growth Using Flexible Funding From IBM Global Financing
Oct 2009
OmniPay undertook a review of its IT operations. The company sought an external managed service contract and an immediate multi-million pound storage upgrade without the requirement for upfront...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Bank Leumi Revolutionizes Its Storage Paradigm After Discovering Superior Performance and Real Single-Tier Storage With the IBM XIV Storage System
Feb 2009
Bank Leumi's IT team had objectives typical to those of their counterparts in the finance arena: ensuring high system performance and reliability while utilizing rich features for optimized...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Security Service Federal Credit Union Revitalizes Data Storage With IBM System Storage DR550
May 2010
After a period of rapid growth through acquisition, SSFCU surpassed its capacity for data storage on its optical data storage and retrieval system. Aging optical technology adversely affected...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Centea - Fast and Reliable Document Storage Solution by IBM
Apr 2010
Centea needed to replace its outdated imaging system with a more comprehensive, high performance document scanning and management system. With IBM's software at the core of the solution, it...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
Bezeq International Drives Cutting-Edge Competitiveness With IBM XIV Storage
Jan 2009
Bezeq International launched its XIV storage solution by deploying a single system for peripheral enterprise storage needs. Within a year and a half, it had expanded the solution to four systems -...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Optimizing Your Storage Environment With Veritas Storage Foundation
Jan 2010
Organizations are constantly looking to drive automation and reduce storage hardware costs while improving access to data. The attendee of this webcast learns how Veritas Storage Foundation solves...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
Maintaining High Storage Utilization With Oracle ASM Storage Reclamation Utility and 3PAR Thin Persistence
Apr 2010
IT Organizations face increasing pressure to deliver high-performance Oracle databases and other mission-critical applications at the lowest possible cost. The old days of throwing disks at...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Thin Reclamation
Mar 2010
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a feature of Oracle's database made available in Oracle Release 10g. ASM is a purpose built file system and volume manager integrated in Oracle's database. It...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Get More Storage Efficiency With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Mar 2010
Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. Oracle can help ease this pain by...
Provided by Oracle
-
Webcasts
Growing SharePoint From Small Libraries to Large Scale Repositories and Massive Archives
Feb 2010
SharePoint allows to store many documents in an environment and end users will want to store, find and retrieve documents and information quickly and easily. In this webcast, a lot of new...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Data Resilience and Improved Performance in the Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Arrays
Feb 2010
The ability of a business to withstand outages and to operate important services normally and without interruption is crucial. Data resilience and high availability protect companies from the loss...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Architecture Principles and Implementation Practices for Remote Replication Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Apr 2010
An increase in storage demand increases the complexity of protecting data. The storage-based remote replication feature of Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (2010.Q1 release)...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks 8400 Enterprise Virtual Array 9,000 User Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Storage Solution
Mar 2010
This paper is intended to show that the HP StorageWorks EVA has been tested with the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 load profile and is the right choice for certain deployments. This solution...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
Whitepapers
Archive Storage System Design for Long-Term Storage of Massive Amounts of Data
Sep 2008
A dramatic shift is underway in how organizations use computer storage. This shift will have a profound impact on storage system design. The requirement for storage of traditional transactional...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
Aug 2009
This paper at large discusses the development, design process, the basic data model in detail and overview of the clients for Cassandra, which is a decentralized structured storage system. The...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Case Studies
Portal for Health & Safety Management
Jan 2010
This case study aims at solving the problem of a leading international plastic and fiber supplier. The company gave utmost importance to health and safety (hereafter H&S) of its employees. The...
Provided by ITC Infotech India
-
Case Studies
Business Systems Group
Dec 2008
This case study discusses the need for a sophisticated storage capability at Business Systems Group and how this challenge was met by Pillar Axiom. Business Systems Group is a company that helps...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
-
Case Studies
Skyservice: Canadian Charter Airline Soars With Pillar
Mar 2009
SkyService has been one of the pioneers of Green policy in Canada. It introduced the first Canadian eco-friendly Boeing and has been committed to its promise of environment friendly policies. This...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
-
Case Studies
Earth Rangers: Earth Rangers Build a Green Future With Pillar
Nov 2008
Earth Rangers is a non-profit organization which works towards inspiring children to exert a positive impact on their environment. This case study discusses the data storage concerns of Earth...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
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Whitepapers
A Correctness Criterion for Eager Approach Validation for Transactional Memory System
Jan 2012
With rise of multi-core systems, Software Transactional Memory (STM) has garnered significant interest as an elegant alternative for developing concurrent code. A (memory) transaction is an unit...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
Reduction of Context Switches Due to Task Synchronization in Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Platform
Oct 2011
The problem of frequent context switches in multitasking is a real scheduling overhead which wastes extra CPU cycles, memory and causes much delay in scheduling. This paper focuses on reducing the...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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White Papers
A Performance Comparison of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries for Storage Applications
Aug 2008
Recent years have seen surge of erasure codes in preventing data loss in storage systems composed of multiple disks. Storage companies such as Cleversafe, Data Domain, Network Appliance and...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Managing Data Storage in the Public Cloud
Oct 2009
With organizations struggling to control costs, they face increasing demands to keep pace with explosive data growth and ever-changing regulations. To address these challenges, storage industry...
Provided by SNIA - Storage Networking Industry Association
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White Papers
Growth Solutions for Data Storage
May 2009
From small businesses to large enterprises, the growth in the internet has resulted in an enormous challenge to effectively and affordably manage, store and archive digital files. Businesses...
Provided by Synology
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White Papers
Storage Consolidation for Growing Environments
Apr 2008
Each day, businesses gather, store and replicate more data. Rapid growth in e-mail and many other applications is driving massive new storage requirements and management challenges. Plus, as your...
Provided by Hitachi
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White Papers
The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage: Hitachi Data Systems' Integrated Block and File Tiering
Sep 2009
Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end - and not an end in itself. The reason tiered - not just tiered, but effectively and efficiently tiered - storage is becoming more...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Integrated System Models for Reliable Petascale Storage Systems
Nov 2007
The big challenges facing petascale storage systems are not actually those of performance or traditional fault tolerance schemes, but instead the challenges stem from the inherent complexity of...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
Store Efficiently - Spend Less on Storage and Optimize What You Have
Jan 2010
Most organizations today are faced with the difficult challenge of managing explosive data growth. Adding to that challenge is the problem of poor storage utilization rates, which typically hover...
Provided by Symantec
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Case Studies
Boosting Storage Efficiency With Deduplication, Thin Provisioning, and FlexClone
Jan 2010
San Diego Data Processing Corporation (SDDPC) provides a wide range of phone, data, and IT services for city, county, and other clients, including the 71 law enforcement agencies of ARJIS...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Consolidating Windows Storage and Servers Yields Big Benefits
Jan 2010
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. has been working since 1992 to develop and commercialize cellular therapies based on stem cells isolated from readily available and noncontroversial adult bone marrow....
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
A Practical Approach to Information Management
Jan 2010
Information is the fundamental connecting fabric of businesses today. Businesses rely on information technology and systems to run their business and help to drive new opportunities, as well as to...
Provided by Symantec
