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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
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White Papers
Optimizing Storage Performance and Cost With Intelligent Caching
Aug 2010
NetApp is a pioneer in the development of innovative intelligent caching technologies to decouple storage performance from the number of disks in the underlying disk array to substantially improve...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Making the 2010 Business Case for SRM
Jun 2010
Within the last few months Evaluator Group has seen a surge in interest in Storage Resource Management (SRM) applications among the enterprise storage user clients. The authors believe this is...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks XP Application Performance Extender White Paper
Jul 2010
SANs enable storage consolidation and sharing among multiple servers and workloads hosted on them. Customers have varied nature of I/O applications in their SAN environments some of which are...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
What's New in VMware vSphere 4.1 - Storage
Jul 2010
VMware vSphere 4.1 brings many new capabilities to further extend the benefits of vSphere 4.0. These new features and enhancements to core capabilities in vSphere provide more performance...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Storage I/O Control Technical Overview and Considerations for Deployment
Aug 2010
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) provides storage I/O performance isolation for virtual machines, thus enabling VMware vSphere ("vSphere") administrators to comfortably run important workloads in a...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Detecting and Resolving Oracle Solaris LUN Alignment Problems
May 2010
This paper shows how to use DTrace to detect LUN alignment problems on an active system and how to resolve those LUN alignment problems by tuning the EFI disk label. An advanced storage system,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
HISCOM Improves Data Processing Speed by 3,000%, Cuts Batch Processing Time
Jun 2010
Hokuriku Coca-Cola Bottling was running a large number of systems, an Oracle Database and a Teradata data warehouse to process and analyze sales and order data from Coca-Cola retailers and vending...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
The Complexity of Robust Atomic Storage
Jun 2011
The authors study the time-complexity of robust atomic read/write storage from fault-prone storage components in asynchronous message-passing systems. Robustness here means wait-free tolerating...
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Whitepapers
On the Time-Complexity of Robust and Amnesic Storage
Oct 2008
The authors consider wait-free implementations of a regular read/write register for unauthenticated data using a collection of 3t + k base objects, t of which can be subject to Byzantine failures....
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Whitepapers
HaVOC: A Hybrid Memory-Aware Virtualization Layer for On-Chip Distributed ScratchPad and Non-Volatile Memories
Jun 2012
Hybrid on-chip memories that combine Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) with SRAMs promise to mitigate the increasing leakage power of traditional on-chip SRAMs. The authors present HaVOC: a run-time...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Providing Safe, User Space Access to Fast, Solid State Disks
Mar 2012
Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory
Feb 2012
In recent years, flash-based SSDs have grown enormously both in capacity and popularity. In highperformance enterprise storage applications, accelerating adoption of SSDs is predicated on the...
Provided by University of California
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Whitepapers
Utilizing IBM XIV Storage System Snapshot Technology in SAP Environments
Aug 2010
As companies drive more and more of their business processes with SAP applications, supporting infrastructure environments are growing and increasing in complexity. These companies require their...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Legacy Host Licensing With vCenter Server 4.x
Jul 2010
When one uses vCenter Server 4.x to manage ESX 3.x/ESXi 3.5 hosts, they have several mutually exclusive choices in regards to license server configuration: Use a single license server for vCenter...
Provided by VMware
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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
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
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
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
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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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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Whitepapers
3D-FlashMap: A Physical-Location-Aware Block Mapping Strategy for 3D NAND Flash Memory
Sep 2011
Three-Dimensional (3D) flash memory is emerging to fulfill the ever-increasing demands of storage capacity. In 3D NAND flash memory, multiple layers are stacked to increase bit density and reduce...
Provided by University of California
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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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
ECOS: An Energy-Efficient Cluster Storage System
Jan 2010
Cluster storage systems are essential building blocks for many high-end computing infrastructures. Although energy conservation techniques have been intensively studied in the context of clusters...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Energy Efficient Prefetching With Buffer Disks for Cluster File Systems
Oct 2010
Energy efficient computing is becoming increasingly important as the scale of parallel computing systems is expanding. As the processing power of parallel computing systems has been incremented...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Webcasts
Using SATA for SOC Solutions on 40-Nm Transceiver FPGAs
Jan 2012
With applications needing to store more data for longer periods of time, SATA provides an efficient, cost-effective storage interface. In this webcast, the presenter showing how easy it is to take...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Research on Uncertainty of Audio and Video Information Hiding Based on Semantic and Statistical Moment
Jun 2011
Nowadays, audio and video media data is already facilitates generation, transmission, storage and circulation on the global scale. Audio and video data is geometrically fast as the rate of growth,...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Minimal Cost Reconfiguration of Data Placement in Storage Area Network
Jan 2012
Video-on-Demand (VoD) services require frequent updates in file configuration on the storage subsystem, so as to keep up with the frequent changes in movie popularity. This defines a natural...
Provided by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Impact of Storage Capacity on End-to-End Delay in Time Varying Networks
Mar 2011
Recent technological advances have rendered storage a cheap and at large scale available resource. Yet, there exist only few examples in networking that consider storage for enhancing data...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Storage of Simulation and Entities History in discrete models
Apr 2008
Simulation is the process of executing a model, that is a representation of a system with enough detail to describe it but not too excessive. This model has a set of entities an internal state, a...
Provided by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
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White Papers
Challenges and Opportunities for Efficient Computing With FAWN
Jan 2011
This paper presents the architecture and motivation for a cluster-based, many-core computing architecture for energy-efficient, data-intensive computing. FAWN, a Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes,...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Don't Settle for Eventual: Scalable Causal Consistency for Wide-Area Storage With COPS
Oct 2011
Geo-replicated, distributed data stores that support complex online applications, such as social networks, must provide an "Always-on" experience where operations always complete with low latency....
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store
Oct 2011
SILT (Small Index Large Table) is a memory-efficient, high-performance key-value store system based on flash storage that scales to serve billions of key-value items on a single node. It requires...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
ACR: An Adaptive Cost-Aware Buffer Replacement Algorithm for Flash Storage Devices
Dec 2010
Flash disks are being widely used as an important alternative to conventional magnetic disks, although accessed through the same interface by applications, their distinguished feature, i.e.,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Safe Manual Memory Management
Aug 2007
The authors present HeapSafe, a tool that uses reference counting to dynamically verify the soundness of manual memory management of C programs. HeapSafe relies on a simple extension to the usual...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
A Measurement Study of the Structured Overlay Network in P2P File-Sharing Systems
Jul 2007
The architecture of P2P file-sharing applications has been developing to meet the needs of large scale demands. The structured overlay network, also known as DHT, has been used in these...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Block Mason
Nov 2008
Hardware virtualization gives administrators the flexibility to rapidly create, destroy and relocate virtual machines across physical hosts. Unfortunately, the storage systems upon which these...
Provided by University of British Columbia
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White Papers
Separating Web Applications From User Data Storage With BSTORE
Jun 2010
This paper presents BSTORE, a framework that allows developers to separate their web application code from user data storage. With BSTORE, storage providers implement a standard file system API,...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Tracking Back References in a Write-Anywhere File System
Feb 2010
Many file systems reorganize data on disk, for example to defragment storage, shrink volumes, or migrate data between different classes of storage. Advanced file system features such as snapshots,...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Benchmarking File System Benchmarking: It is Rocket Science
Apr 2011
The quality of file system benchmarking has not improved in over a decade of intense research spanning hundreds of publications. Researchers repeatedly use a wide range of poorly designed...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Collecting Provenance Via the Xen Hypervisor
May 2011
The Provenance Aware Storage Systems project (PASS) currently collects system-level provenance by intercepting system calls in the Linux kernel and storing the provenance in a stackable...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Provenance Integration Requires Reconciliation
May 2011
While there has been a great deal of research on provenance systems, there has been little discussion about challenges that arise when making different provenance systems interoperate. In fact,...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Energy Proportionality for Storage: Impact and Feasibility
Sep 2009
This paper highlights the growing importance of storage energy consumption in a typical data center, and asserts that storage energy research should drive towards a vision of energy...
Provided by Florida International University
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White Papers
Layering in Provenance Systems
Apr 2009
Digital provenance describes the ancestry or history of a digital object. Most existing provenance systems, however, operate at only one level of abstraction: the system call layer, a workflow...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Striping Without Sacrifices: Maintaining POSIX Semantics in a Parallel File System
Jun 2008
Striping is a technique that distributes file content over multiple storage servers and thereby enables parallel access. In order to be able to provide a consistent view across file data and...
Provided by NEC Europe
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White Papers
Clipper Notes: In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution - Tape Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk
Dec 2011
Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Integrated High Performance Disk-to-Disk Backup for Oracle Exadata
Dec 2011
Databases are critical to business operations and are continuing to grow in size, making the job of protecting enterprise data ever more challenging. Of utmost importance is the ability to...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Storage from A to ZFS
Dec 2011
Most business users don't spend time thinking about where their files are stored. They log in to the applications they need, create documents, retrieve information, enter transactions, and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Thin Provisioning with Oracle Pillar Axiom 600
Dec 2011
As IT organizations work to maintain application availability while controlling costs, a greater emphasis on operational efficiency is essential. One key area where operational efficiencies can be...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Pillar Axiom 600: System Overview and Architecture
Dec 2011
IT executives need to leverage applications to give themselves a competitive edge - and do so in a way that dynamically matches changing business priorities. Because faster drives and faster...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Delivering Storage Quality of Service with Oracle Pillar Axiom 600
Dec 2011
Storage administrators have been dealing with storage performance or Quality of Service (QoS) issues since disk drives were first commercialized. This problem has worsened over time as processors...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
File-Based Vs Block-Based Caching
Oct 2011
This paper outlines the differences between a block-based and a file-based approach to disk caching to improve I/O performance. Block-based caches run at a lower level in the operating system and...
Provided by NEVEX
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Case Studies
ING Bank Turkey Improves Storage Efficiency and Meets Data Protection Challenges With NetApp
Jun 2011
ING Bank Turkey began its operations in 2007 when the local Turkish bank Oyak was acquired by the Dutch ING Group. ING Bank Turkey encountered some problems with its storage infrastructure because...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Akin Gump Puts NetApp on the Case to Improve Storage Flexibility, Performance, and Recoverability
Oct 2010
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (Akin Gump) is one of the world's largest law firms. Their challenge is to improve operational efficiency and time to market for internal storage services....
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sacramento County Increases Storage Efficiency by Up to 80%
Nov 2010
Located in California's central valley, Sacramento County is home to the state capital and nearly 1.4 million residents. This is the centralized IT and telecommunications service provider for the...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Cisco UCS and VMware at NetApp Global Dynamic Lab: 1 Wire, 1 Management Point, 1 Hour to 10K Clients
Sep 2010
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. With more than 150,000 unified storage systems...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
NetApp and VMware Set Baldwin-Wallace College on Course to Reduce Server and Storage Costs by 45%
Aug 2010
Baldwin-Wallace College is a private liberal arts college, their challenge is to accommodate growing demand for IT services, enable disaster recovery, reduce costs, and maximize data center...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Davis LLP Reduces Cost and Risk While Improving Performance With NetApp
Aug 2010
Davis LLP is a leading full-service law firm providing comprehensive legal services to clients through eight offices across Canada and in Japan. Their challenge is to expand and centralize an...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
NetApp Business Intelligence Architecture Saves $3 Million
Jul 2010
With about 8,000 employees in more than 135 offices worldwide, NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
AFA Insurance Covers Storage Efficiencies With NetApp Business Continuity and Data Protection Solutions
Jun 2010
AFA Insurance is one of Sweden's top insurance organizations providing coverage for more than 3 million employees from both the private and public sectors. AFA Insurance began looking for a new...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
PORR AG Builds Up to 10 Times Faster Access to Group-Wide Construction Data With NetApp
Jun 2010
A.Porr AG is one of the largest construction companies in Austria. The projects managed by the PORR Group are large-scale. The PORR Group is a full-service provider with an extensive service...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Optimizing Storage Performance and Cost With Intelligent Caching
Aug 2010
NetApp is a pioneer in the development of innovative intelligent caching technologies to decouple storage performance from the number of disks in the underlying disk array to substantially improve...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Making the 2010 Business Case for SRM
Jun 2010
Within the last few months Evaluator Group has seen a surge in interest in Storage Resource Management (SRM) applications among the enterprise storage user clients. The authors believe this is...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks XP Application Performance Extender White Paper
Jul 2010
SANs enable storage consolidation and sharing among multiple servers and workloads hosted on them. Customers have varied nature of I/O applications in their SAN environments some of which are...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
What's New in VMware vSphere 4.1 - Storage
Jul 2010
VMware vSphere 4.1 brings many new capabilities to further extend the benefits of vSphere 4.0. These new features and enhancements to core capabilities in vSphere provide more performance...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Storage I/O Control Technical Overview and Considerations for Deployment
Aug 2010
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) provides storage I/O performance isolation for virtual machines, thus enabling VMware vSphere ("vSphere") administrators to comfortably run important workloads in a...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Detecting and Resolving Oracle Solaris LUN Alignment Problems
May 2010
This paper shows how to use DTrace to detect LUN alignment problems on an active system and how to resolve those LUN alignment problems by tuning the EFI disk label. An advanced storage system,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
HISCOM Improves Data Processing Speed by 3,000%, Cuts Batch Processing Time
Jun 2010
Hokuriku Coca-Cola Bottling was running a large number of systems, an Oracle Database and a Teradata data warehouse to process and analyze sales and order data from Coca-Cola retailers and vending...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
The Complexity of Robust Atomic Storage
Jun 2011
The authors study the time-complexity of robust atomic read/write storage from fault-prone storage components in asynchronous message-passing systems. Robustness here means wait-free tolerating...
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
-
Whitepapers
On the Time-Complexity of Robust and Amnesic Storage
Oct 2008
The authors consider wait-free implementations of a regular read/write register for unauthenticated data using a collection of 3t + k base objects, t of which can be subject to Byzantine failures....
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
-
Whitepapers
HaVOC: A Hybrid Memory-Aware Virtualization Layer for On-Chip Distributed ScratchPad and Non-Volatile Memories
Jun 2012
Hybrid on-chip memories that combine Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs) with SRAMs promise to mitigate the increasing leakage power of traditional on-chip SRAMs. The authors present HaVOC: a run-time...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
Providing Safe, User Space Access to Fast, Solid State Disks
Mar 2012
Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory
Feb 2012
In recent years, flash-based SSDs have grown enormously both in capacity and popularity. In highperformance enterprise storage applications, accelerating adoption of SSDs is predicated on the...
Provided by University of California
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Whitepapers
Utilizing IBM XIV Storage System Snapshot Technology in SAP Environments
Aug 2010
As companies drive more and more of their business processes with SAP applications, supporting infrastructure environments are growing and increasing in complexity. These companies require their...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Legacy Host Licensing With vCenter Server 4.x
Jul 2010
When one uses vCenter Server 4.x to manage ESX 3.x/ESXi 3.5 hosts, they have several mutually exclusive choices in regards to license server configuration: Use a single license server for vCenter...
Provided by VMware
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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
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
-
Whitepapers
3D-FlashMap: A Physical-Location-Aware Block Mapping Strategy for 3D NAND Flash Memory
Sep 2011
Three-Dimensional (3D) flash memory is emerging to fulfill the ever-increasing demands of storage capacity. In 3D NAND flash memory, multiple layers are stacked to increase bit density and reduce...
Provided by University of California
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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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