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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Shrewsbury International School
Jun 2009
Located in Bangkok, Thailand, Shrewsbury International School is located in Bangkok, Thailand. The independent school is closely affiliated to Shrewsbury School in the United Kingdom and reflects...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Sify Technologies Ltd.
May 2010
Sify is one of India's leading managed services providers, delivering end-to-end solutions for enterprises as well as consumers. To leverage the growing opportunities in cloud storage, Sify wanted...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Sinar Mas Group subsidiary Asia Pulp & Paper Group, Ltd.
Sep 2009
Although Sinar Mas Group core business Asia Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., (APP) was at the helm of their industry, the company wanted to become a world class, one stop enterprise for paper, and to...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: SingHealth
Mar 2008
The speed and reliability with which medical records are made available to health care professionals can make a critical impact on a patient's conditions and life. This is significantly so for...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: SmartyHost
May 2008
Established in 1999, SmartyHost is a dynamic Web hosting company based in Melbourne that provides hosting and domain name registration services to a rapidly expanding customer base of 50,000....
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Solta Medical
Oct 2009
A pending acquisition and significant new business growth led well known aesthetic company Thermage to change its corporate to Solta Medical. Simultaneously, the company needed to integrate and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: The Southern Grampians Shire Council
Jul 2010
The ten towns of the Southern Grampians Shire Council in Victoria, Australia, enjoy a breathtaking landscape - ancient volcanoes, meandering rivers, waterfalls and rolling pastoral lands -...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Spoleto Municipality
Jul 2008
As a historical site known across five continents for its famous "Two Worlds Festival," Spoleto is one of the most precious towns of Italy. This small city is also at the cutting edge of...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: St. Mark's Catholic School
Jun 2008
A highly successful Catholic school in Hounslow, West London St. Mark's educates 1,200 students from ages 11 to 18. It is a forward thinking institution with the status of a technical college, so...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archive)
Apr 2010
Stadsarchief Amsterdam is the biggest city archive in the world. Besides official and public documents, it also stores private collections and archive documents from companies. To prevent these...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum (IGE), The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Jan 2010
Headquartered in Bern, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property is responsible for intellectual property matters in Switzerland. Founded in 1888it became an independent public law...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Sykehuspartner IKT
Mar 2009
Sykehuspartner IKT is a service provider to a number of hospitals and health care institutions in the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, which is one of four state owned health care...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: T-Hrvatski Telekom (Croatian Telekom)
Feb 2010
Since deregulation of Eastern European markets, telecommunications has experienced dramatic growth. It was no surprise that T-Hrvatski Telekom, the leading provider of telecommunication services...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: TNT
Aug 2009
As a leader in logistics and deliveries, TNT needs a robust IT and storage infrastructure to underpin its 24/7 business model. To support business growth and meet power efficiency targets, it...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: TUI InfoTec
Dec 2007
At the start of 2005, TUI InfoTec, the IT service provider of Europe's leading tourism group TUI, decided to fundamentally modernize its storage infrastructure. There were two primary goals: to...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: TelstraClear
Feb 2009
Formed in December 2001 following a merger between TelstraSaturn and CLEAR Communications, TelstraClear combines highly skilled telecommunications support with New Zealand's most advanced IP...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Tripnet
Nov 2009
Increased storage needs among Swedish businesses presented storage outsourcing and management company Tripnet with new business opportunities. To capitalize on the fast growing demand of IT...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Universiteit van Maastricht (Maastricht University)
Jan 2010
Although Maastricht University, founded in 1976, is the Netherlands youngest university, it has made it into the top three of Dutch university rankings, and it is also attracting increasing...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University HealthSystem Consortium
Apr 2009
Virtualization University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance representing 90 percent of academic medical centers and affiliated hospitals in America. Hundreds of these health...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University of Costa Rica
Dec 2009
The University of Costa Rica had gone through several IT problems during previous administrations; therefore, its main challenge was the consolidation and administration of information. A robust...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Sep 2010
The University of Utah Health Care provides medical services for residents well beyond its own state borders. The University of Utah has maintained a nimble IT infrastructure that addresses growth...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Viana
Jun 2010
A Mexico-based retail corporation with over 55 years in the market of house wares sales, Viana operates with 55 branch offices nationally and has over 1,700 employees. The company wanted to ensure...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Visy
Jul 2008
Visy is an Australian company that has grown to become the world's largest privately owned packaging and recycling business. The company's acquisition strategy caused it to double in size every...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Vita Group
Feb 2009
As a new business operating three well known brands and managing data from 1,400 Australian employees, Vita Group experienced increasing difficulty managing its data storage needs. To simplify...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Yuan Ze University
Jan 2009
Yuan Ze University is committed to advanced technology, R&D and cultivation of elite students. IT service at Yuan Ze University needs ongoing improvement in order to serve its over 10,000 faculty...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University
Jun 2010
Located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Southeast University's affiliated Zhongda Hospital is an integrated tertiary grade-A hospital that has combined healthcare, education and research for...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Ziggo
Apr 2010
Founded in 2007 as a result of a merger between the providers Casema, @Home and Multikabel, Ziggo provides 3.2 million connections of television, radio, Internet and telecommunications and reaches...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: eBay
Mar 2008
When the eBay online auction site was founded in 1995, it quickly became a giddy infatuation for online shoppers. eBay wanted to secure a robust and scalable storage infrastructure that would meet...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: eClaris, Inc.
Mar 2010
eClaris, Inc. supports hundreds of millions of active documents and hosts online access for clients mostly within the legal and corporate marketplace. To manage both ongoing data requests and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: IPLAN
Jan 2008
IPLAN, the first telecommunications company to use IP technology in Latin America, employs networks designed to meet the current and future high-speed information transmission needs. To support...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) Series From DataDirect Networks
Apr 2008
A new disk storage vendor appears on the radar, or, more precisely, emerges from special applications to more wide-spread usage. DataDirect Networks was founded ca. ten years ago and is a...
Provided by Josh Krischer & Associates
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White Papers
Silent Data Corruption in SATA Arrays: A Solution
Aug 2008
Recent large academic studies have identified the surprising frequency of silent read failures that are not identified or resolved in enterprise SATA disk arrays despite the typical integrity...
Provided by NEC
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Whitepapers
A Dynamic Load-Balanced Hashing Scheme for Networking Applications
Oct 2008
Network applications often require large data storage resources, fast queries, and frequent updates. Hash tables support these operations with low costs, yet they cannot provide worst-case...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Sequential Projection Learning for Hashing With Compact Codes
May 2010
Hashing based Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search has attracted much attention due to its fast query time and drastically reduced storage. However, most of the hashing methods either use...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Using VMware vSphere With EMC Symmetrix Storage
Nov 2009
This white paper discusses, and provides best practices for, the new features introduced with the release of VMware vSphere 4. Specifically, the features discussed include Storage VMotion, VMFS...
Provided by EMC Corporation
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Whitepapers
IBM DS4000 Auto Volume Transfer Usage With RDAC
Sep 2010
The IBM System Storage DS4000 Series are IBM's solution for mid-range or departmental storage requirements. In a DS4000 storage subsystem equipped with two controllers, one can provide redundant...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM System Storage DS8700 Performance With Easy Tier
May 2010
The authors of this white paper had the privilege to be among the first to see Easy Tier "In action" while preparing the information presented here. In one key test, documented in a subsequent...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
If You're Doing This, Then Your Storage Could Be Underutilized
Apr 2010
This paper will focus on how the combination of NetApp's unified storage technology and management software can be used to help reduce not only the capital expenditures for storage but also the...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Performance Report of SharePoint 2007 EBS Provider for NetApp Storage System
Oct 2010
With SharePoint 2007 SP1, a new capability called External Blob Storage (EBS) was introduced to allow customers to externalize BLOB storage. NetApp supports EBS with SnapManager MOSS 5.0 (SMMOSS)....
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Using VMware Virtualization Platforms With EMC VPLEX
Aug 2010
This white paper describes EMC VPLEX features and functionality relevant to the VMware virtualization platforms. The best practices for configuring a VMware environment to optimally leverage EMC...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Tree-Structured Data Regeneration in Distributed Storage Systems With Regenerating Codes
Dec 2009
Distributed storage systems provide large-scale reliable data storage by storing a certain degree of redundancy in a decentralized fashion on a group of storage nodes. To recover from data losses...
Provided by Fudan University
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Tree-Structured Data Regeneration With Network Coding in Distributed Storage Systems
May 2009
Distributed storage systems, built on peer-to-peer networks, can provide large-scale data storage and high data reliability by redundant schemes, such as replica, erasure codes and linear network...
Provided by Fudan University
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White Papers
Solving the Hamiltonian Path Problem With a Light-Based Computer
Aug 2007
In this paper the authors suggest the use of light for performing useful computations. Namely, they propose a special computational device which uses light rays for solving the Hamiltonian path...
Provided by Babes-Bolyai University
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Solving the Subset-Sum Problem With a Light-Based Device
Aug 2007
The authors propose a special computational device which uses light rays for solving the subset-sum problem. The device has a graph-like representation and the light is traversing it by following...
Provided by Babes-Bolyai University
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White Papers
On the Issues of Building Information Warehouses
Jan 2010
While performing knowledge-intensive tasks of professional nature, the knowledge workers need to access and process large volume of information. Apart from the quantity, they also require that the...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Feasibility, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of Self-Optimizing Storage Systems
Jan 2011
Recent work has proposed making intelligent use of data access patterns for building self-optimizing storage systems. However, despite the continued increase in the CPU-I/O performance gap, such...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
EXCES: EXternal Caching in Energy Saving Storage Systems Luis
Jan 2008
Power consumption within the disk-based storage sub system forms a substantial portion of the overall energy footprint in commodity systems. Researchers have proposed external caching on a...
Provided by Florida International University
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JAM: Justifiable Allocation of Memory With Efficient Mounting and Fast Crash Recovery for NAND Flash Memory File Systems
Oct 2010
Flash memory is small size, lightweight, shock-resistant, non-volatile, and consumes little power. Flash memory therefore shows promise for use in storage devices for consumer electronics, mobile...
Provided by Ajou University
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White Papers
Extensible Component Based Architecture for FLASH, a Massively Parallel, Multiphysics Simulation Code
Jul 2009
FLASH is a publicly available high performance application code which has evolved into a modular, extensible software system from a collection of unconnected legacy codes. FLASH has been...
Provided by University of Chicago
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Self-Repairing Homomorphic Codes for Distributed Storage Systems
Jul 2010
Erasure codes provide a storage efficient alternative to replication based redundancy in (networked) storage systems. They however entail high communication overhead for maintenance, when some of...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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White Papers
FAWNSort: Energy-efficient Sorting of 10GB
Jun 2010
In this paper, the authors describe the submission for the 2010 10GB JouleSort competition. The system consists of a machine with a low-power server processor and five flash drives, sorting the...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
AMI: An Advanced Endurance Management Technique for Flash Memory Storage Systems
Jan 2011
Flash memory is small size, lightweight, shock-resistant, nonvolatile, and consumes little power. Flash memory therefore shows promise for use in storage devices for consumer electronics, mobile...
Provided by Ajou University
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Distributed Storage Codes Meet Multiple-Access Wiretap Channels
Oct 2010
The authors consider the overhead minimization of Maximum-Distance Separable (MDS) storage codes for the repair of a single failed node and the total Secure Degrees-of-Freedom (S-DoF) maximization...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Recursive Secret Sharing for Distributed Storage and Information Hiding
Jan 2010
This paper presents a recursive computational multi-secret sharing technique that hides k - 2 secrets of size b each into n shares of a single secret S of size b, such that any k of the n shares...
Provided by Oklahoma State University
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White Papers
Memory Allocation in Distributed Storage Networks
May 2010
The authors consider the problem of distributing a file in a network of storage nodes whose storage budget is limited but at least equals the size file. They first generate T encoded symbols (from...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Improved Results for a Memory Allocation Problem
Feb 2008
A problem that occurs in parallel processing is allocating the available memory to the processors. This needs to be done in such a way that each processor has sufficient memory and not too much...
Provided by University of Haifa
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White Papers
Reusing Migration to Simply and Efficiently Implement Multi-Server Operations in Transparently Scalable Storage Systems
May 2010
Distributed file systems that scale by partitioning files and directories among a collection of servers inevitably encounter multi-server operations. A common example is a RENAME that moves a file...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Cooperative Regenerating Codes for Distributed Storage Systems
Feb 2011
Distributed storage system provides a scalable solution to the ever-increasing demand of reliable storage. The storage nodes are distributed in different geographical locations, and in case some...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Safe Transient Use of Local Storage for VM-Based Mobility
Mar 2010
This paper investigates the transient use of free local storage for improving performance in VM-based mobile computing systems. Many such systems boot from a portable storage device to create a...
Provided by Rutgers University
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White Papers
Trajectory Codes for Flash Memory
Dec 2010
Flash memory is well-known for its inherent asymmetry: the flash-cell charge levels are easy to increase but are hard to decrease. In a general rewriting model, the stored data changes its value...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Codes for Asymmetric Limited-Magnitude Errors With Application to Multi-Level Flash Memories
Dec 2009
Several physical effects that limit the reliability and performance of Multilevel Flash Memories induce errors that have low magnitudes and are dominantly asymmetric. This paper studies block...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Rank Modulation for Flash Memories
Jan 2008
The authors explore a novel data representation scheme for multi-level flash memory cells, in which a set of n cells stores information in the permutation induced by the different charge levels of...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Practical Techniques for Eliminating Storage of Deleted Data
Jan 2011
The layered design of modern file systems hides the liveness of data from the underlying storage systems. In this paper, the authors define a generic "Purge" operation that can be used by a file...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
A System for Managing Physical Data in Buildings
Sep 2010
In order to reduce building energy consumption, the authors need a global, accurate view of the building. Many modern buildings have a sensing infrastructure that can be used to do fine-grained...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Simplifying Management Through Windows Storage Consolidation on Dell PowerVault NX3000 NAS Appliances
Mar 2011
Consolidating Microsoft® Windows® file shares into a common pool of network-accessible resources helps increase utilization, simplify management, and enhance service levels. Organizations can...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
File server performance comparison of three Dell PowerVault NX3000 configurations using Microsoft FSCT
Mar 2011
Dell Inc. commissioned Principled Technologies to compare the performance of three Dell PowerVault NX3000 unified network storage solution configurations running tasks that users at a remote...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Beyond Block I/O: Rethinking Traditional Storage Primitives
Dec 2010
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have defined the...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
Trusted Storage Over Untrusted Networks
Jul 2010
The authors consider distributed storage over two untrusted networks, whereby coding is used as a means to achieve a prescribed level of confidentiality. The key idea is to exploit the algebraic...
Provided by Universidade do Porto
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White Papers
Scalable Techniques for Memory-efficient CDN Simulations
Jan 2011
Since CDN simulations are known to be highly memory-intensive, in this paper, the authors argue the need for reducing the memory requirements of such simulations. They propose a novel...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
Evaluation of Object Placement Techniques in a Policy-Managed Storage System
Jan 2011
Storage management cost is a significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of large, enterprise storage systems. Consequently, software automation of common storage management tasks so as to...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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White Papers
Establishing Context of Digital Objects' Creation, Content and Usage
Jun 2009
The context of objects is essential for the interpretation of information entities, for establishing their authenticity as well as ensuring appropriate use. Thus, documenting the context of...
Provided by Vienna University
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Case Studies
Bank Migrates 60 TB to Consolidated Storage
Feb 2011
Banca Monte Dei Paschi had acquired different storage subsystems. The storage team decided to consolidate nine of the older subsystems onto a more efficient storage platform, to free up data...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Mean Time to Meaningless: MTTDL, Markov Models, and Storage System Reliability
May 2010
Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL) has been the standard reliability metric in storage systems for more than 20 years. MTTDL represents a simple formula that can be used to compare the reliability of...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
The SCADS Director: Scaling a Distributed Storage System Under Stringent Performance Requirements
Dec 2010
Elasticity of cloud computing environments provides an economic incentive for automatic resource allocation of stateful systems running in the cloud. However, these systems have to meet strict...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
DRPM: Dynamic Speed Control for Power Management in Server Class Disks
Jan 2011
A large portion of the power budget in server environments goes into the I/O subsystem the disk array in particular. Traditional approaches to disk power management involve completely stopping the...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
Quantifying Temporal and Spatial Localities in Storage Workloads and Transformations by Data Path Components
Feb 2011
To increase performance, modern storage consists of many data path components, from the front-end file system cache and disk layout management to the back-end disk controller cache and on-disk...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
PADS: A Policy Architecture for Distributed Storage Systems (Extended)
Mar 2009
This paper presents PADS, a policy architecture for building distributed storage systems. A policy architecture has two aspects. First, a common set of mechanisms that allow new systems to be...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Adaptive Computation of Self Sorting In-Place FFTs on Hierarchical Memory Architectures
Sep 2007
Computing "In-place and In-order" FFT poses a very difficult problem on hierarchical memory architectures where data movement can seriously degrade the performance. In this paper the authors...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Efficient Provenance Storage Over Nested Data Collections
Mar 2009
Scientific workflow systems are increasingly used to automate complex data analyses, largely due to their benefits over traditional approaches for workflow design, optimization, and provenance...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Upper Bounds for Dynamic Memory Allocation
Mar 2010
In this paper, the authors study the upper bounds of memory storage for two different allocators. In the first case, they consider a general allocator that can allocate memory blocks anywhere in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Spoleto Municipality
Jul 2008
As a historical site known across five continents for its famous "Two Worlds Festival," Spoleto is one of the most precious towns of Italy. This small city is also at the cutting edge of...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: St. Mark's Catholic School
Jun 2008
A highly successful Catholic school in Hounslow, West London St. Mark's educates 1,200 students from ages 11 to 18. It is a forward thinking institution with the status of a technical college, so...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archive)
Apr 2010
Stadsarchief Amsterdam is the biggest city archive in the world. Besides official and public documents, it also stores private collections and archive documents from companies. To prevent these...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum (IGE), The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Jan 2010
Headquartered in Bern, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property is responsible for intellectual property matters in Switzerland. Founded in 1888it became an independent public law...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Sykehuspartner IKT
Mar 2009
Sykehuspartner IKT is a service provider to a number of hospitals and health care institutions in the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, which is one of four state owned health care...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: T-Hrvatski Telekom (Croatian Telekom)
Feb 2010
Since deregulation of Eastern European markets, telecommunications has experienced dramatic growth. It was no surprise that T-Hrvatski Telekom, the leading provider of telecommunication services...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: TNT
Aug 2009
As a leader in logistics and deliveries, TNT needs a robust IT and storage infrastructure to underpin its 24/7 business model. To support business growth and meet power efficiency targets, it...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: TUI InfoTec
Dec 2007
At the start of 2005, TUI InfoTec, the IT service provider of Europe's leading tourism group TUI, decided to fundamentally modernize its storage infrastructure. There were two primary goals: to...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: TelstraClear
Feb 2009
Formed in December 2001 following a merger between TelstraSaturn and CLEAR Communications, TelstraClear combines highly skilled telecommunications support with New Zealand's most advanced IP...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Tripnet
Nov 2009
Increased storage needs among Swedish businesses presented storage outsourcing and management company Tripnet with new business opportunities. To capitalize on the fast growing demand of IT...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Universiteit van Maastricht (Maastricht University)
Jan 2010
Although Maastricht University, founded in 1976, is the Netherlands youngest university, it has made it into the top three of Dutch university rankings, and it is also attracting increasing...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University HealthSystem Consortium
Apr 2009
Virtualization University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance representing 90 percent of academic medical centers and affiliated hospitals in America. Hundreds of these health...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University of Costa Rica
Dec 2009
The University of Costa Rica had gone through several IT problems during previous administrations; therefore, its main challenge was the consolidation and administration of information. A robust...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Sep 2010
The University of Utah Health Care provides medical services for residents well beyond its own state borders. The University of Utah has maintained a nimble IT infrastructure that addresses growth...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Viana
Jun 2010
A Mexico-based retail corporation with over 55 years in the market of house wares sales, Viana operates with 55 branch offices nationally and has over 1,700 employees. The company wanted to ensure...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Visy
Jul 2008
Visy is an Australian company that has grown to become the world's largest privately owned packaging and recycling business. The company's acquisition strategy caused it to double in size every...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Vita Group
Feb 2009
As a new business operating three well known brands and managing data from 1,400 Australian employees, Vita Group experienced increasing difficulty managing its data storage needs. To simplify...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Yuan Ze University
Jan 2009
Yuan Ze University is committed to advanced technology, R&D and cultivation of elite students. IT service at Yuan Ze University needs ongoing improvement in order to serve its over 10,000 faculty...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University
Jun 2010
Located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Southeast University's affiliated Zhongda Hospital is an integrated tertiary grade-A hospital that has combined healthcare, education and research for...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Ziggo
Apr 2010
Founded in 2007 as a result of a merger between the providers Casema, @Home and Multikabel, Ziggo provides 3.2 million connections of television, radio, Internet and telecommunications and reaches...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: eBay
Mar 2008
When the eBay online auction site was founded in 1995, it quickly became a giddy infatuation for online shoppers. eBay wanted to secure a robust and scalable storage infrastructure that would meet...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: eClaris, Inc.
Mar 2010
eClaris, Inc. supports hundreds of millions of active documents and hosts online access for clients mostly within the legal and corporate marketplace. To manage both ongoing data requests and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: IPLAN
Jan 2008
IPLAN, the first telecommunications company to use IP technology in Latin America, employs networks designed to meet the current and future high-speed information transmission needs. To support...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) Series From DataDirect Networks
Apr 2008
A new disk storage vendor appears on the radar, or, more precisely, emerges from special applications to more wide-spread usage. DataDirect Networks was founded ca. ten years ago and is a...
Provided by Josh Krischer & Associates
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White Papers
Silent Data Corruption in SATA Arrays: A Solution
Aug 2008
Recent large academic studies have identified the surprising frequency of silent read failures that are not identified or resolved in enterprise SATA disk arrays despite the typical integrity...
Provided by NEC
-
Whitepapers
A Dynamic Load-Balanced Hashing Scheme for Networking Applications
Oct 2008
Network applications often require large data storage resources, fast queries, and frequent updates. Hash tables support these operations with low costs, yet they cannot provide worst-case...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
White Papers
Sequential Projection Learning for Hashing With Compact Codes
May 2010
Hashing based Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search has attracted much attention due to its fast query time and drastically reduced storage. However, most of the hashing methods either use...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Using VMware vSphere With EMC Symmetrix Storage
Nov 2009
This white paper discusses, and provides best practices for, the new features introduced with the release of VMware vSphere 4. Specifically, the features discussed include Storage VMotion, VMFS...
Provided by EMC Corporation
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Whitepapers
IBM DS4000 Auto Volume Transfer Usage With RDAC
Sep 2010
The IBM System Storage DS4000 Series are IBM's solution for mid-range or departmental storage requirements. In a DS4000 storage subsystem equipped with two controllers, one can provide redundant...
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Whitepapers
IBM System Storage DS8700 Performance With Easy Tier
May 2010
The authors of this white paper had the privilege to be among the first to see Easy Tier "In action" while preparing the information presented here. In one key test, documented in a subsequent...
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White Papers
If You're Doing This, Then Your Storage Could Be Underutilized
Apr 2010
This paper will focus on how the combination of NetApp's unified storage technology and management software can be used to help reduce not only the capital expenditures for storage but also the...
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White Papers
Performance Report of SharePoint 2007 EBS Provider for NetApp Storage System
Oct 2010
With SharePoint 2007 SP1, a new capability called External Blob Storage (EBS) was introduced to allow customers to externalize BLOB storage. NetApp supports EBS with SnapManager MOSS 5.0 (SMMOSS)....
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Whitepapers
Using VMware Virtualization Platforms With EMC VPLEX
Aug 2010
This white paper describes EMC VPLEX features and functionality relevant to the VMware virtualization platforms. The best practices for configuring a VMware environment to optimally leverage EMC...
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White Papers
Metamatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform in Life Sciences
Apr 2009
The pharmaceutical industry today is faced with a combination of operational, regulatory, and information challenges. On the business front, companies must increase their productivity and reduce...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
NetApp Storage Monitoring Using HP OpenView
Jul 2008
The main objective of this paper is to provide a possible integration path for customers who have NNM as their management solution. This paper will discuss some of the integration approaches for...
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White Papers
Leveraging SNIA XAM for Digital Archives
Apr 2008
As the growth of information volumes in digital archives continues to explode, retention periods lengthen and digital archives become extensions of primary production environments, organizations...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
EMC Centera: Optimizing Archive Efficiency
Jan 2009
Digital archiving has become a hot topic for corporate IT - driven by unrelenting data growth, the need to meet corporate compliance guidelines, and increasing federal regulation. To cost...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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Whitepapers
70 TB of Disk Saving in 4 Days: EMC IT's Informatica Data Subset Proof of Concept
Jul 2009
This white paper illustrates the ability to reduce the data growth challenge seen with EMC's Oracle Applications CRM implementation via a Proof of Concept (POC) sponsored by the EMC IT...
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White Papers
Open Text NFS Solutions NFS Under the New Storage Paradigm
Nov 2009
The intent of this paper is threefold: firstly, this paper will review technologies and trends in enterprise storage; secondly, it will detail the history of the network file system and how it...
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White Papers
Power Aware Storage Cache Management
Jan 2010
Reducing energy consumption is an important issue for data centers. Among the various components of a data center, storage is one of the biggest energy consumers. Previous studies have shown that...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
