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Whitepapers
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays
Nov 2011
This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. From 3Q-10...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
Nov 2012
This ESG white paper focuses on how IBM has been a leader in capabilites for storage virtualization for efficient operations.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
CA ARCserve and Symantec Backup Exec Product Comparison
Mar 2010
The following article was published by Productive Corporation to provide its customers with an additional resource in determining the right data backup and recovery solution for their company's...
Provided by CA
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Whitepapers
IBM Brings Enterprise Functionality to Mid-range Storage
Jul 2011
Find out why the Clipper Group calls the IBM Storwize V7000 "the finest unified storage available" for mid-sized datacenters. This highly-scalable, highly-functional disk system can support...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Achieving Flexible Storage Scalability:The Case for Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays
Jan 2009
Achieving flexible storage scalability: The Case for Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays For Business on a data growth path, the management of storage creates numerous problems, including business...
Provided by NEC
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White Papers
Comprehending the Tradeoffs Between Deploying Oracle Database on RAID 5 and RAID 10 Storage Configurations
Apr 2009
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology is used to improve performance and availability of the underlying storage arrays for any application. With RAID implementations, performance...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG
Jul 2009
Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
RAIN-EC: Permabit's Revolutionary New Data Protection for Grid Archive
Jan 2008
Data protection mechanisms for petabyte-scale archives have traditionally been limited to RAID technologies, which perform poorly with modern, high-capacity disks. RAID 6, for example, is...
Provided by Permabit Technology
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White Papers
Data Recovery and RAID Drives
Mar 2009
This paper addresses the recovery of information (user files) from hard drives which have been used in RAID systems. There is a history of successful data recovery efforts when working with drives...
Provided by CPR Tools
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Nov 2009
The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Whitepaper: EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab
Nov 2009
This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Whitepapers
HP Smart Array P800 and HP MSA60 RAID1+0 2,000 User Cluster Continuous Replication Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
Oct 2008
This paper describes a tested configuration for deploying Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition (Exchange) with Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) supporting 2000 users. The performance...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
A Highly Accurate Method for Assessing Reliability of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
Mar 2009
The statistical bases for current models of RAID reliability are reviewed, and a highly accurate alternative is provided and justified. This new model corrects statistical errors associated with...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
Jun 2008
Virtualization is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. One has used this...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
EMC CLARiion RAID 6 Technology: A Detailed Overview
Jul 2007
CLARiiON RAID 6 technology offers more reliable RAID protection than other RAID technologies. It can tolerate two failed disks in a RAID group and more importantly hard media errors encountered...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Clustering of Virtual Disk Design of Clustered Servers for Storage Management
May 2009
Storage technologies were getting very expensive to place a large number of high capacity hard drives in the servers. A large number of low cost hard drives could be linked together to form a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Getting Back to the Basics of Storage Management
Aug 2009
RAID technology also brought with it tools to help manage this new DASD. The combination of hardware technology and software tools enabled storage administrators to manage the storage devices and...
Provided by BMC Software
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White Papers
RE: Hard Drive Reliability and RAID 0
Jul 2008
With the advent of the RAIDFrame, High-Rely entered a unique world of which there was little comparison. The RAIDFrame currently offers RAIDPacs in either a RAID 5 configuration (recommended) or...
Provided by Highly Reliable Systems
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White Papers
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters: Ideal for Low-Cost Servers and Nearline Applications
Dec 2008
With SCSI technology dwindling and Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology gaining ground, many customers question which hard drive and RAID adapter are best for their specific...
Provided by LSI
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Downloads
Intel® Parallel Studio: Try it for 30 days—free.
Apr 2010
Intel® Parallel Studio brings simplified parallelism to Microsoft Visual Studio* C/C++ developers, equipping you to optimize for multicore and scale for manycore. The powerful suite also provides...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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White Papers
The French Connection - Implementing a RAID Controller Algorithm in Base SAS
Mar 2010
RAID configuration of storage arrays is fairly ubiquitous nowadays, and many IT professionals have a conceptual awareness of how RAID provides redundancy and thus protects against data loss when...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Parity Lost and Parity Regained
Apr 2008
This paper has presented a formal approach to analyzing the design of data protection strategies. Whereas earlier designs were simple to verify by inspection (e.g., a parity disk successfully adds...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Disk Scrubbing Versus Intra-Disk Redundancy for High-Reliability RAID Storage Systems
Jun 2008
Two schemes proposed to cope with unrecoverable or latent media errors and enhance the reliability of RAID systems are examined. The first scheme is the established, widely used disk scrubbing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Webcasts
High-Performance RAID-6: Why and How
May 2006
RAID 5 systems are commonly deployed for data protection in most business environments. However, RAID 5 systems only tolerate a single drive failure or unrecoverable media error before losing...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
HP Virtualization Smart Bundles with VMware
Jun 2010
Virtualization is well recognized for its ability to reduce costs, improve application availability, and simplify IT management but getting started can be a challenge. Without a doubt, you need...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
White Papers
XP to Windows® 7 Migration - Snapshot View of Best Practices
Jun 2010
One-page snapshot view of the complete Windows 7 Migration process and perspectives
Provided by Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.
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Case Studies
Backup Technology Case Study: Park City Mountain Resort
May 2009
Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) was one of the venues for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. It is responsible for managing a majority of the IT infrastructure for the different POWDR Corp resorts....
Provided by IDEALSTOR
-
Whitepapers
Achieving Storage Efficiency With EMC Celerra
May 2009
The EMC Celerra storage platform has a rich feature set that maximizes storage efficiency through storage pooling, deduplication, virtual provisioning and tiering. With the advent of lower power...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Case Study: Raid 5EE Data Recovery (Part 1)
Jan 2010
This case study presents a paper on the Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) 5EE Data Recovery. The paper sheds some light on various types of disk arrays, their architectures and ways of...
Provided by SalvationDATA
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Case Studies
DriveSavers RAID Recovery Services
May 2009
Businesses all over the world use RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems to store all sizes of critical files. This system, which distributes data and parity among multiple hard disk...
Provided by DriveSavers Data Recovery
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White Papers
RAID Technology White Paper
Oct 2008
LaCie is a name to be reckoned with computer hardware systems and they have upheld their good name for ages now. The company name is synonymous with cutting-edge engineering techniques and...
Provided by LaCie
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White Papers
Software RAID: Functionality on Dell Value Line Servers
Sep 2009
Dell made use of a range of Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) sub systems for the purpose of data redundancy. The aim was to recover data and prevent loss of information through this...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
Jan 2009
Parallel SCSI may be nearing obsolescence due to certain fundamental limitations. But the fact remains that for nearly two decades it had dominated the hard drive market through its...
Provided by LSI
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White Papers
Intel RAID Controllers: Best Practices White Paper
Apr 2008
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology has been commonly implemented in server usage models as an option to provide additional data protection. RAID solutions are now also found in...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
High-Performance RAID Controllers in Real-World Scenarios
Aug 2008
The latest digital data and bandwidth-intensive applications demand a new level of performance and make data protection more important and more complicated than ever before. This has become the...
Provided by Adaptec
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White Papers
Beyond Software RAID
Sep 2009
A Virtual RAID Adapter (VRA) is a unique and new class of pure, host-based software RAID solution. It combines the key advantages of pure software RAID with many of the key advantages of hardware...
Provided by Dot Hill Systems
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White Papers
DIY Storage System Guidance Using Intel Server RAID Controllers
Apr 2009
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology is commonly implemented in server usage models as an option to provide additional data protection. RAID solutions are now also found in other...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Mtron Flash SSD Single Drive and Raid Array Benchmarks
Dec 2007
The Mtron drives perform very well. With 40 uS access times, the random and linear read performance is excellent. In terms of write performance, the linear performance is again excellent. The...
Provided by Easy Coding
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White Papers
Why Growing Businesses Need RAID-6 Storage
Apr 2008
In today's information driven world, cost-effective data protection is essential to the health and well being of growing businesses. In a recognition of this need, many businesses use RAID...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Whitepapers
Reliability-Aware Iterative Detection Scheme (RAID) for Distributed IDM Space-Time Codes in Relay Systems
Apr 2013
In this paper, distributed Interleave-Division Multiplexing Space-Time Codes (dIDM-STCs) are applied for multi-user two-hop Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay networks. In case of decoding errors at...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
R-Barrier: Rapid Barrier for Software RAID Cache Using Hints From Journaling Filesystem
Sep 2012
While adopting cache in software RAID brings performance benefit, it can cause data loss at power failure which results in the broken file-system consistency. Though I/O Barrier can be used to...
Provided by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Whitepapers
Matrix-Stripe-Cache-Based Contiguity Transform for Fragmented Writes in RAID-5
Aug 2007
Given that contiguous reads and writes between a cache and a disk outperform fragmented reads and writes, fragmented reads and writes are forcefully transformed into contiguous reads and writes...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Enhancing SSD Reliability Through Efficient RAID Support
Jul 2012
A serious problem with current SSDs is its low reliability due to their primary component, flash-memory, that has high error rate and limited erase count. Adopting RAID architecture is a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
When It's Time for an Audit, Will You Be Ready?
Mar 2013
If an auditor comes to call, will your offsite data be able to make the appointment? Learn how a smart backup plan keeps you in sync with ever-changing regulatory requirements—and gets you and...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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Whitepapers
Triple-Star: A Coding Scheme with Optimal Encoding Complexity for Tolerating Triple Disk Failures in RAID
Mar 2012
Low encoding/decoding complexity is essential for practical storage systems. This paper presents a new Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) array codes, called Triple-Star, for tolerating triple disk...
Provided by University of Electronic Science and Technology
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Case Studies
Priority Health
Feb 2013
Learn how Priority Health provided support for rapid data growth while meeting stringent user requirements for availability, scalability, and performance of storage systems. Sponsored by HP and...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Optimizing Microsoft Exchange in the Enterprise: Optimizing the Mailbox Server Role and the Client Access Server
Jan 2013
In this white paper, we first explore key Microsoft Exchange 2010 features: the Mailbox Server Role and Client Access Server (CAS). Through configuration of Exchange databases, resource mailboxes,...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
RAIDR: Retention-Aware Intelligent DRAM Refresh
Apr 2012
Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells must be periodically refreshed to prevent loss of data. These refresh operations waste energy...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Whitepapers
An Improved Detection Scheme for Distributed IDM-STCs in Relay-Systems
Jun 2012
This paper is concerned with the application of distributed Interleave-Division-Multiplexing Space-Time Codes (dIDM-STCs) in relaying systems with error-prone relays applying Decode-and-Forward...
Provided by University of Brasilia
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Whitepapers
IDO: Intelligent Data Outsourcing with Improved RAID Reconstruction Performance in Large-Scale Data Centers
Nov 2012
Dealing with disk failures has become an increasingly common task for system administrators in the face of high disk failure rates in large-scale data centers consisting of hundreds of thousands...
Provided by Xiamen Sharelink Technology Co.,LTD
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Whitepapers
Low-Redundancy Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays
Oct 2011
One of the major issues in storage technology is finding cost-effective solutions for the long-term storage of archival data. The topic is growing in importance as more organizations now maintain...
Provided by University of Hong Kong
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Whitepapers
C-Codes: Cyclic Lowest-Density MDS Array Codes Constructed Using Starters for RAID 6
Aug 2012
Array codes are a class of linear codes whose information and parity bits are placed in a two-dimensional (or multidimensional) array rather than a one-dimensional vector. A common property of...
Provided by Tsihai
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Whitepapers
On the Reliability of RAID Systems: An Argument for More Check Drives
Feb 2012
In this paper, the authors address issues of reliability of RAID systems. They focus on "Big data" systems with a large number of drives and advanced error correction schemes beyond RAID 6. Their...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Partial-MDS Codes and Their Application to RAID Type of Architectures
May 2012
A family of codes with a natural two-dimensional structure is presented, inspired by an application of RAID type of architectures whose units are Solid State Drives (SSDs). Arrays of SSDs behave...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
Holographic Grid Cloud, a Futurable High Storage Technology for the Next Generation Astronomical Facilities
Jan 2012
In the immediate future holographic technology will be available to store a very large amount of data in HVD (Holographic Versatile Disk) devices. This technology make extensive use of the WORM...
Provided by Cornell University
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Whitepapers
RAID the WSN: Packet-Based Reliable Cooperative Diversity
May 2012
This paper introduces a light-weight packet delivery approach called Packet-based Cooperative Diversity to improve the reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The authors' approach is...
Provided by Freie Universität Berlin
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Whitepapers
ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
Nov 2012
This ESG white paper focuses on how IBM has been a leader in capabilites for storage virtualization for efficient operations.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Converged Storage: Advances in Deduplication Help Tame Big Data
Nov 2012
A converged storage strategy can help companies more easily deal with the various storage challenges they face, including the increasing amounts of unstructured data they must manage. Also known...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Making the Right Storage Choices: 10 Must-Ask Questions
Dec 2011
Download this simple and effective guide to storage system deployment. Whether you are consolidating your storage, trying to improve application performance, or looking to get the most out of your...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Reliability and Performance Enhancement Technique for SSD Array Storage System Using RAID Mechanism
Sep 2009
Recently, Solid State Drive (SSD) based on NAND flash memory chips becomes popular in the consumer electronics market because it is tough on shock and its I/O performance is better than that of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Top 10 RAID Tips : Everything You Forgot to Consider When Building Your RAID
Dec 2011
RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent (Inexpensive) Disks. RAID technology allow to combine several disks to one large data storage. Nowadays, there are many different array types,...
Provided by RAID
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Whitepapers
A Cost-Based Heterogeneous Recovery Scheme for Distributed Storage Systems With RAID-6 Codes
Apr 2012
Modern distributed storage systems provide large-scale, fault-tolerant data storage. To reduce the probability of data unavailability, it is important to recover the lost data of any failed...
Provided by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Whitepapers
InfoWorld: Converged Storage - Advances in Deduplication Help Tame Big Data
Jun 2012
A converged storage strategy can help companies more easily deal with the various storage challenges they face, including the increasing amounts of unstructured data they must manage. Also known...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays
Nov 2011
This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. From 3Q-10...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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White Papers
A Case for Raid
May 2012
Mathematicians agree that omniscient communication is an interesting new topic in the field of theory, and steganographers concur. The authors' aim here is to set the record straight. Given the...
Provided by Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Broadcast Encryption Based on Braid Groups
Feb 2012
Broadcast encryption is the scheme that a sender encrypts messages for a designated group of receivers, and sends the ciphertexts by broadcast over the networks. Many research papers have done it...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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White Papers
Using Storage Class Memories to Increase the Reliability of Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays
Apr 2009
Two-dimensional RAID arrays maintain separate row and column parities for all their disks. Depending on their organization, they can tolerate between two and three concurrent disk failures without...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Improving Disk Array Reliability Through Expedited Scrubbing
May 2010
Disk scrubbing periodically scans the contents of a disk array to detect the presence of irrecoverable read errors and reconstitute the contents of the lost blocks using the built-in redundancy of...
Provided by Santa Clara University
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White Papers
Using a Shared Storage Class Memory Device to Improve the Reliability of RAID Arrays
Nov 2010
Storage Class Memories (SCMs) constitute an emerging class of non-volatile storage devices that promise to be significantly faster and more reliable than magnetic disks. The authors propose to add...
Provided by University of Houston
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White Papers
Arbitrary Dimension Reed-Solomon Coding and Decoding for Extended RAID on GPUs
Nov 2008
Reed-Solomon coding is a method of generating arbitrary amounts of checksum information from original data via matrix-vector multiplication in finite fields. Previous work has shown that CPUs are...
Provided by University of Alabama
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White Papers
Building Large Storage Based On Flash Disks
Aug 2010
Flash SSDs are a technology that has the potential of drastically changing the architecture of a DBMS. In this paper, the authors examine the properties of a storage space built on SSDs with RAID...
Provided by Technische Universitat Darmstadt
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Whitepapers
Gain a Business Advantage with Scale-Out Storage
Oct 2011
Learn why Intel® architecture-based storage solutions provide energy-efficient performance, data protection, and scalability for tomorrow's data centers.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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White Papers
The Design and Implementation of Network Disks Array Management System
Jun 2010
As the processor and memory performance has been dramatically increased, the I/O subsystem has appeared to be the bottleneck in modern computers. As a result, network disk array systems serve as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
IBM Brings Enterprise Functionality to Mid-range Storage
Jul 2011
Find out why the Clipper Group calls the IBM Storwize V7000 "the finest unified storage available" for mid-sized datacenters. This highly-scalable, highly-functional disk system can support...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Planning considerations for Geographically Dispersed Clusters using IBM HACMP/XD: HAGEO technology
Jul 2011
IBM's HACMP/XD for HAGEO software provided a flexible, reliable platform for building a disaster-tolerant configuration. PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition, Geographic LVM configuration...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Understanding Latent Sector Errors and How to Protect Against Them
Jan 2010
Latent Sector Errors (LSEs) refer to the situation where particular sectors on a drive become inaccessible. LSEs are a critical factor in data reliability, since a single LSE can lead to data loss...
Provided by University of Toronto
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Whitepapers
IDC Whitepaper: Scale-out storage in the content driven enterprise
Jun 2011
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the performance scalability of the HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems powered by Intel� Xeon� processors. The HP X9000...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Enhancing Data Availability in Disk Drives Through Background Activities
Nov 2008
Latent sector errors in disk drives affect only a few data sectors. They occur silently and are detected only when the affected area is accessed again. Ifa latent error is detected while the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Flash Aware RAID
Apr 2009
Flash based SSDs are increasing in popularity, performance, and capacity. The advancements made in capacity come at a cost of decreased reliability. Traditional error correcting codes capable of...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
Achieving Flexible Storage Scalability:The Case for Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays
Jan 2009
Achieving flexible storage scalability: The Case for Enterprise Modular Storage Arrays For Business on a data growth path, the management of storage creates numerous problems, including business...
Provided by NEC
-
White Papers
Comprehending the Tradeoffs Between Deploying Oracle Database on RAID 5 and RAID 10 Storage Configurations
Apr 2009
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology is used to improve performance and availability of the underlying storage arrays for any application. With RAID implementations, performance...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG
Jul 2009
Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
White Papers
RAIN-EC: Permabit's Revolutionary New Data Protection for Grid Archive
Jan 2008
Data protection mechanisms for petabyte-scale archives have traditionally been limited to RAID technologies, which perform poorly with modern, high-capacity disks. RAID 6, for example, is...
Provided by Permabit Technology
-
White Papers
Data Recovery and RAID Drives
Mar 2009
This paper addresses the recovery of information (user files) from hard drives which have been used in RAID systems. There is a history of successful data recovery efforts when working with drives...
Provided by CPR Tools
-
White Papers
Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Nov 2009
The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
White Papers
Whitepaper: EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab
Nov 2009
This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
Whitepapers
HP Smart Array P800 and HP MSA60 RAID1+0 2,000 User Cluster Continuous Replication Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
Oct 2008
This paper describes a tested configuration for deploying Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition (Exchange) with Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) supporting 2000 users. The performance...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
White Papers
A Highly Accurate Method for Assessing Reliability of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
Mar 2009
The statistical bases for current models of RAID reliability are reviewed, and a highly accurate alternative is provided and justified. This new model corrects statistical errors associated with...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
FlexVol: Flexible, Efficient File Volume Virtualization in WAFL
Jun 2008
Virtualization is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. One has used this...
Provided by NetApp
-
Whitepapers
EMC CLARiion RAID 6 Technology: A Detailed Overview
Jul 2007
CLARiiON RAID 6 technology offers more reliable RAID protection than other RAID technologies. It can tolerate two failed disks in a RAID group and more importantly hard media errors encountered...
Provided by EMC
-
White Papers
Clustering of Virtual Disk Design of Clustered Servers for Storage Management
May 2009
Storage technologies were getting very expensive to place a large number of high capacity hard drives in the servers. A large number of low cost hard drives could be linked together to form a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Getting Back to the Basics of Storage Management
Aug 2009
RAID technology also brought with it tools to help manage this new DASD. The combination of hardware technology and software tools enabled storage administrators to manage the storage devices and...
Provided by BMC Software
-
White Papers
CA ARCserve and Symantec Backup Exec Product Comparison
Mar 2010
The following article was published by Productive Corporation to provide its customers with an additional resource in determining the right data backup and recovery solution for their company's...
Provided by CA
-
White Papers
RE: Hard Drive Reliability and RAID 0
Jul 2008
With the advent of the RAIDFrame, High-Rely entered a unique world of which there was little comparison. The RAIDFrame currently offers RAIDPacs in either a RAID 5 configuration (recommended) or...
Provided by Highly Reliable Systems
-
White Papers
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters: Ideal for Low-Cost Servers and Nearline Applications
Dec 2008
With SCSI technology dwindling and Serial ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology gaining ground, many customers question which hard drive and RAID adapter are best for their specific...
Provided by LSI
-
Downloads
Intel® Parallel Studio: Try it for 30 days—free.
Apr 2010
Intel® Parallel Studio brings simplified parallelism to Microsoft Visual Studio* C/C++ developers, equipping you to optimize for multicore and scale for manycore. The powerful suite also provides...
Provided by Intel Corporation
-
White Papers
The French Connection - Implementing a RAID Controller Algorithm in Base SAS
Mar 2010
RAID configuration of storage arrays is fairly ubiquitous nowadays, and many IT professionals have a conceptual awareness of how RAID provides redundancy and thus protects against data loss when...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
White Papers
Parity Lost and Parity Regained
Apr 2008
This paper has presented a formal approach to analyzing the design of data protection strategies. Whereas earlier designs were simple to verify by inspection (e.g., a parity disk successfully adds...
Provided by NetApp
-
White Papers
Disk Scrubbing Versus Intra-Disk Redundancy for High-Reliability RAID Storage Systems
Jun 2008
Two schemes proposed to cope with unrecoverable or latent media errors and enhance the reliability of RAID systems are examined. The first scheme is the established, widely used disk scrubbing...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Webcasts
High-Performance RAID-6: Why and How
May 2006
RAID 5 systems are commonly deployed for data protection in most business environments. However, RAID 5 systems only tolerate a single drive failure or unrecoverable media error before losing...
Provided by Intel
-
Whitepapers
HP Virtualization Smart Bundles with VMware
Jun 2010
Virtualization is well recognized for its ability to reduce costs, improve application availability, and simplify IT management but getting started can be a challenge. Without a doubt, you need...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
White Papers
XP to Windows® 7 Migration - Snapshot View of Best Practices
Jun 2010
One-page snapshot view of the complete Windows 7 Migration process and perspectives
Provided by Dell, Inc. & Intel, Inc.
-
Case Studies
Backup Technology Case Study: Park City Mountain Resort
May 2009
Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) was one of the venues for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. It is responsible for managing a majority of the IT infrastructure for the different POWDR Corp resorts....
Provided by IDEALSTOR
-
Whitepapers
Achieving Storage Efficiency With EMC Celerra
May 2009
The EMC Celerra storage platform has a rich feature set that maximizes storage efficiency through storage pooling, deduplication, virtual provisioning and tiering. With the advent of lower power...
Provided by EMC
-
Case Studies
Case Study: Raid 5EE Data Recovery (Part 1)
Jan 2010
This case study presents a paper on the Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) 5EE Data Recovery. The paper sheds some light on various types of disk arrays, their architectures and ways of...
Provided by SalvationDATA
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Case Studies
DriveSavers RAID Recovery Services
May 2009
Businesses all over the world use RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems to store all sizes of critical files. This system, which distributes data and parity among multiple hard disk...
Provided by DriveSavers Data Recovery
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White Papers
RAID Technology White Paper
Oct 2008
LaCie is a name to be reckoned with computer hardware systems and they have upheld their good name for ages now. The company name is synonymous with cutting-edge engineering techniques and...
Provided by LaCie
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White Papers
Software RAID: Functionality on Dell Value Line Servers
Sep 2009
Dell made use of a range of Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) sub systems for the purpose of data redundancy. The aim was to recover data and prevent loss of information through this...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
Jan 2009
Parallel SCSI may be nearing obsolescence due to certain fundamental limitations. But the fact remains that for nearly two decades it had dominated the hard drive market through its...
Provided by LSI
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White Papers
Intel RAID Controllers: Best Practices White Paper
Apr 2008
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology has been commonly implemented in server usage models as an option to provide additional data protection. RAID solutions are now also found in...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
High-Performance RAID Controllers in Real-World Scenarios
Aug 2008
The latest digital data and bandwidth-intensive applications demand a new level of performance and make data protection more important and more complicated than ever before. This has become the...
Provided by Adaptec
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White Papers
Beyond Software RAID
Sep 2009
A Virtual RAID Adapter (VRA) is a unique and new class of pure, host-based software RAID solution. It combines the key advantages of pure software RAID with many of the key advantages of hardware...
Provided by Dot Hill Systems
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White Papers
DIY Storage System Guidance Using Intel Server RAID Controllers
Apr 2009
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology is commonly implemented in server usage models as an option to provide additional data protection. RAID solutions are now also found in other...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Mtron Flash SSD Single Drive and Raid Array Benchmarks
Dec 2007
The Mtron drives perform very well. With 40 uS access times, the random and linear read performance is excellent. In terms of write performance, the linear performance is again excellent. The...
Provided by Easy Coding
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White Papers
Why Growing Businesses Need RAID-6 Storage
Apr 2008
In today's information driven world, cost-effective data protection is essential to the health and well being of growing businesses. In a recognition of this need, many businesses use RAID...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Power Management on Adaptec Unified Serial RAID Controllers and Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives
Nov 2008
This paper explains how Intelligent Power Management works on Adaptec Unified Serial RAID cards, and details the Advanced Power Management features of the Hitachi Deskstar series of hard disk...
Provided by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
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White Papers
High-Performance RAID Storage for Post-Production Workflows
Jul 2010
As NLE systems such as Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, and Adobe Premier continue to add support for higher spatial resolutions (2k, 4k, etc.) and high-quality codecs such as ProRes 4444...
Provided by Dot Hill Systems Corp
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Whitepapers
Fox Chase Cancer Center Case Study
Sep 2010
Fox Chase Cancer Center speeds data backup and recovery with IBM ProtecTIER Deduplication Solutions.
Provided by IBM
