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A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a network designed to attach computer storage devices such as disk array controllers and tape libraries to servers. As of 2006, SANs are most commonly found in enterprise storage. A SAN allows a machine to connect to remote targets such as disks and tape drives on a network for block level I/O.

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Building High Performance iSCSI SAN Configurations
By : Alacritech Published Date: Nov 28, 2005
IP storage using Internet SCSI (iSCSI) provides opportunity for many organizations looking to extend existing Fibre Channel SANs to stranded servers, or looking to deploy Ethernet-based SANs. It can reduce costs by allowing IT managers to take advantage of existing, familiar Ethernet networks. Often the biggest complaint white new technology like iSCSI is its ability to provide more than simple functionality and connectivity.
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Alacritech
Intelligent Platform for File Services: Titan 3000 Series
By : BlueArc Corporation Published Date: Jan 18, 2008
BlueArc’s Titan 3000 Series is designed to meet the requirements of today’s sophisticated enterprise data centers and vertical applications with new levels of storage performance, scalability and reliability. Titan is the first storage solution that consolidates and manages up to 4 petabytes of data in a single storage pool.
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BlueArc Corporation
Storage Management Simplified with Virtualization
By : Creekpath Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
Imagine a world where storage management is simplified; everything works together; there are no configuration issues when upgrading, and vendors all cooperate to allow information to be easily stored and retrieved seamlessly. This was a reality in the mainframe world, but the deployment of open systems shattered these concepts.
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Creekpath
ESG Lab Report: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems - What to Know and Ask
By : Data Domain Published Date: Jul 17, 2007
While disk-to-disk (D2D) backup systems have been widely accepted as functionally superior to tape, they still carry a significant cost penalty. However, with the addition of data deduplication technology, D2D systems now provide compelling operational and cost efficiencies, thanks to increased manageability and reduced storage and bandwidth needs.
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Data Domain
IT Users Discuss New Ways to Protect Enterprise Data
By : Data Domain Published Date: Sep 10, 2006
This paper chronicles the implementations of three enterprises that represent a diverse set of industries (Financial, Legal and Technology). The IT managers responsible for protecting company data had the foresight to recognize the growing gap between their business continuity requirements and the ability of tape-based backup systems to meet those requirements.
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Data Domain
TheInfoPro Study: Why Deduplication Technology is Causing a Paradigm Shift in Storage Tiering
By : Data Domain Published Date: Feb 15, 2008
This recent research paper by TheInfoPro goes in depth as to why deduplication has sustained its #1 position on the TIP Storage Backup and Recovery Technology Heat Index®. 15% of storage organizations have already deployed deduplication technology and 59% of storage organizations are planning to deploy “dedupe” by the end of 2008. Managing storage growth, capacity reporting and planning, and backup management are the top pain points for most storage organizations.
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Data Domain
Building Proven Data Protection Strategies
By : Data Domain Published Date: Aug 28, 2006
Will traditional data protection applications survive the demands for ultra-high availability and the growing requirements for nearly instantaneous recovery? In this paper, data protection expert Fred Moore of Horison Information Strategies explores today’s backup and recovery strategy options, comparing traditional methods, such as backup, disk mirroring, snapshots, CDP, and VTLs.
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Data Domain
Evaluating a Storage Security Solution
By : Decru Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
Company data is vulnerable to threats from - insiders, unauthorized access to data, data backup, off-site mirroring - just to name a few. Encrypting data at rest, on tape or disk, significantly mitigates these threats. This document provides guidance into some of the factors a company should consider when evaluating storage security technology and solutions.
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Decru
File Fragmentation, SANs, NAS and RAID
By : Diskeeper Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2005
This document will explain the behavior and benefit of implementing Diskeeper defragmentation software with intricate modern hardware technologies such as RAID, NAS and SANs. SANs, NAS devices, corporate servers, and even high end workstations and multimedia-centric desktops characteristically implement multiple physical disk drives in some form of fault tolerant disk striping (RAID).
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Diskeeper Corporation
Curb the Data Chaos: Download Top Ten Tips for Stepping Up to SAN
By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006
EMC, the world leader in storage and IT management, developed these Top 10 Tips for SMBs considering stepping up to SAN. The following tips can help you make informed decisions when selecting the hardware and technologies that you use.
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EMC Insignia
Top 10 Data Protection Tips for SMBs
By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006
The amount of data on business computers has grown astronomically over the past few decades.  If a company loses this data, business grinds to a halt. The following tips can help you select the hardware and software you need to safeguard the integrity of your data, guarantee accurate restores, and manage backups without placing an undue burden on IT personnel.
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EMC Insignia
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backups with EMC Insignia Solution for Data Protection
By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Sep 08, 2006
By utilizing the speed and reliability of the EMC CLARiiON® AX150 networked storage system and the convenience of EMC Retrospect® 7.5 for Windows backup and recovery software, SMBs can implement fast, effective, reliable data protection that is easy to set up and manage without placing undue strain on IT resources.
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EMC Insignia
The ILM Journey: An HP StorageWorks File System Extender Business
By : HP Published Date: Oct 27, 2005
Download this white paper to read about the discipline known as Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and to learn how the efficiencies it creates can help you achieve your business goals.
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HP
The Role of Storage In A Modern Day Data Protection Strategy
By : HP Published Date: Mar 22, 2006
Though disk-assisted backup has been making inroads to areas where physical tape drives were the primary means of data protection, tape will always be the lowest cost storage technology. Click here to read how tape is being used more and more for high-volume data backup, long-term archiving, and the migration of data has already been backed up to disk.
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The Role Of HP StorageWorks 6000 VLS In A Modern Data Protection Stategy
By : HP Published Date: Nov 17, 2005
Download this paper to learn how the HP VLS6000 can offer the best cost per MB/sec in its class. With the advent of lower cost Serial ATA (SATA)-based disk arrays, disk-assisted backup has been making inroads into areas where physical tape drives were once the primary means of data protection.
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HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express
By : HP Published Date: Nov 17, 2005
HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express is designed for simple operation that does not require specialist IT skills or a big investment in training. Complexities such as licensing per processor, licensing by backup capacity, or mandatory installation services are deliberately avoided. Download this whitepaper today to see how HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express can help.
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HP
Synchronizing Business and IT to Capitalize on Change
By : HP Published Date: Aug 15, 2006
It is not enough to maintain a certain level of IT to run a business. IT has to be a driver of business goals. And that requires a rethinking of IT’s role from maintainer to innovator. All IT management must get this free whitepaper if they want to read how HP offers ideas to transform their enterprises.
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HP
Business Continuity and Availability: XP24000 Disk Array
By : HP Published Date: Jun 13, 2007
For financial services and other companies with grave requirements for business continuity, complexity of the data storage configuration can make meeting service-level and uptime objectives a nail-biter. Find out why HP's XP24000 Disk Array can offer peace of mind for any situation involving heterogeneity, long distances, extended clusters, and more.
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HP XP 'Bulletproof Software' for High Availability - ESG Lab Validation Report
By : HP Published Date: Jul 06, 2007
If you still think of disaster recovery only in terms of data redundancy you're only getting half the story. True "bulletproof" disaster recovery requires both data stability and application availability for business continuance. Read why one independent lab gave HP XP disaster recovery software systems glowing marks for its ability to reliably deliver both requirements.
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HP
Disaster Recovery Solutions in a VMware Environment
By : HP Published Date: Apr 13, 2007
Everybody is discovering the significant benefits of virtualization, but it shouldn't come at the expense of business continuity. Read on to find out why HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array is the perfect accompaniment to a VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 solution.
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HP
5 Benefits of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Based on Real World Deployments
By : IBM Published Date: Mar 20, 2007
It has become clear that storage virtualization has become a core element of the storage strategy of forward-thinking end users and that the technology is finally delivering the value that it had promised earlier this decade. In this paper by Taneja Group, you'll learn about IBM SAN Volume Controller, its architecture and features, and about 5 tangible benefits of storage virtualization.
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IBM
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC): Reducing the Complexity and Cost of Managing Storage Networks
By : IBM Published Date: Oct 24, 2006
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Labs performed a hands-on analysis of IBM's System Storage SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization solution in order to validate its value proposition to customers. ESG Labs found that SAN Volume Controller is a rock-solid, feature-rich platform that delivers on the promise of network based storage virtualization: reducing the complexity and cost of managing SAN attached storage.
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IBM
Top 10 Reasons for Using Disk-based Online Server Backup and Recovery
By : Iron Mountain Published Date: Aug 16, 2006
Learn the top ten reasons why SMBs are embracing online server backup and recovery for automatic, continuous backup, reliable server data disaster recovery and freeing limited technical staff for move value-driven tasks.
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Iron Mountain
Charlotte County Finds An Ideal Business Continuity Solution
By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: Dec 14, 2007
Located in Southwestern Florida, Charlotte County has a population of nearly 150,000 people. The local government of Charlotte County is responsible for handling everything from planning & zoning, to permitting & licensing for this population. Charlotte County found an ideal business continuity solution by combining VMware Infrastructure 3 with LeftHand Network’s multisite SAN architecture.
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Building A Virtual SAN Using VMware ESX Internal Storage
By : LeftHand Networks Published Date: Oct 31, 2007
To derive maximal benefit from system virtualization, storage virtualization, as implemented in a SAN, is a necessary prerequisite. The mobility of a virtual machine (VM) and its data plays an important role in daily operational tasks from load balancing with VMotion™ and VMware Distributed Resource Manager (DRS) to system testing. The issues of availability and mobility really rise to the forefront in a disaster recovery scenario.
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LeftHand Networks
 
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