Data Storage Management, SAN and Windows NAS

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Although Fibre Channel is seeing single-digit growth rates, Ethernet for storage is exploding.
Big Data projects scale to petabytes and potentially exabytes of data, so making sure you get your storage infrastructure right is essential.
Because of existing relationships with millions of consumers, Google has an advantage in being able woo existing customers over to its new storage and synchronization service.

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See how an ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment shows the value of the value of NetApp solution and is ideally suited for server virtualization and Windows consolidation.
Our readers have made their choices, and here are the 27 winning products across 25 categories (there's a tie in two categories)! 462 technology directors and IT project leaders from user organizations voted online to help us pick the 21 top vendors in our 2010 NWA Readers' Choice Product Excellence Awards.

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The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants was established in 1973 and is the only statutory licensing body of accountants in Hong Kong that is responsible for the regulation of the accountancy profession. This case study offers insight into th HKICPA's efforts to modernize its storage infrastructure with NAS.
Like many US banks, Huntington Bancshares faced strict regulatory requirements amidst strong competition and demanding customers. With retaining customer trust over the long term, the company needed to protect information and make it accessible continuously. This paper looks at the steps taken by the Bank to mitigate disaster with a business continuity strategy that included increasing speed of recovery and reducing the costs of managing its 160-TB EMC storage infrastructure.

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IT executives are constantly on the lookout on how best to manage their rapid data growth and, at the same time, keep expenses down. If storage hardware is the suggested alternative, it immediately conjures up an image of cost increases in areas of data management, protection process and even data center operations in the minds of most IT executives.
CIOs are frustrated in their inability to respond to business needs because the underlying IT infrastructure constrains choice, slows response, and limits their ability to manage change. To enable greater IT agility, organizations need to create dynamic IT infrastructures that can easily adapt to changing business requirements, by implementing Application Delivery Controllers that can unify application delivery and WAN delivery services.
RAID is not 100% foolproof because multiple hard disks can fail. I recently touched base with Bill Margeson, CEO, President and Co-Founder of CBL Data Recovery Technologies, on the subject of RAID, reliability and how companies in Asia plan their disaster recovery practices.

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CA Technologies software products sold on AWS Marketplace are fulfilled on and billed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), simplifying customer deployment of CA ARCserve Backup and CA ARCserve D2D.
The company's new v1.4RC firmware more than doubles sequential write performance of the 128GB model and ups the 256GB model's write speed from 380MB/sec to 465MB/sec.
Oracle claims StorageTek Tape Analytics simplifies tape management by eliminating manual intervention and helps improve operational efficiency at a cost as low as half that of IBM.

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Security vendors are investing in new intelligence capabilities to understand and better defend against new malware.
The formerly named service Biz Storage is now Biz Storage File Serve and features upgraded services.
OneSteel Group leverages Simpana software's integrated backup, recovery, deduplication and archive to control data growth and increase business value.
A study investigating the amount of time it takes to transfer 12 TB of data from one cloud to another shows there can be up to a 25 times difference in transfer speed among providers.

Laptop hard drives could have up to 20TB of capacity.