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Does fragmentation affect SANs, NAS, and RAID?

whitepaper The perception that fragmentation does not affect SANs, NAS, and RAID is incorrect. Read this white paper and discover the technical issues concerning fragmentation, SANs, NAS, and RAID. Disk arrays improve I/O performance, but they aren't...

Tags: back-up, physical, arrays, fragmentation

[24 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment In fact I'm actually struggling with a hotel bedroom door fitted with a tamper alarm that sounds like an air raid warning. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens.

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

High Availability Server Clustering Solutions: Extending the Benefits of Raid Technology Into the Server Arena

whitepaper By using high availability server clustering in storage environments, organizations can intelligently combine servers and RAID arrays with the purpose of simultaneously increasing the security and the computing power of the whole system.

Tags: sans, storage area networks, availability, characteristics

[10 Apr 2008]

The Weather Channel Predicts Continued Success: With a Hitachi Freedom SAN

whitepaper Together, Hitachi Data Systems and The Weather Channel mapped out an ambitious plan to create a three-tiered environment comprising 12TB usable RAID-5 storage on the Lightning 9960, four Brocade Silkworm 2800 switches, and the servers.

Tags: risc-based servers, channel, weather, shifting

[10 Apr 2008]

Stephen Hawking, SGI, and CosmoGrid: The Collaborative Search for Beginnings

whitepaper The solution was a 64-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputing system with 32GB of shared memory, connected through a SAN switch to a 1.6TB SGI TP9100 RAID. Today cosmology research focuses on reconstructing the critical fractions of a second that...

Tags: file and network servers, grid, visualization, sgi

[10 Apr 2008]

Configuring Microsoft iSCSI Software Target in a Microsoft Cluster

whitepaper Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a widely-adopted control framework for aggregating the capacity and performance of hard disk drives, while also providing fault tolerance. For environments that have direct-attached RAID, applications...

Tags: raid

[28 Mar 2008]

ASM and Multipathing: Generic Best Practices and Information Matrix

whitepaper Storage RAID technologies are great solutions for providing high availability for storage devices (disks), however, they do not address the physical path between the server and storage. In this competitive business climate, well-planned business...

Tags: raid, path, fail, redundancy

[28 Mar 2008]

Maximize It Service Uptime by Utilizing Dependable Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers

whitepaper In addition, these servers include core and thread offlining capabilities, redundant hotswap disks, power supplies, and fans, integrated disk RAID functions, and extensive ECC hardware protection. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers...

Tags: application servers

[28 Mar 2008]

Developed and Maintained a RAID Controller Product Line for a Large Storage Company

whitepaper With a technology as domain specific as RAID, building a good set of resources was a challenge. The client is part of a leading company in the field of Network Storage. The client wanted to reduce their engineering overheads and was looking for a...

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[27 Mar 2008]

WasabiRAID

whitepaper WasabiRAID from Wasabi Systems is a kernel level RAID driver optimized for Wasabi Certified BSD. The WasabiRAID developer's kit includes the Wasabi RAID driver, documentation, and an API for integration with other applications or a GUI.

Tags: storage management

[11 Mar 2008]

Power Management in RAID Server Disk System Using Multiple Idle States

whitepaper Energy efficient design for disk devices has become a very important issue, because ever increasing need for data storage systems significantly increases the power budget in the disk array. Most research on power management in disk devices focuses...

Tags: removable storage, disk, energy, consumption

[08 Mar 2008]

Areca Moves Product Line to Intel XScale Microarchitecture

whitepaper Areca has committed its entire research and development effort to disk array/RAID technologies that yield faster performance, better reliability, and lower costs than competitive solutions. During development of a new line of RAID 6 controllers...

Tags: processors

[04 Mar 2008]

Leading California Flower Grower Virtualizes Entire Environment

whitepaper The StoreVault S500, configured with eight 500GB drives and RAID DP for high reliability, is the storage centerpiece in Covell Group's desktop virtualization project for Mellano & Company. Mellano & Company has been a family-owned flower grower and...

Tags: application servers

[04 Mar 2008]

Effective SAN Management: A Virtualization Path to Increasing Storage Administrator Productivity

whitepaper Despite economic uncertainty, Gartner is predicting continued market growth for RAID-based disk storage, led by a 30% increase in fabric-attached network storage environments. And although the price of raw disk capacity is declining, infrastructure...

Tags: storage management

[01 Mar 2008]

Public Folder Permissions in a Mixed-Mode Microsoft Exchange

whitepaper The paper includes test results for the HP ProLiant ML330 G3 server running Exchange 2003 Standard Edition on an ATA RAID subsystem. The HP ProLiant ML330 G3 server comes standard with one ATA hard drive and an integrated dual channel Ultra ATA-100...

Tags: application servers

[20 Feb 2008]

Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 With the HP ProLiant ML330 G3 Server

whitepaper The paper includes test results for the HP ProLiant ML330 G3 server running Exchange 2003 Standard Edition on an ATA RAID subsystem. The HP ProLiant ML330 G3 server comes standard with one ATA hard drive and an integrated dual channel Ultra ATA-100...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controllers 5 and 6 - Dell PowerVault MD1000 Disk Expansion Enclosure Solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Always on Technologies

whitepaper This paper provides information on the Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controllers (PERC) 5 and 6 - Dell PowerVault MD1000 Disk Expansion Enclosure solutions, based on the Microsoft SQL Server Always On Storage Solution Review program.

Tags: application servers

[14 Feb 2008]

Digital Product Development, Including Performance Simulation, Was Key to Nissan Rally Raid Team's Outstanding Finish in the Brutal, Transcontinental Dakar Rally

whitepaper Nissan Rally Raid Team had just ten months to develop its entries for the 2005 Telefonica-Dakar, one the most challenging motorsports events on the planet. The company deployed Siemens digitally model vehicle components in I-deas NX Series (a UGS...

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[14 Jan 2008]

RAID 6 Principles: A Deep-Dive Tutorial

whitepaper SATA hard drives are continuing to assume new roles within enterprise applications. While a hard disk's expected useful life is largely independent of its host controller interface (SATA, FC-AL, SCSI, SAS, etc,), the present conventional...

Tags: data center

[11 Jan 2008]

Does fragmentation affect SANs, NAS, and RAID?

whitepaper The perception that fragmentation does not affect SANs, NAS, and RAID is incorrect. Read this white paper and discover the technical issues concerning fragmentation, SANs, NAS, and RAID. Disk arrays improve I/O performance, but they aren't...

Tags: physical, arrays, fragmentation, array

[19 Dec 2007]

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