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Backup-to-Disk: The Key to Recovery Management - Building the Foundation for Effective Operational Recovery Management

whitepaper IT identifies five immediate benefits of B2D, from faster and more reliable backup and restore to increased efficiency when backing up both SAN and NAS. This paper examines the benefits of Backup-to-Disk(B2D) and the central role it plays in...

Tags: removable storage, recovery, backup, san nas

[14 Apr 2008]

NAS/SAN Fusion: Exchange and File Storage Consolidation

whitepaper This white paper begins by introducing the reader to SAN-based and Windows Powered NAS-based technologies. Next, this paper describes the NAS/SAN fusion solution overview, the required components, the solution design, and the required hardware and...

Tags: nas, implementing, san, nas

[10 Apr 2008]

SAN and NAS

whitepaper SAN and NAS are two ways to re-organize a system into a separately managed storage farm and server farm. SAN and NAS are two very different approaches to storage management and address two very different needs.

Tags: raid, nas, farm, complexity

[10 Apr 2008]

NAS vs. SAN for Database Applications: Using NAS Protocols with Databases

whitepaper Depending on the available infrastructure, the exact performance requirements, and the customer's preference, either a Fibre Channel or a NAS infrastructure may be appropriate. This paper shows a number of reasons to give NAS strong consideration...

Tags: nas, environments, channel, fibre

[10 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work: GRZ IT Center Linz GmbH

whitepaper Hitachi Data Systems proposed a solution that combined SAN and NAS technologies based upon two Lightning 9970V storage systems. This approach integrated the flexibility and capability of a SAN with the functionality of a NAS.

Tags: storage management, san, nas, data systems

[10 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work: Delta NV

whitepaper Delta NV's new storage environment is based on the Thunder 9570V Series, which combines both SAN and NAS technology and offers excellent scalability and flexibility. Delta NV faced storage challenges when the energy market in the Netherlands was...

Tags: sans, storage environment, nv, san nas

[10 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: Federal Austrian Railways (Osterreichischen Bundesbahnen, OBB)

whitepaper The DSC anticipates that by combining SAN and NAS, they will achieve further reductions in TCO through the benefits of synergy and economies of scale in infrastructure management. The DSC's first phase of storage consolidation, using a SAN (Storage...

Tags: storage management, san, tco, san nas

[10 Apr 2008]

The University of South Carolina Spartanburg (USCS)

whitepaper The challenge for USC Spartanburg: offer better e-mail service to faculty, staff, and students; improve network speed and performance by migrating from a network attached storage (NAS)system to a storage area network (SAN).

Tags: nas, dell, students, mail

[10 Apr 2008]

CIENA's CN 2000 Storage Extension Platform Provides a High Performance Solution for Cost-Effectively Extending Multiple Applications to Meet Business Continuance Goals

whitepaper Challenge for the University was to optimize existing fiber network to meet growing storage needs and improve the management and QoS of numerous storage protocols, platforms, and applications including disk mirroring, SAN extension between Brocade...

Tags: storage management, extension, protocols, fiber

[10 Apr 2008]

WasabiRAID

whitepaper WasabiRAID is powerful, secure, and flexible, making it ideal for DAS, NAS, and SAN storage solutions for SOHO, SMB, and Enterprise markets. WasabiRAID from Wasabi Systems is a kernel level RAID driver optimized for Wasabi Certified BSD.

Tags: storage management

[11 Mar 2008]

Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN V2.0

whitepaper Network Attached Storage (NAS) provides a simple solution to expand storage in many Small and Medium Business (SMB) environments. Wasabi Storage Builder for NAS 2.0 delivers a secure, scalable and reliable storage software solution that runs on...

Tags: storage management

[11 Mar 2008]

NFS Over RDMA

whitepaper NAS file access protocols, like NFS, allow files to be shared among many servers running different operating systems. Yet this flexibility of NFS is tempered by its requirement for TCP/IP networks, which as yet, do not perform at the speed of SAN...

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

NAS & SAN are Complementary

whitepaper When the NAS system requires more storage to meet the increasing storage needs of users, the administrator can allocate it from other free resources on the SAN. Finally, the administrator repositions NAS data onto an existing SAN disk array that...

Tags: sans, san, mirroring, disk

[22 Nov 2007]

Using SANs and NAS: Help for Storage Administrators - SAN Backup and Recovery

whitepaper A SAN typically consists of multiple servers, online storage (disk), and offline storage (tape or optical), all of which are connected to a Fibre Channel switch or hub - usually a switch. Once the three servers are connected to the SAN, each server...

Tags: storage management, san, switch, fibre channel

[25 Oct 2007]

SAN and NAS Combine to Deliver a Comprehensive Storage Solution at the GRZ IT Center

whitepaper Hitachi Data Systems proposed a solution that combined SAN and NAS technologies based upon two Lightning 9970V storage systems. This approach integrated the flexibility and capability of a SAN with the functionality of a NAS.

Tags: removable storage, san, nas, data systems

[11 Sep 2007]

Using NetApp Fibre Channel SAN and NAS Storage to Support a Perforce Software Configuration Management Environment

whitepaper This case study describes a deployment of the Perforce SCM system running on clustered Network Appliance storage configured to provide simultaneous Fibre Channel SAN and Network-Attached Storage (NAS).

Tags: storage management, network appliance, scm, perforce

[11 Sep 2007]

Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Integrating With Decru DataFort and NetApp Storage Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and FCP

whitepaper Without the physical separation provided by traditional direct-attached storage, data assets become comingled in both NAS and SAN environments, putting them at much greater risk for unauthorized access, theft, or misuse.

Tags: storage management, assets, prevention, data storage

[11 Sep 2007]

A Study in Storage: K-12 Storage Consolidation and Backup

whitepaper Storage could be dynamically allocated to user groups as required without disruption; it provided both NAS and iSCSI SAN connectivity out of the box, therefore consolidating aging servers and reducing management costs; and the NetApp Snapshot...

Tags: back-up, district, reducing, schools

[11 Sep 2007]

Norwich University Consolidates Data Center and Storage, Gains Nearly $1.2 Million in Benefits With Complete HP Solution

whitepaper The university deployed a SAN based on the Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA5000 system), fused with NAS (Hewlett-Packard NAS 4000); and the award-winning, Hewlett-Packard ProLiant blade servers.

Tags: data center, packard, nas, array

[11 Sep 2007]

Hewlett-Packard Case Study: Microsoft Internal Internet Service Provider

whitepaper They explored the possibility of a SAN, but instead chose a Hewlett-Packard Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution powered by the Windows Storage Server 2003, because it was the most cost effective, scalable and easy-to-manage option.

Tags: removable storage, provider, san, powered

[11 Sep 2007]

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