Storage
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Tip
16 May 2025
High availability and resiliency are vital to a DR strategy
Together, high availability and resiliency can prepare an organization for potential disruptions. Find out how these metrics work in disaster recovery. Continue Reading
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15 May 2025
Data compression vs. deduplication
Compression and deduplication both have a role to play when it comes to improving the backup process and cutting storage costs. Continue Reading
By- Damon Garn, Cogspinner Coaction
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Tip
23 Jul 2006
Testing iSCSI SAN performance with Iometer
Iometer, a performance test tool for tuning Windows environments, can also be used to tune performance in iSCSI SANs. The tool lets you simulate the SAN's performance by setting many of the parameters and running tests. Repeated runs with different parameters such as block sizes will let you tune your system. Continue Reading
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19 Jul 2006
NAS: How does a client access files?
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers advice to a reader who asked: "How does NAS appear to machines accessing files from it?" Continue Reading
By- Randy Kerns, Evaluator Group
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Tip
12 Jul 2006
Remote backup: What are the alternatives to tape?
Archiving expert Bill Tolson offers advice to a reader looking for alternatives to shipping tape offsite, including a graphical representation of the remote replication backup process. Continue Reading
By- Bill Tolson, Tolson Communications
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News
07 Jun 2006
CDP overview
Storage volumes are growing at an alarming pace, and tape-based backups are not always possible within an available backup window. Today's businesses are increasingly focused on tighter RTO and RPO. Faster restorations and more recent recovery points that minimize the threat of lost data. Disk storage technologies are systematically replacing tape, spawning specialized storage systems that bring better performance and reliability to the backup process. One emerging data protection technology that has attracted significant attention is CDP. Continue Reading
By- Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor
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Tip
22 May 2006
NAS: Can you add capacity non-disruptively?
Storage expert Randy Kerns offers advice about adding capacity to a NAS system non-disruptively in this Q&A. Continue Reading
By- Randy Kerns, Evaluator Group
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News
15 May 2006
Tape and disk encryption product roundup
With tape and disk encryption products becoming more popular, storage administrators have more options in how to protect sensitive information at rest in the data center and in flight across public networks. Continue Reading
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Tip
09 Apr 2006
ISCSI SANs: How to alleviate the congestion
Careful configuration of an iSCSI SAN will usually preclude most problems. But for slow network performance, adapter and switch settings can help speed things up. Continue Reading
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Tip
01 Sep 2005
Archiving unstructured data
Companies must find ways to automate and simplify the process of archiving files and e-mail messages. ECM software addresses this large pool of unstructured data. Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2005
Remote backup services get affordable
Remote backup services, traditionally reserved for major banks and cash-rich Fortune 500 companies, are now available to small and midsized businesses. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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Tip
23 May 2005
CDP: Super snapshots -- eventually
This tip details two different definitions of CDP, the offerings from vendors in each camp and how continuous data protection differs from snapshots. Continue Reading
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18 Apr 2005
How to use NAS gateways
What you will learn from this tip: NAS gateways are moving off the array and into the network. Here's how to manage them. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2005
How to create a business continuity plan
In today's business environment, the only acceptable data loss is none at all. Find out how to create a business continuity plan that really works. Continue Reading
By- Doug Owens, ScaleMatrix
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Tip
05 Apr 2005
Five ways to secure iSCSI
Storage expert Stephen Foskett outlines five specific ways to secure an iSCSI SAN. Continue Reading
By- Stephen Foskett, Gestalt IT
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News
17 Mar 2005
Pros and cons of remote mirroring for DR
Remote mirroring takes place over MAN or WAN distances. It's usually between storage arrays or storage appliances, and can be synchronous or asynchronous. Continue Reading
By- Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting
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News
30 Dec 2004
Archive: Bits & Bytes column library
Bits & Bytes column library archive -- 2003 to 2004 Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Dec 2004
Pros and cons of disk-to-disk backup
Some of the characteristics of disk-to-disk can make it a poor choice for your only form of backup. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Aug 2004
Microsoft supports iSCSI SAN clusters -- kind of
This expert tip outlines how to get the support you need for iSCSI SANs using more than two clusters. Continue Reading
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22 Feb 2001
Capacity planning in the enterprise
Capacity planning is becoming an increasingly important way to balance future hardware costs with computing needs. Continue Reading
By- Edward Hurley