RAID Array White Papers

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A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

Taming The Power Hungry Data Center
sponsored by Fusion-IO
WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

Fusion-IO

Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructures on Network Appliance fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems.
Posted: 29 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Identifying the Hidden Risk of Data De-duplication: How the HYDRAstor Solution Proactively Solves the Problem
sponsored by NEC Corporation of America
WHITE PAPER: Data de-duplication has recently gained significant industry attention, especially for disk-based backup products.
Posted: 07 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

NEC Corporation of America

Business Continuity Planning - The First Step to Business Resiliency
sponsored by Overland Storage
WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity(BC) is the ability to keep vital business operations running in the event of failure in the existing infrastructure. This white paper highlights the importance of (BC) planning and explores strategies and solutions to help achieve them
Posted: 12 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

Overland Storage

Faster DB2 Performance with IBM FlashSystem
sponsored by CDW and IBM
WHITE PAPER: This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides an overview of IBM FlashSystem™ running in a DB2® environment with a focus on performance and the benefits gained from running DB2 with Flash storage.
Posted: 09 May 2014 | Published: 09 May 2014

CDW and IBM

GPS Receiver Testing
sponsored by National Instruments
WHITE PAPER: Today, the power of software enables you to create GPS waveforms that accurately emulate the real word signal. In addition, advances in instrument bus technology enable record and playback of live GPS signals with PXI instrumentation.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

National Instruments

Using Snapshots in Your Data Backup Strategy
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

Dell | EqualLogic

Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions
sponsored by HP Inc
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

HP Inc

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Best Practices Data Storage Setup
sponsored by Dot Hill Systems Corp.
WHITE PAPER: This document is intended to be a starting point to tune and optimize the storage system within the Exchange environment.
Posted: 03 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008

Dot Hill Systems Corp.