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Storage Technology Review

I am working a storage technology review for my manager. Basically I reviewed some key storage related technology in recent years, like SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP...

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ILM End-to-End Storage Solution

I am looking for ILM end to end solution. Lots of vendors claimed they have the solution,but most of those have either partial(either hardware or software) solution or some...

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ILM Tools

I am working on a paper to compare ILM tools currently on the market. Any suggestion?

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Write Once Read Many

I am looking for WORM hardware fo my image archiving software. There are many WORM products on the market, is there any selection criteria that I could follow? Thanks //*----...

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Application Classification

I am architecting a tiered level application that leads to tiered level storage. Primary copy of tier 1 apps should used tier 1 storage ..etc etc. Classification of my tier 1...

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SAP long distance replication

I have DR requirement to replication two SAP boxes at a distance pf 300 miles one way. My environment is IBM AIX and ESS storage. Any suggestion? I try not to use PPRC. I...

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Apple Xserve RAID Reviews

Does anybody know about Apple's Xserve RAID storage? I did not know Apple sells storage until I got asked today. Looks like they are pretty big in the forensic area. Can...

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NetApp performance number

I tried to compare NetApp 3020 and 3050 with other storage boxes. After reading many of the NetApp datasheet and tech. paper, I do no see any disk controller read/write...

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Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) Solution for Open Systems

Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) has been in the mainframe for long time and is fairly new in the Open Systems arena. I am looking for HSM solution for Open Systems. Any...

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MAID (Massive Arrays of Idle Disks)

All my research for MAID are coming back to one vendor, COPAN Systems. Does anybody know other vendors are in MAID market? How about those big boys, IBM, HP, EMC and NetApp...

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IBM SVC vs NetApp V series

IBM recently remarket the NetApp V series virtualiztion box and called it N7000. Both are in-band appliance based virtualzation, and worse, now both are marketted thru IBM....

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Thin Provisioning

Thin provisioning is another buzz word that every vendor throw out while pitching their products. What is yout take of this new technology? Are they ready for prime time,...

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Deliverable Standard

We are trying to standardize all deliverable in terms of product roadmap, and product architectural blueprint etc for everybody within the group. Do we have any industrial...

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has a lot of promises. Switch vendors like Cisco and Brocade are pushing it. Storage vendors are kind of luke warm on it. They are still...

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Storage Domains

We are trying to come up an enterprise level architecture. We divided into our IT services into blocks of LAN, WAN, Voice, Storage etc etc , those are services that we...

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Single storage vendor vs dual vendor strategy

We are currently having two vendors for our storage. Both are biggest names in the storage world. With both vendors, hosting over peta byte of our storage, we always has...

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Cost of Storage

In the world of storage, the most common yardstick that industry used is $/GB. I am going to use $20, as for example, for tier 1 FC storage. It included storage hardware/...

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Difference Between Storage as a Service and Utility Storage

Many companies are moving from traditional tier-level storage into storage as a service (SaaS). Is there any different between SaaS and Utility Storage? Can anyone point me...

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VMWare and Storage

We have a fairly big VMWare shop and we just deployed an EMC Celerra NS for NAS storage. How can I take advantage of both, besides using my storage as storage for my VM...

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Skinny SRM (Storage Resource Management) suite

We have SRM for our PB of IBM and HP storage. To get SRM, like TPC or Storage Essentials lic to cover the enterprise, will cost WAY TOO MUCH, especially at this down ecomony....

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