Whitepapers: Storage
Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems
By: Sun Microsystems
Categories: Storage
Open storage systems combine industry-standard hardware with open-source software, and are supported by a community of thousands who have a passion to create better storage solutions. This powerful combination helps spur innovation and drives better storage economics. Developers can leverage volume servers and disk drives as well as an open storage software stack to speed storage innovation.
Open Storage Adoption
By: Sun Microsystems
Categories: Storage
There are several new business opportunities that require vast amounts of inexpensive storage—and these opportunities cannot be realised with today’s traditional, closed storage architectures. Sun believes that open storage products and services will emerge to meet these new opportunities and will represent just under 12% of the total storage market by 2011.
Optimising Solid State Storage with HyperFast Technology
By: Diskeeper
Categories: Storage
Solid State Drives (SSD) have several issues that come into play when used as the primary storage medium in place of traditional magnetic Hard Disk Drives (HDD); specifically regarding the operating system’s logical file system. To date, file systems have been designed under the pretext of HDDs, and do not properly account for new NAND Flash / SSD technology.
The Storage Resource Guide: iSCSI SANs – An Affordable, Enterprise-Class Alternative
By: EqualLogic
Categories: Management , Storage
Organisations of all sizes are faced with the same challenges when it comes to managing their storage – not enough capacity, a need for more efficient protection, and many others. However, one of the hottest technologies of the year, iSCSI SANs, can help you eff ectively manage your storage needs. With simpler management, lower costs and seamless growth, iSCSI is quickly becoming the more practical SAN choice over Fibre Channel in companies of all sizes.