The term “storage virtualization” has been around for a while, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualization actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic. 

In this podcast, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management. 

Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers. 

Read this white paper to learn about how you can deliver the necessary I/O throughput for HPC applications. It will also cover Sun's offerings for addressing HPC challenges in the form of flash technology, network attached storage, parallel storage, and archive solutions. 

This case study provides IT professionals and technical decision makers working in large enterprises with the information they need to plan and deploy server virtualization by using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. 

In this presentation transcript, W. Curtis Preston provides an overview of remote backup. He discusses the challenges related to backing up remote sites, as well as the role of replication and deduplication. He also discusses cloud storage as it relates to remote backup. 

This videocast highlights the importance of metrics and measurements for enabling efficient and optimized physical, virtual or cloud data centers and storage. It discusses some different metrics, for example performance, availability/data protection, and capacity/space. It also gives tips for what metrics to use when, where to use them, and why 

This webcast discusses the business of database consolidation and how the technology in the Sun storage 7000 helps reduce the cost and minimize the risk of running your business. 

Join Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst with ESG, as he explores high-speed, power-efficient deduplication with industry innovators Nexsan and FalconStor who have formed a strategic venture to deliver the cost saving benefits of these technologies in an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI. 

The final 2009 issue of Storage Magazine Online features the 5 technologies that our editorial team and expert contributors predict will make the biggest impact in 2010. Plus, our annual Salary Survey shows how the economy is affecting the highly-specialized world of storage in IT. 

A QStar 3-2-1 Archive solution tames the monsters in your data center by optimizing storage resources and managing the lifecycle of your digital assets. 

The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.