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Archiving Software Buying Guide
Sophisticated data archives provide data deduplication, power conservation features, and immutability for data that may be needed as evidence in litigation. What criteria must a storage administrator consider to evaluate data archiving products?
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Backup Product Buying Guide
The role of backup is changing. It's no longer enough to just copy data. Data must be protected, the security of sensitive information ensured, and backups (and restores) executed within shrinking windows. This guide examines purchasing considerations for local and remote backup software, tape libaries, disk arrays, VTLs, CDP, and WAN and WAFS.
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Midrange NAS arrays buying guide
Find out how midrange NAS arrays work, best practices for NAS arrays and product specification of midrange NAS array products, including capacity, transfer rate, connectivity and scalability.
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NAS Upgrades
NAS appliances can be expanded with additional disks, and new NAS appliances can be added as needed to facilitate significant amounts of network storage. This guide provides readers with purchasing insights into NAS appliances, NAS management software, and NAS gateways, and highlights the specifications of key NAS vendors in each chapter.
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SAN Upgrades
Growth certainly implies more storage capacity, but raw capacity is just the beginning. Growth must also meet the demands for improved SAN performance with larger switches and enhanced host bus adapters (HBAs). Superior storage resource management (SRM) and capacity planning both play an increasing role in SAN growth, allowing more efficient acquisition and utilization of enterprise storage. This Buying Guide should help clarify the principle considerations involved in many popular SAN upgrade purchases, then offers a set of product specifications that can help readers identify prospective new upgrade products.
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Scaling Storage Networks
Storage area networks (SANs) must scale to accommodate the added demands of more users along with a proliferation of more sophisticated enterprise applications. But IP storage (mainly iSCSI) is a growing area of SAN expansion, using ubiquitous Ethernet network technology to pass storage data between storage devices. This Buying Guide is intended to help clarify the principle considerations involved scaling storage networks and each chapter offers a set of buying points and product specifications that can help readers identify prospective new scaling products.
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Storage Compliance
This guide on storage compliance covers such areas as email/document management and archiving, CAS, compliances services and legal discovery tools.
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Storage consolidation buying guide
This guide advises storage professionals on purchasing products related to typical storage consolidation initiatives. Each chapter provides product specifications that can help readers evaluate prospective consolidation products such as NAS, disk arrays, data migration software and virtualization software.
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Storage Security Buying Guide
Better security controls, carefully regulated tape storage, and improved authentication and rights management have reduced the incidence of security faults. But companies still need to know how to evaluate prospective security products. This buying guide covers the criteria involved in purchasing data security (encryption) products.
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Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization alleviates traditional storage growth problems by implementing abstraction between applications and physical storage. This buying guide helps you understand the most important considerations involved in virtualization product selection, identifies specific points of interest for storage virtualization hardware, software, and VSAN product categories, and presents a series of basic product specifications that will help you pick the best product for your organization.
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Tiered Storage Buying Guide
This Buying Guide will increase the purchasing know-how of storage administrators involved in tiered storage initiatives.
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