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Fed up with all the hype about the Cloud? – This article by John Gillam, strips away the hype surrounding cloud computing, and presents the business case for companies considering cloud-based services.

Though data on storage gradually increases, the amount of time allotted to backup remains the same. Find out how to speed up your backup process without breaking the bank.

Backing up your SharePoint database is essential for keeping your data secure and easy to recover. To be able to reliably to so, one thing you have to do is invest in good third-party backup solutions.

Ask a dozen people what their perception of Cloud Storage is and you would probably get a dozen different answers. Public Storage Clouds and Private Storage Clouds create a further element of confusion.

Each switch and storage system on the SAN must be interconnected -- usually through optical fiber or copper cabling -- and the physical interconnections must support bandwidth levels that can adequately handle the peak data activities that occur. This guide highlights the role of Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and iSCSI connectivity on the SAN.

Cut through vendor hype and determine which RAID level (or levels) is right for your disk array.

Few storage consolidation initiatives are complete without virtualization -- usually server virtualization, but often storage virtualization. Not only does virtualization make storage easier to track and manage, it also makes better use of available storage. But storage virtualization has its downsides as well.

This eGuide provides basic understanding about storage provisioning and best practices from experts who know the technology inside and out. It also delves into more details about which vendors have started to offer provisioning solutions. We hope it becomes a valuable addition to your library.

Here is a list of factors to consider when choosing an e-discovery tool.

This tip outlines four strategies that should be taken into consideration when developing a disaster recovery plan in an environment using data deduplication.

 
 

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Discover why the Coriell Institute for Medical Research turned to IBM when they wanted a compact storage solution that would be easy to manage and that would enable us to grow capacity nondisruptively at a financially acceptable cost per terabyte.
Discover why thousands of organizations are discovering that the IBM XIV Storage System series, with a virtualized storage architecture, is a perfect fit with VMware environments.
 
Avon Cycles, India's largest cycle manufacturer, and Nongfu Spring, China's largest bottled water producer, are now ramp up customers of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.
With 2012 revenues of $4.1 billion, Electronic Arts (EA) is the third-largest video game company in the world by revenue behind only Nintendo and Activision Blizzard. It boasts landmark franchises such as Madden NFL, FIFA, The Sims and Mass Effect. Through its PopCap Games subsidiary it is the publisher of hits like Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies. And yet, in June of 2012, EA's chief operating officer compared the company to a burning oil platform.