Thursday, July 21, 2011

• Storage Technology
• Storage Networks
• Data Center
• Data Management

CTR Exclusives

RAID is Not for Rookies: Why SMBs Have a Love/Hate Relationship With it
by Victoria Thomas

For the storage aficionado, RAID has its upside—namely, its potential for nearly infallible data protection. For the average small business owner, however, RAID is an acronym for storage that creates more problems than the average business owner can solve because of its complexity.

The Practicality of Archive Data in the Cloud
by Chris Marsh

This article marks the third in a three-part series looking at the role of tape in the cloud, data integrity verification in the cloud, and archiving in the cloud. Click here to read the first article in this series and click here to read the second article in this series.

Case Studies

Forsythe Data Center Solutions: An Inside Look Into A Twin Data Center Design and Build
A financial services company and its IT team needed a data center that could not only meet the current technology demands of the business for processing, storage and network, but, more important, was also designed and built for the future. Read more...

Challenge: Moving Customer Data to the Cloud Expanding Managed IT & Cloud Computing Services Using Pillar's Reliable and Scalable Axiom Storage Challenge: Consolidation & Virtualization to Drive Data Growth Dallas Company Gains Major Ground Nationwide Using Pillar's Scalable & Flexible Axiom Unified Storage

More Featured Articles

• Data Centers and Disaster Recovery: How One Company Saved On Every Count
• Want To Save Storage Costs Across The Board? Dedupe Everywhere
• Continuity and the Cloud - Going Back To the Start
• Cloud Computing and Business Continuity: Where and When Should You Consider This Approach?
• SSL: A 'No-Brainer' For Addressing Cloud Security
• Teaching a Data Center New Tricks: The Importance of Environmental Monitoring
• Top Five Ways that Storing Data on Tape Improves your Bottom Line - Part Two
• Good Things Come In Threes: Using The 3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice
• Top Five Ways that Storing Data on Tape Improves the Bottom Line - Part One
• RDX Progress Continues...
• Protecting Data in Hyper-V Environments
• Data Integrity In The Cloud
• One Cloud Does Not Fit All - Finding the Right Cloud Storage Model to Meet Your Business Needs
• Why tape is essential to IT Organizations
• Data: Lifeblood or Liability?
• The Economic Value of Storage Tiering for Fixed Digital Content
• Arkeia Software Gets To The Source
• Gauging Recovery: Knowing How Much Downtime You Can Tolerate Is A Critical First Step In Setting A Recovery Benchmark
• Information Management: Techniques For Managing Unstructured Data
• Tape in the Cloud
• Drowning in Data: How to Rescue IT from Today's Flood of Information
• Software-based Replication Tools Add Resilience to VMware vSphere 4 Environments
• No More Backup: An Easier, More Cost-Effective Path to Protecting Unstructured Data
• Think Big: Data Optimization Key for Managing Big Data
• The Cloud Tier -- Finally, Unlimited Storage
• Business Continuity Reigns: Service Resilience in a Virtual World
• Scaling New Heights: Ensuring Storage-based Quality of Service for Today's Unpredictable Business Environments
• Taking Storage Resource Management into the Virtualized World: Four Key Requirements
• The Year of Living Dangerously - Security Threats for 2011
• Virtualization for the Masses: Key Questions Every SMB Should Ask Now
• MORE FEATURED ARTICLES

Special Department Spotlight: UNIX

• Case Study: Chandler Concrete Uses Double-Take Availability as Foundation for Disaster Recovery Plan
• Ease of Use, Flexibility Distinguish VISION Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solution for AIX
• ProHealth Care Protects Critical Data with EchoStream for AIX Business Continuity Solution
• Advanced Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments
• Case Study: Vision Solutions replicate1 Helps Broward County Public Schools

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