Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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What is the difference between NAS and SAN?
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Most popular NAS apps
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Performance of different NAS and SAN drives
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What is block I/O?
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How many times can you write to a 3490e tape cartridge?
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Collective e-mail backups
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What does I/O stand for?
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Can multiple people work against the same NAS?
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Tape-to-tape backup for an offloader output tape
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Robust yet easy-to-manage NAS
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Backup for home use
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Creating LUNs to allocate storage on a SCSI target
This advice explains the purpose of creating LUNs and details reasons for creating multiple LUNs.
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Creating LUNs to access and classify storage volumes
Greg Schulz explains the purpose of creating LUNs and details reasons for creating multiple LUNs.
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Creating LUNs to simplify system management
This expert answer explains the purpose of creating LUNs and details reasons for creating multiple LUNs.
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Best practices for offsite storage
There is not a lot of best practices information available about distance requirements for offsite storage, because those requirements vary based on the region and the specific threats associated w...
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Clustering for high availability
This advice details the hardware and software requirements for setting up two data servers in fail-safe cluster mode for high availability.
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CIFS benchmarks, please
Learn more about why there isn't a good benchmark tool to measure CIFS performance in a meaningful manner like IOPS over the network and what currently is being done to develop CIFS benchmarks.
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GBIC connection to single or multimode fiber
This advice discusses the possibility of connecting a short-distance GBIC to single mode fiber and multimode fiber.
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SATA for small Exchange environments?
This advice details whether SATA can be used for Exchange environments of about 50 people or less.
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LUN sharing
This advice discusses whether a LUN actually be used by two or more servers and a common application like Oracle at the same time and maintain data integrity.
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What software allows the sharing of PCIe SSD cards?
Learn the different methods to share PCIe SSD cards among multiple servers to improve performance and still keep costs down.
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Can file-based apps be used with object storage?
Learn how to use applications such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server with object storage systems on the back end.
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Comparing host-based and array-based replication
Learn the benefits and drawbacks to host-based and array-based replication methods to determine which one better suits your environment.
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