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• What are the pros and cons of RAID-6? What is RAID-DP?

  Generally speaking, dual-parity RAID (RAID-DP) is a proprietary, vendor specific implementation of dual parity...  Continue Reading

• Why do enterprise storage arrays cost so much when hard drives are so cheap?

  Why the cost of an enterprise storage array costs so much more than the hard drives inside it.  Continue Reading

• How data deduplication eases storage requirements

  Storage administrators are struggling to handle spiraling volumes of documents, audio, video, images and large email attachments. Adding storage is not always the best solution, and many companies are turning to data reduction technologies such as ...  Continue Reading

• Where are some of the biggest sources of unstructured data in the enterprise?

  There are actually many sources of unstructured data, which accounts for much of the data growth that we've seen in the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?

  By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge...  Continue Reading

• What are some of the best practices for managing the growth of unstructured data?

  It starts with corporate policies around data management ...  Continue Reading

• What are the disadvantages of unified storage over independent block and file systems?

  There are some compromises that you'll need to make; there are certainly some control granularity issues. The pattern of access for file-based data and block-based data is significantly different...  Continue Reading

• What is the advantage of having unified storage?

  There is debate about that. Many customers may prefer to have just one storage system, avoiding specialized storage systems, like NAS for file-based access or a complicated block-based storage system...  Continue Reading

• What is the difference between virtualization switches and virtual SANs?

  The word "virtualization" is thrown around so much that it's hard to always know what it means...  Continue Reading

• When should I use a SAN vs. NAS or iSCSI?

  It's often a matter of block vs. file...  Continue Reading

• DWDM vs. SONET networks for connecting to the virtual world

  We live in a virtual world where most of us have network access in our homes -- the Internet -- which is a virtual network.  Continue Reading

• What is the difference between InfiniBand, SAS and iSCSI and where does each technology fit?

  InfiniBand is an interface; just like Fibre Channel (FC) or Ethernet. As an interface, InfiniBand carries different protocols...  Continue Reading