Data Management Solutions
Sponsored by BlueArc
BlueArc provides cost-effective, intelligent tiered storage solutions with industry leading performance and scalability. We collaborate with partners to solve customers' storage and data management challenges while reducing the total cost of ownership. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data storage solutions, we enable our customers to grow their businesses with confidence and success. Our solutions combine our breakthrough hardware-enabled file system, SiliconFS®, with support for both network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) services on a converged network storage platform. The combination results in an unprecedented ability to scale storage solutions, simplify management and overcome performance challenges.
Sponsored Content
SiliconFS: The BlueArc File System
This white paper examines how a unique file system approach delivers the performance and scalability benefits of a SAN with the ease of management and client neutrality of NAS, all in one unified solution.
Enabling Enterprise-Class Features for the Mid-Range
This white paper examines a mid-range network-attached storage solution that is designed to adjust size while retaining value, performance, and functionality — all at a mid-range price point.
Intelligent Tiered Storage
This ESG white paper delves into the general need for intelligent tiered storage and the many benefits it can deliver, along with the examination of an intelligent tiered storage solution.
Titan 3210 Network Storage System: Throughput Evaluation Using CIFS Protocol
This report outlines research results on the I/O performance characteristics of the BlueArc Titan 3210 network storage system, a purpose-built network-attached storage (NAS) solution, using Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol.
Titan 3210 Network Storage System: Throughput Evaluation with NFS Version 3 Protocol
This report outlines research results on the I/O performance characteristics of the BlueArc Titan 3210 network storage system, a purpose-built network-attached storage (NAS) solution, using Network File System (NFS) Version 3 protocol.
Blogs
Fibre Channel for the Masses?
Isn't it interesting how the ever-shifting sands of technological development can turn long-held assumptions on their heads? Take the case of Fibre Channel. For years it was the gold standard of storage networking, embraced by top-tier enterprises as the only solution capable of providing the...More >
Converging on the Converged Network Adapter
Enterprises are eager to converge their disparate storage networking platforms onto a single infrastructure, and hardware manufacturers are eager to oblige. The only thing still up in the air is who has the most robust converged network adapter (CNA) to get the job done. Ideally, the CNA should...More >
Leveraging NAS in the SMB
I wrote a blog earlier this week in which I examined a couple of reasons why , despite the increasing popularity and usage of cloud computing. Today, I explore another three possible roles for a NAS that an SMB can leverage to their advantage. As a SAN substitute I corresponded with Joe...More >
Articles & Interviews
Cloudy Thinking – A Cloud with a Keypunch?
There are many definitions of IT clouds and most of them aren’t very helpful. The fogginess of this buzzword has rendered it almost meaningless. So, I came up with my own definition of an IT cloud: IT Cloud – a possibly dispersed network of compute and storage resources dynamically... More >
'As SAN Grows...So Does Fibre Channel'
Arthur Cole spoke with Skip Jones, chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association and director of corporate planning at QLogic . Cole: The FCIA just completed its second FCoE Plugfest. Did you make any significant findings in light of the fact that commercial products are already... More >
The Three Factors Shaping the Future of the Data Center
How nice would it be to have a crystal ball to map out a course through uncertain times? That thought has probably struck more than a few data center managers of late, considering that this is probably about as uncertain a time as any have ever seen. There is no doubt that the data center is... More >
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Rackspace Bolsters Disaster Recovery Portfolio
Rackspace announced it is enhancing its portfolio of services designed for the needs of large enterprises with a focus on managed storage, disaster recovery and application-level hosting , according to Web Host Industry Review . The company released two new systems that target storage-area network and network-attached... More >
T-Mobile Discontinues Sidekick Sales
T-Mobile has halted sales of its Sidekick handset after some 800,000 users lost their personal data . The data loss, the result of a server crash, is likely to be permanent, according to T-Mobile technology partner, Microsoft. T-Mobile is advising its Sidekick-owning customers to not shut down their devices or remove... More >
Buffalo Unveils 4TB TeraStation NAS
Buffalo has released its latest TeraStation NAS, which integrates with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 for up to 4TB of storage, Akihabara News reports. The new TeraStation also features support for Raid 5/0/1 and VSS and has four hot-swappable drive bays, according to SlipperyBrick.com . The WS-Q4.OTL/R5 will set... More >
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