Sun Managed Storage Services Security White Paper
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Sun Microsystems describes the various security processes and procedures used to address potential data security vulnerabilities related to the shared extranet connection between Sun and its customer used in the SunSM Managed Storage Service. This includes both external and internal threats. The paper also prescribes a layered approach to security. Firewalls comprise the exterior layer of security, and are applied to the network and assets attached to the network. Virtual Private ....
Design Considerations for MRAM
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2008-
MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) technology, based on the use of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs) as memory elements, is a potentially fast nonvolatile memory technology with very high write endurance. This paper is an overview of MRAM design deliberations Topics covered includes MRAM fundamentals, array architecture, several associated design studies, and scaling challenges. In addition, a 16-Mb MRAM display vehicle is described, and performance results are presented.
Reliability of Modular Mesh-Connected Intelligent Storage Brick Systems
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2008-
A key objective of the IBM Intelligent Bricks project is to create a highly reliable system from commodity components. By delaying service actions, possibly for the entire lifetime of the system, management of the system is simplified. This paper examines the hardware reliability and deferred maintenance of Intelligent Storage Brick (ISB) systems assuming a mesh-connected collection of bricks in which each brick includes processing power, memory, networking, and storage.
The Top Ten Myths About Full Disk Encryption
[ Source: GuardianEdge Technologies ]
January 2008-
Oracle Application Server 10g is a fully featured application server consisting of a very large number of sub-products. Nearly all of these sub-products depend on the HTTP server since HTTP is the dominant protocol in which Application Servers communicate to outside entities. The Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) provides key infrastructure for serving the Internets HTTP protocol. OHS is used to return responses for both Process-to-Process and human generated requests from browsers. Key aspects of OHS ....
Early Experiences on the Journey Towards Self-Storage
[ Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers describes that Self-systems are self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-tuning and, in general, self managing. Ursa Minor is a large-scale storage infrastructure being designed and deployed at Carnegie Mellon University, with the goal of taking steps towards the self-ideal. This paper discusses the early experiences with one specific aspect of storage management: performance tuning and projection. Ursa Minor uses self-monitoring and rudimentary system modeling to support analysis ....
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
[ Source: Google ]
January 2008-
Most available data are either based on extrapolation from accelerated aging experiments or from relatively modest sized field studies. Moreover, larger population studies rarely have the infrastructure in place to collect health signals from components in operation, which is critical information for detailed failure analysis. This paper presents data collected from detailed observations of a large disk drive population in a production Internet services deployment. The population observed is many times larger than that of ....
Storewiz STN-6000 High Availability Configurations for NAS Environments
[ Source: StoreWiz ]
January 2008-
Continuous data access to network storage involves a redundant and fault-tolerant network infrastructure and a high-availability storage solution with built-in data protection features. A failure of any single hardware device or network link does not prevent access to the data. Software features in both the network and storage layers provide for automatic failover and continuous data access. The Storewiz STN-6000 integrates into all high-availability topologies and configurations seamlessly, without introducing any new single point of ....
Oracle RMAN Design - Best Practices with Data Domain
[ Source: Data Domain ]
November 2007-
Oracle RMAN Design Best Practices with Data Domain
Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a built-in tool that allows the Database Administrator (DBA) to easily backup and recover the data in an Oracle database. RMAN handles the coordination required to ensure that transaction integrity is preserved and sufficient information is maintained to recover the database to any appropriate point.
This technical best practices and implementation guide will describe ....
Disk Backup and EMC: Addressing Today's Business Problems
[ Source: EMC ]
May 2008-
There's no question about it: The face of data protection has forever changed-and that new face is disk. Today, more and more organizations prefer disk as the nightly backup target. For an increasing number of these organizations, it is the only solution. Corporate and regulatory requirements, eDiscovery/litigation events and voluminous data pools all demand quick, easy recovery-and you get this only from backing up to disk.
In fact, in a recent ESG Research survey, ....
To The Point Video: EMC Disk Library with Data De-duplication
[ Source: EMC ]
May 2008-
Philip Fote, Senior Product Marketing Manager with EMC, discusses the benefits of data deduplication technology offered in the EMC Disk Library. See use cases for LAN and SAN backup to disk with data deduplication using the DL3D 1500, 3000, and 3D 4000 option for DL4000s. These solutions can optimize your backup operations by reducing costs, decreasing reliance on tape, and enabling low cost replication.