White Papers: storage

When it comes to storage and backup, the old tape may not ‘cut the mustard’ in today’s world. But how does one move on from tape? This Computerworld Australia Guide, sponsored by EMC, examines whether the Cloud will provide a viable long-term archiving option to magnetic tape. This guide also looks at eliminating tape by examining storage and backup alternatives, taking examples of organisations that have managed to overcome problems with tape. Read more.

Datacenter sprawl is one of the larger challenges that datacenter managers are facing today. Over time, applications, servers, and storage can create many unique architectures across the IT infrastructure. This can introduce complexity, increase costs, and compromise business-critical application performance and availability. Read on.

This paper is an introduction to the concept of tiered storage, the business needs that drive it and the value of implementing a tiered storage strategy. This strategy helps realize the value of information, drives down costs, lowers risks, improves accessibility, ensures the correct information is saved and protected and even takes advantage of technology changes into the future.

The rapid growth of new digital data demands new storage architectures that offer more flexibility and radically different storage economics. IDC estimates that the total amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated will grow at a rate of 50 percent in 2010 reaching 1.2 million petabytes, and that by the year 2020, the total will be 50 times what it was in 2009.1 With application storage requirements growing at this tremendous rate, storage costs are skyrocketing. At the same time, a challenging global economy has kept IT budgets flat or declining. IT managers are thus caught in a bind. They are trying to meet the growing needs for increased storage capacity and performance while also containing costs.

After more than 40 years of leadership in tape and tape library solutions, Oracle's StorageTek offerings are still the clear winner. This paper compares Oracle’s enterprise tape offerings to the latest IBM enterprise tape offerings and describes how Oracle’s industry-leading capacity, performance and flexibility can help IT organizations manage complexity, control costs, and deliver on service level agreements. Read on.