Storage Evaluation Guide Overview

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Document Category: Evaluation Guide

Subject: Data Protection, Management Software, NAS Storage, Other

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Keywords: architecture, Buyer's Guide, evaluation, NAS, SAN, Storage, Strategy, Tape, Virtualization

Document Price: $1999.00

Document Date: 2011-12

Document Number: 597

Author(s): Russ Fellows

# of Pages: 27

Short Description:

A evaluation guide covering all of enterprise storage. Details what types of storage are best suited to storing specific types of data, how to create a storage strategy and architecture. Covers primary, secondary and data protection

Full Summary:

The Evaluator Group: Evaluation Guide Overview is the first in a series of Evaluation Guides that will compare multiple storage approaches and offerings available to businesses today; empowering users to make an educated decision when purchasing and deploying enterprise data storage.

Table of Contents:

Evaluation Guide Overview

Storage Solutions

Primary Storage

Host Type

Storage Connectivity

Standard RAID Levels

Nested RAID Levels

Software and non-standard RAID levels

Storage Connectivity

Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)

Storage Area Network (SAN)

Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

Multi-Protocol or Unified Storage

Data Protection

Data Replication and Mirroring

Tape Backup

Virtual Tape & Backup to Disk

Online Backup and Cloud Storage

Archive

Traditional Archive

Compliance & WORM Archive

Storage Software

Data Protection and Recovery

Storage Replication

Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)

Storage Management

Storage File Systems

Newer Storage Technologies.

Virtualization.

Data Deduplication.

Solid State Storage – NAND Flash Technology

New Storage Interfaces and Protocols

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INDEX OF TABLES

Table 1: Host Environments for Storage

Table 2: Standard RAID Levels

Table 3: When to deploy DAS

Table 4: When to deploy SAN

Table 5: When to deploy NAS

Table 6: When to deploy Multi-protocol Storage

Table 7: Standard RAID Levels

Table 8: When to deploy Mirroring and Replication

Table 9: When to deploy Tape Backup

Table 10: When to deploy Virtual Tape

Table 11: When to deploy Online Backup

Table 12: Backup vs. Archive

Table 13: When to deploy Traditional Archive

Table 14: Regulatory Bodies and Acts

Table 15: When to deploy Compliance Archive

Table 16: Other Buyer’s Guides