Archive Telecommunication Leader Uses Data Protection Management Solution to Eliminate Risk of Bad Backups Data protection problems can have far-ranging effects on an organization's business efficiency Posted October 9th San Diego Supercomputing Center Shines in Demonstrating High Performance Vendors, academic institutions and others challenged to create high capacity/performance infrastructure Posted October 2nd Long Beach Transit Authority Case Study The secure storage and timely access to critical data via the network center is essential to the efficient operation of any organization Posted September 25th Getting Back to Business in Higher Education Colleges and universities are implementing "business resumption" strategies that cost-effectively support a wide variety of recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs) Posted July 31st MAID technology reverses health care firm's IT woes COPAN Systems Revolution 200T provides best qualities of disk, tape Posted May 29th Financial services firm ditches DAS Thomas Wiesel Partners improves storage utilization, simplifies storage management Posted May 22nd Video animator shaves 70% off Fibre Channel system costs SANRAD iSCSI switch also features Fibre Channel ports Posted May 15th Optelcom slashes full backup times 90% Manufacturer relies on SEPATON solutions Posted April 24th The Cancer Therapy & Research Center chooses open CAS solution Archivas ArC offers cost, performance advantages via Active Archiving Posted April 3rd Data recovery service rescues beleaguered school district Third-party firm rebuilds RAID system in wake of catastrophic crash Posted February 27th Healthcare firm opts for database archiving 17M pharmacy claims archived, purged Posted February 20th Insurer documents more claims with fewer people Cincinnati Insurance relies on integrated, virtual files Posted January 23rd SoCal city girded for DR dilemmas Beverly Hills taps McDATA consulting expertise. Posted December 5th NAS virtualization eases job of electronic discovery Ibis Consulting gets better control over its 'data factory' by managing terabytes of file systems as one virtual pool. Posted October 3rd NAS gateway takes the bite out of distributor's SAN crunch Finding itself between SANs, DXP fills the gap with an ONStor system — and positions itself for tiered storage. Posted September 19th Duke University takes a multi-year approach to ILM Business school goes with policy-based ILM for structured data. Posted September 12th E-business service provider optimizes CA BrightStor suite Company chief cites reduced upfront costs, ROI. Posted August 1st New infrastructure leads to new apps and markets iSCSI capabilities of EqualLogic array drive MediSync growth. Posted July 25th Automotive supplier curbs its runaway production database Benefits include reduced disaster recovery time, enhanced Oracle performance. Posted July 4th LandAmerica moves beyond consolidated storage to centralized backup Driven by high data growth, the financial firm turns to NetApp, Veritas. Posted June 20th All-in-one solution solves backup dilemma STORServer's appliance handles backup, archive and disaster recovery duties. Posted May 9th Compliance-conscious gaming firm builds on EMC relationship Station Casinos relies on content management, content-addressed storage. Posted April 25th eBay stays online with Veritas Auction site relies on a smorgasbord of products. Posted March 28th Primus Telecommunications Canada bolsters business continuity, streamlines backup and recovery Carrier protects vital call detail records, achieves 18-month ROI. Posted March 7th OSF Healthcare adds McData to ILM mix Former reliance on EMC Symmetrix reduced. Posted February 28th NAS ... SAN — you name it, Nielsen Media's got it TV ratings company gets the most out of both storage networking technologies. Posted February 21st E-marketing firm deploys multi-faceted grid storage system Self-protecting NAS system handles backup, disaster recovery and archiving. Posted January 31st Thinking of consolidating storage? First look at your WAN latency For Fanning/Howey, a product that speeds WAN performance is paving the way to a storage consolidation plan. Posted January 10th Snapshots undo virus damage Bristol County Sheriff's Office nabs the right data protection technology. Posted January 3rd UN Federal Credit Union implements multi-faceted infrastructure SAN-MAN solution moves data, voice and video apps over dark fiber via CWDM. Posted January 3rd Digital media firm drives down operating costs with ILM Loudeye serves over four million song samples through more than 30 Internet music retail sites monthly. Posted December 6th Research firm relies on iSCSI alternative to Fibre Channel System handles huge database with annual growth of five to eight terabytes. Posted November 15th BankAnnapolis finds multi-purpose data replication solution Veritas Storage Replicator aids efforts to provide regulatory compliance for data availability and business continuity. Posted October 18th Jim Henson's Creature Shop turns to Adaptec for a high-bandwidth storage solution A new 3D animation process increases storage capacity needs eightfold and calls for 54M byte/sec-per-frame data transfer speeds. Posted October 4th Fractious college unites over utility computing At Dartmouth College, data fiefdoms give way to centralized backup. Posted September 13th ATA technology helps university meet lofty goals Joint Nexsan-Hitachi solution supports huge University of Oslo network infrastructure. Posted August 30th Through disaster, school learns valuable backup lessons By implementing FalconStor's IPStor virtualization appliance, Cuesta Community College eliminates devastating data losses. Posted August 30th When you're watching the Grand Prix race, don't think speed; think storage High-speed data takes on a new meaning. Posted August 9th Small storage vendor goes where Dell and EMC dare not tread Winchester Systems helps healthcare data management services firm test out an untried SAN and save some money along the way. Posted August 2nd Adhesives manufacturer realizes full potential of its backup system Rapid growth in e-business operations led H. B. Fuller to grow its backup expertise, with a lot of third-party help. Posted July 26th Orange County faces down backup issues For this county government in Florida, securing data backup was the challenge, and an external storage solution was the answer. Posted July 19th Through thick and thin, city government and systems integrator form unusual bond Flexibility and a stick-to-it approach help SANZ realize the benefits of a long-term customer relationship. Posted June 28th Wanted: Managed storage service supplier To keep its staff focused on core competencies, a global law firm turns to Sun to manage its 20 terabyte SAN. Posted May 24th One-man firm finds cost-effective backup by going online When floppies and tape drives fail, automated online backup and restoration can succeed. Posted May 17th North Bronx Health Network finds the cure for data overload Urban hospital takes 100 terabytes on 75 systems with direct-attached storage and turns it into a centrally managed, ILM-enabled system. Posted May 17th Cisco moves closer to its 'storage as a utility' vision by consolidating SAN islands The potential ROI from migrating to SANs from DAS could reach $1 million per 100 terabytes of migrated storage. Posted May 3rd Newspaper's SANs copy data between sites The Arizona Republic doesn't need a disaster to benefit from its disaster recovery system. Posted March 22nd Case study Q&A: Vendor switch bolsters backup power Harris Interactive swaps out Legato Networker for CommVault Galaxy. Posted March 1st SANs for the rest of us Ex-DAS users switch to IP SANs and wonder if Fibre Channel will ever darken their doorways. Posted January 12th Seismic data firm boosts throughput, cuts costs with super-scalable SAN NuTec Energy Services cut computing costs 84% by moving to a Linux-based SAN running a clustered file system. Posted January 5th Mesaba learns that disaster planning never really ends Two years after embarking on a bullet-proof system, the fifth-largest regional airline in the U.S. is still working on data protection. Posted November 17th It's getting easier for mainframes and PCs to share storage management platforms New subsystems, switches and adapters are simplifying unified storage management. Posted October 13th Dreamworks gets creative with Linux logical volume management Animation studio relies on Sistina Software's LVM product for storage allocation, disk mirroring and volume-level snapshot copy. Posted September 15th Energy firm gets charge out of iSCSI Dual iSCSI SANs are helping NRG Energy slash labor costs and enhance backup and recovery. Posted August 25th The American Museum of Natural History's SAN takes on a mammoth task A 14.4 terabyte SAN at the American Museum of Natural History provides backup and data management for 200 scientists and 32 million objects. Posted July 14th Online stock exchange enhances performance, reliability Archipelago implements SAN-based virtualized storage resource management. Posted June 23rd Canadian city protects critical data CommVault Galaxy storage management software plays an important role in protecting critical municipal information for Canada's sixth largest city. Posted June 16th Multinational pharmaceutical firm leverages EMC networked storage London-based GlaxoSmithKline will save $1.3 million over three years by managing information growth. Posted June 2nd NAS filers enable non-stop data access Since implementing NetFORCE filers and ProMirror's robust near-real-time SAM architecture, Classroom Connect provides 24x7 data access. Posted April 14th Hospital consolidates far-flung multi-vendor environment Hackensack Medical Center is a perfect before-and-after case for implementing SAN-based virtualized storage. Posted February 24th Expanded storage helps U.S. Energy Department lab maintain scientific research projects Maurice Askinazi's goal was to install a storage system that he could plug in, configure and then essentially forget about. Posted February 17th Army PERMS project relies on SNIA Technical Center When the U.S. Army decided to evaluate the pros and cons of SANs vs. NAS, it headed for Colorado Springs. Posted January 27th Air Force facility realizes otherworldly results with ADIC system Users at the Air Force's Starfile Optical Range employed ADIC's StorNext Management Suite to gain shared access to a 40 terabyte disk array. Posted December 9th AIT-2 tape helps Kollins Communications deal with change requests efficiently High-speed, high-capacity tape meets production company's size, speed, cost considerations. Posted September 30th IP SAN offers big savings over Fibre Channel Carlson Companies will save $250,000 by leveraging existing IP network resources in the data center rather than deploying an entirely new Fibre Channel infrastructure. Posted September 2nd Continental Airlines relies on consolidation strategy To escape the cost of silo-based storage, Continental worked with Hewlett-Packard on a path of consolidation that resulted in an eye-opening ROI. Posted August 5th Data management drives accounting firm to CommVault Galaxy Consolidating its e-mail provisioning was critical to accounting firm Grant Thornton. Posted July 8th Cummins consolidates backup The ADIC Scalar 10K's storage networking management tools helped this Fortune 500 supplier of power generation products ease management and improve data security. Posted July 1st Law firm backs up data to "EVaults" Tired of dealing with the expense and time required by its tape backup system, Fraser Millner Casgrain moved to a secure, online backup environment. Posted May 27th National Steel uses active archiving to enhance data storage, performance By using Archive for DB2 from Princeton Softech for its fast-growing order fulfillment applications, National Steel has achieved significant benefits in data access and performance, as well as ROI. Posted May 13th Global provider relies on flexible storage TDS Informationstechnologie AG turns to Legato and EMC for its storage-on-demand system. Posted April 1st With $100 trillion in the balance, DTCC plays it close to the vest Cautious by nature, Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. is on the cutting edge of disaster recovery and backup technology. Posted March 4th R&B Group adds redundancy, speed, with Fibre Channel adapter cards A new SAN featuring enhanced connectivity, dual multi-pathing redundancy, and increased speed for data downloads has made this imaging and printing services company more efficient. Posted February 25th Forest products manufacturer takes control of its storage When Boise Cascade used WQuinn's StorageCentral SRM software to prepare its primary file server for a SAN migration, it reclaimed 20G bytes of wasted space and chopped eight hours off its backup window. Posted January 14th SAN implementation saves money, boosts network performance Since moving to SAN technology, New York Life has saved millions of dollars while boosting network performance and availability. It can also monitor its network better, enabling more accurate server deployment. Posted November 5th Data restoration package one-ups "Lovebug" and "Anna Kournikova" Faced with crippling downtime, Orchid BioSciences turned to Galaxy data restoration software from CommVault Systems. Galaxy was able to precisely restore even the most minute sections of Orchid's Exchange database: it's invaluable e-mail. Posted September 17th Euroconex turns to MTI Vivant for high availability data storage After evaluating some of the most prominent data storage companies, Euroconex, an end-to-end credit card transaction processor, chose MTI and its Vivant product to produce a scalable, easy-to-manage storage networking system. Posted July 9th SAN–bound A.B. Watley on migration path with Sun StorEdge T3 Arrays TIn its quest to meet the demanding requirements of the online financial trading environment, A.B. Watley Group moved from Windows NT to a more reliable Unix-based system. Posted June 18th Two risk-averse users tread cautiously during SAN development Do you think SANs are really ready for prime time? Do you believe that they are universally interoperable? Is it your opinion that there are plenty of multi-vendor mature management tools out there? Two users have found out that even the answer to these questions is "No," they have still been able to build SANs that are realizing many of the goals they hoped to achieve. Posted April 16th New SNIA technology center opened for interoperability testing On Feb. 2, The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) opened the doors to its new Technology Center located in Colorado, Springs Colo. It's the largest independent storage networking complex in the world. The function of the Technology Center is to provide a place where vendors and IT professionals can test storage interoperability. Posted April 9th Feedback: feedback@snwonline.com Questions: questions@snwonline.com Technical difficulties: webmaster@snwonline.com