White Papers
- ONStor Virtual Servers: Never Re-map Users, Applications
Tired of remapping users and applications everytime you change your storage infrastructure? Learn how virtual servers can make your life easier. Use ONStor's virtual machines to give users and applications a permanent mount point. You get seamlessly scalable performance, linear performance growth, real-time load balancing, and anytime system maintenance. Virtual servers are a standard feature of all ONStor NAS systems.
- Best Practices for Windows Consolidation
This comprehensive 16-page how-to guide presents a detailed blueprint for server consolidation. This paper discusses the entire process from start to finish, including ways to ensure user satisfaction, and how to avoid organizational roadblocks.
- Lessons from the World's Largest Data Sharing Applications
Imagine adding 200,000 users every day to your storage environment. How would you keep up? Amazing as it sounds, that’s the growth that IT mangers now face at some Internet businesses. For them, storage hurdles can include a million new users per week, along with maybe 10 or 20 terabytes of new capacity. What have these companies learned in managing their storage, and how can it help you to better manage yours? This 8 page paper presents an overview of their storage challenges, the possible storage architectures, and the infrastructure many of them have chosen. - NAS Gateway Effect: How the Re-Invention of NAS is Changing Enterprise Storage
New, more scalable NAS solutions are changing the way NAS is deployed. Companies now run some of their largest, most mission critical apps with NAS storage, and gaining management simplicity and cost savings along the way. Read this paper to learn about the new NAS architectures, how they compare, and which is best for your storage environment.
- Top 10 Requirements for Server Consolidation
This paper looks at the key points to consider in a server consolidation project. It also traces the evolution of NAS and explains how ONStor's NAS Gateway combines the ease of conventional NAS with the scalability and flexibility of SAN.
- The Case For ONStor NAS Gateway Clustering
How ONStor's unique n-way NAS Gateway clustering architecture boosts performance, cuts management costs, and enhances resource utilization.
- Real Cost Savings with ONStor NAS Gateway Solutions
Key benefits of NAS Gateways for reducing the capital and management costs of file-level enterprise storage.
- Enterprise-Wide File Sharing: The ONStor NAS Gateway Difference
The ONStor NAS Gateways deliver a fundamentally different approach to scalable storage for the enterprise. This paper looks at the differences between NAS gateways and other storage solutions.
- Effective Solutions for Data Protection
Get all the benefits of nearline storage, at 90% less cost. Nearline storage enables continuous data protection and nearly instantaneous data restore. ONStor delivers nearline without requiring a separate (and costly) storage system. With ONStor, conventional low-cost disk, such as an SATA array, can serve as the backup target. Replicated at administrator-defined intervals, backup data can be directly mounted for immediate access
- ONStor Snapshot Technology
ONStor's integrated snapshot technology allows almost instantaneous recovery of individual files or complete file systems. This paper describes how the technology protects against accidental or malicious deletion, corruption or overwriting of files.
- How to Boost Utilization and Cut Costs With ONStor & 3PAR Storage Provisioning Solutions
ONStor and 3PAR offer solutions that together can double your storage utilization. The combination of ONStor's AutoGrow plus 3PAR's Thin Provisioning provides a powerful tool for optimizing your environment. Read about these solutions in this informative White Paper.
- Top Ten Storage Issues: How They're Addressed by ONStor NAS Gateways
ONStor solutions help address the most common issues in storage: cost, management complexity, and data protection. This paper takes a brief look at the most common problems and how ONStor can help.
