excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 98% Enterprise storage management: The past and the present Summary: By Michael Johnson, Business Development Manager. New product offerings in 1997 will bring on-line mountable tape file systems that will provide quick access to previously backed-up data and file systems while offering a variety of standard and unique file indexing formats. form factor becomes a less-attractive solution in a long-term archival storage strategy. Also included is a migration tool... 92% optstorge Summary: A Philips 12-in. 12-in. * With 12-in. * With 12-in. The Philips 12-in. 92% What's hotter than COLD? Introducing Nearline for document management and image archives Summary: Storage Technology Corp. Microfiche and paper are the most expensive storage mediums in use today. Data transfer rates play another crucial role in this regard. Standards. Standards have been key to the success and proliferation of tape. 92% Electronic archiving of radiology images Summary: Most 5.25-in. optical data transfer rates are between 1 and 2 MB per second, with the newer 2.6 GB drives advertising 2 to 4 MB per second. optical drives which hold 15 GBs today and cost about $600 each. The Philips drive reads data at 2.7 MB per second and writes at 1.3 MB per second. CD is the least expensive optical media ($1,000 per drive and about $15 per 600 MB platter), but the slowest... 90% Faster CD-R, enhanced MO drives highlight imag... Summary: Faster CD-R, enhanced MO drives highlight imaging at Comdex. Yamaha announced at Comdex (Las Vegas) that it will bring the world's fastest read/write CD-R to market. The Yamaha CDR400 writes at 4X and reads at 6X. Among its CD-RW drives, Ricoh's popular 2X/4X RO-1420C will feature a 2 MB buffer. Enhanced PD drive models with CD-ROM spin speeds of 6X and 8X are scheduled to ship in 1997. 90% Rewritable CD taking shape Summary: Manufacturers agree on standard platform A new compact disc platform, CD-Rewritable, (CD-RW) has been agreed upon by Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi, Philips, Ricoh and Sony. The companies will work together promoting compatibility of CD-RW media and drives. The format specifications, referred to as "Orange Book, Part III," have been released to manufacturers by Sony and Philips. The collaborating... 90% HSM in a heterogeneous Unix environment Summary: The latest trends in HSM technology include: implementation within native file systems, heterogeneous platform support, scalable and flexible storage configurations, integration with backup functionality, and an emphasis on storage management. In this type of implementation, data may only be automatically migrated from and retrieved to this dedicated file system. Data from any other file system... 90% Automated tape storage for check image archival Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper Automated tape storage for check image archival. For the first time, the cost of tape libraries and media for storing and retrieving check images has fallen below the film and developing cost of microfilm. StorageTek storage devices are currently compatible with all of these vendors' operating systems. In most moderate to high check volume environments,... 89% A look ahead Impact of CD-R CDs become a dom... Summary: CDs become a dominate force. An even newer development is emerging in which the connected CD becomes a Web site on a disc. Companies such as Folio and Marketscape are providing the tools and services for this very exciting "marriage" of the Web and CD technology.g. COLD), but the traditional storage media of 9-track tape and magnetic DASDs still dominate. Another development is the explosion of... 89% All media has its place in storage Summary: This has allowed imaging and COLD technologies to take root. The goal of any storage solution is to provide quick access to documents while maintaining retention and the data integrity. One vertical market that requires the use of all of these technologies is banking. Banks are a large producer of COLD data. Most banks also produce loan documents. 89% Magneto-optical storage solutions for enterprise storage management Summary: Enterprise Storage Solutions For Data & Document Management. Magneto-optical storage solutions for enterprise storage management. What is magneto-optical (MO) storage? This data requires considerable storage capacity. MO: a storage option to consider. 89% A model for information delivery:The information life cycle Summary: The information life cycle. The life cycle model. The information life cycle model essentially describes the relationship between the age of information, frequency and speed of access, and storage media. Kevin O'Neill is senior VP of Global Marketing at Anacomp. Anacomp provides products and services worldwide that manage organizational information throughout its life cycle. 88% CDR Making CD-Recordable as useful as magnetic Summary: When disc writing is complete the disc can be finalized in the 13490 file system, or (software permitting) it can be converted to comply with the ISO 9660 file system. If a file or several files are smaller than a fixed-length packet we can always pad the packet before writing it. Standard players can not read Level 3 ISO 9660 discs. Writing the packets can be a very slow process. If the files... 88% Where we answer all your CD-R questions Summary: What is CD-Recordable? Part II refers to CD-Recordable. For a CD-ROM player or CD recorder, a 1X speed translates to 153,600 bytes per second. Therefore, a "1X" recorder writes 150 KB per second to the CD-R media. Likewise, a "2X" recorder records at 300 KB per second, a "4X" records at 600 KB per second and a "6X" records at 900 KB per second. 87% Solving storage management issues for today's open, networked computing environment Summary: Enterprise Storage Solutions For Data & Document Management. Solving storage management issues for today's open, networked computing environment. Product Marketing Manager, Storage Systems Division Software. Storage hierarchy rules govern the way data is managed within the storage environment. Vicki Vollmar is product marketing manager of IBM's Storage Systems Division Software products and is... 87% Why we write about storage Summary: By G. A. "Andy" Marken In the mainframe era, it was centralized storage. The widespread use of computers has enabled us to produce more information. The increased emphasis on storage has come about because of the increased importance of accessibility. Which was more important to them--the system, or the information on the system? * Andy Marken is president, Marken Communications, Inc. 87% Hot Products 10-21-96 Summary: For smaller files, pixels are processed in real time. Automated file archival and data protection. Data Warehouser allows customers to integrate automatic file migration and data archiving to a centralized, high-capacity data warehouse. System managers can set up storage policy rules instructing the software to maintain copies of active files in the jukebox for data recovery, migrate infrequently... 86% Running on NT: Storage management software exemplifies platform's popularity Summary: Running on NT. Vendors are either giving their existing NT products top billing or are scrambling to have them developed. One of the more legitimate entries into the 32-bit world is an optical drive and jukebox management software product from Pegasus Disk Technologies (Walnut Creek, CA). A single drive letter is assigned, and each side of an optical disc is accessed as a single sub-directory.... 86% Hot Products 4-7-97 Summary: Faster microfilm scanning. Imaging system on Web.pixel. The software features scanner controls and a batch function that allows multiwindow scanning of several images. Remittance processing scanner. 86% CD jukeboxes A popular storage strategy Summary: A key architectural difference is the type of database the product uses to track the physical location of data. iXOS, Ornetix and Smart Storage use a flat-file database, which provides good performance in both searching and building the index. After that, the administrator can build the database. iXOS loads discs into the drives and reads the directory and file structure on each disc to build the...
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