Reliability of Modular Mesh-Connected Intelligent Storage Brick Systems
[ Source: IBM ]
January 2008-
A key objective of the IBM Intelligent Bricks project is to create a highly reliable system from commodity components. By delaying service actions, possibly for the entire lifetime of the system, management of the system is simplified. This paper examines the hardware reliability and deferred maintenance of Intelligent Storage Brick (ISB) systems assuming a mesh-connected collection of bricks in which each brick includes processing power, memory, networking, and storage.
Early Experiences on the Journey Towards Self-Storage
[ Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers describes that Self-systems are self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-tuning and, in general, self managing. Ursa Minor is a large-scale storage infrastructure being designed and deployed at Carnegie Mellon University, with the goal of taking steps towards the self-ideal. This paper discusses the early experiences with one specific aspect of storage management: performance tuning and projection. Ursa Minor uses self-monitoring and rudimentary system modeling to support analysis ....
VERITAS Backup Exec 10: Disk, Tape, and Multiplexing Performance Comparison
[ Source: Symantec ]
January 2008-
VERITAS Software commissioned VeriTest to benchmark both backup and restore performance, comparing disk, tape, and tape multiplexing solutions. VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers was tested with disk and tape, and Computer Associates ARCserve 11.1 was tested with disk, tape, and tape multiplexing. This paper highlights Disk to disk data protection solutions offer performance Advantages when compared to the tape multiplexing solution that was tested. The introduction of inexpensive disk products has changed the ....
Five Fatal Myths of Data Backup
[ Source: AbilityCRM ]
February 2008-
Data loss can cause catastrophic problems to businesses. When not fatal, it can certainly be costly, time-consuming, and stressful. The best protection against data loss is to backup the data. Yet the process of data backup can be confusing and is often misunderstood. This paper addresses the most common fatal myths that our support desk encounters on a daily basis.
The Total Economic Impact Of Clustered Storage System
[ Source: Isilon ]
July 2008-
A Forrester Consulting Study examines the total economic impact and return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying clustered storage. Forrester Consulting conducted a series of in-depth interviews with four organizations currently using Isilon’s clustered storage systems and found that these companies achieved benefits including lower upfront costs, fewer administrative resources, less training and professional services, and cost avoidance of traditional storage media.
Optimized Backup and Recovery for VMware Infrastructure with EMC Avamar
[ Source: EMC ]
April 2008-
Over the last decade, disk storage has been used to augment traditional backup approaches, but disk solutions that are designed to replace tape libraries and media solve only a fraction of the data protection challenges faced by enterprises. Avamar backup software solves traditional backup challenges by reducing the size of backup data at the source. Avamar does this using patented global data deduplication technology that stores only a single copy of sub-file data segments across ....
Fast-Start Failover Best Practices Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Oracle describes that the Fast-Start Failover is an Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2 feature that automatically, quickly, and reliably fails over to a designated, synchronized standby database in the event of loss of the primary database, without requiring manual intervention to execute the failover. This paper describes Fast-Start Failover and describes Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices for its use.
The Green Data Center: Where Ecology Meets Economy
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
October 2008-
This paper critically examines ways to maximize your Data Center’s efficiency by providing you with a green perspective of your computing environment. Once you are able to look at your entire Data Center environment, it becomes clear how you can make it operate leaner and more efficiently. The way forward is to follow a green path where no processing cycle goes to waste. The result allows you to provide the same level of information from ....
How to Recover an Entire Laptop in Minutes
[ Source: Atempo ]
September 2008-
Nothing can slow down your day like desktop and laptop computer recoveries. There is the daily aggravation of emotional users desperate for a miracle recovery of a lost, deleted, or unsaved file. And then there are those who are disconnected from the network or traveling – some victims are not very patient.
If you would like to simplify recoveries of users files, desktops, and laptops quickly, read this tutorial. There is a ....
GHS Data Management Improves Reliability and Flexibility of Data Processing Services with Dell EqualLogic
[ Source: Dell - Migration Expert Zone ]
August 2008-
When growing healthcare management company GHS Data Management (GHS) needed to improve data protection and storage reliability for critical databases, it tested three providers' arrays, and Dell EqualLogic PS Series SAN outperformed the competitors. GHS implemented an Dell EqualLogic PS Series solution, which gave them scalable growth and comprehensive data protection with replication, application-aware snapshots.