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 ....
HP Blade Servers for Everyone
[ Source: HP ]
January 2008-
The move to blades can save companies over a third of the start-up costs of deploying standalone blades. These savings come via both acquisition costs and facilities costs and are enhanced when coupled with HP deployment and support services. Learn the cost advantages in midsize and enterprise markets of two different HP BladeSystems models. Download now.
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.
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.
Remediate Backup Tapes to Control Liability & Cost
[ Source: Index Engines ]
September 2009-
In the past it was far too expensive and difficult to understand the detailed content of old backup tapes. Discovery efforts required that the content to be restored first, and then analyzed in order to determine what to keep and what can be purged. Restoring thousands or tens of thousands of tapes was out of the question. It would take too much time, money and legacy infrastructure. As a result IT departments have let the ....
Disk Backup and EMC: Addressing Today's Business Problems
[ Source: EMC ]
May 2008-
There's no question about it: The face of data protection has forever changed-and that new face is disk. Today, more and more organizations prefer disk as the nightly backup target. For an increasing number of these organizations, it is the only solution. Corporate and regulatory requirements, eDiscovery/litigation events and voluminous data pools all demand quick, easy recovery-and you get this only from backing up to disk.
In fact, in a recent ESG Research survey, ....
EMC NetWorker Design Best Practices
[ Source: Data Domain ]
August 2008-
NetWorker environments support a handful to thousands of clients. NetWorker scales by adding additional NetWorker storage node/SAN storage nodes, and associated disk and tape resources.
The most common challenges in NetWorker environments include:
•Completing backups, staging and cloning with limited time and physical resources
•Contending with large client backups (several million files per client)
•Scaling NetWorker databases, logs, media management and pools to keep up with ....
Not All Data is Created Equal: Designing and Managing a Tiered Storage Environment
[ Source: Emtec ]
June 2008-
Demands for storage capacity have been exponentially increasing across multiple industries, and IT departments are too rapidly reacting to these demands—purchasing hardware and software before assessing what they actually need.
While IT departments will likely need to invest in some additional storage during this time, it is critical they first get a real handle on the storage assets that they already have before engaging in reactive spending. In far too many ....
Deploying Strategic Data Protection Solutions in IBM System z Environments
[ Source: Brocade ]
September 2008-
This technical brief describes how you can greatly increase the availability, investment protection, and performance of an enterprise IBM System z Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution.