Maximizing the Business Value of Information Lifecycle Management
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. In the early stages of an ILM implementation, most of the focus and benefits are internal to IT. In later stages, most of the benefits accrue to the overall business. This paper represents an open invitation to business executives to help them prepare to maximize their potential benefits from information lifecycle management.
Extending DFS: Storage Management
[ Source: AutoVirt ]
December 2009-Many storage managers like the concept of DFS, but can’t find the time or take the risk to implement it. Attend this webinar to learn how to build upon the concept of the DFS global namespace to provide a single platform for data management.
The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise
[ Source: Data Domain ]
August 2008-
Deduplication storage is quickly becoming the standard for disk-based backup and nearline storage use in enterprise data centers across many industries. It delivers clear benefits for the retention, recovery and replication of backup and other nearline data and allows customers to eliminate tape from the processes of both operational recovery and disaster recovery.
In order to quantify the benefits of deduplication, industry expert Barb Goldworm, Focus Consulting, interviewed and documented the experiences of ....
The Shortcut Guide To Virtualization & Service Automation
[ Source: HP ]
September 2009-Do you want to shortcut the process to Virtualization in your enterprise? Check out how consolidating servers, desktops, storage or the applications that drive data processing can happen faster with less pain. Read the Guide today!
How To Comply WIth Data Security Regulations
[ Source: BizDomainStore.com ]
July 2009-This report discusses how remote data backups can be administered to be compliant with almost any international, federal, or state data protection regulation. The discussion is presented by BizDomainStore.com.
Data Protection Strategies Using Replication
[ Source: Sunbelt Software ]
September 2009-Businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on continuous access to stored data and as a result, storage usage is growing at an unprecedented rate. As the number of mission-critical servers and storage resources grow, so does the importance of protecting against service interruptions that can threaten an organization's ability to provide access to key data.
There are a number of strategies that can be employed to protect important data, and each has strengths and weaknesses. ....
HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster Server Integration
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-This paper from Hewlett-Packard provides complementary information for how to configure and maintain HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5 in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster Server environments. The Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster Server integration issues of HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5 are also discussed in this paper. Installation, software maintenance (patches), configuration and cluster recovery issues are covered with examples.
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 ....
EMC NetWorker: EMC's Next Generation Backup and Recovery Strategy Comes into Focus
[ Source: EMC ]
May 2008-EMC NetWorker was once easily defined as a "backup application". That reality is now long gone as the company has transitioned NetWorker into a true platform residing in the middle of a range of data-centric operations for the management, monitoring, moving and protecting data. Specifically, we see that EMC has integrated NetWorker across a wide range of key high-profile offerings including Avamar, RecoverPoint, VMware, Centera, EMC Disk Library (EDL), Celerra, and Documentum as well as ....
Performance Analysis of the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite for Oracle Database
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite is preferably suited to customers who need the uppermost levels of availability and superior Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) database performance or who have an application that would benefit from a clustered file system for improved manageability. This white paper evaluates the Clustered File System (CFS) with Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) enabled in an OnLine Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment against the Shared Logical Volume Manager (SLVM) asynchronous I/O disk ....
What Every Healthcare IT Manager Needs to Know - How to Solve Downtime Challenges to Patient Care, Operations and HIPAA Compliance
[ Source: Vision Solutions ]
January 2009-
The ability to deliver and assure optimum availability to clinical systems and data will be critical to the success of healthcare and life sciences organizations. As providers become increasingly dependent on automated patient record and medical delivery technologies, they must keep those applications, databases and networks available and accessible—no matter what.
This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned ....
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 ....
AutoVirt 3.0 For Unstructured Data Management
[ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009-
Download this Webinar to hear storage expert Klavs Landberg speak about AutoVirt’s latest technology – the AutoVirt 3.0 storage management platform for unstructured data on Windows. This release helps you easily implement disaster protection, data life cycle management, and data distribution, building upon a robust foundation of data migration and consolidation capabilities. Klavs delves into AutoVirt’s core architecture and review the storage challenges tackled uniquely by AutoVirt through an easy, plug-and-play design that allows users ....
New CLARiiON CX4 Delivers Less and Much More: Less Power, Less Footprint, Less Wasted Capacity – with Doubled Performance, Scale and Connectivity
[ Source: EMC ]
August 2008-
Enterprises want more capacity and faster performance, because they need to store and access more data. They want greener storage, in the sense of consuming less energy and floor space, because energy prices are high, access to power may be limited, and data centers may be filled to capacity. They also want storage to be more cost-effective to own, and because IT budgets are constrained, they want to get more out of the money they ....
True Cost of Tape Backup
[ Source: 3X Systems ]
April 2009-
Companies frequently assume that their current backup solution or backup management process can be retained at no cost to the company. However, in the case of tape backup, the reality is that the cost of “doing nothing” can often be greater than the cost of a new solution. In fact, the analysis conducted in the 3X Systems and Glomark-Governan white paper found that for many companies, eliminating the labor of managing a tape backup would ....
Data Protection Is Not An Insurance Policy
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2009-
You need to maintain access to critical information to run your business and remain competitive. IBM's Comprehensive Data Protection Solution combines powerful and affordable server and disk platforms, and storage management software, to deliver a solution that is suitable for small to medium businesses that want a backup and recovery solution that is inexpensive and easy to deploy. Learn all the details by listening to our podcast, featuring John Weber principle IT Advisor at Illuminata. ....
Extending DFS: Storage Management
[ Source: AutoVirt ]
December 2009-
Many storage managers like the concept of DFS, but can’t find the time or take the risk to implement it. Attend this webinar to learn how to build upon the concept of the DFS global namespace to provide a single platform for data management.
AutoVirt 3.0 For Unstructured Data Management
[ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009-
Download this Webinar to hear storage expert Klavs Landberg speak about AutoVirt’s latest technology – the AutoVirt 3.0 storage management platform for unstructured data on Windows. This release helps you easily implement disaster protection, data life cycle management, and data distribution, building upon a robust foundation of data migration and consolidation capabilities. Klavs delves into AutoVirt’s core architecture and review the storage challenges tackled uniquely by AutoVirt through an easy, plug-and-play design that allows users ....
AutoVirt and Microsoft DFS: What’s the Difference?
[ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009-
This document evaluates when to use Microsoft DFS, and when to use AutoVirt. It provides a detailed functional comparison of the two technologies, a look at the capabilities provided by each, and explains how AutoVirt interacts with DFS.
SAN Technology Convergence: Impacts And Benefits
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
Technologies such as virtualization and unified fabric offer great opportunities for IT leaders to improve the responsiveness and agility of their organizations. Nonetheless, the evolutionary path to full adoption of these converged technologies in the data center involves changes to IT processes, network architecture, and the skill set required to support the new IT. As unified fabric architectures evolve, the network will be the storage area network (SAN) for block or file access, creating new ....
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 ....
ESG Report: What Data Domain is Doing to Storage
[ Source: Data Domain ]
September 2009-
This paper describes the role of deduplication in the evolving data lifecycle, along with its historical significance. Industry expert Steve Duplessie explains how Data Domain has changed the status quo when it comes to data protection by reducing the number of products needed for operational and disaster recovery. How did Data Domain do it? And how does Data Domain maintain its leadership? Duplessie outlines key success factors with historical references to market makers such as ....
Dedupe-Centric Storage for General Applications
[ Source: Data Domain ]
October 2009-
Proliferation and preservation of many versions and copies of data drives much of the tremendous data growth most companies are experiencing. IT administrators are left to deal with the consequences. Because deduplication addresses one of the key elements of data growth, it should be at the heart of any data management strategy; it should be baked into the fundamental design of the system. Storage systems vendors who treat deduplication merely as a feature will check ....
The Curious Case Of Video Surveillance
[ Source: Intransa ]
July 2009-
Video surveillance and security are unlike applications typically found in IT environments. Video surveillance systems are real-time, resource-intensive systems that run 7x24x365 in a streaming mode, where the processing power, network bandwidth, disk throughput, and storage capacity requirements are extreme. A proper design of servers, networks, and storage is the key to successful video surveillance systems. Video Surveillance is often like a 911 system. Architecting a reliable surveillance system without excessive cost is important to ....
True Cost of Tape Backup
[ Source: 3X Systems ]
April 2009-
Companies frequently assume that their current backup solution or backup management process can be retained at no cost to the company. However, in the case of tape backup, the reality is that the cost of “doing nothing” can often be greater than the cost of a new solution. In fact, the analysis conducted in the 3X Systems and Glomark-Governan white paper found that for many companies, eliminating the labor of managing a tape backup would ....
Learn Ways To Introduce And Implement Server Virtualization In Your Company
This VMware white paper, especially useful for senior IT managers, describes best practices for implementing virtualization technology; provides strategies...
Data Protection Strategies Using Replication
This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.
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