Eliminating the Need for WAN Acceleration Using the Cloud [ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
Data is an organization's most important asset and the ability to provide access where and when it is needed is vital to the success of every company.
Download this white paper to learn about how the cloud is an exciting new alternative to traditional WAN acceleration. Specifically:
• WAN acceleration - the good and the bad
• The cloud as the new data center
• How Storage Infrastructure as a Service changes ...
The Top Ten Headaches Caused by Remote Office Storage [ Source: Nasuni ]
May 2013-
IT directors at growing, distributed enterprises face a number of unique challenges, particularly when it comes to storage. Nasuni has worked with hundreds of customers to alleviate the pain that today's enterprise IT departments face in trying to manage storage remotely.
We drew upon the insights and experiences of IT directors at enterprises that range from five to fifty locations and often cross multiple continents. In every case, IT has to ensure that ...
Considerations for Using Solid-State Storage as an Intelligent Cache to Accelerate Applications [ Source: LSI ]
May 2013- Solid-state disk (SSD) technologies are top of mind in most discussions of enterprise storage infrastructure today-but there are still IT planners who have postponed the adoption of flash memory-based storage due to questions about acquisition cost or early adoption risk. Learn the four critical questions to ask before adopting flash technology in your data center.
IBM SONAS Enterprise backup and remote replication solution in a private cloud [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- In a globally dispersed enterprise with private cloud environment, where unstructured data is exponentially growing, there is a need to provide 24x7 accesses to business-critical data and be able to restore in case of loss of data. IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (IBM SONAS) with its integrated IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client enables enterprises to back up and restore data seamlessly and the IBM Active Cloud Engine offers the capability to replicate data to ...
IBM x86 Servers in the Cloud: "Serving the Cloud" by TBR [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts, Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective means for midmarket to reduce costs and provide flexible computing capacity.
Enable and protect business-ready cloud infrastructures [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013-
Many organizations today, especially small- and medium-sized businesses, are finding that they require enterprise-class data management capabilities in order to remain viable and competitive. However, they cannot afford the costs of acquiring and managing these systems. This has created a new market opportunity for cloud-based backup-as-a-service offerings, delivered to these organizations by managed services providers (MSPs).
In using these services, the customer pays the MSP monthly for usage - typically the amount of ...
Tech Tips: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager [ Source: VMware ]
April 2013-
VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ expands disaster protection for all your applications.
Site Recovery Manager helps you meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) for site failovers through
• Simple automated recovery plan management
• Non-disruptive testing of production environments
• And automated migration and site recovery
As you create your disaster recovery plan with Site Recovery Manager, the following tips will help ensure success.
Meeting Canada's need to support business growth with new data centre capacity [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- To meet a growing need for more data centre capacity, the IBM Canada Leadership Data Centre leverages best practices developed in designing, building and operating data centres around the world.
The Value of Smarter Datacenter Services [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013- In this white paper, The Value of Smarter Data Center Services, IDC offers an overview of how IT organizations can optimize their data centers to obtain value now while building the foundation for future IT innovation. Strategies for rationalization, consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing are all discussed.
Your Enterprise Can't Do Without a Proven Information Governance and Optimization Solution [ Source: IBM ]
April 2013-
This IT Manager's Journal takes a close look at information governance and optimization as a requisite element for success in almost any information management project as well as delivering an efficient IT infrastructure, and shows why IBM's System z platform is an ideal hub for information governance solutions.
Readers will learn how IBM System z, which is used by 95 percent of all Fortune 1000 companies to store their data, is designed to offer uptime ...
Powering Linux in the Data Center [ Source: Symantec and DLT Solutions ]
March 2013- Many IT professionals are drawn by the savings that Linux® brings to the data center but are concerned about the potential uptime and data protection risks that arise from trusting their business-critical applications to "free" or native software. Native Linux solutions also prove challenging with required manual scripting and lack of automated operations and management. For business-critical data center applications, the complete line of Symantec high availability, data protection, backup and recovery, disaster recovery and ...
Effective Data Protection and Storage Management for Media and Entertainment [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- IBM Storage Management, Backup and Recovery solutions help media and entertainment companies meet the challenges of new data sources - driven by new content formats, evolving delivery models and increasing customer expectations - and manage these growing volumes of data more effectively.
Communications Service Providers Can Ease Data Storage Management [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product family can help communications service providers (CSPs) manage, store and protect ever-increasing amounts of data to achieve business and service excellence, while lowering costs and simplifying administration.
Manage More Data, Meet Healthcare Regulations and Improve Availability [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- Today's healthcare organizations are in a continual struggle to keep up with growing amounts of medical data from diverse sources and to maintain compliance with regulations. IBM Tivoli storage management software provides efficient and scalable solutions to meet these increasing demands.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite For Unified Recovery [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- Protecting and ensuring the recoverability of data across today's diverse and distributed enterprises can be complex and costly, and often involves deploying numerous nonintegrated point solutions from several vendors to meet the wide range of application service levels. Examples of these point solutions include different backup products for different operating systems and virtual machines, snapshots, continuous data protection, replication and archiving.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- The ease with which an organization can create virtual machines in its computing environment has been a major contributor to the rapid and widespread growth of virtualization. The sprawling numbers of virtual machines that have resulted, however, have created challenges for manag-ing data protection. Backing up and restoring data for the dozen or more virtual machines that may reside on an enterprise server can bring all other operations on that server to a grinding halt.
Consolidate Your Backup Systems to Save Money and Reduce Risks [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- With data continuing to grow at alarming rates and IT environments continuing to become more distributed and complex, the strains and costs of providing data protection and recovery capabilities are getting the attention of many executives. Gartner estimates that by 2014, at least 30 percent of organizations will have changed backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity or capability.
Storage Optimization: Improve Utilization and Boost Performance [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- The Storage Optimizer feature of the IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center provides a simplified way to analyze and optimize storage resources, improving storage utilization, boosting performance and saving on operational and expansion costs.
Maximize the Availability of Health Data while Minimizing Storage Costs [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- Today's healthcare organizations collect, manage and exploit enormous amounts of digital information in the forms of patient records, accounts, medical images and studies, supply chain and other types of data. The organization requires reliable access to this data to perform its core func-tions and back-end services. The growth in healthcare regulations such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and the threat of lawsuits further complicate data storage. Losing any health-care data ...
Data Storage Strategies and Technologies to Protect Against the Unexpected [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- This ebook provides an overview of the importance of data in today's business environment, and describes the ongoing risks of data loss, the challenges organizations are facing, and how effective strategies and solutions can help ensure optimum data protection - at a time when retaining access to information is so critical to business operations and long-term success.
Eliminate Shortcomings in Your Cloud Architecture with Smarter Storage [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- Enterprises are deploying private and hosted clouds to respond faster to business demands for new applications, to improve service levels for given workloads, and to reduce cost across the datacenter. The enterprise storage architecture deployed is paramount to ensuring agility, performance, and reliability of a private or hosted cloud. Integration of storage infrastructure across hypervisors, cloud orchestration software, and open source architectures is required. Storage architectures for private and hosted clouds must support a range ...
Achieve up to 40% Reduction in Cost Per TB [ Source: IBM ]
March 2013- When you go into the supermarket do you ever wonder how many different products are on the shelves? Do you wonder how they determine what goes on each shelf? All of the shelves are shared among many products. What gets placed on the bottom shelf? What goes on the top? One week your favorite item might be at eye level, and the next time there may be a sale item in that same spot. How ...
In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution-Tape Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk [ Source: Ultrium LTO ]
February 2013-
The Clipper Group examines what to do now to prepare for the ensuing decades of continuing data growth, technology change, and increasing long-term preservation requirements. For long-term archiving of digital data:
• The average disk-based solution costs 15 times the average tape-based solution
• The cost of energy alone for the average disk-based solution exceeds the entire TCO for the average tape-based solution
GET THE FACTS: LTO Tape Reliability $aves [ Source: Ultrium LTO ]
February 2013- Don't listen to the hype. Tape remains the most reliable storage solution available. Find out the truth about backups and why disk and tape play key roles in the storage hierarchy.
LTFS Hits the Mark in Media & Entertainment: An In-Depth Introduction to LTFS for Digital Media [ Source: Ultrium LTO ]
February 2013-
In the media and entertainment industry, content is king. The majority of this content is now produced in digital form and virtually all of this content has digital distribution; that content is not digital data. Protecting that content, the lifeblood of this industry, with the right data storage solution is more important than ever.
This whitepaper offers deeper insight into how LTFS provides significant advantages for media and entertainment applications. It includes an ...