ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
For the most part, organizations have had a fairly cavalier attitude towards storage. It's not that IT wasn't aware of its rising costs - it's more that it didn't see any other ways to address its data explosion problems. But server virtualization changed all that, demonstrating a better way to operate.
Read this white paper to learn how storage virtualization can emulate the efficiency and cost savings of the server virtualization paradigm, allowing ...
Five Ways Online Backup Keeps Your Data Safe
[ Source: Carbonite ]
November 2012-
Carbonite discusses the various steps taken to ensure the continual security and protection of customer data. Specifically, there are five areas of critical importance Carbonite focuses on – highly redundant disk drives, hardened data center facilities and best-in-class operations, specialized system monitoring software, world-class network security and encryption, and transparent access to your backup status. In this article, we explore each of these areas in-depth and the measures taken to uphold Carbonite’s commitment to data ...
Quantifying the Value of Unified End-point Data Management
[ Source: Druva ]
November 2012-
In this paper, we provide a framework that estimates the value of a solution that integrates endpoint backup with data loss prevention, secure file sharing and analytics. Our framework assumes corporate value isgenerated from two sources - namely, cost savings and productivity improvements. While this research is sponsored by Druva, our analysis and determination of total value is independently conducted by Ponemon Institute and, hence, is not a product endorsement.
Helping optimize storage performance availability and utilization
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
Now more than ever, IT organizations need the highest levels ofvisibility, control and automation if they are to meet demandingstorage service levels across the organization, as well as to opti-mize utilization of existing storage infrastructure.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can help, by providing the compre-hensive performance monitoring, reporting and managementtools that today's IT organizations need, all on a single platform. This white paper describes four key capabilities of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center.
Gain visibility, control, and automation in your storage environment
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, intelligent and instrumented, data center managers today often find themselves struggling to accommodate exponential data growth while maintaining high levels of service and availability.
IBM Integrated Service Management solutions can help by providing the visibility, control and automation data center managers need in order to understand and manage today's complex storage infrastructures - including virtualized, cloudbased and consolidated data center infrastructures?effectively and efficiently while optimizing service ...
Consolidate and unify your recovery infrastructure
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
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.
Ten Ways To Save Money with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
This white paper describes 10 ways that IBM?Tivoli?StorageManager solutions can help organizations save money whileaddressing their data storage challenges, including those associated with exponential data growth.
IBM solutions for cloud and virtualization in enterprise environments
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2012-
The benefits of virtualization, from accelerated service delivery and resource optimization to reduced costs for IT resources, have spurred many organizations to move toward a virtual infrastructure. However, the nature of the virtual environment, which calls for a vast network of shared resources, has created a new set of management complexities that can impede business service delivery?and that are best handled by adding cloud-computing capabilities to the virtualized infrastructure.
This white paper ...
DVS Enterprise: Citrix XenDesktop Reference Architecture
[ Source: Dell ]
September 2012-
Discover how Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions Enterprise architecture leverages hardware, software and services to provide scalability, enhanced security, improved end-user flexibility and ease of maintenance of virtual desktop computing.
Bronto Software Buys Splunk versus Extending their Hadoop Deployment
[ Source: Splunk ]
December 2012-
Like most companies, Bronto Software manages a growing and complex IT environment. Open source software is foundational at Bronto and has become the company standard within its IT environment. When seeking to augment existing open source technologies, Bronto was faced with an immature market that often failed to provide the analytic capabilities needed to respond to critical processes and services.
Bronto needed a solution that would allow engineers to deep dive into system ...