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 ...
Low-Cost and Easy-to-Use Hardware RAID 5 Solutions
[ Source: ACCUSYS ]
January 2008-
This paper from ACCUSYS discusses that RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology has been proved as the best technology to protect large-volume data while provide excellent performance. There have been a variety of implementations of RAID, and various products have been delivered to the market. Among them, the most widely adopted RAID technology is hardware RAID 5, which offers the good performance with superior reliability. However, due to its nature of complexity in algorithms, hardware ...
3ware 9550SX SATA II RAID Controller Optimized Performance Report for Windows and Linux
[ Source: AMCC ]
January 2008-
The 3ware 9550SX controller performs exceptionally well when the file system provides high levels of sequential I/O. Performance tuning characteristics can vary with the number of attached drives and the relative size of data blocks. Performance typically scales with the addition of drives to an array. Read and write performance improves when scaling from one to 12 drives for write operations, and from one to 16 drives for read operations. Write performance is affected by several ...
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.
Accenture Report: mySAP Utilities on NetApp Filers
[ Source: Accenture ]
January 2008-
This paper from Accenture contains a summary of the mySAP Utilities on NetApp filers benchmark project conducted by Accenture. Additional details regarding this project are available. Accenture is the world’s leading management consulting and technology services organization. As a founding member of the mySAP.com Partner Network, Accenture has worked directly with SAP to develop and enhance mySAP.com solutions. Accenture has received the SAP Award of Excellence on numerous occasions and has helped ...
Media Drives and Fragmentation
[ Source: Accurate Vision ]
January 2008-
Disk fragmentation is a process whereby files are constantly being broken into multiple pieces, so that they will fit into available spaces on a drive. From the tests conducted as described in this report, the authors are convinced that drive fragmentation is one of the major culprits that impede the performance, stability and productivity of NLE systems.
Fragmentation appears to be similar to dirt on a VTR head: the more it builds up, ...
Aggregating File Data With the Snap Enterprise Data Replicator
[ Source: Adaptec ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Adaptec gives an outline of the Snap Enterprise Data Replicator (Snap EDR) product, and details the components and configuration of a Snap EDR Aggregate solution. This solution allows users to aggregate file data to a common location from multiple Adaptec Guardian OS Snap Servers, Windows clients and UNIX/Linux clients. Common business needs for aggregation of file data include: Retrieval of daily sales files for sales reporting. Collection of server logs ...
Measuring the True Performance of Today's SATA and SAS RAID Controllers
[ Source: Adaptec ]
January 2008-
One of the difficulties of choosing a RAID controller is that individuals can’t really know how it will perform in the environment until they already have it installed. All too often, RAID vendors quote irrelevant measurements to demonstrate the maximum performance of their RAID controller, and don’t demonstrate how the RAID controller will hold up under a real world application environment. Performance measurements in the IT world can be defined in many different ...
Hardware RAID Vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation Is Best for My Application?
[ Source: Adaptec ]
January 2008-
This paper from Adaptec shows the benefits that hardware RAID offers over software RAID implementations. Advances in silicon technology are allowing for integration of the processors required for hardware RAID into single chip solutions and soon into commodity server chipsets, which will shrink the implementation cost. This reduced cost will enable a broader deployment of hardware RAID solutions into lower-priced servers, making them available to more users. Currently, new levels of data protection and manageability ...
Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup Using Snap Server 4500 and NetVault Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
[ Source: Adaptec ]
January 2008-
A disk-to-disk-to-tape solution built on an Adaptec Snap Server and a third-party tape automation device offers tremendous advantages for backup and restore of network data. In addition, the GuardianOS includes BakBone’s NetVault software with a unique Virtual Tape Library (VTL) feature to separate the backup and tape archive functions so one can complete a full backup in a minimum amount of time and archive it to tape without impacting the users or slowing the ...