Need More Storage? Reclaim It!
[ Source: Microland Limited ]
June 2010-
Did you know that 60%-80% of storage capacity in most organizations is never utilized? And that the demand for data storage is expected to grow at 35%-65%CAGR in the next five years?
So does more storage mean more costs? Not Necessarily.
Microland’s whitepaper “Need More Storage Capacity? Reclaim It!!” details a step by step covering the entire storage capacity audit and reclamation service lifecycle for your organization including
1. ...
Backup and Recovery Challenges with Sharepoint
[ Source: Autonomy ]
May 2010-
Almost 70% of organizations these days are either planning or already have SharePoint deployed as a platform for collaboration within their IT infrastructure. But with this success we are seeing SharePoint go through the same growing pains many other Microsoft products went through in their initial success stages. With the high-speed adoption of Exchange in the mid-1990s, we saw the volume of information grow to where the backup systems started to buckle under the ever-increasing ...
Security vs. Disaster Recovery: Three Best Practices Of Disaster-Proof Hard Drive Technology
[ Source: ioSafe ]
January 2007-
Almost all data resides on hard drives. The lowly hard drive does almost everything well. It's good, fast, and cheap for nearly all scenarios wherever data is stored. Standard hard drives are not disaster proof. ioSafe waterproof and fireproof hard drives offer a solution to that problem.
The Green Data Center: Where Ecology Meets Economy
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
October 2008-
This paper critically examines ways to maximize your Data Center’s efficiency by providing you with a green perspective of your computing environment. Once you are able to look at your entire Data Center environment, it becomes clear how you can make it operate leaner and more efficiently. The way forward is to follow a green path where no processing cycle goes to waste. The result allows you to provide the same level of information ...
6 Key Benefits of Intelligent File Storage Solutions
[ Source: Novell ]
April 2010-
Organizations need to better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn how a commercial software tool helps unlock the hidden value in collaborative data—such as presentations, text documents, spreadsheets and videos — the primary output of employee creativity and the fastest consumer of enterprise storage today.
A Guide for Storage Admins using Novell File Reporter
[ Source: Novell ]
April 2010-
Novell File Reporter helps organizations more effectively manage network storage by providing administrators the ability to access a comprehensive set of information about their network storage so that they can determine the best means of addressing their storage content. When organizations know what files are being stored, where they are stored, when they were last accessed, how many versions of a file exist, etc., they are better informed to make decisions about where to store ...
Using Intelligence to Manage Your Storage
[ Source: Novell ]
April 2010-
According to industry analysts, unstructured data—the file-based data such as word processing, presentations, images, videos and virtual machine files on your storage—now frequently makes up the majority of new network disk space installed in an organization. This white paper explores a commercial storage management solution that provides network administrators the ability to access a comprehensive
set of network storage information on a variety of server and file systems so they can plan and ...
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 ...
Oracle Data Guard 10g Release 2: Switchover and Failover Best Practices
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
This white paper provides the Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices for achieving the fastest Data Guard switchovers and failovers with Oracle Database 10g Release 2. It also provides estimates of switchover and failover timings under various configuration settings. MAA testing with Data Guard 10g Release 2 role transitions included testing switchovers, manual failovers, and fast-start failovers. All testing was performed using both Oracle Enterprise Manager and the Data Guard Broker command-line interface (DGMGRL), as well as ...
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.