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 ....
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 implement more than ....
AMD64 Technology: A Superior Foundation for Storage System Designs [ Source: Advanced Micro Devices ]
January 2008 - Storage has become a fundamental part of the enterprise datacenter. With this increased pressure to effectively manage stored information and the growing diversity of customers requiring storage systems, OEMs are tasked with providing differentiated solutions. This paper examines the new and diverging factors driving storage system development. It also examines how AMD64 technology, the fastest growing computing platform for the enterprise data center, can lend processor-level innovations that help storage vendors deliver optimum systems for ....
Belden Adaptive Heat Containment System White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - According to the EPA’s Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants on the North American power grid by 2011. In order to minimize the impact of this phenomenon, data centers must be increasingly efficient in their use of power.
Green Data Center: The IT Industry's Energy Efficiency Initiative [ Source: AMD ]
April 2008 - Faced with surging demand for data processing and storage, the IT industry is focusing on making data centers more energy-efficient.
Apani® EpiForce® VM: Performance and VMotion Interoperability in VMware ESX 3.5.0 [ Source: Apani ]
May 2007 - Apani commissioned VeriTest, the testing service of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., to measure the performance impact when using the Apani EpiForce VM cross-platform server isolation solution with VMware Infrastructure 3 (ESX 3.5.0 Build 64607 with Virtual Center 2.5), under typical data center workloads. In addition, Apani was interested in verifying the compatibility EpiForce VM had with the VMware Infrastructure 3 hot (VMotion) and ....
Implementing Energy-Efficient Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
May 2009 - Even as electricity costs have become an increasing fraction of data center costs, it is still possible to dramatically reduce data center electrical consumption through appropriate design of network-critical physical infrastructure and IT architecture. It is important to understand how to quantify electricity savings and what methods can greatly reduce power consumption.
RobuSTore: A Distributed Storage Architecture With Robust and High Performance [ Source: Association for Computing Machinery ]
January 2008 - This research paper proposes the distributed storage architecture RobuSTore for high and robust storage performance in distributed environments. Achieving high and robust performance in distributed storage systems is an important open research challenge. Traditional network filesystems or local parallel filesystems cannot satisfy these requirements. The performance variation of the individual disks is the major obstacle facing current systems. RobuSTore idea is proposed to address this issue. RobuSTore combines erasure coding and speculative access mechanisms for ....
How to Reduce Storage Sprawl with File Virtualization [ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009 - Sprawling storage environments are expensive and inefficient to manage. This document introduces file virtualization as a solution and discusses how AutoVirt combines file virtualization and automation in a powerful storage management platform.
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.
Three Ways to Protect Data Access and Prevent Data Loss: Replication Strategies for Data Protection [ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009 - Remote-site data protection and high availability protect your business. This document discusses three replication topologies offered by AutoVirt that provide automated failover and can be implemented without disruption to end-user access.
Efficient Storage Environments: 4 Data Management Traps to Avoid [ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009 - This document identifies four traps to avoid when managing environments plagued by rapid unstructured data growth. It discusses how a distributed file system like AutoVirt helps IT avoid those traps and create more efficient storage environments.
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.
Uptime @ Crunchtime: Valuing the Need for Data Speed at Critical Business Inflections [ Source: BlueArc ]
June 2008 - This survey report represents a deep dive into the issues, drivers, challenges, imperatives, and best practices in maintaining system uptime in the midst of exploding demand for increased data performance and storage. The findings point to a keen recognition of the importance of data access and performance to the success of business and revenue growth. Respondents see the direct correlation between performance and their ability to speed time-to-market and time-to-revenue and avoid disastrous downtime scenarios. ....
Enabling Enterprise Class Features for the Mid-Range [ Source: BlueArc ]
October 2009 - Bringing a scale-out file system with a global namespace to the mid-range is an important point- until recently, the mid-range landscape has been dominated by scale-up systems. In fact, scale-up systems are what got IT into the underutilized, stove-piped storage situation it is in today. Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy, scales up to an eight ....
Deploying Strategic Data Protection Solutions in IBM System z Environments [ Source: Brocade ]
September 2008 - This technical brief describes how you can greatly increase the availability, investment protection, and performance of an enterprise IBM System z Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution.
Best Practices For Data Archiving [ Source: CA ]
June 2009 - Corporations depend on the flow of information to conduct their business. From accounting to production to marketing to personnel, the information procured, generated, organized, and stored by an organization represents a significant portion of the output of its workforce. Protecting that information from unexpected disasters is not only prudent, in many cases, it’s mandatory for legal and regulatory reasons. To effectively protect its information, the organization must balance the cost of the protection against the ....
The Business Case for a Web Content Management System [ Source: Cabinet NG ]
April 2009 - You realize you have a problem managing content on your various Web properties. Whether this is being able to quickly and easily create, edit, and publish content without the involvement of technical resources or simply building landing pages for your online marketing initiatives, investing in a Content Management System (CMS) reduces costs and helps overcome potential barriers to all your Web communications. A CMS can also simplify site maintenance, ensure usability and consistent corporate branding, ....
Identifying And Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks [ Source: Cambridge Computer Services ]
April 2008 - This tutorial reveals the obvious and not-so-obvious bottlenecks found in enterprise backup systems and offers practical examples for applying the technologies to achieve one's performance objectives. The goal of this presentation is to illustrate how one can take an existing backup system to the next level by integrating cutting-edge technologies and low-cost disk.
Canopus Video Editing System Base Technology [ Source: Canopus ]
January 2008 - This paper describes the technology for handling video images that is the foundation of all Canopus video products. Canopus video editing systems feature high-performance, real-time video processing for editing of SD and HD formats. The Canopus HQ codec provides image-quality stabilization by keeping the average bitrate low, dynamically adjusting compression rates between accurate images and simple images and using variable bitrates, which can be decoded by frames. Additionally, to maintain minimal CPU load for compression ....
Cisco MDS 9000 Family - Total Investment Protection [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2008 - Developing business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that progress data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. The Cisco MDS 9000 family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution for data center applications. A fast look at the SAN marketplace and the track record of delivery reveals that Cisco is the leader and the only company among SAN providers in delivering compatible architectures and future proof designs, providing ....
Security Features of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Storage Switches [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2008 - This paper highlights the advanced security features present within the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer storage switches and their practical use within storage networking environments. The principle goal is to provide best practice information on designing and implementing a secure Storage Area Network (SAN), making use of the advanced security features within the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer storage switches.
Symantec Veritas NetBackup Design Best Practices with Data Domain [ Source: Data Domain ]
September 2009 -
Standard practices and conventional technologies are being pushed to their limits in many backup environments. Data Domain deduplication storage solutions for Symantec NetBackup (NBU) helps customers efficiently manage the ever-increasing amount of backup and archive data.
This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution.
You ....
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 ....