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VirtualWisdom complements existing IT management tools White Paper
VirtualWisdom® Complements Existing IT Management Tools
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| Technology: | Storage |
| Manufacturer: | Virtual Instruments |
Tapping your fibre channel SAN Information Brief
Top 7 Business Reasons for Tapping Your Fibre Channel SAN
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Manufacturer: | Virtual Instruments |
Virtual Instruments Solution Brief
Making the Invisible Visible – the modern data centre requires infrastructure visibility
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Manufacturer: | Virtual Instruments |
Virtual Instruments Infrastructure Performance White Paper
Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualised Systems
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Manufacturer: | Virtual Instruments |
PowerDsine - Power over Ethernet for VoIP Applications
PowerDsine - Power over Ethernet for VoIP Applications
Download Link| Manufacturer: | PowerDsine |
| Technology: | Networking |
PowerDsine - Power over Ethernet Solutions for Campus Environments
PowerDsine - Power over Ethernet Solutions for Campus Environments
Download Link| Manufacturer: | PowerDsine |
| Technology: | Networking |
PowerDsine - Using Power over Ethernet to Reduce Network Energy Consumption
PowerDsine - Using Power over Ethernet to Reduce Network Energy Consumption
Download Link| Manufacturer: | PowerDsine |
| Technology: | Networking |
PowerDsine - Cutting Power Consumption with Energy Efficient Power over Ethernet Technology
PowerDsine - Cutting Power Consumption with Energy Efficient Power over Ethernet Technology
Download Link| Manufacturer: | PowerDsine |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Sector: | Technology |
KEMP - Better Provisioning of the Web Infrastructure White Paper
Better Provisioning of the Web Infrastructure through Device Consolidation
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Kemp |
Evaluating the ROI of Riverbed Steelhead EX & Granite White Paper
The Value of Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Technology: | Networking |
Tintri - Ensuring Robust Data Integrity White Paper
Data integrity is essential to storage, especially primary storage systems. A robust multilayered approach must be used to protect against all manner of hardware and firmware errors.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
Tintri VMstore Overview White Paper
Virtualise more with VM-aware flash storage.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
BYOD Best Practices Whitepaper
In today’s business environment, mobility is driving much of the network design, and wireless LANs (IEEE 802.11 – Wi-Fi) have become a major component of the corporate network. Most laptops and handheld computers are Wi-Fi enabled and have been adopted by IT as standard network nodes, but they are typically company-owned assets. One major trend that is morphing the wireless network LANscape is the explosive consumer adoption of smartphones1 and tablets2 (such as iPads, iPhones, and Android devices).
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Meru |
Edge-Core Pro Network Management System White Paper
Executive Summary for Edge-Core Networks
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Edge-Core |
Tintri for VDI Deployments
As users increasingly become mobile and require access to desktops and applications from remote locations, IT organizations are struggling to deliver cheap, secure and accessible environments. Companies have reduced both the capital and operating costs of data centers by virtualizing enterprise applications like Exchange and SQL Server. At the same time, they’re able to provide higher levels of service to end users. Desktop virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is meant to deliver similar benefits to the desktop. However, virtualizing desktops poses very different challenges. Shared storage infrastructure cost, performance and per-VM manageability of the storage layer are the most commonly cited obstacles to successful VDI implementations. A new VM-aware storage system that uses VMs and virtual disks as management entities can overcome manageability issues. Combined with a Flash/SATA hybrid system, it is possible to achieve an effective cost per VM for VDI.
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| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
NextIO WP Understanding Network and Storage Fabric Challenges
Understanding Network and Storage Fabric Challenges in Today's Virtualised Data Centre Environments.
Download Link| Technology: | Data Centres |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
| Manufacturer: | NextIO |
NextIO WP Pain Points
Best Practices That Address High Profile Pain Points and Challenges in Today's Dynamic Data Centre.
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| Technology: | Virtualisation |
| Manufacturer: | NextIO |
KEMP-Better_Provisioning_of_the_Web_Infrastructure_through_Device_Consolidation_02
Better Provisioning of the Web Infrastructure through Device Consolidation.
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KEMP-Guide_to_Network_and_App_Delivery_Optimization
A Guide to Application delivery Optimization and Server Load Balancing for the SMB Market.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Kemp |
KEMP-SSL_Everything
SSL Everything: Protect all of your website, not just a few parts
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KEMP-Managed_Service_Providers
Managed Hosting Provider Benefits from KEMP Technologies Application Delivery Products for the SMB Market.
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KEMP-Reduces_Datacenter_Power_Consumption
KEMP Technologies LoadMaster Application Delivery Controllers and Server Load Balancers are low energy consumers. Reducing energy use at the point of consumption, LoadMaster providers benefits to other areas by reducing load on power and cooling facilities, which in turn reduce their own energy use.
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Kemp-SMB_vs_Ent_ADC_Requirement_white_paper
Determining the right products for your business
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| Manufacturer: | Kemp |
KEMP-Optimizing_Web_and_Application_Infrastructure_on_a_Limited_IT_Budget
Costs associates with deploying, maintaining and supporting web application infrastructure can be dramatically reduced with ADCs.
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Increasing the Reliability and Reducing the Cost of Wireless Networks with Virtualised WLAN
Increasing the Reliability and Reducing the Cost of Wireless Networks with Virtualised WLAN
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| Manufacturer: | Meru |
| Sector: | Construction |
| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Financial Services |
| Sector: | Government |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
| Sector: | Retail |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
Farpoint Group: The All-Wireless Enterprise
Farpoint Group: The All-Wireless Enterprise - Feasibility and Performance Evaluation
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Meru |
| Sector: | Construction |
| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Financial Services |
| Sector: | Government |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
Measuring the Real Value of Wireless LAN Deployments
Aberdeen Group: Measuring the Real Value of Wireless LAN Deployments
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Meru |
| Sector: | Construction |
| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Financial Services |
| Sector: | Government |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
| Sector: | Retail |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
WLAN Virtualisation: Twice the Network at Half the Cost
Wireless LAN Virtualisation: Twice the Network at Half the Cost
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Meru |
| Sector: | Construction |
| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Financial Services |
| Sector: | Government |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
Vyatta Network Virtualisation
Vyatta Network Virtualisation
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Vyatta |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
LifesSize - Primary Education
LifesSize - Primary Education
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| Sector: | Education |
LifesSize - Higher Education
LifesSize - Higher Education
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| Sector: | Education |
The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking
Adaptive Private Networking (APN) is an emerging way to create virtual WANs. When compared to traditional WAN services such as Frame Relay and MPLS, APN provides both higher levels of reliability, dramatic cost savings, and significantly more bandwidth.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Talari |
| Technology: | Networking |
Talari Turbo Chargin WAN
WAN Virtualization is revolutionizing Enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN) economics, simultaneously enabling significant reductions in monthly operating WAN spending, much higher bandwidth and greater reliability and application performance predictability than what’s available from a single MPLS WAN provider.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Talari |
Open Solutions for the Private Cloud
Xsigo White Paper - Open Solutions for the Private Cloud
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Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask
IT departments of all sizes are grappling with the problem of how to backup increasing amounts of data. For many years, magnetic tape has been the easiest and most cost-effective medium to backup data, however dealing with tape is cumbersome and time consuming. And as the amount of data that organizations need to backup grows, so does the time it takes to backup that data with tape.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
What is I/O Virtualisation? - The Who, What, Why, Where, When and How
The virtualisation of I/O represents the final step towards a complete, end to end, virtualisation solution in the data centre. In this independent white paper commissioned by Zycko, we will explore why I/O virtualisation is needed, the alternative strategies and technologies proposed by vendors and position each of these technologies against each other.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Virtensys |
| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
Improving the Business Value of WAN Opt imization
In 2007, IDC conducted 12 interviews with Riverbed Steelhead customers in order to assess their experiences after deploying the WAN optimization solution. Given that Riverbed Technology has added features and functionality to Steelhead over the past two years, IDC worked with Riverbed to update and add to this research by conducting eight additional in-depth interviews with Steelhead customers. In this study, as in the 2007 study, IDC found that customers were able to reduce IT costs, improve IT staff efficiency, increase availability for users, and trim time to market with new revenue-generating opportunities.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
Transforming Enterprise WANs with Adaptive Private Networking
IT departments face pressures to control costs while meeting increasing demands on the network. As applications’ thirst for bandwidth ever increases, centralizing servers and services reduces some costs, but places increased pressure on network reliability and response. New services such as VoIP and videoconferencing only further increase this pressure on network reliability and predictability.
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking
Adaptive Private Networking (APN) is an emerging way to create virtual WANs. When compared to traditional WAN services such as Frame Relay and MPLS, APN provides both higher levels of reliability1, dramatic cost savings, and significantly more bandwidth. APN is based on packet-by-packet, real-time traffic engineering that leverages the reliability and bandwidth of multiple active paths through the Internet. The reliability improvement that APN delivers by leveraging multiple active paths allows APN to exploit the superior price/performance of consumer-oriented ISP services.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Symantec |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Sector: | Engineering |
The Evolution of Application Acceleration
Web applications are redefining the way many businesses operate. Behind the scenes, the architecture that supports these applications has evolved as well to meet the evergrowing demands for performance, throughput and availability. In the early days of web applications, high volume sites used server farms to scale applications in a horizontal fashion, adding more web servers as demand increased. The server load balancer played a critical role in this architecture, enhancing availability and performance by distributing the load between available servers. These traditional load balancers worked at the packet or TCP connection level, without looking into the content of the data it was directing.
Download LinkThe Critical Role of an Application Delivery Controller
In any economic environment a company’s senior management expects that their IT organization will continually look for ways to cut cost, get better control over the company’s data assets, and show a high rate of return on the investments that they make. The current economic environment has significantly increased those pressures. One of the initiatives that many IT organizations have taken in order to respond to senior management’s expectations is to consolidate resources, such as applications, servers and storage into centralized data centers. Due to the economy of scale that occurs upon consolidating resources, this initiative reduces cost. This initiative also enables an IT organization to have better control over who has access to a company’s data and to be better able to enforce security policies.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
The Energy Efficient Data Center
As web deployments become more and more prevalent, servers and the way they’re used to deliver these applications continue to motivate the need for optimizing not only the applications themselves but also the deployment environments. One of the most critical areas is the power consumption of servers and how the associated cost is increasingly becoming a point of concern.
Download LinkA Brief Introduction to AppBeat™ DC
This document is intended to serve as a short introduction to Crescendo Networks’AppBeat DC Web Application Delivery solution and its core features and benefits. The document will also highlight competitive advantages of the product, along with typical customers best suited for the solution.
Download LinkHow Rich Internet Applications Impact the Network
Popular web services such as Google Maps, Google Mail, and Yahoo’s Flickr have brought Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the forefront of web technology. We hear terms like AJAX and Flex more often now and there seems to be a shift in the way web applications are designed and deployed. This paper provides a brief introduction to RIAs, what they are, how they’re different from traditional web applications, and how they impact the underlying network. We will also discuss how Crescendo’s AppBeat DC can help web applications as they migrate to these new deployment models.
Download Link| Sector: | Technology |
Elastic Resource Control A New Approach to Application Delivery
The Application Delivery Controller (ADC) has already revolutionized the way that data centers distribute and manage web application traffic. ADCs have displaced the basic load balancers of earlier years by offering a set of functions that increase server throughput — enhancing the web user’s experience by lowering response times. By combining functions like TCP connection management, HTTP multiplexing, compression, SSL offload, and caching in a single device, the ADC delivers major improvements in a site’s performance metrics.
Download LinkCompetitive Positioning: CDNs, ADNs, and Overlay Networks
Providers of CDNs (Content Distribution Networks), ADNs (Application Distribution Networks), and overlay networks claim to provide application acceleration through a service-based model. The approach involves subscribing to a service that utilizes a global deployment of specialized servers, proxies, and caches that take portions of the content from the origin server and serve it to clients quicker, through any of a number of means.
Download LinkApplication Delivery Controllers The Hardware Advantage
This paper describes the methods used by Application Delivery Controller (ADC) vendors to implement the functions that deliver application acceleration. It examines the most common ADC design, based on implementing features in software running on standard hardware, and compares it to an alternative based on dedicated hardware. Crescendo Network's AppBeat DC uses the hardware-based approach, delivering multiple acceleration functions in parallel on dedicated, purpose-built hardware.
Download LinkAppBeat™ DC for PeopleSoft Applications
Web-enabled PeopleSoft applications meet compelling business demands, but are faced with challenges in end user performance, server scalability, and application assurance and consistency. AppBeat DC addresses these challenges through its multi-gigabit AppBeat DC hardware platform, its innovative feature set, and its unique approach towards server optimization and acceleration. A typical AppBeat DC implementation in a PeopleSoft application is illustrated in the diagram below:
Download LinkAccelerating and Optimizing Web-based Applications
For Internet driven applications, web traffic makes up the majority of what servers deal with. HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) is the communication protocol responsible for delivering web-based objects and applications from servers to clients. HTTP relies on TCP as its IP transport protocol. TCP is a session-based protocol that provides error checking and guarantees delivery of its upper layer protocol (HTTP). Although TCP is an ideal delivery mechanism for web traffic, it has drawbacks. TCP possesses overhead that often leads to significant resource utilization on a web server, and poor performance.
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| Sector: | Transport |
WAN-optimized Heterogeneous Replication
Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. However, as IT and business managers are well aware, data replication can quickly increase your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application performance.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments
Backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies protect data from corruption and failures — and ensure that if these types of events occur, companies aren’t forced out of business. Data protection becomes even more important in a virtualized server environment, because each physical server serves as a foundation for multiple virtual servers. If a physical machine fails, multiple applications and processes are impacted.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
The Value of Storage Virtualization
""Virtualization"" has become a buzzword in technology circles lately, but what exactly it is—and what it is not—have been variously and vaguely defined. This white paper addresses the specific topic of storage virtualization. Presented within a context of related issues in storage networking, storage virtualization is defined, its benefits are presented, and its features detailed.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
TOTALLY Open™ Disaster Recovery
The ability to recover quickly and completely from any site failure is of paramount importance to organizations of all sizes – yet complexity and high costs prevent many from adequately protecting themselves. FalconStor solutions are flexible and TOTALLY Open™, integrating into any storage environment without any expensive “vendor lock-in,” and can be tailored to meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for data centers and remote sites. With bandwidth-saving technologies, any-to-any replication, efficient storage, instant recovery, and fast failover, FalconStor Software offers TOTALLY Open Data Protection that is complete – and saves you time and money.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Simplifying Disaster Recovery (DR):
Having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is mandatory. Most organizations recognize this— particularly those that have learned this the hard way, when a disaster caught them unprepared. DR procedures have always been complicated for the physical server infrastructure, and the introduction of server virtualization has only made matters worse. VMware created vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to streamline virtual server DR, but physical infrastructure DR procedures have remained difficult and time-consuming.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
Replicate with Integrity:
As organizations increasingly adopt server virtualization, they have begun to leverage remote replication as a means of increasing system availability. This is a simpler, more cost-efficient alternative to using traditional physical servers for disaster recovery (DR). However, utilizing simple replication in a virtual server DR plan provides only “crash consistent” virtual disk images, which can affect the consistency of file systems or applications and ultimately create longer recovery cycles. In addition, managing and coordinating resources between sites can be complex and challenging.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
Optimizing Oracle RMAN and ASM Environments with FalconStor VTL and Integrated Deduplication
The importance of adequate backup and disaster recovery (DR) for Oracle databases cannot be emphasized enough. These databases continue to grow and drive additional business processes throughout enterprises of all sizes. But with all the challenges that IT faces – such as budget constraints, distributed data centers, ever-growing bandwidth and storage capacity needs, and trying to maintain consistent Oracle high availability – backup and DR procedures have become complex and costly.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
Optimizing Blade Environments with IPStorTM
Blade server technology is new, exciting, and is beginning to assert its presence in the world of storage. Why? Blade servers potentially hold tremendous benefits for enterprises – huge savings of physical space, energy efficiency, greater power, and improved flexibility. However, because they lack local disks, blade servers' full potential – and popularity – hinges on the performance characteristics and flexibility of the storage to which they are connected.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Blade |
| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
The New Generation of De-duplication Technology Offers Clustered Architecture and Linear Performance Aggregation
IT managers and executives face explosive data growth, driving up costs for primary storage as well as storage for backup and disaster recovery (DR). Nevertheless, IT organizations continue to seek solutions to reduce storage costs and footprint while maximizing return on investment (ROI) on their IT infrastructures. To meet these demands for improved efficiency, FalconStor Software offers Single Instance Repository (SIR) de-duplication technology, which integrates tightly with the industryleading FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL). This white paper explains how VTL with SIR reduces storage and replication bandwidth requirements with unique features such as clustered architecture and linear performance aggregation.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
Merging Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) Processes
For years, disaster recovery (DR) and data protection practices have consisted of two different technology islands — data protection and tape backup. The processes to implement both have usually been separate and handled by different IT departments. Enterprises have attempted to merge the two, but many still use different software products and different processes for replication and tape backup. This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Sector: | Technology |
Holistic and Efficient Protection for Oracle Databases with FalconStor CDP
Successful business operations hinge on a company’s ability to maintain a high level of enterprise data availability. Critical database applications such as Oracle demand advanced data storage management. In an enterprise Oracle environment, FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP) optimizes application and data availability as well as storage management capabilities. This white paper explains how FalconStor CDP delivers an enhanced backup, restore, and recovery regime that protects against soft and hard errors.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Using FalconStor FDS as a Backup Target for Veritas NetBackup
The FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) is a block-level data deduplication tool that provides a space-efficient repository for data from backup systems. With FalconStor FDS, you can reduce your backup management costs by dramatically reducing your disk storage needs, reducing your dependency on tape, and reducing off site tape storage costs by enabling you to achieve longer retention periods on disk and facilitating replication of your backups to meet off-site requirements.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Using FalconStor FDS as a Backup Target for EMC® NetWorkerTM
The FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) is a block-level data deduplication tool that provides a space-efficient repository for data from EMC NetWorker. With FalconStor FDS, you can reduce your backup management costs by dramatically reducing your disk storage needs, reducing your dependency on tape, and reducing off-site tape storage costs by enabling you to achieve longer retention periods on disk and facilitating replication of your backups to meet off-site requirements.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Enabling Enterprise Tape Library Support for Microsoft DPM 2007 Using FalconStor VTL
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. The industryleading FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution with Single Instance Repository (SIR) for deduplication complements Microsoft DPM 2007 to meet the data protection and recovery challenges of both Windows and non-Windows enterprise environments. Furthermore, it offers the ability to integrate Microsoft DPM 2007 with popular enterprise library tape systems such as IBM 3494, SUN/StorageTek ACSLS, and HP E-series. This is especially valuable for enterprises that need to move Microsoft DPM collected data to tape for regulatory or traditional archive purposes. This paper explains how these technologies work together to provide full data protection coverage in any enterprise.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Demystifying Data Deduplication: Choosing the Best Solution
Data deduplication has become a primary requirement for backup implementations. Many vendors lay claim to offering the best data deduplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. A number of key factors must be considered in order to select a data deduplication solution that actually delivers cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable long-term data storage. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data deduplication purchasing decision.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Continuous Backup and Assured Recovery for SMBs: Focus on Microsoft® Exchange
For many small and medium businesses data protection is an immediate and growing challenge. A company’s data- email, customer lists, financial transactions and database information- is the business. Once a day backup to tape combined with all the things that can go wrong with the data- accidental deletions, viruses, natural or manmade disasters- exposes the company to loss.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Sector: | Media |
Using FalconStor CDP with Oracle 11g
The FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution provides disk-based rapid recovery from system and data center failures caused by natural disasters, hardware failures, and userinduced events such as deletion, corruption, or viruses.This paper illustrates how to use FalconStor CDP to protect an Oracle 11g server and its database(s). It also explains how continuous real-time data journaling and periodic snapshots provide simple, rapid, and granular recovery to any point in time.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
Continuous Data Protector (CDP) Technical Whitepaper
The FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution provides rapid recovery from system and data center failures caused by natural disasters, hardware failures, and user-induced events such as deletion, corruption, or viruses. This paper illustrates how to use FalconStor CDP to protect a Microsoft® Exchange 2007 server and its email database(s). It also explains how continuous real-time data journaling and periodic snapshots provide simple, rapid, and granular recovery to any point in time.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
Optimizing Microsoft Exchange Availability and Recoverability
IT professionals today have a wealth of solutions at their fingertips to help implement best practices for optimizing their Microsoft Exchange storage environments. The key is to make the right choice: The best selection is a comprehensive solution that delivers the gamut of data protection storage services and centralized management so that you are not left with a jumble of niche solutions, adding more work and frustration instead of alleviating it.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Optimizing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Capabilities for Lotus Notes®/Domino®
The FalconStor Software® Solution for Lotus Notes/Domino delivers rapid, reliable, quality backup, restore, and recovery associated with routine and unplanned events, minimizing downtime, maximizing availability, streamlining storage administration, and reducing associated costs. The result is improved performance, availability, resource utilization, and management in an enterprise environment.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | FalconStor |
| Technology: | Storage |
Unique Management Capabilities of Xsigo’s Quality of Service
This paper discusses the Quality of Service (QoS) functionality for the Xsigo I/O Director and the mechanisms Xsigo’s QoS uses to manage I/O congestion in a network to ensure that applications have sufficient network and storage resources to communicate effectively and appropriately for the variety of traffic they use. Using QoS, a network can be configured for stable and predictable end-to-end performance, allow for aggressive setting of SLAs and ensure that those SLAs are met.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
| Technology: | Storage |
How Virtual I/O Accelerates Storage Migration While Reducing Costs and Risk
Despite all the advances in storage technologies, storage migration remains an onerous task, one that is costly, time consuming, and potentially risky. A storage migration can be a months-long process, often requiring extended planned outages while data is copied, and culminating in a genuine nail-biter as mission-critical applications are first launched in a new environment.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Xsigo I/O Director Technical Overview
The Xsigo I/O Director™ consolidates server I/O to simplify management and increase utilization. The system replaces a server’s multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces with a single highspeed, low-latency InfiniBand link and enables the creation of multiple virtual Ethernet interfaces (vNICs) and virtual Fibre Channel interfaces (vHBAs) over that link. The virtual interfaces are established using Xsigo’s virtualization hardware and Xsigo’s host drivers.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
Xsigo Virtual Desktop Infrastructure White paper
Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the term used for management of virtual user desktops in the Enterprise. The architecture is comprised of multiple components, but primarily dependant on the virtualized infrastructure. The benefits gained from virtualizing servers in the Datacenter are now being looked at for the desktop, enabling organizations to reduce management and operational costs while ensuring a reliable, consistent and secure experience for the end user.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
Solutions for Cloud Computing
One of the most important trends in Enterprise IT today is the development of hypervisor-based server virtualization for high volume, commodity computers. Server and storage virtualization has been around since the days of the mainframe, but only recently have mainstream, commercial products from companies like VMware, Microsoft, RedHat, and Citrix enabled mainframe-like virtualization to be hosted on standard x86 servers.
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
Xsigo’s Benefits for Managed Service Providers
An increasing number of businesses now rely on managed service providers (MSPs) to provide a competitive advantage. With MSPs, these businesses are able to reduce expenses, leverage expertise, and concentrate on their corecompetencies. While this provides a lucrative business opportunity for MSPs, with it comes an increasing level of business complexity. The challenge for MSPs is to meet or exceed service level agreements while maintaining margins and deriving alternate revenue streams from associated features.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
10 Strategies for Maximizing VMware Performance with Virtual I/O
Server virtualization increases sever utilization, but also significantly adds to I/O complexity. Xsigo virtualized I/O unleashes complementary efficiencies and cost savings in the virtualized data center.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
How Xsigo Enables High-Performance Computing
In scale-out computing environments, InfiniBand provides a high-speed, low latency server interconnect—but it does not address the issues of external connectivity. To get data in and out of the cluster, Ethernet remains the interconnect of choice. Which raises the question: what is the fastest, most cost efficient way of moving information between these two worlds?
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Xsigo |
Video Conferencing and Security
This document is created to provide security information and considerations for video conferencing. By ensuring that security is set up properly, mainstream users of video conferencing will have the confidence to use video for a wide variety of applications. At LifeSize, we have a unique perspective on security and due to our advanced, high performance architecture we are able to ensure strong security while maintaining high quality video and feature performance.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | LifeSize |
Adding Business Value with Wide Area Data Services
With the growing importance of anywhere, anytime access for an increasingly dispersed workforce, IT managers are continually looking for ways to accelerate application performance across the wide area network (WAN). Point products are available to improve one or another aspect of WAN performance, such as insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication, or obstacles to IT consolidation.
Download LinkWide Area Data Services: Optimizing the Branch
In February 2004, Taneja Group defined the term Wide Area File Services (WAFS) to describe a group of bright young companies that were optimizing network file access across wide geographic areas. Since that term, we have continued to track the rapid evolution of various optimization challenges for the distributed enterprise, spending significant time talking with both customers and vendors. We reached the conclusion that WAFS must now be considered a subset of an even more encompassing category that we define here as Wide Area Data Services (WDS). The pioneering and defining firm in the WDS category is Riverbed Technology, based in San Francisco.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Technology |
Miscrosoft SQL Accelerator Software
Many important enterprise applications host their data on Microsoft SQL Server databases. These applications are designed for client-server environments with ever-larger numbers of clients accessing a small number of increasingly-powerful servers powered by Microsoft SQL Server. Accompanying the ubiquity of such applications are user complaints regarding performance issues as greater numbers of remote clients attempt to access enterprise application data from geographically distant locations..
Download LinkRe-architecting Disaster Recovery Solutions Leveraging WAN Optimization Technology
Disaster Recovery (DR) is not new—many organizations have employed some form of DR for quite some time. Companies have been replicating their mainframe, storage, and database systems for years. Before that, they moved paper documents to offsite locations. So, what‘s new with DR? As business technology proliferated over the past 10 to 15 years, DR coverage expanded from back office systems to all types of additional business applications. New business applications and IT services help organizations react quickly to a dynamic marketplace and provide access to information—wherever and whenever it’s needed. This trend is actually accelerating as:
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| Sector: | Technology |
Remote IT Infrastructure Consolidation
Fortune 1000 CIOs are making the strategic choice to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers. They are compelled to move some or all remote file servers, email servers, backup, and other servers because through such site consolidation they can jointly address the need to reduce remote site operating costs and mandates for more rigorous security and compliance.
Download LinkOptimizing Thin-client Traffic over the WAN
Thin-client traffic is a large and growing component of many enterprise network environments. Examples of thin-client traffic are Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which is used by Windows Terminal Server, and Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), which is the protocol used by Citrix’s XenApp computing platform. There are multiple wide area network (WAN) optimization techniques that can be applied to thin-client traffic delivered over the WAN. However, techniques designed to optimize delivery of thin-client traffic should not be confused with the broader set of WAN optimization technologies used to produce dramatic performance gains for file-based traffic.
Download LinkExtreme Savings: Cutting Costs with Wide-Area Data Services
Organizations of all sizes strive to be more productive and run low cost operations. Particularly in difficult economic times, many organizations will evaluate various cost-cutting initiatives in order to weather the storm. However, enterprises need to be careful to pursue cost cutting measures that won’t negatively impact day-to-day operations or constrain long term growth. Employees need to do their jobs more efficiently than before, so it is vital to keep IT infrastructure up-to-date. Ideally, organizations should not make deep cuts in investments that may jeopardize future growth, such as product improvements or hiring of key personnel.
Download LinkCentralized Data Backup
The need to be close to customers, manufacturing facilities and specialized labor have required organizations to extend the traditional concept of “headquarters” to offices and factories hundreds or even thousands of miles away. However, along with the opportunities that come with workforce globalization, come the realities of dealing with data that sprawls across the organization. Whether the data is at the Munich branch or at HQ in New York, it is equally susceptible to loss, requiring that data recovery and security plans apply to all parts of the organization, regardless of location.
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5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
For most organizations today, the possibility of consolidating IT infrastructure out of remote offices and into the main data center is an idea that has been on the table to cut costs and boost productivity. After all, isn’t consolidation supposed to produce these benefits with nothing more than a small one-time effort of some time and money? While consolidation can certainly bring a number of benefits to organizations - and by this point you’ve already created the ROI calculations that show a year or less payback period
Download LinkHigh Definition Video Elevates Business Performance in the Boardroom and Beyond
Telepresence, a vivid, true-to-life experience based on high definition (HD) video communications, promises to dramatically enhance business performance in the coming years. The quality, simplicity and manageability of this new medium promise far greater usage and value than traditional videoconferencing. With its crystal clear imagery, high-fidelity sound and high reliability, telepresence takes video communication to a new level. It’s not uncommon for decision-makers to be immediately captivated as they experience the striking realism of telepresence. It’s a visceral, intuitive reaction. “I want that,” they say.
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Replication Solutions for Hitachi Modular Storage
Protecting data and information critical for the operation of a business, whether it is a large enterprise or a small to medium sized business, is becoming increasingly important. Large enterprises have a staff of IT professionals that support their storage environments and are typically responsible for ensuring that the data will be available in the case of an operational error or a catastrophic event. For smaller businesses, managing the storage environment and ensuring that critical data will always be available is more difficult as they often have a minimal or non-existent IT staff. As a result, data is often not regularly backed up or replicated to another system or site for protection. The perceived cost, complexity and/or time involved are often overwhelming, resulting in delays in addressing the need or just ignoring the potential problem.
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The High Performance Data Center: The Role of Ethernet in Consolidation and Virtualization
While the 90s were about information, today is about answers. Answers drive our society. Whether you are a search engine, a Fortune 500 company, or a researcher at a national laboratory, answers are your business and the ability to provide them quickly and cost effectively is a distinct competitive advantage.
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| Sector: | Research |
The Role of Buffer Management in Controlling the Effects of Congestion over 10 GbE Links
This white paper describes the rationale for providing switch/routers with port buffers that are scaled to the expected delay-bandwidth product (DBP). DBP-sized buffers, together with RED congestion avoidance, can be used to optimize the utilization of congested links by TCP applications.
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The Hardware Abstraction Layer
A generally acknowledged ""best practice"" for simplifying the management of network infrastructures is to reduce the number of different types of devices and software versions that are deployed. However, no single family of devices can scale to meet the diverse needs of the wiring closets, data centers and network cores across the range of sites typically found in large organizations.
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The Force10 E-Series Architecture
The Force10 E-Series provides the unmatched scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality essential for today’s most demanding network applications. The Force10 E-Series architecture reliably delivers these capabilities to the E-Series at never-before-realized price/performance ratios. To provide this unprecedented combination of power and economy, the E-Series architecture leverages innovations in switch-fabric, backplane, Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), and system-controlplane design.
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The Case for a Unified Network Fabric
Historically, technology innovation began in the enterprise, where the IT organization would evaluate and slowly integrate it into corporate business processes. A subset of that technology would then make its way to consumers. Today, the cycle has largely reversed (Figure 1). Now technology innovation increasingly tends to occur in the home first, then makes its way into the enterprise via the employees, not the IT organization.
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| Sector: | Technology |
Real-Time Applications over the IP Network: IP Telephony and Video Conferencing
VoIP technology has reached a point of maturity where the IP is now the preferred enterprise telephony solution, with significantly more IP PBX lines shipped per year than TDM PBX lines, according to IDC. Many of the early adopters of VoIP have been organizations that can realize considerable savings and greatly improved productivity from a unified communications strategy integrating voice and data applications
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| Sector: | Technology |
Describing the Force10 E-Series Architecture: Technology for Reliability and Scalability for High-Performance Ethernet
The Force10 Networks E-Series Architecture delivers breakthrough scalability and capacity – the result of technological advances and innovations in the design of switch fabrics, ASICs, a unique passive backplane, and revolutionary system control plane.Working together, the E-Series architecture and Force10 Operating System (FTOS™) in combination delivers the full potential and performance of 10 Gigabit Ethernet at the simplicity and low cost expected for Ethernet economics.
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| Sector: | Technology |
Internet Service Provider Networks: Simplifying POP Architectures
While some previous estimates of the Internet’s growth rate were exaggerated, market research firms now generally agree that Internet bandwidth consumption is growing at about 100% per year. Based on its research, IDC expects this growth rate to persist until 2007, with aggregate traffic growing from an estimated 180 petabits/day in 2002 to 5,175 petabits/day by the end of 2007.
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| Sector: | Research |
Service Oriented Architecture for Distributed Application Architecture
The term ""Service Oriented Architecture"" (SOA) refers to a style of distributed application architecture in which key business applications and data are decomposed into discrete components, or ""services,"" that have particular relevance for various business processes. The services can then be used as building blocks to create new ""composite"" applications that model new or more complex business processes. An SOA can also be compatible with the existing portfolio of business applications. For example, business process-related segments of legacy applications can be exposed as services that can be accessed by client systems or other applications/services.
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Server Consolidation and Remote Disaster Recovery:
To minimize TCO for server / data center consolidation and optimize disaster recovery and backup operations, enterprises must carefully consider the real costs of using older generations of switches compared to the economies and new functionalities
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Next-Generation Switch/Router Diagnostics and Debugging
The goal for a next-generation diagnostics and debugging system for switch/routers is to improve system uptime and availability by preventing the occurrence of certain types of hard errors (increasing system MTBF) and by improving fault isolation and resolution time (reducing MTTR). These improvements can be realized by augmenting traditional reactive diagnostics with proactive, autonomous components that can run in the background or can be triggered by events rather than being initiated under operator command.
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Next Generation Terabit Switch/Routers: Transforming Network Architectures
Ethernet networks are being called upon to deliver unprecedented volumes of increasingly diverse traffic. Real-time application traffic (including VoIP, network storage, and cluster/Grid interconnect) is highly sensitive to latency and jitter. Enterprise data applications, such as ERP and CRM, often require high priority to protect them from packet loss. Other applications, such as network video and data backups, are not very sensitive to latency or packet loss, but are bandwidth intensive.
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| Technology: | Storage |
Internet Exchanges: Moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Internet Exchanges (IX points, or IXs), sometimes also known as Network Access Points (NAPs) or Metropolitan Area Exchanges (MAEs), are facilities designed expressly to simplify interconnection (BGP peering and traffic exchange) among independent ISPs and other carriers. In addition to this core function, the IX may also provide content providers with localized content hosting and enterprises with opportunities for redundant or diverse Internet access. The typical IX maintains its neutrality by not being owned or operated by any single ISP or by a transit provider.
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Managing Data Center Power and Cooling
As server microprocessors become more powerful in accordance with Moore’s Law, they also consume more power and generate more heat. Similar geometric improvement in disk storage technology has driven rapid growth of on line data, using mass storage systems that often consume as much power as the servers themselves. With the rapid growth in computing power and storage capacity, typical data center power consumption (kWh) and power density (kWh/sq. ft.) are both spiraling upward, placing a strain on many existing data center power distribution and cooling systems.
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| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
Low Latency 10 GbE Switching for Data Center, Cluster and Storage Interconnect
As the data center continues to evolve to meet rapidly escalating demands for higher levels of performance and resource virtualization, three rather distinct networking requirements have emerged. As shown in Figure 1, the typical server in a high performance data center may require connection to three switching fabrics: a LAN for connecting users and general networking, an inter-processor communications (IPC) fabric for low latency message passing between compute cluster applications, and a storage fabric for access to shared storage/file resources.
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| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
IP Storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet
The term ""IP storage"" refers to storage networks that access data resources over IP/Ethernet rather than direct attached Storage (DAS) devices. IP Storage is also an alternative to special-purpose storage area networks (SANs) based on storage-specific networking protocols, such as the fibre channel protocol (FCP).
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| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
Hot-Lock™ Access Control List (ACL) Technology Intrusion Prevention without Security Holes
Comprehensive network security often requires system administrators to update Access Control List (ACL) entries of a switch/router frequently to prevent newly discovered or pending attacks from affecting the network or networking equipment. Traditionally, because of the manner in which competing network vendors design their switch/router operating software, updating an ACL involves a two-step procedure. This can temporarily create security holes that leave the network vulnerable to attack when applying new or modified ACL to an interface.
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| Technology: | Networking |
| Sector: | Technology |
Performance, Simplicity, and Cost-effectiveness Push High-Performance Ethernet into the Enterprise
Performance, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness have made Ethernet the networking technology of choice in the Enterprise. Each new generation of Ethernet has proven this value proposition to be a constant. And with the increasing volume of data traffic in the enterprise, the decision has already been made: 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) will be the next backbone technology. High-performance 10 GbE from Force10 Networks gives Enterprises the functionality and scalability they need to build their next-generation backbones cost-effectively.
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| Technology: | Networking |
| Sector: | Technology |
High Availability in the Force10 Networks E-Series
While evolving to meet the needs of telecommunications carriers, each generation of switch and router platforms has benefited from successive improvements in hardware and software availability. Force10 has taken high availability to the next level in the design of the E-Series to keep pace with the exponentially increasing volumes of mission-critical traffic in today’s networks.
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Future-proofing the Wiring Closet with Resilient and Scalable Modular Switch/Routers
Wiring closets in the enterprise LAN are undergoing a number of significant changes. Perhaps the most important transition stems from the emergence of the enterprise IP network and IP/Ethernet LAN as the converged infrastructure for both data networking applications and real-time communications applications. This convergence is driven not only by the cost reductions achievable through network consolidation, but also by the productivity gains that can be achieved through innovative linkages among communication and data applications, resulting in converged applications such as unified messaging. As application convergence gains further momentum, the LAN infrastructure must continue to evolve to support a widening range of real-time applications, including:
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| Technology: | Networking |
Evolution of the Spanning Tree Protocol
The Spanning Tree Protocol that is the basis for the IEEE standard 802.1D was designed to provide ""plug-and-play"" operation for large Layer 2 networks based on half duplex shared Ethernet, which was the prevalent LAN technology throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. As Ethernet evolved to become a switched full duplex technology, it soon became evident that 802.1D needed to be upgraded in order to keep pace with the new design models and switch features (e.g., VLANs) that emerged to allow optimization of switched networks.
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| Sector: | Technology |
Ethernet in the World’s Top500 Supercomputers
The world’s most powerful supercomputers continue to get faster. According to top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 supercomputers with the highest Linpack performance, the aggregate performance of the listed computers has grown 21% in the last seven months and 65% in the last year. This growth rate is slower than for other recent lists, but continues to compare favorably with the rate of improvement predicted by Moore’s Law (2x every 18 months)
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Ethernet in High Performance Computing Clusters
Clustering has emerged as a cost-effective architecture for building high performance computing facilities. To keep pace with this trend, the requirements for data center network equipment have evolved rapidly in an effort to keep pace with the four types of connections typically required in a cluster. These connections are I/O, out-of-band management, storage, and interconnect, and each has different design parameters and requirements. Traditionally, Ethernet was required in every cluster – providing some or all of the connections, depending on the cluster architecture. Recently, innovations in Ethernet make it an ideal connection for all of these connections. This paper examines the issues and tradeoffs in different technologies used for these connections.
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| Technology: | Storage |
Force10’s FTOS Delivers End-to-End Reliability While Lowering Network TCO
For years, IT designed the enterprise network architecure to emphasize different characteristics at each layer – high performance and high availability in the data center, scalability in the LAN core and low cost and basic functionality in the wiring closet. Those design principles make sense when applications are centralized and data is the sole traffic on the network. However, today’s network environment is much richer and more dynamic, supporting a fluid mix of new applications and traffic types.
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Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet
A Grid computer is a hardware and software system that integrates a collection of distributed system components (e.g., computer systems, storage, etc.) making them appear to the user as a single, large ""virtualized"" computing system. The basic ""single system"" concept may be applied to the construction of centralized ""cluster"" computers (multiprocessor systems consisting of colocated computers and storage) or a networked grid of geographically dispersed computers, instrumentation, or other resources.
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| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Construction |
Building Scalable Digital Media Post Production Networks: The Role of Ethernet
The film, broadcast, and music industries historically have been dependent upon analog media production technology. Though analog devices are still pervasive in the industry today, media development schedules continue to be impacted by the inherent physical limitations such as processing time, linear editing, inability to re-purpose, and eventual media decay. The effects of these limitations add costs and time to media development and distribution.
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| Sector: | Media |
| Sector: | Technology |
Best Effort Traffic Drives Service Providers to Simpler, Faster Cores
A funny thing happened on the way to converged networks — the volume of best effort traffic exploded, fueled by unexpectedly rapid adoption of peer-to-peer and content applications. Everyone from pre-teens to grandma is swapping photos, video clips and music, not to mention blogging.
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Benchmarking Uptime for Your Business: Methodology and Best Practices
As networked software and computer applications play an ever more significant role in business operations and in employee communications, the old slogan that the ""Network is the Computer"" has become something of an understatement. In fact, for many organizations, the Ethernet network not only provides the basic Intranet/Internet connectivity for user productivity software, but also is an essential component of the supercomputer cluster, the mainframe, the data storage system, the eCommerce portal and the enterprise telephone system.
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| Technology: | Storage |
About the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard
10 GbE Physical layer specifications (PHY) and supported media and reaches, as defined in IEEE 802.3 2005, are shown in Figure 1 below. In Ethernet standards, the different optical and copper media are known as types of physical media-dependent interfaces (PMDs).
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| Sector: | Media |
FTOS: A Modular and Portable Switch/Router Operating System Optimized for Resiliency and Scalability
As Ethernet switch/routers continue to scale in terms of link speed and port density, device resiliency is becoming an indispensable system attribute. For example, high degrees of traffic aggregation mean that even short periods of interrupted operation can disrupt a large number of traffic flows and users, potentially violating numerous SLAs.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN PHY
The introduction of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) WAN PHY into the IP/Ethernet networking community has led to confusion over the applicability between 10 GbE WAN PHY and OC-192c/STM-64 interfaces. Both of these interfaces support transmission at 9.6 Gbps, support SONET/SDH framing, and can be connected to SONET/SDH ADM or DWDM gear. So what is the difference? The answer can be boiled down to two things: L2/L3 protocol support, and link diagnostic and maintenance capabilities.
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| Technology: | Networking |
10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Center Architectures
Consolidation of data center resources offers an opportunity for architectural transformation based on the use of scalable, high density, high availability technology solutions, such as high port-density 10 GbE switch/routers, cluster and grid computing, blade or rack servers, and network attached storage. Consolidation also opens doors for virtualization of applications, servers, storage, and networks. This suite of highly complementary technologies has now matured to the point where mainstream adoption in large data centers has been occurring for some time.
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| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution
All organizations use tape to back up data nightly. Tape is fairly inexpensive and low-tech, but managing and administering tape, backing up to tape and restoring files from it can be time consuming, unreliable and complex. Disk has always been an easier, more reliable alternative, but until recently its high acquisition cost has made it untouchable for many organizations.
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For years, organizations have relied on tape as the primary method of backing up critical data. However, managing tape and restoring data from it can be extremely cumbersome, unreliable, time consuming and even costly. Since the cost of disk has fallen, many organizations are turning to disk for faster and more reliable backups and restores. Affordable disk-based backup products are arriving on the market at a time when data is rapidly and continuously growing, offering organizations of all sizes the opportunity to take advantage of a more cost-effective technology that helps to streamline IT operations.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
Major Considerations in Moving to Disk-based Backups
Throughout the past 50 years of computing, magnetic tape has been the standard technology for protecting primary disk storage data. Traditionally, IT managers perform weekend full backups and daily incremental backups to recover from lost or corrupted data on their primary storage backup systems. Tapes of these backups are then sent to offsite storage facilities where they become an integral component of the site disaster recovery process.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
Disk-based Data Protection Options
This paper compares and contrasts the benefits of these new disk-based data protection options to allow you to select the best technology for each of the data types to be protected in your environment.
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| Sector: | Technology |
Data De-duplication Methodologies: Comparing ExaGrid’s Byte-level Data De-duplication To Block Level Data De-duplication
Though data de-duplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them recently as they are being utilized by products in the disk-based backup market. Data deduplication enables disk to be a feasible long-term retention backup media—making it the same or lower cost than tape-based systems.
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| Sector: | Media |
Disk-Based Backup with Data De-Duplication
The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. To date, magnetic tape has been the medium of choice because it is inexpensive and easy to transport offsite for disaster recovery purposes. But tape is also difficult to manage, unreliable, not secure and cumbersome...
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| Sector: | Sport |
| Sector: | Transport |
CommVault Galaxy Backup & Recovery and ExaGrid
New business imperatives, along with the continuous growth in the volume of data that IT organizations have to manage are creating the need for a more intelligent data protection solution. Organizations today face a range of challenges...
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| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
Five Key Considerations for Evaluating Disk-based Backup Solutions
Data growth is a fact of life for IT departments. As your business grows, so does the amount of data it generates, and the amount of storage capacity needed to properly retain the data cascades out of control. Organizations of all sizes face the dilemma of how to backup increasing amounts of data while reducing the hassles of traditional tape-based systems. Fortunately, the cost of SATA disk has fallen in recent years, making disk-based backup systems affordable for companies of all sizes. In addition to reducing or even eliminating reliance on tape, disk provides many advantages over tape, including faster and more reliable backups and restores.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
Vmware host-side backup and restore
However, it is possible to backup a virtual machine from the ""host"" side. This unique solution offers the advantage of an ""image"" backup, combined with the advantages of the ASIGRA Televaulting backup solution (e.g. incremental backup, common file elimination, off-site backup, etc.).
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The Evolution of Remote Office Backup
This white paper describes the benefits of the Asigra Televaulting solution for remote office backup and recovery. The paper considers problems inherent to incumbent tape-based systems at remote sites, including perspectives on security, bandwidth, and the economic drawbacks of many traditional options.
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The Agentless Backup/Recovery Architecture:
This white paper describes how the Asigra Televaulting agentless architecture improves remote site backup and recovery processes to reduce costs, bolster security and simplify scaling. The paper contrasts these benefits with the security risks, high licensing costs, administrative complexity, and CPU/LAN overhead problems associated with agent-based backup/recovery alternatives.
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Technology Overview for Service Providers
AsigraTM TelevaultingTM for Service Providers is a backup/restore service delivery platform. It enables Service Providers to deliver secondary storage services (i.e. backup, but not mirroring or replication) to their SME and enterprise customers. The value propositions to the Customer include freeing up IT staff to work on other projects, as well as cost savings compared to traditional tape-based backup and restore methods. They also gain the confidence and security that their data is properly protected offsite.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
Technology Overview for Enterprises
AsigraTM TelevaultingTM for Enterprises will be of interest to the CIO, MIS or IT Manager responsible for the technology infrastructure within their organization, and storage management costs in particular. This document provides readers with an introductory overview of the benefits and technical functionality of the Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises solution.
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| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
Remote Backup Security
In spite of decades of trial and error, backup/restore remains a royal pain. Backups take too long, media fails, and restore operations require time-consuming manual intervention to be successful. This is not only an operational burden; it also introduces a significant business risk. Mission-critical data that isn't backed up or can't be restored could result in lost transactions, contract breaches, legal liabilities, and financial impact –an intolerable situation.
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| Sector: | Legal |
| Sector: | Media |
Asigra / ONStor Solution Overview
AsigraTM TelevaultingTM for Service Providers is a backup/restore service delivery platform that enables Service Providers to deliver secondary storage services (i.e. backup, but not mirroring or replication) to their SME and enterprise customers. The value propositions to the Customer include freeing up IT staff to work on other projects, as well as cost savings compared to traditional tape-based backup and restore methods. They also gain the confidence and security that their data is properly protected offsite.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Technology: | Storage |
Remote Site Data Protection: It’s All About the Recovery
Of course backing up remote site data is imperative. But when something actually goes wrong, IT managers know it’s all about the recovery. This white paper describes the benefits of the Asigra Televaulting solution for ensuring recoverability of remote office data. The paper reviews the challenges of protecting remote office/branch office (ROBO) data and the risky shortcomings of tape-based systems geared more to data backup than recovery.
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Deploying Backup/Restore as a Utility Service
This document compares two licensing models for software that provides WAN backup/restore services. These services are equally appropriate for an organization that requires enterprisewide backup and restore for its internal end-users, or for a Service Provider (SP) that delivers these services to external Customers.
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CDP Makes Backup Better, Faster, Cheaper
The data backup world has changed dramatically in recent years. No change has been more dramatic or rapid than the shift from traditional tape-based backup technology to disk-to-disk (D2D) backup. Disk-based backup has enabled shorter backup windows and more rapid data recovery which has opened the way for more sophisticated backup and recovery software technologies that were not possible with tape backup systems.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Sector: | Technology |
Top 10 Questions to Avoid Videoconferencing Investment Mistakes!
Are you considering an investment in video communications? Right now is an exciting time in the video communications industry. An entirely new high definition video experience is available. This document will help you know what questions to ask as you make a video communications decision for your organization.
Download LinkThe Benefits of a Telepresence Platform
“Telepresence is an experience based on videoconferencing in which remote session participants appear to be located in the same room and sitting on the other side of the conference room table. WR refers to the feeling that remote participants are in the same room as the “telepresence effect,” and systems able to provide this experience are said to be telepresence-ready or telepresence-capable. Telepresence capable systems must meet the following requirements:
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Organizations today are under more presure than ever to deliver results - and video communications can completely change the way a company operates. Until the introduction of High Definition, video communications was a technology of last resort.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | LifeSize |
| Sector: | Technology |
video communications a requirement? Now more than ever.
The videoconferencing industry is growing nicely - approximately year over year and will reach a $1 B market for related products in 2007 - 2008. But the sharpest growth is expected to occur over the next decade.
Download LinkWhy consider high definitiion over traditional video conferencing?
Traditional video conferencing systems - those that have been available for the past 10-15 years - have provided organisations with the ability to meet face-to-face over distance. For most people the quality of the interaction has been tolerable, but not always as enjoyabe or productive as meeting in person.
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This Brockmann & Company report is designed to equip executive decision-makers with the details they need to know to be able to make effective decisions about evaluating and deploying a high definition (HD) video communications system in their organization.
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Tele presence is an experience based on videoconferencing in which remote session participants appear to be located in the same room and sitting on the other side of the conference room table.
Download LinkMyths versus Facts about High Definition Video Communications
Never has there been a more exciting time to leverage the power of videoconferencing than now. With the wider availability and lower costs of high definition displays and IP networks, high definition video communications has arrived and can benefit everyone.
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The video communications industry is undergoing an exciting transformation. High definition (HD) video communication, has made traditional videoconferencing virtually obselete. Every from of video is moving to high definition - no longer should any video communication be made without the capability to use high definition at low bandwidths
Download LinkTransforming Enterprise WANs with Adaptive Private Networking
Talari - Transforming Enterprise WANs with Adaptive Private Networking
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| Technology: | Networking |
The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking
Talari - The Compelling ROI of Adaptive Private Networking
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