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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
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| Manufacturer: | Virtual Instruments |
Virtual Instruments Infrastructure Performance White Paper
Infrastructure Performance Management for Virtualised Systems
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| Manufacturer: | Virtual Instruments |
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.
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| Technology: | Virtualisation |
| Manufacturer: | Tintri |
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 |
The 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.
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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.
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Re-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:
Download Link| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
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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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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| 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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| 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).
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Technology: | Storage |
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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Construction |
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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Blade |
| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
| 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 |
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 |
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.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Technology |
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 |
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