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whitepaper Belgian Consultancy Supports Business Growth With Centralized Data Storage Solution2007-10-04 Dell
  Based in Belgium, ARCADIS is Consultancy and engineering bureau. ARCADIS needed to replace its existing data storage system. With data kept on separate servers divided among individual business units, there were challenges particularly around scalability, business continuity and management efficiency. The company deployed Dell for its solution and implemented a dell EMC storage area network complete with VMware virtualization technology, and EMC SnapView for point-in-time data copies.

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper 3-Month VMware Infrastructure 3 Trial from IBM and VMware0000-00-00 IBM
  Get a 3-month trial of the industry-leading infrastructure software (and InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year) with the purchase of every IBM System x and BladeCenter server, available from VMware. Learn more--view this offer now!

Tags: Blades, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Technical report: Oracle9i for UNIX on IBM System Storage N series2007-10-03 IBM
  Database administrators and developers clone databases for various reasons, such as updating test or development environments from production or switching the production database to the clone in case of an emergency. Cloning databases usually involves both backup and recovery procedures. The clone can exist on the same host as the production database or on a different host. This paper describes the cloning process of Oracle9i databases using the IBM System Storage N series with Data ONTAP flexible-volume clone feature and Oracle backup/recovery techniques. Cloning processes under both NFS and FCP environments are considered. Procedures for validating the cloned data are also discussed.

Tags: Database Management, UNIX		   
whitepaper California Real Estate Company Drives Business With Captaris Solutions2007-10-02 Captaris
  Founded in 1990, The Abbey Company is a real estate operating company positioned to handle all aspects of real estate ownership, including in-house leasing, construction and property services. The company's challenge was the paper-based, manual management of business information that was labor-intensive and unreliable. Working with iDocs Technologies and AuLogic Solutions, Inc., The Abbey Company implemented Captaris solutions to reduce paper, manage business information and drive effective decisions - RightFax for electronic document exchange, Captaris Workflow for business process automation and Alchemy for digital storage and retrieval.

Tags: Business Management, Groupware - Workflow		   
whitepaper Best Practices for Oracle 10g With Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and HP StorageWorks XP120002007-10-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Customers with business-critical systems who run the Oracle environment require both high performance and high availability. They tend to deploy on the HP-UX operating system, and they also tend to use high-performance, highly available storage platforms such as the HP StorageWorks XP12000 and XP10000 Disk Arrays. The successful deployment and effective operation of this type of environment can be enhanced significantly with a set of detailed and test-proven techniques. This white paper provides a comprehensive set of test-proven best practices to properly configure, deploy, and operate an Oracle 10g database using HP Integrity servers running HP-UX and the HP XP12000 Disk Array. Although the XP12000 array was used in the testing, the best practices derived also apply to the XP10000 array.

Tags: HP-UX, Best Practices		   
whitepaper HP Storage Essentials SRM Software IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - Based Approach to Help Achieve IT Service Management (ITSM) for Storage Infrastructure White Paper2007-10-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  According to a Gartner estimate, adopting IT Service Management (ITSM) principles could reduce annual IT expenditures related to Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) by as much as 48%. Clearly, managing IT as a business asset has considerable upside potential. HP is in the forefront of adopting ITSM principles. This white paper discusses how HP Storage Essentials SRM software, in concert with HP Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software, enables IT departments to manage the entire enterprise, from the business applications all the way to the servers, network, and storage arrays that are needed to keep a business healthy.

Tags: Service Level Management, ITIL		   
whitepaper Virtual Applications, Real Advantages2007-10-01 Macrovision
  Suddenly the era of "E"-everything has been replaced by the era of "V"-everything. Virtual servers. Virtual storage. Virtual desktops. Virtual applications. Virtually every IT department has a virtualization project underway. Beyond the bandwagon feel of this trend, what are the real opportunities for cost savings, improved IT efficiency, and new competitive advantages? How can one take advantage quickly with maximum efficiency and minimal expense? Macrovision, a time-tested leader in software packaging and installation, now offers an extremely efficient way to prepare the applications - and the IT staff - for virtualization. The Macrovision solution, AdminStudio, automates the process of packaging applications for virtual deployment, so it cuts the time, effort, and cost required to make the move to the virtualized application model.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper NAS Virtualization Solution Evaluation Criteria2007-10-01 Project Performance
  NAS virtualization provides the capability to effectively manage the heterogeneous NAS and file server environment by providing a layer of abstraction between the NAS devices, file servers, and the clients that access them. It provides a single logical view of the heterogeneous NAS environment spread across different file systems on different NAS devices by encapsulating the file systems and presenting a single logical file mount point. The backend NAS mount points associated with this logical mount point can be hosted across different tiers of storage. It also overcomes the limitations with the traditional NAS architecture and allows implementation of Global Namespace across NAS devices spreading across different data centers.

Tags: NAS, Virtualization		   
whitepaper A Comparison of EMC CLARiiON and the Network Appliance FAS Array: A Detailed Review2007-10-01 EMC
  The CLARiiON line of storage systems from EMC and the Network Appliance FAS series are both positioned as shared storage platforms for customers interested in Fibre Channel and iSCSI solutions. Network Appliance positions FAS as a general purpose storage system to satisfy a wide range of application needs. Even the smallest IT shops want reliable, highly available systems that will perform consistently as their storage needs grow. This paper describes why CLARiiON storage systems provide superior performance, availability, flexibility, and features when compared with NetApp's FAS series.

Tags: NAS, Fibre		   
whitepaper Philips Medical Systems Cures Storage Heartache With the Intel Entry Storage System SS4000-E2007-10-01 Intel
  Until recently, images sent to the Philips Xcelera Focus system were stored on 5-1/4" optical disks and managed via third-party storage software. But this process was quite labor intensive for their customers, who often have very little technical know-how. When clinicians needed to view and compare a patient's prior exams, it was time consuming and difficult to locate and retrieve the earlier studies. Philips Medical Systems decided that a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) system was needed to cure their customers' storage heartache. After comparing multiple products, Philips chose the Intel Entry Storage System SS4000-E.

Tags: NAS