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whitepaper Improving Performance and Reducing Costs to Supply Growing Demand2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad (SESB) is the only power utility company in Sabah (formerly North Borneo) supplying electricity to over 350,000 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000 sq. km. The company wanted to improve performance and resiliency to increase computational speed, throughput and storage capacity. The company's challenge was to reduce data center footprint, power consumption and heat and improve disaster rollover and customer response times. SESB migrated its SAP application and system to Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire V240 servers running the Solaris 10 OS, and increased its storage expansion capability for its Oracle 9i database system and Veritas backup software with a Sun StorageTek 3510 Storage Area Network (SAN).

Tags: Data Center, SANs		   
whitepaper Configuring and Using TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) to Collect and Report SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Data2007-12-01 IBM
  IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is a premier Java and Web-based solution designed to help to identify, evaluate, control, and predict the enterprise storage management needs. This paper provides detail step-by-step instructions to configure TotalStorage Productivity Center to collect SVC data, to utilize TPC GUI to review out-of-box TPC for Disk reports that are applicable to SVC and to create customized TPC reports to monitor specific metrics or specific SVC resources.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec2007-12-01 Symantec
  Today's enterprises face a growing data protection challenge: how to optimize the backup and recovery of a volume of business-critical data that grows larger each and, in many cases, doubles each year. Most enterprises are finding that their IT footprint and storage resources continue to grow at a rate of 40 to 50 percent per year, which adds considerable complexity to their existing data protection strategies. This challenge becomes yet more difficult as companies migrate from stand-alone Windows server backups to enterprise site-wide backups that are performed across the local area network and storage area network environments.

With the data protection landscape becoming more distributed and IT resources increasingly constrained, businesses need a centralized data protection strategy that can efficiently manage multiple backup and recovery jobs across the enterprise. In addition, the data protection strategy must be able to support an off-host backup strategy to efficiently minimize the impact on mission-critical applications and network user interruption, and take advantage of the speed of disk-based data protection.

Symantec Backup Exec 12 addresses these critical enterprise challenges with the following cutting-edge features: Central Admin Server Option, SAN Shared Storage Option, and dynamic disk-based data protection which is the subject of this paper.

Tags: Back-up, Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security, Hard Drives, SANs		   
whitepaper Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8: The Gold Standard in Complete Windows System Recovery2007-12-01 Symantec
  Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 is the gold standard in complete Windows system recovery, allowing businesses and IT to recover from system loss or disaster in minutes--not hours or days, even when recovering to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments. Helping IT administrators meet recovery time objectives, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery provides rapid, easy-to-use system restoration or full "bare-metal" recovery for servers, desktops or laptops. It also enables you to recover systems in remote, unattended locations.

Additional advantages include:
  • Capture a recovery point of the entire Windows system - including operating system, applications, system settings, configurations, and files - without impacting user productivity.
  • Flexible offsite protection to an FTP location or secondary disk.
  • Quickly restore individual Microsoft Exchange email messages, folders, and mailboxes from backups taken from Exchange servers; restore SharePoint documents from backups taken from servers running SharePoint Server or SharePoint Services; or recover files and folders from a single, multi-tab interface.
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 also integrates with the Symantec ThreatCon Indicator and Altiris Notification Server.

Tags: Back-up, Data Recovery - Security, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Dell iSCSI Solution Simplifies Storage Management for MisterArt.com, Supporting 80 Percent Business Growth and Nearly Two Times Better Performance2007-12-01 Dell
  Established in 1996, MisterArt.com was among the first companies to sell arts and crafts supplies online. MisterArt.com IT group needed to increase storage capacity to accommodate its 80 percent year-over-year business growth. The team also wanted to simplify storage management with a reliable system that could deliver outstanding performance. After testing the performance of several storage systems, MisterArt.com IT team selected a Dell PowerVault MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI) - based Storage Area Network (SAN) array with a PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosure.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper Encryption Technology for the HP StorageWorks Ultrium LTO4 Tape Drive2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard
  This white paper introduces the concept of encryption technology and its application in the HP StorageWorks Ultrium LTO4 Tape Drive. It also describes the basic cryptographic functions which are used in a tape encryption solution. Encryption is derived from the Greek word kryptos, which means hidden. It is the process of concealing information from unauthorized parties by means of a mathematical cipher, an algorithm that disguises the underlying text unless the reader has the decipher code. In encryption technology, the cipher is a complex mathematical algorithm that is applied to the unencrypted data, also known as plaintext, to produce encrypted data known as cipher text.

Tags: Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper Protecting Customer Information and Improving Data Consistency2007-12-01 Brocade Communications Systems
  A major national bank faced critical data accessibility challenges. Its existing IT architecture was not originally designed to handle the volume of data it was being tasked with storing, serving, and protecting. As a result, bank employees faced longer-than-usual data access times, and even then could not always verify that the information was up to date. This led to longer customer service calls, longer lines in branch offices, and customer frustration with the bank's Web site. After auditing the IT environment, Brocade recommended that the bank deploy a series of Brocade Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solutions in its six data centers.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper Scalable NAS and SAN Storage Systems Using Melio Cluster File System With Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R22007-11-28 Sanbolic
  Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 has evolved into a very flexible solution for both file serving and block storage applications. It combines the familiarity of the Windows operating system, file serving using CIFS or NFS, and now iSCSI storage for applications requiring block storage access. A Windows-based Storage server can utilize its internal disk drives, or connect to an external storage array, which provides more flexibility for expansion and allows file services to be integrated into an existing SAN. I/O performance is determined by the disk drive configuration and the server hardware, typically an industry standard Intel- or AMD-based server.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper Using Sanbolic's LaScala Cluster Volume Manager to Centrally Manage SAN Storage Configuration and Assignment for Microsoft Windows Servers2007-11-27 Sanbolic
  Microsoft System Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 have provided administrators with tools to centrally manage and monitor Windows Client and Server Infrastructure. Sanbolic's LaScala clustered volume manager and related software products provide a complementary tool kit which enables administrators to centrally configure and assign storage assets in a SAN storage environment. As a clustered volume manager designed for shared storage environments, LaScala allows multiple servers to have access to one or multiple large shared partitions on an iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage array. Storage LUN(s) can be configured into mountable volumes using LaScala volume manager on each host server. Access to the volumes is assigned using native windows security (ACL) and the native Windows security interface.

Tags: Storage Management, SANs		   
whitepaper Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper2007-11-15 Diskeeper
  How can you eliminate your SQL Server databases' I/O bottlenecks, data gridlock, and bandwidth clogs? This white paper explains how fragmentation is responsible for many of these lags, as well as the after-effects of building onto a fragmented database and how that database can be restored to optimum speeds. The outline of this article also gives you a quick, painless solution that will automatically defrag and continually protect you system in real time.

Read this paper from SQL-Server-Performance.com and see how defragmentation can accelerate the data flow and performance on your servers.

Tags: Storage Management, Database Management, Data Center, Hard Drives, High Performance Computing		   


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