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Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs and Downtime | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure, HostMySite.com needed a solution that would minimize downtime while maximizing the number of sites on a single Web farm. HostMySite.com utilized the Storage Area Network (SAN) storage solution and network load balancing of Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 to centralize customer content. The new solution increased server stability, lowered infrastructure costs, and reduced time spent on administration and diagnostics.
Tags: SANs, Windows Server 2008 |
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ThinData - Empowered by Dell Technology, This e-Marketer Can Scale Its Architecture to Quickly and Easily Expand Capacity When Landing a New Contract | 2008-01-01 | Dell |
| ThinData wanted to stay on the leading edge of technology in the rapidly changing world of e-mail marketing, where the consumer, the technologies and ISP policies are constantly changing. DELL powers ThinData's data centre, messaging systems, database systems and extranet systems to provide sophisticated project management, customer relationship management, invoicing and reporting capabilities, as well as a wide range of custom Internet solutions for clients. This resulted into a reliable, scalable architecture that gives ThinData the capability to quickly and easily expand capacity when landing a new contract.
Tags: Back-up, Storage Management |
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United Fire Authority Scraps Tape Backup System for Revinetix Disk-Based Data Protection | 2007-12-28 | Revinetix |
| More than 500 of Utah's bravest make up the Unified Fire Authority, providing fire protection, medical, emergency and rescue services to nearly one million citizens living in Utah's Salt Lake County. For years, UFA used tape backups for its data archiving processes. The critical data was backed up on a nightly basis, and was stored in a secure location. In addition to an exchange server, file servers and scheduling systems also needed to be backed up. After assessing the data archiving needs of UFA, Revinetix' Value-Added Reseller Valcom recommended Revinetix Sentio data protection appliances, which uniquely meet the needs of organizations like UFA through innovative software (RevOS) - fully integrated with best-of-class hardware and Disk2Disk2Disk technology.
Tags: Back-up, Storage Management |
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How Cisco IT Uses SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process | 2007-12-13 | Cisco Systems |
| The biggest challenge facing the Cisco litigation team is the need to store, organize, and process huge volumes of data. A related challenge, once data is assembled, is to retrieve specific information quickly. Cisco's approach to the challenge posed by discovery revolved around finding a way to build a large storage system that was easy to install, configure, and manage. The litigation group also wanted a system that could expand to accommodate an escalating workload and meet performance expectations well into the future. The group used a model it called DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) to develop a solution.
Tags: SANs |
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Staying Ahead of Competitors and Saving Time and Cost With Symantec Solutions | 2007-12-06 | Symantec |
| When Jiangxi Telecom launched a new value-added set of hosted services, it decided to upgrade its data protection and information security with Symantec products and services. The telecom is reaping the rewards: greater staff efficiency, cost avoidance by deferring storage purchases, and increased antivirus protection. Best of all, business-critical applications have been continuously available - no unplanned downtime - for over two years.
Tags: Anti-Virus, Network Security |
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Making Data Security a Top Priority for Leading IT Provider to the Airline Industry | 2007-12-06 | Symantec |
| A new backup system for more than 380 servers? Anyone wanting to introduce such a system for a financial services provider needs, above all, experience, discipline, and accurate time management. The project managers at Lufthansa Systems and Symantec Corporation were able to contribute all this and were able to ensure together that, as part of the migration project for DekaBank, Veritas NetBackup software from Symantec could go into successful operation as planned. It is a solution of which Curt Borschel, the head of enterprise storage management at Lufthansa Systems, is confident about: he uses it for all his customers.
Tags: Storage Management, Data Recovery - Security |
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Thought Equity Delivers Film and Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive | 2007-12-01 | Sun Microsystems |
| Thought Equity Management, Inc. is the worldwide leader in motion imagery licensing and management for the entertainment, creative and corporate production industries. The company wanted to provide customers with rapid online access to large film and video files to scale petabyte-level storage environment in cost-effective increments to keep pace with customer requirements and support demanding, high duty-cycle storage environment. Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive to its existing tape library to dramatically improve the storage density, speed and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system. Sun software provides centralized management of a storage area network that includes the Sun StorageTek tape drive and library, as well as other tape and disk systems.
Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries |
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Sun Helps Keep Datacenters Cool, Efficient and Reliable for Fast-Growing Nevada Utility | 2007-12-01 | Sun Microsystems |
| The Las Vegas Valley Water District is a not-for-profit agency that provides water to Las Vegas and nearby communities. The company's challenge was to replicate production database for use by multiple development groups to improve storage utilization and management. They wanted to reduce datacenter power, cooling and space requirements and optimize efficiency and performance of PeopleSoft and VMware environments. The district deployed Sun servers and storage technology to improve the efficiency and performance of its replicated Oracle database, VMware and PeopleSoft environments.
Tags: Database Management, Data Center |
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Lekkerland Relies on Sun StorageTek Technology for System Backup | 2007-12-01 | Sun Microsystems |
| Lekkerland GmbH & Co. KG is the full-service partner for all convenience distribution channels in Germany. Last year, the group's 7,400 workforce achieved sales of EUR 9.3 billion. The company's challenge was to keep pace with growing data volumes and complete backups within time windows. The company wanted to improve storage utilization to reduce maintenance and administrative overhead and increase data availability. They deployed Sun's a new virtual tape library backup system based on Sun StorageTek technologies provides a redundant disk cache for storing and managing data across data centers prior to its transfer to physical tape.
Tags: Storage Management, Data Center |
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Providing for Data Protection and Faster Backups With Sun | 2007-12-01 | Sun Microsystems |
| Named after Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of powered flight, Wright State University continues their tradition of innovation. A rich and dynamic community of nearly 17,000 students, Wright State offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and nearly 50 Ph.D., master's and professional degrees, and its School of Medicine is home to the nation's first civilian aerospace medicine program. The company's challenge was to encrypt heterogeneous data to accelerate system backups and support increasing storage requirements in a cost-effective way. Wright State University deployed a Sun StorageTek encryption and tape backup solution to archive and protect University data while achieving performance improvements and reducing data center costs.
Tags: Storage Management |
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