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whitepaper HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & VMWare: Sweet Spot2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  VMware describes their partnership with HP storage and how the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 is a great fit for many small and medium businesses that want the advantages of virutalization.   
whitepaper Death to PST Files: The Hidden Costs of Email2008-02-08 MessageLabs
  Email has become the lifeblood of modern business, with more than three quarters of an organization's business-critical data stored there. Yet, the current practice of backing up email and related attachments inefficiently devours storage. Current practices also create gaps in institutional knowledge and numerous other security and regulatory risks.

In this white paper you will learn more about the business challenges created by the utilization of email archives and PST files as an organization's primary archiving apparatus, and you will see how the MessageLabs Email Archiving Service can help reduce such risks and create greater archiving efficiencies.

Tags: Network Security, Security Applications, Email, Best Practices, Back-up, Data Recovery - Security, Sarbanes-Oxley		   
whitepaper Lustre File System: High-Performance Storage Architecture and Scalable Cluster File System2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Lustre is a storage architecture for clusters. The central component is the Lustre file system, a shared file system for clusters. The Lustre file system is currently available for Linux and provides a POSIX-compliant UNIX file system interface. A complementing Solaris version is planned for 2008. The Lustre architecture is used for many different kinds of clusters. It is best known for powering seven of the ten largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the world, with tens of thousands of client systems, PetaBytes (PB) of storage and hundreds of gigabytes per second (GB/sec) of I/O throughput. Many HPC sites use Lustre as a site-wide global file system, servicing dozens of clusters on an unprecedented scale.

Tags: High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Encryption Technology for the HP StorageWorks Ultrium LTO4 Tape Drive White Paper2007-12-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  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, Security Applications		   
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 Server and Storage Landscape Virtualized and Consolidated2007-11-22 Fujitsu Siemens Computers
  The company wanted to have higher IT system availability and significant reduction in maintenance costs and IT administration overhead. It also wanted SAN extension for the existing server landscape. The challenge was to have storage and server virtualization and investment protection. One of the core elements of that foundation was the integration of the two server and storage virtualization solutions from VMware and DataCore, for which the company is using two PRIMERGY RX300 servers and two FibreCAT SX80 storage systems. SANmelody (category C) from the software vendor DataCore was deployed as the storage virtualization solution. This Windows-based solution ensures distribution of information from the storage pool on the two redundantly designed server systems and can be extended simply and flexibly at any time.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Completing eDiscovery Up to Four Times Faster With Solutions From Symantec and NetApp2007-11-08 Symantec
  Russell Investment Group provides strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks and a range of institutional-quality investment products. Facing growing challenges in email storage management, compliance, and eDiscovery, Russell Investment Group turned to Symantec and Symantec business partner NetApp. Results include millions of dollars in avoided email archiving/journaling service costs, up to fourfold faster eDiscovery, enhanced data protection, and a 45 percent reduction in email storage requirements.

Tags: Data Recovery - Security, Email		   
whitepaper SAP Transaction Banking (TRBK) Using and IBM System Storage DS8300/DS4800 Storage Servers2007-11-02 IBM
  SAP Standard Application Benchmarks help customers and partners find the appropriate hardware configuration for their IT solutions. Working in concert, SAP and the hardware partners developed the SAP Standard Application Benchmarks to test the hardware and database performance of SAP applications and components. The benchmarking procedure is standardized and well defined. It is monitored by the SAP Benchmark Council made up of representatives of SAP and technology partners involved in benchmarking. The purpose of this paper is to provide the performance characteristics of the SAP Transaction Banking (TRBK) benchmark process on IBM System p Power6 with DB2 Version 9 Update 2 using IBM DS8300 and DS4800 Storage subsystems.

Tags: ERP		   
whitepaper MAID for Green: Energy Conservation With Fujitsu ETERNUS Storage Systems2007-11-01 Fujitsu
  This paper describes best practices on how customers can conserve energy using ECO mode on Fujitsu ETERNUS storage systems. Today, because of strong demand for storage capacity, customers are faced with serious issues of power and cooling in their data centers. The density of today's storage systems, the insatiable demand for storage and the rising cost of energy are forerunners of an impending energy crisis in the data center. Analysts predict that data centers will soon reach their capacity limits in terms of power and air conditioning. This may impose tight restrictions on companies who want to expand their business but also need to substantially increase IT support in growing market segments, if there are no changes in the energy efficiency of IT systems and their operation.

Tags: Data Center		   
whitepaper Brocade Tape Pipelining With Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager2007-11-01 Sun Microsystems
  StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM5) system is the industry's leading virtual tape solution for large-scale mainframe data protection infrastructures. In addition to unmatched scalability, cost control, and availability, VSM5 supports FICON, for high-speed connectivity between multiple virtual tape subsystems and Automated Cartridge Systems (ACS). Combining VSM5 with the high-speed tape pipelining features of the Brocade FICON extension solutions allows FICON connectivity to be extended over long-distance IP networks. This joint Sun-Brocade solution helps customers meet shorter recovery time objectives by dramatically reducing backup and restore times. It also improves disaster protection by enabling backup data to be located thousands of miles away.

Tags: Tape Drives - Libraries