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whitepaper Solving 9 Common IT Challenges Through Workload Profiling and Portability2007-07-06 PlateSpin
  By helping to dissolve the bonds between software and hardware, virtualization encourages organizations to see the data center in a different way -- not as a heterogeneous mix of different servers, operating systems, applications and data, but as a set of portable workload units. At the most basic level, a workload encapsulates the data, applications and operating systems that reside on a physical or virtual host. The ability to profile, move, copy, protect and replicate these aggregated workload units between physical and virtual hosts is rapidly emerging as a key enabler for operational and business success. Find out how new workload profiling and portability technologies are helping organizations achieve new operational efficiencies and cost savings, and why your organization should consider adopting a unified approach to managing workloads in the data center.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Knowledge and Data Management, Data Center, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  The value of archived information (and even the definition of "archived" information) eludes many of today's IT decision makers. Unless driven by specific mandates or by defined applications (and hence clear business needs), most IT shops are missing opportunities to provide competitive advantage through the repurposing of historical information stored in archives. This paper explores the potential business value of information contained in the 30-plus exabytes of data stored in archives today.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 with HP Server and Storage in Mid-range Environments (MSA60, MSA70, MSA1500)2008-02-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper provides configuration and performance data, best practices and recommendations to help system administrators deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on several of the HP MSA family of products. The results presented here are derived from extensive testing. They are intended to help you perform pre-deployment planning and ensure adequate hardware and predictable performance for your specific business requirements.

Co-Sponsored by:
 Intel

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center, Email, x86-standard Servers		   
whitepaper Best Practices for HP Servers and HP Enterprise Virtual Array 8100 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment of 20,000 Users2008-02-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  The Customer Focused Teating (CFT) team at HP previously published the Best Practices for HP Servers and HP StorageWorks EVA8000 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment paper, which presented the results of testing a user environment of 5,000 users with both 100-MB and 1-GB mailboxes. This paper builds upon those results by demonstrating the actual effects of a larger enterprise environment of 20,000 users with 1-GB mailboxes.

This paper provides technical information and best practices for sizing and configuring Exchange Server 2007 on HP server blades with HP EVA storage arrays for the 20,000-user environment.

Co-Sponsored by:
 Intel

Tags: Storage Management, Blades, Email, x86-standard Servers, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Dell Raises the Bar in Shock-Resistant Hard Drives2008-02-01 Dell
  A key benefit of laptop computers is that they are mobile, but with that mobility comes the risk of being dropped. High-shock events put the hard-disk drive and the user data contained in it at risk. With more users transitioning from desktops to laptops as their primary computers, it has become increasingly important to provide a robust solution to help protect the hard-disk drive and prevent data loss. To meet this need, Dell offers drop (or "Free-fall") protection as a standard feature in its laptop computers equipped with 7200 Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) hard-disk drives. This feature is designed to detect a fall and protect the hard-disk drive by parking its heads before impact.

Tags: Hard Drives		   
whitepaper Building for the Future: Deploying a SAN Solution That Protects Your Datacenter Investments2008-02-01 IDG (International Data Group)
  The IT managers at midsize organizations face many of the same storage planning and management issues as managers at larger enterprises. They also must deal with several unique requirements, however. IT managers at midsize organizations need solutions that are easy to acquire and to set up; that deliver "Investment protection" for future improvements in performance and scale without forcing the displacement of installed systems; and that address specific needs for greater management efficiency without disrupting current operations. The evolving storage requirements and the unique challenges faced by midsize organizations make their selection of storage systems and storage management solutions a key concern.

Tags: Data Center, SANs		   
whitepaper Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication2008-02-01 Double-Take Software
  As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios including providing high availability, providing effective disaster recovery, enhancing backup and restore, and data migration projects. Use this as a great tool to help define the best data protection strategy for your customer using replication. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business critical data and applications.

Tags: Back-up, Storage Management, Data Center, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Integrated Disk and Tape Backup and Recovery With the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System and HP Data Protector Express 3.5 SP22008-02-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This white paper describes how to use the HP D2D Backup System and Data Protector Express to combine the speed and flexibility of disk based backup and recovery with the transportability and durability of tape based backup and recovery. It provides an example of how to implement automated and scheduled backups to disk (D2D Backup System) and subsequent automatic copies to tape.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper Using Attribute-Managed Storage to Achieve QoS2008-01-31 Hewlett-Packard
  Specification of storage systems by means of user-oriented Quality-of-Service attributes is the key to ease of use and efficient resource utilization. Attribute-managed storage systems hide details of the underlying storage systems through virtual store abstractions - units of storage with quality of service guarantees. The mapping of virtual stores onto physical storage devices can be optimized to achieve high level goals such as balancing system performance against total system cost. The paper demonstrates the feasibility of this approach with a prototype matching engine called Forum.

Tags: Quality of Service, 		  
whitepaper Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments2008-01-25 NetApp
  The goal of IT is to become an invisible entity within a larger scale organization--an entity that can quickly adapt to change and scale to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's business, an entity that focuses on delivering and maintaining applications, not infrastructure. In order to achieve IT transparency, IT's visibility needs to be eliminated, since all anyone ever sees are the problems and road blocks IT creates which inhibit business flexibility, growth and potential revenue. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) speaks with hundreds of IT end-users and the majority of them share a common goal of driving down capital and operational costs, simplifying ongoing management, reducing maintenance overhead and improving asset utilization (doing more with less). With such demands, it is hardly plausible for IT to become invisible -- or is it?

To make IT invisible, consider a popular science experiment that demonstrates the different states of matter as we learn how water changes from a solid to a liquid. Conversion between these two vastly different states is called a phase transition which is exactly what IT needs to undergo to become invisible. IT needs to find ways to make the transition from a solid to a liquid. The silos that have been built within the IT organization need to be re-architected with a fluid infrastructure that connects the disparate pieces and flows with the business.

Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs. ESG believes that server virtualization is acting as a catalyst for virtualization at all layers within the data center, a concept ESG refers to as Infrastructure Virtualization. The server virtualization market is red hot and is only showing signs of increased adoption. Businesses are running production workloads on virtual machines and finding the bene

Tags: Storage Management, IT Reliability, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   


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