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whitepaper Five Essential Considerations for Exchange 2007 Implementations2008-07-22 Dell MessageOne
  As the latest release of the most commonly used corporate email platform, Exchange 2007 represents the future of email. By the end of 2008, 50% of organizations that use Exchange are expected to move to Exchange 2007.

For most organizations, taking full advantage of Exchange 2007's new features will require a substantial investment. Unlike previous upgrades, Exchange 2007 requires the replacement of existing servers with new 64-bit hardware and software. In addition, new options for high availability and new server roles will require many organizations to re-architect their entire Exchange environment and this can be expensive to implement.

While Exchange 2007 provides a solid foundation for corporate email, it has minimal support for many of the security, high availability, archiving, and compliance features that many organizations now require. As a result, administrators should leverage the Exchange 2007 upgrade to re-architect their broader messaging environment to incorporate solutions that address these important issues.

Tags: Migration Tools, Email, Upgrades and Migration, Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper TechRepublic Resource Guide: Archiving and Storing E-mail2008-07-18 TechRepublic
  Download this TechRepublic Resource Guide for important information on starting, implementing, and maintaining an e-mail archive and storage policy in your organization. This guide includes these three articles that can help with this task:
  • IT faces regulatory requirements for electronic communications archiving
  • Where to start in archiving your organization's e-mail
  • E-mail archiving presents its own security concerns
Dell MessageOneNote: This premium editorial content is underwritten by Dell MessageOne. The registration information you provide will be shared with the sponsor.

Tags: Data Center, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Data Recovery - Security, Email, Knowledge and Data Management, Back-up		   
whitepaper The Mathematics of RAID-62008-07-02 Zytor
  RAID-6 supports losing any two drives. The way this is done is by computing two syndromes, generally referred P and Q. The algebra used for this is the algebra of a Galois Field, GF(28). A smaller or larger field could also be used, however, a smaller field would limit the number of drives possible, and a larger field would require extremely large tables. GF(28) allows for a maximum of 257 drives, 255 (28 - 1) of which can be data drives; the reason for this is shown in the paper.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Booting Servers Directly From a Storage Area Network: The Benefits of SAN Fibre Channel and FCoE Connectivity2008-07-01 Emulex
  This paper discusses the capability of booting servers directly from OS images located on the SAN through a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) or a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapter (CNA). It describes the Emulex "Boot from SAN" implementation, and how it delivers a markedly enhanced level of manageability and availability, even in heterogeneous computing environments with distinct hardware and operating system requirements.

Tags: SANs, Fibre		   
whitepaper Enhanced SAN Connectivity for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and 20082008-07-01 Emulex
  Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provides a comprehensive management application for Microsoft virtualized environments. Emulex 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs and FCoE Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) work with Virtual Machine Manager to provide a fully integrated SAN solution for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Using Emluex LightPulse Virtual HBA Technology and VMPilot, storage administrators can create Virtual HBA Ports with an associated NPIV-enabled volume mount point and attached LUNs.

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper IBM Scale Out File Services: Reinventing Network-Attached Storage2008-07-01 IBM
  This paper focuses on the challenges of creating a scalable Network-Attached Storage (NAS) filer with hundreds of nodes on top of the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS). The filer is created as a multiheaded data exporter over Ethernet and uses the Common Internet File System (CIFS) as implemented by the Samba open-source project and a Network File System (NFS) protocol server. Special focus is given to ensure the consistency of data in an efficient manner for applications that have complex access patterns from a large number of nodes. Also considered are the challenges of providing an extremely high-performance facility for exporting data in parallel and the demands of storing very large amounts of data.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper Undetected Disk Errors in RAID Arrays2008-07-01 IBM
  Though remarkably reliable, disk drives do fail occasionally. Most failures can be detected immediately; moreover, such failures can be modeled and addressed using technologies such as RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks). Unfortunately, disk drives can experience errors that are undetected by the drive - which the paper refers to as Undetected Disk Errors (UDEs). These errors can cause silent data corruption that may go completely undetected (until a system or application malfunction) or may be detected by software in the storage I/O stack. Continual increases in disk densities or in storage array sizes and more significantly the introduction of desktop-class drives in enterprise storage systems are increasing the likelihood of UDEs in a given system.

Tags: Storage Management, Hard Drives		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks Scalable NAS and HP Scalable NAS File Serving Software With CommVault Data Archiver for Tiered Storage2008-07-01 Hewlett-Packard
  Tiered storage management allows users to perform host-based, file-level data migration to tiered storage using a variety of network protocols for file movement. Every Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) product on the market has different levels of dependencies on backup software, file systems and network protocols to facilitate this migration of data between tiers of storage. Satisfying these requirements using HP and CommVault software can significantly reduce cost and complexity to the HSM product installation. Key areas to consider when evaluating HSM products are the types of external media and how the product controls file migrations and recalls.

Tags: NAS		   
whitepaper The HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager: Enabling the Encryption Capabilities of the HP LTO-4 Enterprise Tape Libraries2008-07-01 Hewlett-Packard
  Due to many factors, tape drives continue to play a vital part in most companies' disaster recovery plans. Simply put, there is no more economical way to copy large amounts of data to an easily-transportable medium, allowing for offsite storage of the company's information assets. While transporting tape cartridges to a location outside of the data center might protect the information from a site-wide disaster, it also puts those tape cartridges outside of one's direct control, exposing the data to potential unauthorized access or even theft. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer information and advocacy group, maintains a list of data breaches on their web site.

Tags: Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper Finding Business Value In IBM Systems & Data Storage2008-07-01 IBM
  Large corporations can weather sudden changes in today's volatile markets, but change is a greater challenge for mid-sized companies. However, you can grow even in disruptive and emerging markets if your business systems and data storage can adapt. This IBM white paper includes case studies that show you how systems can spur growth in times of change.

Tags: Storage Management, MSP, Strategic Planning		   


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