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whitepaper Green Data Center Storage Part II: Sustained Cost Effectiveness in Transitioning Times2007-09-24 Symantec
  This is the second part of a three-part paper on Data Center Power and cooling. It discusses data and disk types and how to match data and disks effectively within information life cycles. In addition, it examines data growth problems and how they directly impact data center power and cooling considerations. The paper concludes with a discussion of tiered storage and how Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Storage Tiering can significantly reduce power and cooling requirements.

Tags: Data Center, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Reducing Data Centre Costs and Simultaneously Implementing Environmental Policy2008-06-13 IBM
  What are UK companies doing about energy efficiency? In Q1 this year, analyst IDL to profiled decision makers with responsibility for environmental policy and Data Centre operations to better understand how the need for a more energy-efficient enterprise is affecting UK organisations and their IT infrastructures.

Tags: Data Center, Blades, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Optimising Storage with Global File Virtualisation2008-05-14 EMC
  This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications. Rainfinity is the only enterprise-class file virtualisation solution, and delivers complete NAS optimisation across geterogeneous environments, such as NAS, CAS, and file servers.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Storage Management Considerations in Virtual Environments2008-04-30 Symantec
  Virtualization solves the server sprawl problem allowing organizations to consolidate their physical environments to save money on power, cooling and space. However, server virtualization presents a new set of storage management complexities and challenges that may not have been anticipated. This webcast explains how Veritas CommandCentral solves storage management problems in virtualized environments by providing visibility across heterogeneous infrastructure from application to device; enabling capacity management best practices; and increasing storage utilization rates resulting in lower capital expenditures.

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper IBM System Storage DR550 Externalizing Diagnostic Data2008-04-29 IBM
  The IBM System Storage DR550 (hereafter referred to simply as the DR550) has been designed to allow it to comply with regulatory requirements. As a result of this, facilities such as ftp that might be used for sending diagnostic data to service organizations cannot be used. The question then for customers and service organizations is how to externalize or get necessary diagnostic data, example: AIX error logs, out of the DR550. This paper provides a recommended method for externalizing diagnostic data. This method uses the DVD-RAM drive, which comes standard with all current and recent models of the DR550. The media on which the data will be written must be a DVD-RAM disc.   
whitepaper IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.12008-04-01 IBM
  The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In a Grid configuration, two TS7700 Clusters are interconnected and can replicate data created on either TS7700 Cluster to the other. As part of a total systems design, business continuity procedures must be developed to instruct I/T personnel in the actions that need to be taken in the event of a failure. This paper documents a series of TS7700 Grid failover test scenarios for zOS which were run in an IBM laboratory environment.

Tags: Virtualization, 		  
whitepaper The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack: HP-UX 11i V32008-04-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  HP-UX 11i v3 introduces a new representation of mass storage devices called the agile view. The central idea of the agile view is that disk devices and tape drives are identified the actual object, not by a hardware path to the object. Paths to a device can change dynamically, and multiple paths to a single device can be transparently treated as a single virtualized path, with I/O distributed across those multiple paths. This representation increases the reliability, adaptability, performance, and scalability of the mass storage stack, all without the need for operator intervention. This paper discusses the next generation mass storage subsystem in HP-UX 11i v3.

Tags: HP-UX		   
whitepaper HP Disaster Tolerant Solutions Using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment2008-04-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper describes two deployment types of a VMware tolerant solution, based on coupling key VMware features with disaster tolerance functionality of HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA. The first solution is most suitable for a campus-wide disaster tolerant implementation and the other is suitable for metropolitan/geographically separated areas. Both deployments provide the business continuity needed to support the desired VMware service levels. The tradeoffs associated with each solution are also explored along with configuration caveats and best practices.   
whitepaper College Chooses Hosted E-Mail From a Trusted Partner so Students Can Work Smarter2008-04-01 Microsoft
  Lees-McRae College in North Carolina had a student e-mail solution that took too much time and money to manage. Students kept losing e-mail because of limited storage. Lees-McRae replaced it with Microsoft Live@edu to provide Web-based communication and collaboration services and more storage. Now students rarely lose information and they can organize their communications, share calendars, and schedule meetings with professors to improve time and study management.

Tags: Collaborative Web, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Storage Media Encryption Key Management for Release 3.2(3)2008-04-01 Cisco Systems
  The Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME) solution enables hardware compression and encryption on the network before data is written to a tape device. With the introduction of the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch and of the Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module line card providing encryption services, the Cisco SME solution provides a distributed, highly scalable, and secure network based on the Cisco MDS 9000 family of switches and directors. It offers centralized administration and key management, simplifying the deployment and management of the solution. This paper introduces the Cisco SME key management architecture and options.

Tags: Security Management