WHITE PAPER - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
Posted: March 14, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - To take full advantage of server virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives.
Posted: March 9, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Content Archiving | Data Storage | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | TCO | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization.
Posted: March 9, 2009 | Published: March 9, 2009


Topics:  Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Data Storage | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | TCO | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) improves virtual server backup, but there are a number of limitations. FalconStor Software has a solution that works with VCB while overcoming these limitations. Using this solution, you can quickly and efficiently back up virtual machines and retain transactional consistency, without management complexity.
Posted: March 9, 2009 | Published: March 9, 2009


Topics:  Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | TCO | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | NAS | RAID | SAN | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Software | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Electronic Discovery | NAS | RAID | Records Retention | SAN | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | Legal Compliance Software | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this white paper for more details on how Compellant can save save your company millions of dollars.
Posted: March 4, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Content Archiving | Data Storage | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | ROI | SAN | TCO | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. But as IT are aware, data replication increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application...
Posted: March 3, 2009 | Published: March 3, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

WHITE PAPER - In 2008, HP introduced two products to the HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System Family. Both feature Dynamic deduplication based on an HP-patented algorithm that packs up to 50 times more backup data into the same disk footprint. This paper explains how Dynamic deduplication works and also establishes how a 50:1 deduplication ratio may be achieved.
Posted: March 3, 2009 | Published: March 3, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Data Center Management | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | NAS | RAID | SAN

WHITE PAPER - With throughput and seek times faster than disk arrays, data centers are including NAND flash as part of their server infrastructure. Fusion-io offers solid state storage solutions with NAND flash that provides integrity for data exceeding today's solid state storage solutions and surpasses enterprise-class rotating magnetic storage devices.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Solid State Disks | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
Posted: February 16, 2009 | Published: February 16, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Environmental Compliance | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Northern Storage Suite V8, Northern's latest release, meets the central challenge of designing practical storage strategies. It's highly customizable and can be tailored to fit any environment. With a better user experience, increased administrative efficiency and decreased costs, it's exactly what an SRM solution should offer.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Storage | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries